Roger BW 😷Mar 28
Is 1980's The Shining a masterpiece? What is the nature of story anyway? Find out what @lordof1 and I thought in #RibbonOfMemes https://ribbonofmemes.org.uk/archive/2026/The_Shining__1980_.html #Podcast #Film #Movies
Ribbon of Memes: The Shining (1980)

Show thread Kale Mar 30

@RogerBW @lordof1 I find both Kubrick and King... just don't write characters I give two fucks about.

Perhaps it's my limited exposure to both, but just... *shrug*

So, I'm not surprised you felt this way about the chars. in The Shining.

Show thread Kale Mar 30
@RogerBW @lordof1 Also, my main interface to The Shining (having neither read it nor seen it) is the Treehouse of Horror episode from The Simpsons with it (and it sounds relatively well done) - AND, a map in BLOOD.
Show thread Kale Mar 30
@RogerBW @lordof1 The Shining really feels like 'oh, that's where THAT bit is from!', movie-wise. I know this is where your 'was it influential?' comes in, but I think you've been coming to the conclusion (as I did a while back) that there's 'in-industry influential' (ie: when X does Y, a lot of people sit up and do Y) vs 'memeable' ('this turns up as a reference, in...')
Show threadNick MarshMar 30
@DarkestKale @RogerBW yes, that’s a good point. It’s a visually striking film and many of the individual images are memes or at least in the public consciousness much more than the actual film.
Show threadRoger BW 😷
@lordof1 @DarkestKale Even relatively non-pop-cultured I had met the typewriter "all work and no play" well before I saw the film (it's been one of the xscreensaver collection since 1997).
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