Kong - Unanswered Questions

[kyser_soze]

Has anyone watched the original Long recently?

Utter toss. Chronic, theatre style overacting, thin as fuck plot...

Fuck me, some of the reviewers here need to revist the source material before accusing Jackson of writing a movie with holes the size of Everest in it...

 

[DarthSydodyas]

The '73 version was on just before xmas (sic) and I literally fell asleep watching it.

Incidentally, did anyone notice in KK a rather large skull that looked like it belonged to a rather large ape? It was the bit where Jack is approaching Ann, while she is resting with Kong. More specifically, when Jack is walking through the cave where those large bat things are. The skull has what looks like a hole in its head.

 

[Reno]

The '73 version was on just before xmas (sic) and I literally fell asleep watching it.

1976. I saw it when it came out and it's always been a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine.

Incidentally, did anyone notice in KK a rather large skull that looked like it belonged to a rather large ape? It was the bit where Jack is approaching Ann, while she is resting with Kong. More specifically, when Jack is walking through the cave where those large bat things are. The skull has what looks like a hole in its head.

Yes, in fact I thought I saw what were several Kong sized skeletons in the cave. He gives one a mournful glance while walking past.

 

[kyser_soze]

He's the last Kong innit? Didn't you see the pile of ape-porn and 'Date-an-Ape' lonely hearts stuff?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I just watched this. as fuck. Sure, not as awe-inspiring as the LOTR trilogy was, but a great throwback movie, and extremely well executed. Absolutely visually stunning too.

Now all we need is for Mr Jackson to apply that vision and delivery to something truly original.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Has anyone watched the original Long recently?

Utter toss. Chronic, theatre style overacting, thin as fuck plot...

Fuck me, some of the reviewers here need to revist the source material before accusing Jackson of writing a movie with holes the size of Everest in it...

I agree, I recently watched both versions - first the original and then the remake. The remake was poor (apart from having Jeff Bridges, one of my favourite actors) but the original really isn't all that great. Jackson's version is far better.

 

[kyser_soze]

Disclaimer: I think lots of people really liked it because they saw it in a nice cinema with lots of people all reacting to the events on screen - but that can make any film seem cool.

Surely that's the point of an event movie like this tho? The premise of being in an auditorium where there's a shared experience with the rest of the crowd you're with? Isn't that part of the point of blockbusters? That you don't GO looking for intelligence or depth?

As Mr Pop Culture Taste-Chief in residence you should know this.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Also the boat master just HAPPENED to be a big game hunter and just what sort of game was he hunting to be running around with like 4 huge bottles of Chloroform? What the fuck do you hunt with Chloroform? Are you kidding me Jackson? You couldn't come up with anything better then that?

I think you missed a trick here - when they first go beneath deck on the boat, they walk past a poster on the wall indicating that the captain has previously been hunting the Sumatran Rat Monkey.

Any ful no that this is the fictional creature that Jackson created for one of his earlier films, Braindead - in this film, the animal is found only on.....Skull Island, a fictional island first concieved of in the 1933 version of King Kong.

So its actually a nice little tie up between PJs obsession with the original KK, his own movie Braindead and the current KK.

FWIW, I really enjoyed this movie, didn't feel over long to me, the only parts I would have considered trimming was some of the Skull Island action as it did seem slightly gratiuitous overall but i thought it was a jolly enjoyable romp and quite moving towards the end.