Many of you probably know there are 3 different cuts of this masterpiece. The most talked-about is the original 146 minutes long cut which included a final scene in a Colorado hospital where Danny and Wendy meet an eerie Ullman who wants to make them believe they were victims of hallucinations.

Kubrick had the film released in that version for about 2 weeks or even less, I don't remember right now Then he cut the scene out.

The most notable differences that are still permanent are those which can be found in the international cut of the film, the one I have always watched. I finally happened on the site that shows visual/dialogue differences between the international cut and the US one. I was impressed when I found out two film stills I never had my eye on (despite the countless times I've seen The Shining), when I received as Christmas gift the Alison Castle massive  book "The Stanley Kubrick Files", published by Taschen. I suggest you to look it up on the internet and buy it if you're a Kubrick trekkie.

The missing shots I'm talking about are 1) skeletons sitting in a dark-blue hall of the hotel 2) Wendy and Danny watching TV in one of the hotel halls on a regular Tv-set. That brought back to my memory the fact that for 24 years I've been watching a different cut from the american one. So I looked on the internet and found this website I was talking about. The problem is that the stills are too small.

Here's the link to the website, where you can also find black and white pictures taken during the shooting of the famous hospital scene.

 http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~butting/shining/

Here's one:

How many of you have seen both versions or just the US one? Maybe owns it on DVD... It would be a blast if I had the chance to see some large-sized stills from the scenes that were taken out by Kubrick for us Europeans and the rest of the world. I'll trade stills from the European cut of the orgy scene in Eyes wide shut, eheheh. Just joking... And by the way you can watch them here:

http://www.celtoslavica.de/chiaroscuro/vergleiche/eyes.html

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

 well shut my mouth, i've never met a person who agreed with me on that. i stopped bringing it up because i usually get yelled at-- "OMFG what about paths of glory you monster!!" etc.

i think the shining is a good movie though. being the worst kubrick movie is like being the least good beethoven symphony

Okay, maybe my opinion could change through time, but I highly doubt that. Yet, to me there is no WORST in the Kubrick universe. Even a film like Dr. Strangelove , which is my least favorite (exclusing Spartacus, which was practically commissioned to him by Kirk Douglas), is undoubtedly a great thing to watch once in a while.

regarding THE SHINING for starters everyone should admit that Kubrick did a genius work on the adaptation of the very over-rated horror novel by King. I read it, twice precisely and I concluded that it was crap. Kubrick cut out essential and pivotal plot points in the novel to make it essentially different and more vague. Instead of doing that horrible TV movie, King should have thanked Kubrick for doing such great advertisement on his book. Moreover, The Shining is inarguably better than the higher-praised The Exorcist, which seems to be the most liked horror film of history.

Note: I pretty much hate The Exorcist . I find it unintentionally comic and I think those who say "well the scene with the vomiting girl was good, admit it" don't know what makes a film really good. Most films have at least one good scene. The Shining has, like, 90% of its scenes just the right way.

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

i don't know what you're talking about.

A. it's ok to expect a story to be told while you're watching a movie. 

B. that's precisely why i dislike lolita, it's completely devoid of kubrik's usual directorial razzle-dazzle.  

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)