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| Oakland Tribune - June 13, 1980 |
The film versions of both The Island and The Shining opened on Friday, June 13th in 1980. The very day that the events in the first Friday the 13th movie were supposed to be taking place. How's that for an alignment?
I struggled and waffled over which movie to see on the big screen to celebrate my 13th birthday, The Island or The Shining? Hey, there's that alignment again. Go figure.
Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown, and, most importantly, Peter Benchley were integral parts of the production team responsible for Jaws, which was (and remains) my favorite movie of all time. But The Island was nothing at all like Jaws. There was also the fact that, at that time, I had been unable to finish reading the source novel, despite having made one or two attempts to do so.
I had no problem finishing The Shining, though. That book scared the daylights out of me and I hoped the movie would do the same.
The Shining won, as it never really was all that much of a contest to begin with.
When I did get around to finally seeing The Island, either on home video or HBO, I was even happier with the decision I had made.
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