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The Shining (1980)
I have to be honest – I initially watched this movie half-heartedly, spending the other half farming in a gacha game, and about an hour and a half before the end, I even turned it off and only came back 20 minutes before the finale. Some might think that everything I've said means I'm not qualified to judge this film, but I disagree. I firmly believe that I saw everything I needed to see. My verdict: another piece of garbage from Kubrick. The scenes are drawn out and boring, the dialogue either dumps exposition on us or tries to "build suspense" (which doesn't actually happen), or is just pointless. The editing is like something from BadComedian; if I didn't know who made this film, I would have trashed it and been right. It feels like the editor didn't know what to do with the mess that the various scenes created, and just strung them together hoping they would form some kind of logical sequence. Special shout-out to the ending. The plot: the film is 146 minutes long, but the plot can be described in one short sentence. You might ask, "But what about the atmosphere and suspense?" I didn't see them, except maybe the atmosphere of gloom. There's also not much logic in this film; for example, at the end, Nicholson could have simply walked out of the maze by following his own footprints, which he left earlier. They're even visible in the frame. However, the problem with the logic isn't even that the events themselves are illogical, but that the viewer, as is expected in an "elite" film, isn't supposed to understand anything – and they don't. The acting? Yes, the actors are trying, but the extremely unpleasant face of the main character prevented me from appreciating her performance. I just wanted her to disappear from the screen as soon as possible. Nicholson is making faces like crazy; it seems like he also felt the dreariness of the film and tried his best to lighten it up, but unfortunately, he couldn't do it alone. What does this film have? It has a bunch of shots with perfect symmetry in the center. Is that not enough for you? It should be, because in the opinion of many people, that's enough to call the film and the director – geniuses and promote them everywhere. Fortunately, this isn't my first time encountering Kubrick, but the pain of disappointment when I realized that he was making garbage for a specific category of viewers will never leave me.
As a bonus, when I was looking for the release date of the film to properly format the post, I came across this:

Despite the many negative reviews upon its release

Despite the fact that this film is one of the most famous adaptations of King's work, the writer himself considered it one of the worst film adaptations of his books.

"Geniuses are not appreciated in their lifetime," you might say. I have a different opinion: when garbage dries up and turns into a fossil, it's no longer garbage, but a valuable archaeological find with cultural value.
Of course, this is just my opinion, and it shouldn't be taken as an attack or an attempt to present myself as an absolute authority.