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    1. 09-24-2006 02:08 PM #1
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      SPOILER WARNING FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE: DON'T READ ON

      Ok, so I'm unbelievably slow, and I just watched "The Shining" for the first time last night, and I just didn't get the bit at the end. So at first i was Ok with the storyline. Basically he started to go mental at the and and wanted to kill his own family right? Because "they need a good talking to...perhaps a bit more".

      But the thing that I don't understand is how the waiter guy, Delbert Grady who supposedly was the one who killed his own family before commiting suicide, is in the bathroom with Jack, insisting that he was never a caretaker at the hotel and he never killed his family. Then he goes on to say that Jack has always been the caretaker there.

      Basically I thought that all the crazy stuff happening to jack (the meeting with Delbert Grady for example) was in his mind as he started to go insane, but then at the end it zooms in on that staff photo of the hotel that is labeled "Overlook Hotel, 1930" (or was it 1920?)

      I just don't understand how he was at the hotel in 1930, when he arrived at the hotel in the 80s. I know there's supposed to be a big twist, but I just didn't get it.

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    2. 09-24-2006 02:33 PM #2
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      I haven't even watched the movie, but I think it's not so much him going back in time as the ghosts are there in the present now. Or something like that. Either way, HERE'S JOHNNY AND HIS AD-LIB!
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      The book is really good; much better than the movie.
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      Is it at all easier to understand?

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    5. 09-25-2006 02:13 AM #5
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      Quote Originally Posted by badassbob View Post
      Is it at all easier to understand?
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      It has been a while since I read it, but it has a different (much more dramatic) ending than the movie, and it was incredibly scary and I as far as I can remember it made sense (well in a Stephen King sort of way). That was a Stanley Kubrick movie and he took some liberties with the story. Stephen King didn't like it and I think he made his own version but I didn't see it. I slept with the light on when I was reading it.
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