The Shining Mini Series - Nostalgia Critic 

"The movie where Jack Nicholson goes crazy!" "You'll have to be more specific"

King's original novel: an ingenious ghost story that really only works as a novel Kubrick's adaptation: an ingenious avant-garde psychological horror that really only works as a film

The kid sounds like he’s got a really bad cold

Nothing Happening to Wendy When She Was in The Elevator Was a Total Missed Opportunity Like Dean Winchester Sitting in Front of a Huge,Long Table That’s Filled With Pies,&,Him Not Eating Them All

"Knock, knock!" "Who's there?" "ZUUL, MUTHAFUCKA!"

The Tavern Tavern. I wonder if they serve Beer Beer there.

"I don't care if it doesn't make any sense. At least it's scary!" That's what Critic said, for those who haven't seen this review before RU-vid's copyright muting at the end.

Jack at the beginning of the movie: I don’t wanna kill child Jack at the end of the movie:I will kill a child I will kill a child

"Can you think of one instance where they took a random object and put blood or teeth on it and it was scary?" That fucking piano from Mario 64

Stephen King: living proof that novel-writing and script-writing do not have as many transferable skills as people think.

Surprisingly Doug actually does a pretty impressive Nicholson Jack Torrance impression

The "MY CABBAGES!" moment is the bit I keep returning for.

If I remember correctly Stephen King said he disliked Kubrick’s version of The Shining because Kubrick cut out a lot of the slower dialogue scenes in favor of making it more exciting, Kubrick had the right idea, he knew the movie had a lot of baggage that needed to be cut out in order to make a better movie, as a book those long scenes of talking work, because books are driven by dialogue, movies are different, it’s a medium of show don’t tell, so even though it meant changing up the original story Kubrick sacrificed the dialogue heavy portions for the sake of a better movie

"Malcoooolm, you know you have to die. It's the law of every scary movieeee!"

Honestly one of my favorite Nostalgia Critic reviews. The combination of Doug's Nicholson impression, the conscious effort to imitate Kubrick's cinematography, and just the sheer fun that everyone's having with it, makes me giggle no matter how many times I watch. Thanks, everyone.

“What’s important is that we have this fantastic location built on top of a harmless Indian burial ground that rests below the hulking remains of a burnt down insane asylum for schizophrenic homicidal orphans...and vampire puppies” Well...that would explain how NC got this first location so cheap lol

I like how, when NC gets locked in a room, the lock is on his side of the door.

I get it now! The Q-Brick movie was focused on Jack slowly turning insane while the miniseries is focused on letting us turning slowly insane. This is a Masterpiece! Why didn’t I see it?

Me: Mom can we get The Shining? Mom: We have The Shining at home! *The Shining at home:*

Rachel 'freaking out' is almost as funny as that damn toy mallet making a squeak with every hit. Actually, scratch that, it's even funnier

You know what is crazy? The book has just as many talks about Wendy's and Jack's marriage as the series does... But since it invested effort into making how terrified Danny is of a divorce early on, those scenes are *actually* suspenseful in the book, because you are invested enough to not *want* them to break up, even though it would have been the more healthy solution by far; just another example of why literally taking a book and plastering it in filmed format doesn't work; the lack of inner dialogue from Danny turns scenes that were gripping in the book into a snorefest in the series.

"do something scary already!" Chair moves slightly. "Better than that!" Lol!

Kubrick's The shining=Unfaithful masterpiece. Shining miniseries=faithful garbage.

can i just say Malcom's distress about not getting to try the McDonald's pumpkin burger sounded so genuine it cracked me up

the shining movie and miniseries are a perfect example of "direct translation from page to screen" isn't always a good thing. Kubrick made the right choices for the adaptation. he one of the few directors that understand this.

Critic starts writing on the white Board, while muttering... Critic: Deeeerrooob... Deeeerrooob... *writes DEROB* *Rachel enters, and looks at board* She then looks at Mirror. Mirror Board: I AM IN NO WAY ENTERTAINED BY THIS MINI-SERIES AND I DO NOT PARTICULARLY CARE FOR IT WHATSOEVER. "And the award for the best scene under the subcategory of Bait-and-switch goes to..."

This is actually closer to what the book was like. This is a great example of the dangers of following the book too much.

The tour in the Kubrick version was also quite long. The difference is Kubrick knew how to make it interesting and it wasn't over an hour into the film.

I think I know why Stephen King's books don't usually translate well into movies: his main style seems to be that he slowly builds up tension throughout a long period of time as his characters maneuver about their everyday lives, gradually punctuating them with events that begin as vaguely bizarre and eventually escalate into bat-shit insane. This kind of storytelling is best done through writing because of the author's freedom to elaborate on backstory, drive the story with third-person insight, and describe scenes in a unique way that would take a seemingly ordinary event and turn it into something chilling or sinister. I don't think a lot of King's ideas work in movies because it's a visual medium, and he can't take advantage of his greatest strength: his narrative voice. So King really isn't to blame here; sometimes a person's work of art is only fitting to one particular medium.

