So...um... basically fandom, right?

Reading EW's list of "10 Best Movies of 2012" they mention a documentary "Room 237"  (I haven't seen the movie so this isn't really commentary on it.)  The description of the movie was intriguing enough for me to look up a review. 

The review said this:

It's an essay in interpretive heresy and critical dissent. The subject is Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining, based on the 1977 novel by Stephen King. Ascher declines to approach it in terms of the conventional consensus established by reviewers and pundits. Instead, he talks to fanatical Shining obsessives who have developed outlandish theories and found sensational clues in the tiny, subliminally glimpsed details, in the strange perspectives, continuity errors and Escher-like physical inconsistencies in the layout of the Overlook Hotel. Kubrick was himself a detail obsessive, and that fact makes these theories very seductive. The ideas about The Shining as a meditation on historical guilt and the return of the repressed are powerful.  The movie's flaw is that it is sometimes unclear if it really is about The Shining – or about delusional interpreters.

Still remember the bizarre post on BAPS that was made just prior to Chosen claiming that the existential nature of the entire Buffyverse was beautifully coming together and that the meaning of life or whatever would be revealed...