User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Shining: King or Kubrick?/@comment-26141044-20150224041528

I am a Stephen King fangirl, and I hate Stanley Kubrick, so my opinion is going to be biased as hell.

Personally, I find Kubrick to be a complete moron that thinks that every single thing needs to be somewhat "meaningful" or "edgy" or "dynamic." I hate almost all of his work, and the only works I tolerate is A Clockwork Orange, and The Shining, mainly because I am a fan of the books.

To me, he turned The Shining into a predictable movie with the plot no where near what the original masterpiece called for. To me, that is disrepectful to the author, and to anyone that had any hand in writing or editing the book. When you take something, ideas, viewpoints, from another person to put it on screen, ALWAYS follow the original idea. Never create something of your own, slap your name on it, and be praised for it. I find what he did for the movie was.... interesting? I guess. But he disgusts me as a director. Like I said, biased.