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The Shining (1980)

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Hosts Will Dubbs, Brendan Fletcher, and Abby Krinsky of Two Men and a Baby review Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) for their 25th episode, after a pre-show Applebee's dinner and IMAX 45th-anniversary screening at Clifton Commons, New Jersey. The discussion covers Abby's 'Baby in the Corner' scare rating (8.2 on the fear factor scale), the film's groundbreaking Steadicam work, Kubrick's intentionally impossible hotel architecture, the symbolic framing of the chase sequence, the ethics of Kubrick's infamous on-set abuse of Shelley Duvall across 127 takes, the Kubrick-Stephen King creative feud, and major differences between the novel and the film — including Wendy Torrance's drastically reduced characterization. The episode also touches on fun production trivia including the Blade Runner aerial footage connection and the room 217/237 change.

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Kubrick's classic gets an image-savvy, tangentially loose breakdown that still ends on a strong, genre-crossing endorsement.

The episode opens with Will Dubs sounding both scared and thrilled to be back in the studio with Brendan Fletcher and Abby Krinsky, then moves briskly through The Shining, Stanley Kubrick, Jack Nicholson, and Shelley Duvall.

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If you want a rowdy Kubrick argument with beetles in the margins, start here.

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