User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Shining: King or Kubrick?/@comment-24101790-20150223232156/@comment-26030957-20150224002219

So far everyone is going with Kubrick. I don't know why I thought I was going to get all these King fans all ranting against it. Yeah, that mini-series was a let down, wasn't it? It was just that kid's lips: he was hard to look at. The ghosts in corpse paint big band scene with King making a cameo as the conductor was worth it though. I personally just wish that incredible "falling off the wagon" monologue from the book had been in the movie. Remember that one? Something, like, "from the gutter that's the nicest wagon you ever saw..... but when you get in the seats are hard and its full of old women with their hair pulled back to tight..." something like that.