King Kong: Remade in 1930's Style - A Must See

[zoobyshoe]

- for example how like 20 people run with stampeding dinosaurs and maybe one of them actually dies or even gets injured.

Yeah, you're right. The stampede started off really cool with the dinosaurs crashing into the walls and each other, but then they made the whole situation way, way too complex, and it did get outside any possible realistic situation there. I thought they returned to plausibility and added a great twist, though, when they all came out on the narrow ledge, and many of them couldn't make the turn.

I didn't like jack black at all in this movie. He isn't right for the serious role, and his personality will annoy the hell out of you (his movie personality).

I thought he was going to work out at first cause it didn't seem like a serious role: he was playing the embodyment of a stereotype. That was good in the scene with the producers at the beginning, and all up to about when the ship left. Then he did start to get repetitive with the same stare every time he saw something amazing. His character didn't develop, didn't seem to properly get changed by all the incidents. I ended up having no interest in the character.

-Skull island as a whole kicked major arse. The way the rocks looked liek skulls - and especially the island tribe...were incredible. I loved how that one kidnap artist used a giant stick to jump to the boat.

Yeah, the pole vaulting guy was a clever touch. I enjoyed that too.

 

[tribdog]

It looks like it's going to be great. I'm going to go see it as soon as possible. Probably on Thursday.
It was part of my list of movies I needed to see.
Goblet of Fire
ÆON FLUX
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
KONG
I think that's all the ones I really wanted to see.

The goblet of fire: best book of the series, worst movie of the series there was just too much going on and it was confusing. They couldn't put everything from the book into the movie and left out too much. The other movies followed the books perfectly this one was just a confusing mess.
Aeon Flux: Didn't do much for me. I didn't really like it.
the lion, the witch and the wardrobe: I liked this one quite a bit, which suprised me, but would have liked it more if I didn't already know exactly how everything turns out. I wasn't that big of a fan of the book in the first place.
King Kong: I've only seen the first half and the natives scared the hell out of me.

 

[arildno]

Ah, I went into the theatre expecting the movie to be packed with action. I enjoyed the T-Rex fight, although the stampede was a little boring. I actually thought the bug scene was good, but went on for too long.

I didn't expect excellent drama coming from Peter Jackson. Had I expected that, I would be very disappointed. There were too many cheesy moments, and I think we could have done without the ice sliding scene.

It's also too bad that they conveniently left out the 'scene' where Kong is transported to New York. ;)

Actually, what I thought worked best in the movie was all the little moments with humour (like when Kong checks if the T-Rex is really dead, or just momentarily slack-jawed..).

The creepiest character was without doubt the old hag (the "Tore Kong"-witch).
She was scary.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

The goblet of fire: best book of the series, worst movie of the series there was just too much going on and it was confusing. They couldn't put everything from the book into the movie and left out too much. The other movies followed the books perfectly this one was just a confusing mess.
Aeon Flux: Didn't do much for me. I didn't really like it.
the lion, the witch and the wardrobe: I liked this one quite a bit, which suprised me, but would have liked it more if I didn't already know exactly how everything turns out. I wasn't that big of a fan of the book in the first place.
King Kong: I've only seen the first half and the natives scared the hell out of me.

I thought the same thing about the Goblet of Fire movie. They tried so hard to cram as much as possible into the movie and it wound up making the whole thing feel rushed with things still being left out.

I already gave a bit of a critique on ÆON FLUX. I think it started pretty well but they lost me after about the first half.

Narnia was good though I had the feeling that they were trying very much to make it similar to the LotR movies.

I think that the Natives were probably the best part of the movie, in my opinion.

The look on his face never got human, and you don't sense he ever fell in love with the girl romantically.

Unless I'm mistaken a lot of the way he reacted to her and the things he did for her reminded me of the way I've heard gorillas act towards potential mates. Then ofcourse there was the scene where he did exactly what the actor had explained was the way a man is supposed to treat a girl if he wants to get her. And that ice scene that recon mentioned was just terribly cheesy.

 

[Entropy]

King Kong was great. Despite the fact none of the physics add up, and they don't show you how in the hell they get Kong on that tiny little boat!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Unless I'm mistaken a lot of the way he reacted to her and the things he did for her reminded me of the way I've heard gorillas act towards potential mates. Then of course there was the scene where he did exactly what the actor had explained was the way a man is supposed to treat a girl if he wants to get her. And that ice scene that recon mentioned was just terribly cheesy.

I'm not up on Gorilla mating behavior. At first he just seemed like a typical silverback establishing who's boss and later I was reminded of Koko and her pet kitten All Ball. Koko loved All Ball and went into a deep depression when the kitten died.

I thought the ice scene was pretty good. Here in San Diego they put unusual things is the animals' enclosures occasionally to break up their routine and give them something to play with. It always causes unusual reactions from the animals when they find, say, a Halloween pumpkin in their territory. I thought the way Kong reacted to the ice was probably very much what a real gorilla might do.

 

[zoobyshoe]

King Kong was great. Despite the fact none of the physics add up, and they don't show you how in the hell they get Kong on that tiny little boat!

I think in the real world he would have broken her neck within a minute after he first picked her up, he was swinging her around so wildly.

Yeah, they glossed over some serious engineering problems by neglecting to show how they even moved him an inch from where he went down.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Yeah, they glossed over some serious engineering problems by neglecting to show how they even moved him an inch from where he went down.

Theoretically they could have just left him in the water and towed him to make use of his buoyancy. That brings up all kinds of issues regarding how likely he would have survived the haul. The reality would more likely have been that he died and they just displayed the body.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

By the way since we started talking about this it reminded me of the "what song reminds you of who" thread and the song I picked for you..."Science Fiction(Double Feature)".
"Then something went wrong for Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam"

 

[zoobyshoe]

By the way since we started talking about this it reminded me of the "what song reminds you of who" thread and the song I picked for you..."Science Fiction(Double Feature)".
"Then something went wrong for Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam"

I didn't read too much of that thread. I know Rocky Horror well because I worked at a theater that showed it every Fri & Sat at midnight. Had that job for 2 1/2 years. If you stayed up late to work Rocky you got an extra five bucks "combat" pay, so I always did.

Without knowing that history, though, it's not clear to me why that song would remind you of me.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Without knowing that history, though, it's not clear to me why that song would remind you of me.

It was your interest in things like Bigfoot and SciFi really, nothing deep since I don't really know you well at all. You had started a thread around that time asking people of what other sorts of monsters could be introduced into scifi since so many had been covered and you seemed relatively well versed on the movies. That song, due to the lyrics, was the first thing that came to mind because of that.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It was your interest in things like Bigfoot and SciFi really, nothing deep since I don't really know you well at all. You had started a thread around that time asking people of what other sorts of monsters could be introduced into scifi since so many had been covered and you seemed relatively well versed on the movies. That song, due to the lyrics, was the first thing that came to mind because of that.

Oh, I see. I'm not a Sci-Fi fan at all, per se, it's just that there's usually one or another film around in that genre that is particularly entertaining, particularly well done in some way. It's always nice when someone manages to do something that strikes you as fresh and clever among a mass of imaginationless, derivative pot boilers. Sci-Fi is full of those, so I notice when someone can do something with some thought behind it and a new and interesting twist. I started that particular thread out of boredom wondering if I could spark some creativity in anyone's thinking. It wasn't really from any special affection for sci-fi. It was more like: "Someone please say something creative and entertain me."

 

[KingNothing]

Which is why we're really all here, deep down inside. To entertain you, sir!