Yup. Kubrick's worst... movie... ever... The book was so much better. I'll probably be burned in effigy for saying this, but Nicholson was totally the wrong person for that part. The thing about Jack is, from the moment he appears on screen in any movie, you just start counting the minutes until he snaps. So it was a foregone conclusion that he was going to freak out and try to kill everybody, and all you had to do was sit through it until he did. Whereas in the book, it's a much slower and more insidious decline into madness. The part should have been played by John Ritter or somebody normally quiet and harmless. It would have been 10x more effective.