Jack's famous quote in the novel: *Take your medicine!* Jack's famous quote in Kubrick's movie: *HERE'SSSSSSSSS JOHNYYYY*

10:45 you can kind of see Danny force his head into the toilet. So really Jack did nothing and it was Danny's fault.

The most terrifying thing... The claimed music having to be cut.

That Danny kid cries at the drop of a hat, my God... Also, the Critic should star in his own horror movie. Those expressions are more horrifying than any recent scary flick.

So when we need to kill a hotel of ghosts, who ya gonna call? Michael Bay.

It's actually amazing how well the Critic emulates Jack Nicholson in this video. Well done!

Stephen King is an amazing writer, without a doubt, but he doesn't seem to understand that film and novel are two completely different things. When reading something, your mind tends to make it scarier and more intense while on film, it can look silly Stanley Kubrick's interpretation, despite King not liking it, was a masterpiece. You can feel the tension as it builds up, something that you need in film

You can almost feel Doug's pure destilated GLEE while acting as Jack Nicholson. He was having so much fun, and actually became scary at some points. Doug...seriously, make a short film or something acting this crazy and stabby. You fit for it...which i don't know if its a compliment or not, but still!

I just read the novel. King wasn't satisfied with Kubrick's version because it changes a hell a lot of things compared to the novel. The book itself doesn't translate that well into film without these changes though and therefore the miniseries is made up of 4,5 hours of fucking boredom. I know the miniseries come closer to King's original version, but it was scary as a book, not on the screen. Kubrick understood that which is why his movie will remain a classic through the ages :)

29:02 - 29:10 - Love how she locks him in from the outside, where you need the key to lock/unlock the door (which she doesn't have), while he's locked inside the bathroom, where he can lock/unlock at will because his side has the latch. :')

*Stuart: "May I be frank?"* *Steven: "Okay, Frank."* Missed opportunity, NC, because I'd really have loved to have some Naked Gun humor in my Shining.

When Critic is more terrifying than the movie he's reviewing. LOL

I think the problem with Stephen King making his own version on the shinning is that he has no idea how movies NEED to be made to be interesting. Stephen Kings talent is writing books not directing movies, which is why in his version of the shining he had the characters talk and talk, and do every day average things because in books you can have all those things in them and no one would find it odd, while in movies people always need the charaters to do things that tie to the suspenseful part of story and a real exciting rising action to make it intresting. Personally i think its best that Stephen King sticks to being a author

Critic is an amazing actor. He played pretending Jack so well.

37:40 - I canNOT stop laughing at that moment, no matter how many times I rewatch it. Pumpkin Guacamole? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!

To be fair the hedges were a lot scarier in the book

The Critic's failed attempt at the "Here's Johnny!" scene never ceases to make me laugh.

The miniseires is a perfect example of why some things work better on paper

In the book, Jack is chasing Wendy with a knife in his back.This mini-series had the right idea, it just didn't have the creepy atmosphere Kubrick had.

I know it’s comedy, but Doug could be terrifying in the right context. Would love to see him so horror.

I'm not trying to sound mean to a kid actor, but Danny's inability to keeps his lips closed bothers me.

Malcolm: "Pumpkin guacamole?" Crazed Critic: "Aaaauuggghhhh!!!!"

Did anyone else's audio cut out at 41:27?

Critic is scarcely good at acting like a nutjob.

Attack of the Killer Chia Pets

King himself explained it like this. "The book is hot, and the movie is cold. The book ends in fire, and the movie in ice." And I love them both. But this version was just lukewarm!

If I remember correctly, when king was staying at the Stanley hotel ( the hotel used for the exterior shots of the mini series) he woke up from a nightmare about the killer hose. He went outside to smoke and baisicly came up with the entire story for the book on the spot.

"We'll show him won't we Pennywise?" "OH YES!!!!!"

Doug should be cast as the next adaptation's Jack Torrance.

Rachel and Doug actually do an amazing job reenacting scenes from Kubrick's shining!

~ 11:30 mark: "I've filed taxes scarier than this!" To be fair, Malcolm reading about how to do your taxes is infinitely more interesting.

Willie: You got the shinning! Bart: Don't you mean the shining? Willie: Shh! You wanna get sued?

"Just because you put blood or teeth on something that doesn't make it scary" now if only the creepy pasta writers could figure that out

Don’t you love it when they manage to make an episode of NC better than the movie reviewed? A lame comedy - they make the episode funnier, a thriller - they make it more suspenseful and thrilling, etc. Or just making a parody that’s more meaningful than some parts of the movie its based on. Awesome work, I wish even more people would discover this channel.

