King Kong

[Up_All_Night]

It is very rare for a movie such as this to deliver, but i felt this did. Peter Jackson really does up the anti on visual for movies, the whole film looks really good and for the most part the effects are excellent.. King Kong is very impressive... The actions great, a few moments through out the film that are a bit... well silly, but i thought they were all fine and worked well...

[AntZ]

I honestly don't think he did enough with it. With a remake, you really have a chance to improve on the story and I don't think it delivered as well as it could. It also could have probably done with half an hour to an hour of it chopped out without interfering with what the movie did.

[Up_All_Night]

yeah thats all fair. I have never seen the original, but from what i gather is this is that version on steroids, which is what he was doing. It was a remake, not a re-immagining, which probably could have been better.

naomi watts is hot btw

[AntZ]

A remake is where you have the chance to reimagine it. In a lot of ways, this was a carbon cut copy of the original with prettier graphics - and if I wanted that, I would have WATCHED the original.

[RedMaN]

I saw this last night too and thought it was tops :8:
Kong pwns all...

[Vardsy]

I hear that one of the changes jackson has made is to downplay the sexual tension between Kong and Watts' character.

Please say it aint so - that is the best part of the whole King Kong story as that the ape wants to get some beastiality type action

[Up_All_Night]

yeah well its not sexual tension, its just friendship. Kongs all alone in the savage world, and he makes a friend in Ann, the first thing to make him happy and to care about. If it was sexual that would just be dumb.

[RedMaN]

LOL @ Vardsy. You just gave me some strange visions of a porno with Kong and Ann, with the track Superfreak playing in the background :D

Once again, awesome film. Andy Serkis has excelled yet again in a full digital role.

[BlueBoy]

Yes, it's a good movie, but not fantastic or even awesome.
The movie was just too long by at least half an hour. Dump half the first Act on the Cutting Room floor and shave back the "character development" of the minor characters (note heavy usage of quotations) and you've got yourself a fairly decent movie.

The movie really had no focus until just after the halfway mark, once Ann had bonded with Kong, anyway.

Edit: Did anyone see the trailer for Mission Impossible 3? Is it going for the Loudest Fucking Movie award or something?

[oggy]

the game is awesome, go the xbox!

[Haggisboy]

Peter Jackson’s re-rendering of King Kong is quite possibly the finest movie ever made. At the very least it’s right up there with a very small number of films that have artistically, emotionally, and technically established a new cinematic benchmark. Critics have already hailed it as the first bonafide contender to dethrone James Cameron’s Titanic as the highest grossing movie ever. Whether or not that comes to pass is irrelevant, for as Kong’s Jack Driscoll laments about his crony Carl Denham’s penchant for reducing everything to box office receipts, the majesty of this film towers over such base denominators as butts in the seats. It is a cinematic achievement the likes of which has rarely, if ever, been produced by Hollywood.

Make no mistake however, this film will put butts in the seats.... and hold them there.

You will believe a 25 foot tall silverback gorilla can be humbled by a frail blonde, and can shift from a violent temper tantrum of landscape altering proportions to a silent, slack jawed child by a simple picturesque sunset.

Jackson’s Kong manages to convey, through all his digital majesty, more humanity than some people I know. He towers over trees and buildings, dwarfed only by the size of his heart.

Folks, this movie will have you shifting emotional gears more quickly than a Formula 1 driver. You will careen from suspense, through terror, round the hairpin bend of excitement, and run headlong into the wall known as sorrow, and it will bring tears to both men and women alike.

For the creature feature fans, the film delivers a stampede of Brontosaurus and Velociraptors, a simultaneous showdown between Kong and not one, but three T-Rex’s (a parent and two juveniles), dog sized cockroaches, locusts and scorpions, fang toothed swamp leeches and large ravenous bats.

It also features a resplendent Naomi Watts, who captivates the viewer’s eye in much the same way she mesmerizes Kong. The woman is a pure beauty, and excellently cast in the role of Anne Darrow.

While the movie is an achievement on so many levels, what makes this film so great is its heart…. all 25 feet of it. See it, and prepare to be humbled as if you were staring in awe at a beautiful sunset

Haggisboy

[BlueBoy]

The above post is quite possibly the biggest load of wankery since James Cameron's "I'm King of the World!" speech at the Oscars.

[sagit]

The above post is quite possibly the biggest load of wankery since James Cameron's "I'm King of the World!" speech at the Oscars.

I support this view from before the first sentence of the "wankery" finished.

Haggisboy, did you copy/paste this from a media release?

[badpauly]

The above post is quite possibly the biggest load of wankery since James Cameron's "I'm King of the World!" speech at the Oscars.
*hands BlueBoy an Oscar*

[BlueBoy]

*hands BlueBoy an Oscar*
I'm King of the World!

[badpauly]

I'm King of the World!
*takes it back*

[badpauly]

shave back

Pot, meet kettle ;)

[BlueBoy]

Pot, meet kettle ;)
Smartarse. ;)

[Thyrd]

Weren't there some 1970/80 sequels? King Kong Lives & Son of Kong?

[Haggisboy]

I support this view from before the first sentence of the "wankery" finished.

Haggisboy, did you copy/paste this from a media release?

Errr.... no. You see, unlike the rest of the knuckle dragging unibrows that have posted in this thread, I can actually write and have made my living as a journalist.

You can all go back to your comics now, kiddies.

[Kamikazee]

3 rex's -v- King Kong
Best.Fight-Scene.Ever

[AntZ]

Godzilla vs Mothma > Kong. Though it is pretty hard to work out which institution was more awesome.

[still life]

I saw it with Thingy last night, Movie Delivers as far as I'm concerned. It was an excellent telling of the King Kong myth and while a bit long took full advantage of the special effects on offer.

[RedMaN]

LOLZOR

A guys I used to work with just forwarded me these Kong parodies (http://members.lycos.co.uk/kingkongrocks/).

I'm kinda weirded out now considering the relevance to my post above re Superfreak :wtf:

[Hooty Mcboob]

I went and saw it andI thought it was good... Though i cried so much at the end... Kong reminded me so much of My Friend Brody... who I know is just a Shaved Gorrilla

[d3kst3r]

I thought Kong was a rather average movie with good CGI. Fuck I'm so sick of CGI now.