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b_b  ·  4653 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Shining: Stephen King vs. Stanley Kubrick
I never read the book. I'm not really a King fan, generally. The Shining as a movie, on the other hand, is nothing short of a masterpiece, possibly the best horror movie ever made. I've seen that movie many times, and I still get scared when Jack approaches the woman in the bathtub.

There was a time when my high school bought 30 or so shitty laptops, which they thought was a bfd back in '97. My English teacher made us do a writing assignment on them, where we were supposed to work on a story every day for a week. As a tribute to the film (and an exercise in protest against this silly assignment) I spent those days writing nothing but "All work and no play make Ben a dull boy". I received, as I recall, a 0% on the assignment, but man was I pleased with myself!





bionics  ·  4648 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Haha, that writing assignment anecdote is hilarious. She should've given you at least a D for your persistence. (Or temporary insanity.)