King Kong Anyone Seen It?
 

What'd you think of it??Write a review.I haven't But Will Over The Weekend.

Going in about 30mins ;)

Now how did I know Thor would be first in line to see this flick?? :lmao:

Mike

It will be another to add to the list.
1933
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...lance&n=404272

1963 This one had the King Kong robot
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...lance&n=404272

1976
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...lance&n=404272

1986
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...lance&n=404272

2005
King Kong...

By far the greatest King Kong and not just because of the special effects. Just an amazing movie! What going to the movies is supposed to be like. I only wish they could have changed the ending, it's so damm sad. I cried, I really did :(

On Thanksgiving I told my wife about a tradition they had here in NYC where WOR (Channel 9) would run King Kon, Son of Kong and Mighty Joe Young presumably to keep kids occupied while the dinner was cooking. I was at a video store getting her a copy of Trains, Planes and Automobiles (her favorite movie) and saw all three movies in a boxed set! Not only that, they were the newly restored two disc version of King Kong, and newly restored versions of the other two! Being short on cash I didn't get it, but when I got home I noticed a strange bulge in my (Blue & white ;) )stocking. Sorry to say I peeked, and lo and behold, go tell it on the mountain, there it was! What a wife! Now I have to keep my hands off it for another week and hope I can act surprised. Now did she also act on the hint about the 18 year-old Glenfiddich?

Anyone know the reason director Peter Jackson chose to tell this new version of King Kong in the same era ( 30's) as the original?

Mike

I'm going tonight at 10:00pm

It's one of his favorite films and he wanted to keep it in the same era.

The new DVD of the original King Kong has an interview with Jackson that's pretty interesting. His production company even went so far as to recreate the lost "Spider pit" sequence as a DVD extra.

Well one reason I can think of is that with modern weaponry a 50' ape would last about 2 seconds ;) Would have made the movie a lot shorter :yes:

It really bugs me when someone decides to do a remake of a really excellent classic movie. The original was so good by any day's standards, but especially with the special effects available to them at the time. Ray Harryhausen was a genius. They remade War of the Worlds and I think the original was much better, especially the design of the martian machines. Now they've redone King Kong. Now I'm not about to condemn it without seeing it. I respect Peter Jackson, and I'm sure he did a fine job on it, and I intend to see it. But the Wallace and Grommit movie and "Rent" come first.

I plan to see it this week. I talked to a friend last night who saw it and says it's fantastic. He gave one piece of advice: Go to the bathroom before the movie starts; it's 3 hours long.

I just got back from this and while I liked it OK I think they accidentally spliced in a couple reels from Jurassic Park.

Seriously, this could stand to be cut by 45min to an hour.
The special effects are great but after about the 100th fight with some creature or another I started to lose interest.

It picked up again after they got back to N.Y. and I thought the film was great from that point on. The scenes on top of the Empire State building were vertigo inducing!

I understand that Jackson felt this was one movie that should never be remade and wasn't going to do it untill he heard they would remake it with or without him.He felt that he was the only one who would do it justice and decided to accept the project.
I always felt the Jeff Bridges remake was darn good...."Wasn't That A Travesty!"

Lose the 1st 30 mins of the film. All of the stuff in New York before they leave for Skull Island was way overdone and unecessary. My GF and I almost fell asleep. When I take my son and go see it for the 2nd time I will leave and go play some vid games in the lobby for a 1/2 hour or so then come back in to the movie ;)

Dinosaurs look like well.......dinosaurs what are you gonna do? It's like saying the Flipper in the movie remake looked like well.......flipper in the TV series ;)