"Why do so many people hate that movie?" "I THINK IT'S SERIOUSLY UNDERAPPRECIATED!" That's exactly what I said about the Stranger Things season 2 episode, Chapter 7: The Lost Sister.

That hose with teeth literally looks like something out of Son of The Mask

"You've just been drinking toilet water for the past 5 minutes." I literally had to pause the video because I was laughing too hard to hear the review.

Lmao that girl actually re-enacted the bat scene very well

13:40 "Whats next, you gonna mildly tamper with the thermostat!?!?!?!" * Dads everywhere: cringe

Critic: my soul for just a shot of cupcake vodka Bartender: *pours Jameson*

I never understood why Stephen King complained about the maze in Kubrick's version because that worked perfectly. The animal sculptures do not work AT ALL. I know it was in the book but you can make changes that actually work.

Not only is The Kubrick version a better movie, in many ways it's a better adaptation, Yes, it deviates, but the Kubrick film made me want to read to book, while the miniseries made me question whether or not the book was that good.

29:03 Rachel: *locks critic in a room from the outside* 36:25 Rachel: *locks herself in the exact same room from the inside* Critic: *tries to break in* Me: WHAT THE FU-

I just got done reading the novel. I appreciate how King wanted a faithful adaptation of his book, and I sympathize with his wishes to make Jack Torrance a more relateable, sympathetic character, but I think the changes Kubrick made to the film were more out of necessity to make a good horror film than anything. As Critic points out, a lot of the dialogue and moments that made the book scary- don't translate well to a visual adaption. I think Kubrick did a fantastic job in taking a scary book and translating it into a scary, iconic film. And throughout the myriad of changes the film made from the novel, I still think there are plenty of nods to the book in Kubrick's adaption. Btw, Rachel looked so good in this episode.

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

Fun fact (that has probably already been told in the comments but who knows): The killer hose is actually part of Stephen King's original inspiration for "The Shining", since he first got the idea of that story from a nightmare in which his son was chased down in a hotel's corridor by a hose

what annoys me about this miniseries too is that in kings' "correct" version, wendy has to be a pretty blonde lady. Like I know rebecca demornay isn't a supermodel, but she just looks like protag in a romantic comedy. what made the shining more grounded for me was that shelley duvall just could be anyone. She has a unique face, but it doesn't scream "I Am An Actress Playing A Mother, Here's My Obvious Child-Actor Son."

Spoiler for the book The book was honestly terrifying. The hedge animals actually weren't supposed to be visible in movement, and could do a hell of a lot of damage to people (probably kill if they had the chance). Tony isn't supposed to be scary, he is Danny's "friend" and is there to help him. The reason that the mini series doesn't work is because it tries to focus so much on dialogue that occurs within characters heads organically within the novel. The novel puts so much focus on inner thoughts, that it seems clumsy and out of place when spoken aloud in a long winded conversational manner. The reason that "Jack" seems to survive so long, is because he is already dead and is being possessed by the hotel. The ghosts "die" because the hotel, the only thing connecting them to this world was destroyed. One of the things that was better about this movie was Wendy. She is supposed to be a sympathetic character, whom the reader relates to and roots for with everything going on.

No TV and no beer makes homer something something

This is definitely gonna get a lot more views when Doctor Sleep comes out

Ok Rachel really deserves an oscar for this review

If I was that kid's parent I'd lose it too.

Critic: Or as the british say, "Q-brick" Rachel: *Keeps saying q-brick*

13:39 Mr. Krabs: WHO TOUCHED ME THERMOSTAT!!!!!

With the thermostat joke, you should have had Mr. Krabs going "Don't touch me Thermostat!"

Doug does a very good Jack Nicholson it's actually kind of scary how good it is

"Can't you give us something?!?" * cues to the ghostly porch swing * "Better than that!!!" lmao i laugh too hard at that part

Anyone else terrified by Doug's performance as Jack

I just pictured stephen king saying "i just wanted stephen king done right" through this whole review

Its sad what happened to Shelly Duvall

That bit about AVP is too true.

24:48 literally came to this video just for "we're stuck, oh nutbunnies"

That picture at the end of the video is more scary then the mini Series

That Knock Knock joke tho

Don't kid yourself critic! I'm the best fucking thing in Kubrick's shining!

20:11- the book described the topiaries as moving closer and closer without them being seen visibly moving whenever you turned away from them - much like the Weeping Angels of Doctor Who. The scares came from whether the onlookers were imaging it or if it was true, what would they do if they caught you. All silent. The mini series very unsubtly hints of their sentience through animal noises long before they start moving like actual animals.

to bad the audio cuts off at 41:25

The skit was scarier then the miniseries

The fact that the Nostalgia Crtic gave a better "Jack Torrance" performance than the actor in the miniseries just shows how fucking bad it is

25:28 *_Slightly_** kicks the moving ball* *Falls on the floor like a jackass*

“You wanna do something scary?” “Nah dude, let’s just fart around a hotel for five hours”