agateauthor on 13/3/2006 at 08:12
Quote Posted by Taffer36
Heeeeeeere's Jack! Having never played The Cradle, I can say that I never would have imagined The Shining and Thief being connected in any way...
Um... they're both classics. Does that count as similarity?
P.S. Should I go read the book?
There are two types of The Shining fans....those who have read Stephen King's book first, and those who saw the Kubric/Nicholson version first. I'm in the former category, and I managed to hold off on seeing the original movie until I had finished the book. There I was, around age 14, staying awake until 3am on a school night with a book that I simply could not put down once I passed the 3/4 mark. The next day I rented the movie with a clear image in my head of what I wanted to see. Kubric didn't deliver. Danny's psychic abilites (The Shining), which played a major factor in the book....hence the title, were watered down into a rather dull child-actor talking to HIS FINGER!!! Nicholson portrays Jack Torrence as a man already on the verge of a psychotic break, and his underlying battle with alcoholism was swept away like an afterthought. In the book, it is clear that the Overlook Hotel is a living spiritual entity that wants to absorb Danny's ability. In the movie, we aren't exaclty sure if the hotel is haunted or if Jack is just suffering from cabin fever. One of my favorite scenes in the book involves hedge animals that creep closer and closer to a character whenever he's not looking at them. In the movie we got a hedge maze.....useless for all but one scene. And to avoid spoiling the ending, let me just say that the film is anti-climactic. Wheras the book's final 3/4 was so exciting that I couldn't put it down, the film's final 3/4 was so boring that I was having a hard time staying awake.
So, yes. Read the book....or watch the 1997 mini-series with Steven Webber. Stephen King had creative control over that one so it stays very faithful to the book.
As for Shalebridge Cradle, I guess I must be growing more jaded in my taste for horror as it didn't scare me as much as the tidbits of info I read on this forum lead me to think. It was my anticipation of that level that made me want to keep going in T:DS dispite the annoying adjustment to the new engine. But then again, I play every horror game I can get my hands on, trying to attain the same level of simulated terror I felt the first time I entered the engineering deck in System Shock 2.....or made me have bizzare nightmares like Silent Hill.
Aja on 13/3/2006 at 09:34
Quote Posted by Taffer36
Heeeeeeere's Jack! Having never played The Cradle, I can say that I never would have imagined The Shining and Thief being connected in any way...
Um... they're both classics. Does that count as similarity?
P.S. Should I go read the book?
Here's
Johnny. :D
Aside from some minor similarities, I didn't get the same vibe from reading The Shining and playing Shaldebridge Cradle. Or from seeing the movie and playing Shalebridge.
Kubrick's version tells a different story than King's; personally it's one of my favourite films, and I really enjoyed the book.
I did not enjoy the mini-series though. Weber was alright, but the actor who played Danny was AWFUL and the CGI hedge animals were corny and ridiculous.
Kovitlac on 14/3/2006 at 01:00
The Shalebridge Cradle is remarkably similar to House on Haunted Hill. A house with a soul, used to be an insane asylum, electroshock-therapy, even weird twitchy folks...
Emerald Wolf on 14/3/2006 at 05:28
What about Rose Red? It had haunted entity-house as well.
agateauthor on 14/3/2006 at 15:51
Ahhhh! Bunnies!
I actually liked that better than the movie.
:thumb:
UNWANTED GUEST on 14/3/2006 at 17:51
What is "The Shalebridge Cradle"? I've seen this mentioned but could not find it as a fan mission in cheap missions website.
Thanks
Unwanted
Taffer36 on 14/3/2006 at 19:37
It's a mission in TDS.
I liked the movie, so I think I'll check out the book too.
Slippi on 14/3/2006 at 21:01
Quote Posted by UNWANTED GUEST
What is "The Shalebridge Cradle"? I've seen this mentioned but could not find it as a fan mission in cheap missions website.
Thanks
Unwanted
Please tell me you're joking.
Yametha on 14/3/2006 at 22:48
Unless of course he doesn't have T3, and doesn't want to spoil it, in which case it MIGHT be excusable... no, completely inexcusable, he should have it be now if he was worried about that sort of thing! :cheeky:
