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The Shining [Blu-ray]
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5Classic!
50%Perhaps the Best Horror Ever
40%Thrilling, With Some Pictorictous Scenes to Boot
10%2nd terrible movie I've seen by Kubrick
40%The Shining (Two-Disc Special Edition)
40%Awesome
40%The Shining
51%REDRUM!!!.....................
5If you're a Stephen King purist, you may hate Kubrick's film
51%The Shining..
51%JACK IS BACK
5One of the "Top 10" Horror films of all-time!
5Wonderful, like being there
5Amazing
5Blu Ray is amazing
11%BLURAY new scenes
5A LITTLE 'REDRUM' ANYONE?
10%Waste of a great story!
5Edge of your Seat Thriller
5Awesome!
5Even better in Blu-ray
51%Quality and Quantity
41%Blu-ray Review - Worthy of purchase
5Great job!
5Kubric at his best. Of course...
5A Masterpiece of Terror.
50%Classic Thriller
40%Jack Nicholson
51%THE CUCKOO'S NEST!!!
50%Stanley Kubrick's finest!
51%Blu-Ray Edition Really Elevates This Film
50%Jack is still shining
20%STANLEY KUBRICK'S BOMB
5classic!
51%An Epic, 'Thinking-Mans' Horror Film
50%Quite possibly the best film ever made
50%CLASSIC
51%The Shining - a genuine classic
51%Stanley Kubrick's The Shining "shines" on Blu-ray Disc!!! Great job Warner Bros!!!
50%"Come here, Wendy. I'm NOTTTT gonna hurt ya ....."
50%the shining on blu-ray
51%Great film
51%Let's talk Duval, Shelley that is
50%Bought a used DVD of the Shining
10%This shine needs some polish
40%Jack Nicholson rules!!
50%Why Nicholson is the face of horror
10%worse adaptition I ever watched
41%DVD extras
41%Great movie!
40%redrum.
51%A Horror Masterpiece
51%King didn't like this version???
51%BEST WIDESCREEN MOVIE EVER ???
51%The best horror film ever!
30%Jack Nicholson makes this inadequate adaptation of a great S. King novel worth watching
10%A total loss
50%A masterpiece of the macabre done wonderfully on Blu-Ray.
51%US cut of The Shining HD DVD
40%Still a Charmer
51%One of the smartest horror films of all time...
31%Stanley Kubrick's Home Alone
41%Great movie after all these years
20%Jack Nicholson is the only scary thing about this movie
51%Do Not Disturb...
50%Kubrick is a genius
50%I almost forgot how good this movie was
51%Kubrick's version does justice
50%THE SHINING - A Really Great Film!
50%Stands the test of time.
50%Jack for real!
50%Excellent
51%Awesome Blu-Ray Transfer
40%Shine Your...Light?
40%A classic horror film, but truly not very frightening
40%Good but not as good as the book
51%Fantastic HD DVD!
50%My daughter is happy
51%The BEST Blu-Ray Disc I've seen yet
51%Still Sensational
40%Clear image/ slower pace edit / excellent bonus features.
50%Kubrick and Jack Nicholson make this film work.
10%the shining
50%A classic idol of popular horror
51%Revisiting an old classic!
51%THE SNOWS OF KILLER-MAJARO?
31%It grows on you
51%Finally in widescreen
51%It's Like I Saw It For The First Time
50%HHHHHHHHHHHHHHere's Johnny!!
51%The OverLook Hotel
51%Shining Review
40%Has Stanley Kubrik ever let us down!!!!
40%check screen ratio
51%Another Kubrick Masterpiece on Blu Ray
40%Nice but somewhat disappointed I suppose
50%HD DVD
51%Classic film gets upgrade
5Finally!
40%Just Around the Corner
51%Still gives me the creeps
50%The best
51%One of the GREATEST movies of all time!!!
51%One Of The Best Horror Movies Ever Gets A Good DVD Release
51%Eye Popping!
51%Incredible Release
51%Excellent upgrade for a classic
51%Brilliant film, best transfer yet!
51%The Shining 2 Disc Special Edition
10%The Shunning
51%It's awesome.
51%it's 144 min
41%The classic just got better
51%2001 DVD vs 2007 DVD
51%The USA release is 144 minutes and it's great!
41%Warner's Controversial Ratio Decision !
50%Winter time with the Torrances...Here's Horror!!
51%A Classic From Beginning To End
51%Listen to Dave Mack! The others are misinformed.
51%Just stop and think about it for a minute...
20%sort of boring, unfortunately
50%A great film. However...
41%He did NOT intend his movie to be 1:33, guys.
51%No, The Shining was NOT shot Fullscreen, that was NOT it's OAR, read and learn something....
10%Is It Really A Travesty?
10%23 minutes missing? Nice job, Warner.. :(
10%A Waste of Money
40%A timeless thriller
40%HELL'S HOTEL
10%Which versions?
51%Special Features
51%Some dvds are like people: some shine and some don't. This hd dvd shines. Hd dvd special features below
50%Legend of the man-faced dog
50%scary
50%Classic
50%This Is It.
50%Can I go to my room and get my fire engine?...Come here for a minute first.......
50%The essential horror film
50%Superior Scareflick
50%Wow...
50%Favorite horror classics
50%The Shining
41%A totally different animal...a horse of a different color...
40%A Groundbreaking Thriller!!!
50%I'm not going to hurt you honey ...I'm just going to bash your--
50%Oldie but Goodie
10%UNBOX IS TERRIBLE!
51%Widescreen Please !!!
50%Scary
50%Red Rum
40%Dark, Scary Horror Film
51%Third movie in a very special trilogy.
40%About so much more than horror
50%"They had to be corrected, too"
50%A Thrilling Experience!!
50%Still Bright in a Dark Genre
50%come play with us,Danny
20%Shining dull
50%Haunting ... Jack Nicholson is brilliant ... Krubrick's vision is not that far removed from King's Novel.
50%Are you not scared enought ? .... Then watch The Shining
50%The Shining --- What can I say?
20%Should have been called 'The Tarnished'
50%One of the Best Horror Films Ever
50%Best horror movie ever
10%while i love stanley kubrick and am a big fan i can't say just because he has made great films that this JUNK is his best work
10%6.000.000.000 fans can be wrong
50%Stanley Cubric's Best Movie
50%Mental horror doesn't get better than this
50%The Shining ~ Jack Nicholson
50%I LIKED THIS BETTER THAN THE BOOK!
51%What can I say? A horror classic
50%All Hail Kubrick!
50%Are you kidding?
50%The Shining: King vs. Kubrick
50%the only scary movie I was ever scared by
50%a great title for the movie
50%The Shining - IS AWESOME!
10%Ham & Cheese
50%Simply a masterpiece
51%Rare Movie That is Better Than the Book
30%The Shining.....
51%Bonechilling!
50%Better the second time
50%Creepy classic thriller
51%Dannyboy!
51%Great party, isn't it?
50%The best movie ever
50%Honey, I'm not gonna hurtcha, i'm just gonna bash your brains in, bash em right the f*** in, ok?
41%It's more unsettling than scary
41%Normal aspect ratio
40%chaosprincess
41%2 Things
31%Not enough luster for 'The Shining'
20%boreing "shining"
40%Theres a differece between scary and freaky.
40%The Shining (1980)
51%About the visions seen in the Shining
41%Nicholson rocks us yet again
41%"Where's the Beef?"
51%All Work and No Play...
50%STANLEY TAKES US TO THE OVERLAND HOTEL AND GET READY FOR SEER TERROR!!!!!!!
51%This Movie Has It All
50%Heeeere's Johnny!
51%Kubrick at his best
40%Room 237
40%Grown into it
50%Eeery, a fine classic except for international version
51%still a "masterpiece of modern horror"
51%CLASSIC HORROR AT ITS FINEST.........
51%Great Summer Movie
11%The Shining is edited on this version
50%Implosion of American Family
50%Kubrick sets the bar for Stephen King movies. Few have passed.
20%a beloved and "scary" horror film ?
51%The demons of the reason!
50%The Shining
50%All-time Top 5 Horror Film - no doubt about it.
50%See it.
30%Great Horror - Lame DVD
51%SCARY, SCARY and even more SCARY !!!
51%Anyone getting creeped out yet?
50%A Masterwork
51%i was getting scared as it went on
51%Nicholsons' finest moment...
51%"I think a lot of things happened right here in this particular hotel over the years and not all of 'em was good." - Halloran
50%I can relate to this in MANY ways.
51%A Modern Classic
51%One of my top 3 movies of all time!
51%finally released with some tastey extras
51%Kubrick's Macabre Adaptation of King's Classic
30%Scarey film to be sure
51%One of Kubrick's finest
41%Old school classic
50%Stanley Kubrick Horror Masterpiece "Heres Johnny"
50%Chilling Horror Classic
50%the best horror movie still
50%"I'm not gonna hurt you.I'm just gonna bash your brains in!"
