The Shining?

If you're like me, you hate those lousy, bummer movies. The tragic thing about The Shining is how a feel-good story with OK acting gets held up by shotty direction and a backwards vision. I don't get it! Jack's just working through some bloc! It's a glorious experience. It's a triumphant battle with resistance--prompts for inspiration, the Masters on the shelf in easy reach for guidance, swords for gouging! Such a journey should be accompanied by lovely, sweeping violins and sun-blasted, majestic scenery--not some dingy old ski resort, grandmas with excema, and blood flooded elevators! Whatever hack that directed The Shining got it all wrong. Whoever directed the upcoming redo makes the other guy look like he directed the movie using Mario Paint.

Addendum: As a responsible blogger I should mention that I found the redo movie over at Brian's blog, [sausage] linked on the right.