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Originally Posted by Doc Faustus
I do. I think Kubrick's film was sterile, tyrannical and traitorous to its source material. I'm with King on it. It goes so far as to change the protagonist. Also, Steven Weber starts off sane and goes crazy, Jack Nicholson starts off crazy and gets slightly crazier. The tv version is more of an onslaught and puts the focus on Danny, where it belongs.
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I think that it works conceptually, but not actually. I also really hated what they did to Jack's character in the end, but you're right; it's more like the original story... And I thought that the Kubrik movie had a better ending than the book.