30%Adultured Ambition
51%Redrum! Redruuuum!
51%Spine Chilling!
51%"Perhaps they need a good...talking-to."
51%One of the Best Horror Films
51%"its almost like ive been here before"
50%Come and play with us Danny........
50%I don't know how it's scary, but it is.
40%CREEPY!
51%My favorite "horror" film of all time
50%scary
40%Different Than The Book But Still Good!
40%Classic post-modern horror,but where is Saul Bass cover art?
51%Classic Horror
41%A Good Film but for purest of the book, not as good.
50%A magic movie
5A viewer
51%HEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!!!
41%Book goes first
41%A Terrific Horror Film.
51%ATTENTION: For those who want The Shining in widescreen
5Psychological Terror at its Best
40%Widescreen version PLEASE!!!!!!!
50%The Shining(1980)*****HERE'S JOHNNY!
40%Leave The Lights On For This One!
50%Jack Nicholson is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
50%MY FAVORITE SCENE
50%Possibly the most "Kubrick"ian of his films .
30%Good, but not the classic it's claimed to be
51%Kubrick Shines, King is insulted
51%"HEEERRRES... JOHNNYYY!!!!"
50%Nicholson makes the movie
40%Good, but the book is better
10%Don't waste your time
51%One of the best films ever made
40%The Art of Making Nonsense Sound Real
5All work and no play makes jack a dull boy..........
51%This certainly shines!!!
10%How is this considered a classic?!
51%What is you talking about? This movie is great!
51%Kubrick Tackles Horror
50%Classic
50%the best horror film ever
51%Do you believe in God? I thought so
21%Poor adaptation of King's novel
41%Greak flick, bad adaptation!
5The Best Horror Movie Ever
51%Madman meets Place of Evil
50%scary and very entertaining
50%The Best Movie Ever!!!(Next to Rambo2)
51%Outstanding, even after 24 years.
50%A great horror movie..
50%Another Kubrick Classic
51%One Of The Greatest Horror Films, As Well As Controversial
50%REDRUM!
50%Hidden messages of The Shining!
50%Here's Johnny
30%perception is everything
50%Midnight, and the Stars and You!
50%Here be Johnny, Yo
41%Second scariest movie ever made
50%The Shining
10%WORST HORROR MOVIE EVER!
50%Heeeeer`s a great movie
41%"Danny! I'm comin' to get you Danny!"
20%SHINING IS DULL
21%Come fly with me...
21%Kubrick's vision falls waaaaay short once again.
10%Highly Over-rated Amityville Horror Rip-off.
51%One of Kubrick's best!
51%An Underated Masterpiece
51%mesmerizing
51%Jack Nicholsen at his best
50%A Pure Masterpiece
30%3 Stars only for the cinematography
40%the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog!!!!!
50%SHINING?
50%Now This is What a Scary Movie Should Be!
50%One of the best films ever made
4REDRUM-MURDER
40%Great Suspense Thriller!!!
50%STANLEY KUBRICK HAS MADE A GOOD MOVIE BUT...
50%Come and play with us!
50%Scary movie
4Good Film Adaptation that Stands On Its Own
50%Kubrick's last great movie.
40%Atmosphere is The Shining's strong point
5Heeeere's Johnny! A modern horror classic on DVD
50%Murder, ghost's, an ax, and a psycho dad!
5BONE CHILLING
11%If I was...
51%Possibly the Best Horror Movie Ever
51%the most terrifying film experience
50%"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!"
40%Kubrick & Nicholson are stars in visually horrifying film
40%Amazing! No wonder it scared me as a child
20%Horrid Adaptation, Boring Horror
50%Jack Nicholson's tour-de-force.
21%not so great
51%Psychotic and horrifying... A hotel from Satan's franchise
21%The dullest [and most boring] horror movie I've ever seen.
50%Horrifying (in a good way)
40%Too Much Jack
10%I am too unhappy
20%A good film, but there are some problems
11%A Movie With No Story To Tell
40%The old shining vs the newshining from 1997
5A must see classic!!!
40%An Effective But Not-So-Scary Allegory of Writer's Block
50%Excellent
41%A creepy horror flick with great Nicholson
20%typically over-rated Kubrick fare
41%Not a bad adaptation.
51%Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
51%Absolutely Essential
31%A horror film for the uninitiated
4Heeeeeeere's horror!!!!!!
40%One of the Grandest Films Put on Celluloid
51%SERIOUS HORROR!!!
50%The Shining-----
5The scariest movie ever made- coming from a huge horror fan
41%Horror is rarely this good
50%A Harrowing Masterpeice
50%Kubrick's consumate statement
5The Shining
40%REDRUM...REDRUM...HEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!
51%creepiest movie ever made
41%worth buying for the DVD short:"The Making of 'The Shining'"
51%Kubrick's Horror Epic
21%An Inadvertent Comedy
51%TERRIFYING! A MASTERPIECE OF HORROR AND SUSPENSE!
50%The Shinning 1980 and the Shinning made for t.v. 1999 (?)
50%oh......my........god.
50%The Shining DVD Review
50%The best horror movie ever.
21%a clinical and not too subtle adaptation
51%Hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee's Johnny
30%3.8
50%In my top 10 of all time
40%Heeere's Johnny!
51%Brilliant, disturbing, unforgettable
3Great Movie, But bad DVD...
41%"I'm not gonna hurt you, I'm just going to-"
51%Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
5danny's gone away, Mrs. Torence...
31%All Growl and No Bite Makes Jack....
50%Honey, I think we need to talk
50%The Scariest Movie
50%Worth the money!
40%ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY, HEEERE'S JOHNNY
50%All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!
30%Frightening
51%almost perfect
50%One can't help but think, "When does Nicholson go nuts?"
5best horror movie ever!
51%One of the best Horror movies ever
51%CREEPY!
40%WHY NOT WIDESCREEN?
51%Classic Horror Film
51%An All Time Classic!
3One of the greatest horror movies of our time
51%watch the shining again with my insite of how i see it...
10%Put the book to shame...
51%A Classic
11%What Happened?
50%Stephen Kings scariest!
51%Unlike anything you have seen before!
50%The Greatest Horror Movie Ever
50%Did I just see that?
41%>:)
51%DISTURBING!
50%REDRUM... EIVOM TAERG!!!
51%A great movie to watch on a rainy day!
40%A Tour de Force from JACK!
4There's something bad in that house.
51%For once, Hollywood does it right
31%What's the Big Deal?
40%HERE'S JOHNNY!!!!
4Shining Bright
51%Very Scary Arthouse Fare
40%Good, not as good as the book but good
50%all work and no play.....
41%Full screen? YES, because that IS the original format
5cold-as-the-grave genius
10%FULL-SCREEN?
20%Like most King movies, not even half as good as the book.
41%"Heeeeere's Mediocrity!"
30%Great book, incomplete movie
5A MARVEL OF HORROR
5The Shining
5A PIECE OF CULTURE
51%Liked the book, and this movie
2A Well made film that does not make any sense.
4"All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy...."
40%Book and Movie Almost Entirely Different
5Just plain to good
5redrum
51%Stanley Kubrick's Finest Moment.
30%All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy
51%The Best Horror Movie Ever Made
51%A Classic....
51%Ultimate Black Comedy
5The Shining
50%Horror film of the century
4Less effects, more realistic, thus SCARIER
50%An Enduring Classic
5A horror classic
51%The third in Kubrick's major Time and Space trilogy.
10%why do so many people like this movie ??
51%Forget about "The Sixth Sense" -this is the REAL thing!
5This DVD is a beautiful thing.
41%A moody but flawed classic of the horror genre.
5the shining
51%Classic Tale of Terror that Will Haunt Your Dreams!
51%Three cheers for Shelley Duvall!
5So here's the deal with this movie...
5The Shining
51%"Wendy....I'm home!!!"
5The KING of KUBRICK
51%Here's Johnny!!!
51%All Work & No Play Makes Jack.......
5....
41%The remastered Shining DVD is a keeper
5THE BEST HORROR FILM IN HISTORY GETS A MUCH NEEDED FACE LIFT
4marla trumph
31%Decent, but...
30%My Review's Quick And Fast.
40%Horror Masterpiece!
5Great film with NO comparisons please!
5My favorite movie
41%The new, improved June 12 DVD
31%Fatally Flawed
5JACK NICHOLSON AT HIS BEST....
50%My Favorite Movie of al l t ime
4Shines brightly
5A Grand Experiment That Gets Better Every Time.
41%Improved DVD
40%A Stanley Kubrick film
50%WOW!
