A Heartwarming Movie With Jack Nicholson...

[ThomasMore]

View the video clip here (http://www.ps260.com/molly/SHINING%20FINAL.mov). You will need to have QuickTime to view it.

[Peachdiane]

I'm not sure what that is? The Shining I very vaguely remember was a horror flick with Nicholson...

[Maggie_T]

I'm sorry, Tom. I'm afraid I missed the point.

Then again, I can't bear to look at anything that shows Jack Nicholson for too long. That guy makes me physically ill. He looks like someone who stinks, has bad breath and dandruff. And in The Shining he was particularly obnoxious and revolting.


If anyone offered me $1mil to kiss him on the cheek, I'd flatly refuse. EEEWWWW! :gag:

[Eagle1]

that is really funny

[ThomasMore]

The Shining (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/) WAS a horror movie.

Writer Nicholson and family move to a deserted ski lodge to maintain it through the winter, and to give him solitude to work on his book.

The ski lodge is haunted; lodge guests had been violently murdered there. After the family gets snowed in, the ghosts cause Nicholson to go mad. (Scatman Crothers, seen in the trailer saying "What's Up, Doc" to the boy, is a ghost.) As Nicholson descends into psychosis, he tries to murder his trapped family.

The gag is that the creator of this video clip used real bits of the movie, with different voiceovers and music, to create a trailer portraying the movie as vapid, warm and fuzzy, not the horror film it really is...

It would be akin to making a theater trailer for Dracula packaging it as a Victorian romance.

The REAL theater trailer for The Shining (quick-time version) can be viewed here (http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=shining).

[dPrasse]

Then again, I can't bear to look at anything that shows Jack Nicholson for too long. That guy makes me physically ill........... If anyone offered me $1mil to kiss him on the cheek, I'd flatly refuse. EEEWWWW!

guess we'll differ thee ... I love Nicholson .... I might even kiss his cheek for a million dollars !

[ThomasMore]

I never saw The Shining in the theater. I did see it on television...the irony is where and when.

In 1983, I took a ski vacation at Alta, Utah. Alta is famous for the amount of snow it gets, and the nature of that snow: a very light, dry snow commonly called "powder." Powder skiing is its own art, and a lot of fun.

But powder is also very unstable, especially when the daily snowfalls were 12-18", as they were in 1983. Avalanches are common. The slopes were blasted with dynamite nightly, to create controlled snowslides. This to prevent larger, uncontrolled avalanches.

I stayed at one of the lodges located at Alta's base, the Goldminer's Daughter (http://www.goldminersdaughterlodge.com/). Every night at 10:00, the residents were locked into the lodge because blasting would commence, and if a controlled avalanche got out of control, the lodge could be buried. The cement-block structure was designed to withstand burial, but guests outdoors after 10:00 risked their lives.

It was there, locked in at a ski lodge, that a group of us watched The Shining on TV...

[dPrasse]

Kind of like watching "Children of the Corn" before going to a corn maze ?
or
watching "Joy Ride" before heading into the new career of trucking ....

[EveningStar]

That's pretty clever. :)

[Peachdiane]

The gag is that the creator of this video clip used real bits of the movie, with different voiceovers and music, to create a trailer portraying the movie as vapid, warm and fuzzy, not the horror film it really is...

Ah, gotcha! I was nine when it was released theatrically. All I remember is Jack going mad. ;)