Mastodawn

@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.

@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.

@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...')

Nick Marsh Mar 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.

@lordof1 @RogerBW I had to explain the whole 'Bugs Bunny eating carrots is a reference to Clark Gable' thing to a (young) coworker, and he was pretty dumbstruck that, you know, you are probably consuming X which is actually a remake/reboot/reference to Y (older thing).

I will forever point at the fact Xanadu is a remake of a sequel