User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Shining: King or Kubrick?/@comment-26141044-20150224041528/@comment-26141044-20150301064139

"I respect 2001 more than I actually like it. I respect what it conveys and all the ideas and things crammed into it, but I don't really like it that much."

That is what made it fall in flames. I know Kubrick probably thought he was conceiving some intellectual groundbreaking "masterpiece", but it is viewed by some as one of the most pointless, confused, and jumbled plots ever to premiere on screen.

If you are going to make some deep masterpiece, it should be known that your audience can understand the damn thing. Like I said before, I wouldn't even know what he was talking about during the movie if I hadn't read the book. And by the way, Clarke explains what he presents to the world much, much better.