OV078 - Debate Ep - Matt v Mike - The Shining

The gang takes one of their biggest disagreements into the podcast. Matt loves The Shining, Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King. Mike, on the other hand, takes issue with The Shining and Kubrick as a filmmaker. The pair spends the episode debating (with Tiny serving as moderator) the merits and issues present in Stanley Kubrick's horror classic, The Shining. Runtime: 1:27:56 Direct Download Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/obsessiveviewer/OV78-ShiningDebate.mp3 Timestamps Episode Start – 00:34 Startup Podcast – 01:25 Tiny Introduces The Shining – 01:48 The Shining: Spoiler Warning? – 06:12 Matt v Mike – The Shining Debate Matt's Opening Remarks – 08:34 Mike's Opening Remarks – 10:31 Mike – The Shining Lacks Genre Identity – 12:37 Rebuttal – Matt on The Shining's Identity – 13:37 Discussion – Jack Torrance's Mental State – 16:13 Theory – Did Jack Want to Kill Wendy from the Beginning? – 19:26 Theory – Does Jack Have the Shining? – 22:29 Matt – The Merits of Filmmaking – 24:35 Rebuttal – A Matter of Taste – 28:04 Discussion – Filmmaking Inconsistencies – 29:56 Theory – Jack's Imagination/Can of Worms - 33:25 Debate Break – The Shining by Stephen King – 38:33 Debate Break – Tiny's Thoughts on the Movie – 41:07 Debate Break – Matt's History with The Shining– 45:52 Debate Break – Mike's History with The Shining– 48:40 Debate Break – Mike on Ambiguous Endings – 49:53 Mike – What the Movie Wants to Be/The Ending – 51:24 Discussion – The Ending – 52:23 Discussion – Nicholson's Career Dictated the Success? – 57:01 Mike's Closing Statement – 1:03:32 Matt's Closing Statement – 1:07:09 Question – The Shining or The Exorcist? – 1:08:49 Question – Did Kubrick Influence Stephen King? – 1:14:00 Discussion - Tiny on Kubrick's Genius – 1:15:19 Discussion – Where The Shining Ranks with Matt – 1:20:55 Show Notes OV14 – Yahoo Answers 2 and The Breakfast Club Debate –http://obsessiveviewer.com/2013/09/06/the-obsessive-viewer-podcast-ep-14-yahoo-answers-2-and-the-breakfast-club-debate/ OV64 – OV B-Roll – Lone Survivor, Star Wars, Prisoners, Bates Motel, The Zero Theorem –http://obsessiveviewer.com/2014/07/16/the-obsessive-viewer-podcast-ep-64-ov-b-roll-lone-survivor-star-wars-prisoners-bates-motel-the-zero-theorem/ Toward a Post-structural Influence in Film Genre Study: Intertextuality and The Shining by Walter Metz –http://www.academia.edu/531112/_Genre_Theory_and_The_Shining_ Now Playing Podcast: The Shining –http://www.nowplayingpodcast.com/archives/nppshining01.php All Conspiracy and No Logic Makes "Room 237" a Dull Documentary –http://obsessiveviewer.com/2013/07/01/all-conspiracy-and-no-logic-make-room-237-a-dull-documentary/ The Nerdist Ep 85 – Damon Lindelof –http://www.nerdist.com/pepisode/nerdist-podcast-85-damon-lindelof/ Matt's Review of Boardwalk Empire's Series Finale –http://obsessiveviewer.com/2014/10/28/series-finale-review-boardwalk-empire-508-eldorado/ Matt's Men, Women & Children Review –http://obsessiveviewer.com/2014/10/27/movie-review-men-women-children-2014/ Matt's Decade Reviews –http://obsessiveviewer.com/ongoing-features/decade-reviews/ Obsessive Book Nerd: http://www.obsessivebooknerd.com The Secular Perspective: http://www.thesecularperspective.com Mike's Band: As Good As It Gets:http://asgoodasitgetsband.bandcamp.com/ Loudlike Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Loudlikemusic Loudlike iTunes Artist Page:https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/loudlike/id900064807?uo=4&at=10lo4r Loudlike "Mistakes We Must Make" EP:https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mistakes-we-must-make-ep/id900064782?uo=4&at=10lo4r Loudlike Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/loudlike Let us know what you think! Like us on Facebook: The Obsessive Viewer Tweet us: @ObsessiveViewer, @ObsessiveTiny,@IAmMikeWhite Email us: Matt, Tiny or Mike at ObsessiveViewer.com Check out the blog: http://ObsessiveViewer.com Find past episodes of the podcast:http://OVPodcast.com RSS Feed: http://obsessiveviewer.libsyn.com/rss Subscribe to us on iTunes and leave us a review.