Everything Wrong With The Shining in Murderous Minutes or More 

I love that the "All work and no play" scene has paragraphs, different spacings, etc like he actually thought he was writing a story.

That ACTUAL sin set in the motion the rest of the movie, and I've never noticed it! "I'd give my soul for a goddamn beer." His soul is now trapped in the hotel because he wanted booze, and ultimately sold his soul to the hotel just to get it. His addiction resulted in his own demise.

I love how the sin counter is a character now

I always loved how the architecture is purposefully wrong across the movie. Kubrick made sure that characters were filmed walking down halls that, when you map them out, are actually physically impossible

Jack Nicholson's eyebrows deserved an Oscar on their own!

I still cannot believe that Shelley Duvall was nominated for worst actress in this movie. She went through hell during the making of this film to the point where her hair started falling out from stress. Her performance is both mesmerizing and terrifying. She deserved better.

“Come play with us Danny...” (Daintily) Peer pressure. 😂😂😂

The entire time Jack goes up the stairs slowly chasing wendy he doesn't blink at all.

I wish that Hal9000 had refused to give one of the sins and said "I'm sorry, Jeremy, I'm afraid I can't do that."

I always thought the ending was obvious. Jack sold his soul for a drink, and now he's bound to the hotel, hell, for eternity.

I like how as Jack is talking to Grady about him killing his kids, the more he denies it, the more sinister Jack becomes, then in turn eventually Grady becomes more sinister in the convo, almost as if the hotel is mirroring Jack in a sense.

To be fair to Dick Hallorann, his arrival and attempt to help might seem worthless but he actually kinda *does* still save the day. Jack was right there with an axe, Wendy cornered with nowhere to go, then Hallorann arrives and diverts Jack’s attention, gives Wendy time to escape.

A misconception is that Jack randomly goes crazy when other caretakers didn't. This isn't about the haunting. The hotel wants Danny because he has The Shining. This story is about the war between the hotel and Danny. Everyone else was just caught in the crossfire.

i always thought the "tuesday" stuff was to show REAL cabin fever. We dont know how long its been for them for a while, then all of a sudden ITS TUESDAY! this quarantine taught me that.. just how much the DAY of the week doesnt matter.

Everyone says "Heres Johnny" But no one asks "Hows Johnny" :(

You forgot the sin that bartenders are still upset about to this day. Jack asks Lloyd for bourbon, but Lloyd pours him Jack Daniels, which technically, isn't bourbon.

"Scene contains no CGI topiary animals." Brilliant.

Additional sin: Jack is told he has "always been the caretaker" and that's what he was hired to do, but the only person you ever actually see taking care of the hotel is Wendy.

"enough kool-aid for a cult" that was sneaky and dark. i love it

A couple of things you've criticized in the video actually make perfect sense: The shining is hereditary. Dick Halloran mentions this in his conversation with Danny. Jack has it too, but he has repressed it/is unaware of it and his powers are nowhere near as strong as his son's. Whenever a character "shines" in the movie, a high-pitched ringing sound is played. This sound also plays whenever Jack is staring into space. His powers and his fucked-up mental state is why the hotel has such an easy time influencing him. Jack coming across as unhinged during the car ride to the Overlook is not an inconsistency, Kubrick has confirmed in interviews that by the time Jack arrives at the hotel, he is already mentally prepared to annihilate his family. He is an abusive alcoholic, an unsuccessful author, he has a strained relationship with his wife and son and is unable to hold down a job. He pretty much has no redeeming qualities. This is not really explained in the movie, but in the novel it is mentioned that if a person dies at the hotel, their spirit is absorbed by it. It targets shiners to amplify its paranormal activity by absorbing their powers. Dick Halloran and Danny/Tony are pretty much safe because they understand what the Overlook is and therefore cannot be manipulated by it. Wendy doesn't have the shining so she doesn't see anything strange until the very end. Jack has the shining and is extremely mentally unstable, so he's an easy target. The hotel's main goal is to get him to kill Danny because he is the strongest shiner. The hotel goes bonkers after Halloran's death because his powers were absorbed, increasing the paranormal activity to a point where even Wendy can see it. Jack is in the picture in the end because his spirit has also been absorbed by the Overlook. The reason why none of the other caretakers besides Grady have become homicidal might have been because none of them possessed the shining and therefore couldn't be manipulated.

Apparently Stephen King didn't want Jack Nicholson cast in the movie because he felt like he didn't have the ability to make the character go from straight and narrow family man to full on crazy.

In all seriousness, the thing I never really bought into was how quickly Jack went from normal guy to homicidal maniac. Nicholson's performance, as touched on in this vid, was so over the top to begin with that he never seemed like just a normal, healthy everyman.

“main character in stephen king story is a writer cliche” FINALLY SOMEONE NOTICED

I’ve looked up what the image at the end meant. Kubrick said that it suggests that it’s a reincarnation of Jack, meaning that Jack’s soul is trapped at the hotel and is eventually dragged back when his soul escapes

Jeremy on Bear suit guy: “is this supposed to be scary?” Dude, it’s freaking terrifying.

I feel like one sin should be Wendy admitting to the doctor that her husband broke her sons arm, and the doctor doing nothing. Doctors are mandated reporters, she should have called CPS.

Please do “The Shawshank Redemption” soon love to see what you will do

Danny riding the big wheel has always been one of my favorite scenes ever. Just so satisfying and original.

The fact that little Danny wasnt home schooled or went to school clearly explains why he cant spell MURDER correctly...right?...right?

Cinemasins: Today, we're doing a Stanley Kubrick film Sin counter: No.

Jack's eyebrows are the true villain of The Shining.

The real sin goes to the director, for making the actress redo the “Crazy” scene with Jack over & over, until her acting became real 😳

All sinning and no play makes Sin guy something something...

I dont think Cinema Sins has been this forgiving since Pulp Fiction

Sin Counter: IGHT IMMA HEAD OUT Hal 9000: IGHT IMMA HEAD IN

Props to Shelly duval. This role took a piece of her 💔

One theory I heard says that the pantry is actually the portal to the ghost side of the hotel. The clue is supposedly that, at the start of the movie, they enter the pantry and the door swings one way but when they exit, it swings the other, showing they've entered the mirror dimension.

No TV and no beer make Homer something something.

6:20 I think I can actually provide an answer to this sin. In Stephen King's novel, Jack finds a scrap book about the horrific history of The Overlook which kind of acts as a stepping stone on his path to his insanity. Although not explicitly explained in the film, this book on his desk in Kubrick's adaptation always struck me as that very scrap book described at length in Stephen King's novel, or at very least an homage to the original idea of the scrapbook from the novel

The "Tuesday" mark foreshadows that, in less than a week, everything will go bananas. Up to this point, the film has been quoting unspecific periods: - "the interview", suggesting there's been a previous interaction for a job opportunity that is now being brought to completion; - "closing day", suggesting some time passed between the interview and the Torrances finally moving into the hotel. That the story turns oddly specific on time periods after the "one month later" mark implies that _someone_ or _something_ is keeping a vague record of what's going to happen, and they're _losing their patience;_ or better yet (as some others have suggested): they're _losing count in exasperation._

Dear CinemaSins! I have read The Shining just recently, and I have to say Kubrick did a masterpiece of trying to sort out the key moments out of the tangled mess the book is. There are so much material and so many references that the movie should have been 4 hours long. Due to this, you made about 15 errors in your sin tally, as Kubrick simply followed the book to the letter at some moments, while omitting many interim stages, so it seems out of logic, while it actually is quite logical. For example, at 0:40 you ask who the fuck are the people in Denver? Jack's friend is one of the directors of the board of the hotel, and he recommended Jack for the job. Why did Kubrick omit to mention this? we don't know, but the phrase is perfectly sensible. at 3:50 you ask why they stocked the freezer full of meat for the winter? THESE WERE THE SUPPLIES FOR THE CARETAKER FAMILY FOR 6 MONTHS, not for the whole hotel. 12 turkeys and 40 chickens won't feed a hotel full of guests for a week, not to say for a month. at 7:00 you discuss that the hotel should have had lots of caretakers, not just Jack and Grady. WRONG. The hotel was always shut for the winter, which caused it to freeze on the inside and the structural damage had to be repaired each spring, which caused huge expenses. This is the reason they tried to instate a caretaker position - to warm the building up in the winter and do small repairs to minimize the cost of the refurbishing in the spring. They tried with Grady first, and after the slaughter, the hotel was closed for several years. so THERE NEVER WERE WINTER CARETAKERS THERE. at 8:35 - Jack stopped drinking heavily 3 years ago when he hurt Danny and broke his arm. He was drunk just once, after he lost his job 5 months ago, due to publicly beating the shit out of a cocksusker student, who cut the tires of his car. Jack was fired, got drunk, sobered up and never drank a drop for the next 5 months. at 10:15 -- Dick had just enough Shine to talk telepathically to someone in the same room. Danny had enough Shine to reach Dick across several states. Compare the cell battery power with a nuclear plant. Could Dick reach Danny back the same way? Definitely not! As for the reasons for the hotel to be evil and why Grady took some long time to free Jack - Danny's SHINE powers up the hotel and makes its ghosts real. SHINE does not work, while Danny is asleep. Grady appeared only when Danny awoke. It was written in the book and can be deduced from the movie. at 15:35 the reason for the desire to kill Danny is that the hotel wants Danny to become a ghost here, as then the SHINE will always be on and the hotel will be alive. Grady said that Jack can join the managerial suite of the hotel, should he solve the situation with Danny. Jack wants to be immortal and live in this hotel forever, so his primary goal is to kill Danny now, not Wendy. Wendy is nothing but a nuisance. A great sin analysis, good sirs, but I have to admit you overreacted quite a lot of times. However, this movie still did not get 180+ sins like some others, so thanks for a job well done, gentlemen!

The Shining “twins”, both in the book and the movie the characters weren’t twins but sisters, but they casted identical twins for the roles

"That is entirely too much Kool-Aid..." Somebody didn't grow up in the 70s...

I love how the sin counter decided, "Hey screw it I'm not sinning a Kubrick film, so I'm going to grab a beer for the next 20 minutes and let my cousin Hal do all the leg work!"

The chair wasn’t a continuity error, Kubrick did that many times throughout the film to emphasize the idea that they are all going crazy in the hotel.

"Even for the 80s, that is massively unsafe." The Shining might have been released in 1980, but it's 100% a 70s movie. The 80s hadn't even begun to happen yet.

Sinning the "Here's Johnny" scene. That's a sin.

Fun Fact: In the maze scene all of the snow is actually salt.

As to the money thing. He didn't have money the first time when he was still sort of connected to reality. When he goes back he is losing his grip and in his fantasy world of course he has cash.

1980: “Here’s Johnny!” 2019: “Hello there!”

One of the funny things about the helicopter establishing shots is how hard it was to not show the gas station and town walking distance from the hotel. I stayed there once, it's really pretty and, kind of unfortunately, really not spooky or scary

Shelley Duvall grew up in Texas. When she speaks with a twang she's slipping up and using her own accent. As a native Texan myself, I can hear hints of a twang in her pronunciation of vowels throughout the film.

No beer and no tv make homer something something.. "Go crazy?" DON'T MIND IF I DO!

“The people in Denver” Ullman talks about is Jack’s best friend Al Shockley who’s trying to get him a job after he got fired from teaching for beating up one of his students

7:40 "Here's Jeremy" had me dying. Jeremy you are a legend.

Actually, it's simple. Jack Nicholson's character is in the picture because he's now one of the ghosts haunting the hotel.

So are we all just gonna ignore the fact he sinned "here's Johnny"?

“Hmm, that’s odd. The blood usually gets off at the second floor” 😁

My man sinned one of the most iconic scenes in movie history....

No sin removal for the iconic "Here's Johnny!" scene!?!

the “and zuul” made me burst out laughing

Fun fact, my uncle was one of the 4 finalists in the audition to play Danny.

Thanks ya pointed out a few things I didn’t notice… all though 90% of the findings weren’t done by mistake. The film itself is a giant maze still mostly undiscovered. One of the most mysterious, captivating, & greatest movies of all time!

Jack Torrence is a teacher; he was supposed to be homeschooling him.

When ever someone in my life does something constantly annoying all I hear is sin pings😂

*This is how EPA was formed* -CinemaSins

Its explained more in the book. Danny's 'Shine' is so powerful, the ghosts somehow become real because of it... it doesn't go into as much detail about the Grady's... but its more or less eluded to being the same or similar cause, that one or more of the Grady's had 'Shine' themselves, which the hotel, which includes the ghosts inhabiting it again could become 'real' and influence the real world. The book also talks about other times, people would see a ghost or something, because a lot of people have a little 'shine' to them, but it wouldn't go much further than seeing the hedge animals move, which would have been a nice addition, if done right, or seeing the ghosts from the corner of their eye...

The only use the word “doc” a couple times in this movie but in Doctor sleep they use it so many times I thought he was an actual doctor

A SIN on Cinema Sins' Original Sin: At 8:22 Why did you doubt Wendy's fact when Jack is literally disclosing that "3 years ago" remark to a ghost? If anything, JACK is the one lying about the 3 years ago element. He's trying to put distance between his current self and that violent behavior, but we know the truth, that he lies on the verge of a violent mental break. In fact, in a sense, this IS the moment where the mental break occurs. He hasn't knowingly interacted with the spirit of the Overlook until this point.

5:50 As the movie goes on, the time stamps get smaller, like a countdown, starting with the interview, jumping a month, then transitioning to specific days of the week, then to times during those days. This is to make the views psychologically feel more claustrophobic because we are aware that there must be something that the countdown is counting-down to.

I don't know if this is a continuity error or intentional but does anyone notice that the map of the maze actually at the entrance of the maze shows it as being pretty small. But then when Jack is approaching the model of the maze it is much bigger. And finally, when we see the overhead shot of the maze with Wendy and Danny walking in the middle the maze, to me at least, looks three times bigger than the model of the maze that Jack is staring at. I've just done a quick cursory count of the different walls of the maze and it seems from the above view that there are many many more rows. I've got to believe this was done for dramatic effect to just show how much more danger Wendy and Danny are in then they know.

Could've also [un]-sinned Kubrick for the Guiness Book Record for most number of re-takes of that iconic stair scene. I mean congrats, but it also led to a nervous breakdown for actress Duvall... Her hair fell out & everything! That's also why that scene is so emotionally powerful, Duvall really WAS at her wits end!

The movie´s biggest sin was Jack Nicholson not even getting an Oscar nomination for his brilliant performance.

5:54 - *C'mon, Jeremy. You should know that Tuesdays are relevant because a new CinemaSins video comes out that day!*

Everytime i watch this video i imagine that one over dramatic teacher that makes you analyze the movie and when you are talking they interrupt you saying things like "writing redrum in the door is reversing the future murder that was going to happen in that bathroom, his powers made his mom safe"

Stephen King would sin the hell out of this movie

3:50 I always assumed the stocked pantry and freezers were for the Torrance's. At least 3 meals a day for 5 to 6 months requires a lot of food, especially considering the road to the hotel is impassible for most the winter.

0:15 You know Kubrick is an awesome filmmaker when the goddamn Sin Counter doesn’t want to disrespect him by sinning his work. 😄

Come sin with us Jeremy Forever and ever!

JEREMY: Alright Sinsworth, I need you to do a video for The Shining. SINSWORTH: ... I'm afraid I can't do that, Jeremy.

"Come play with us Danny..." I swear I said peer pressure in my head before you lol moment😅

No Danny only zuul That killed me 😂

I’m surprised someone had the balls to point out “Everything Wrong With” This movie. 👏👏

The *REAL* sin about this movie is how terribly Shelley Duvall was treated by the director when filming this. She became schizophrenic after it :(

"What's Stuart's beef with the Denver people on their previous recommendations?" Maybe that the last caretaker murdered his entire family and killed himself in the hotel LOL

Kubrick: *messes up a scene* Cinemasins: sin removed

Imagine watching a movie with this guy...

This was hilarious. My all time favorite horror film got a proper roasting “urge to kill...rising”

The typos are to show that he's just manically typing away, not sitting there carefully considering each keystroke. Come on, man. Or am I taking this video too seriously?

Fun fact: Almost 85% of all horror stories and movies are inspired on things or places in real life, and so is this movie. It is inspired by the Stanley Hotel, wich is currently still open for vacations and ghost tours, complete with hedge maze. And it has free wi-fi! Really, it seems like one heck of a creepy haunted hotel.

Shelly Duvall was actually ruined by this movie, she went insane. It's always so sad to think about when the movie was so brilliant.

Good movie scared the hell out of me when was a younger

"Why should I give a flying f*ck about TUESDAY??" Me, too, Jeremy. I also hate Tuesday.

My understanding on why Jack is able to escape the room with the bathtub lady without a scratch and Danny isn’t, is because Danny’s shine makes the things in the hotel more real around him. They feed off of him. That’s why the bathtub lady could hurt Danny but not Jack. Also the hotel is trying to get Jack to kill his family. Physically attacking him probably would not help in that endeavor. I’m referring to the sin at 9:31 in the video

To me, the biggest sin in The Shining was Kubrick’s treatment towards Shelley Duvall. I may respect him as a director, but I will never respect him as a man.

Fans: Sin for us Jeremy. Forever and ever and ever.

7:05 Maybe the other caretakers didn't have their families with them?

A sin on the sin. The reason there is so much food in the freezer is because there will be a family of three staying there for months, during the winter in a location known for getting snowed in. It's not like they can jump in the family Beetle and go to the corner store when there's 10 feet of snow outside

Not ONE clip from the Treehouse of Horror at the end? Just when I thought I knew you...

Please do the Stephen King's approved tv min-series version of the Shining!