21%The Shining DVD- Was it worth it, folks?
4A Work of Intriguing Simbolism
5A freakish, bizaar, insaley great horror film
51%Outstanding in every aspect
51%Kubrick's masterpiece of horror
50%Scares the snot out of me every time
40%Giving it another chance
50%This one's in my top 5 of all time....
51%Kubrick at his best?
50%THE SHINING
51%Lets get a few things straight here!!!
30%Jack, Yes! Kubrick, Yes! Duvall....well....
51%Stunning, Epic Horror Film.
10%Love This Movie, Hate the DVD
51%Supplemental documentary alone worth the price
41%5-star movie, 3-star DVD
4again?
41%Great, but a little long
5Not as scary as everyone says, but this movie is the best...
30%After King's 1997 miniseries, the original loses its luster
50%all work and no play.....
4good film, new transfer looks and sounds great
20%Weak Adaptation
4Terrifying Kubrickian Adaptation of King's Chilling Novel!
5Great Horror movie
30%A tarnished "Shining"
51%Absolutely Incredible
5A very worthwhile film.
10%Another poor dvd transfer of a kubrick movie
40%twin girls
5its great
50%An eerie story culled from a long, boring novel
51%Good Classic
5Excellent
5Maximum Suspense!
5Kubrick masterpiece
5Another Kubrick masterpiece
50%Just like the King book.
5a groundbreaking film
5Unlike any other horror movie
4Kubrick is King
40%Great making and movie .
30%It could have been better
31%The Shining
5THE SHINING - SCARIEST FLICK EVER!
50%Play with us, Danny! (Shudders)
5Best horror movie ever!!!
50%Hereeee's Johnny!
51%One of the 2 best horror films ever!
5Another Kubrick Classic.
21%Terrible adaptation
40%A Classic!
10%Nowhere Near as Good as the Book!
51%VERY CREEPY
51%appreciate each on its own terms
50%One of the ABSOLUTE Greatest Movies EVER!
51%One of the best horror films of all time...
30%THE SHINING
11%The Shining
51%If you want a GOOD, INTELIGENT horror movie this is the one!
5Absolutely the best
5Hypnotic, Terrifying and Disturbingly Decadently Entertainin
31%Well....
5Quite Possibly The Best Horror Film... Ever
5The best war film ever made!
41%Tom Mercers Review on the shining
5The perfect horror movie
5THE ONLY FILM THAT IS BETTER THAN THE BOOK!
20%THE TV REMMAKE WAS MUCH BETTER
40%Still waiting for Widescreen
50%It`s an awsome movie
5The Shining is an excellent modern horror film
5Kubrik Shines!
41%Boils down to a good job.
51%The music IS the Shining!
51%BEWARE!
51%A Classic, One Of the Greatest Movies of All Time
51%Great movie, but should have followed the book
41%Hoped for much better on DVD
51%Kubric is a genious
10%laughable at best
51%Kubrick wanted this to be seen in 4:3 format!
10%Horrendous.
10%Great movie--horrible DVD
50%The Shining
5one of the finest
10%You're money's no good here Mr Torrance.
51%JACK NICHOLSON AT HIS BEST
50%The best director and best actor in one great movie.
40%this is 1 of Kubricks best!
51%GREAT! AWESOME!
51%A great Kubrick!
11%Sadly disappointing adaption.
5This is the best horror movie I have seen
5Intelligently scary...don't go for it if you're into Scream
10%this is the worst film ever!
51%GREAT CLASSIC
20%I would rather watch a movie that makes sence.
5Do not watch this one alone!
41%For his WIDE EYES only...
5Psycological Thriller -- One of My Top 5 of All Time!
5Unparalled Masterpiece
41%DVD Quality Rates a 1 Star
11%Dreadful DVD
40%DREADFUL DVD
11%Thumbs down for Warner Brothers!
5Classic Kubrick!!! Ignore the 1-star reviews!
40%a classic accomplishment for Kubrick
10%what a waste of money
30%Despite what "Gene Siskel" said - it *is* a pan & scan
10%Desecration of Kubrick
5Save your money people!!!!
4Flawed classic from Kubrick
5Best movie that i have ever seen in my whole life !!!!
5A masterpiece, and a look at the making of it..
5The Original Film
51%The pinnacle of Horror films, the world over
40%King adaptation gone slightly awry
5Master piece
5The most atmospheric, psychological horror movie ever
5a gut wrenching non stop piece of kubrick genius
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