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« on: March 25, 2015, 03:17:22 PM »
Ghost Story was one of my favorite books. The movie was a major disappointment. It condenses the narrative and dumbs it down severely. Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks and the other veteran actors are fine, as always. Craig Wasson is miscast and lacking in charisma.
I'm with you guys about The Shining. It is a very intense book, with lots of fascinating incidents. The movie is very claustrophobic and seems to be largely about cabin fever. Kubrick jettisons so much of the supernatural elements that when something does happen, it clashes with the rest of the material. And, maybe it's just me, but there was absolutely no suspense watching Jack Nicholson go crazy, as he seems more than half way there anyway.