Dull rendering ruins Shining sequel
For a film about the invasive influence of the past on the present, there’s too much of the old on display in Doctor Sleep: sets built from Kubrick’s original designs, recycled music cues and props, characters and entire scenes painstakingly reconstructed. It’s not so much a homage as an admission of defeat
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Stephen King famously despises Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of his 1977 novel The Shining, considering it a butchering of his text that was more the director’s story than his own.
To King’s loud and lasting displeasure, the film left a greater imprint on the cultural landscape than book that inspired it. ...
