King Kong

[Jo/Joe]

I think some people are being a little mean spirited here. Racist? I didn't think so. The tribe had to have some kind of appearance, or would multicultural have been more realistic? The tribe looked european physically, bar their colour.

Consider how many multimillion dollar films are made, and how many are successful. Then consider how ambitious King Kong was compared to anything else. It's an incredible achievement. The brontosaurus' tumbling over each other was hilarious, though I think I was the only person physically creasing up in laughter. Jackson is an incredible director.

 

[tommers]

I saw it and I liked it. three hours is way too long though, and the dialogue at the start is stilted and sounds wrong.

also, what happens to that kid who's reading "heart of darkness"? one minute he's a major character and then we don't hear anything off him for the last third.

still, it remains true to the original (one of my favourite films) and delivers some genuine thrills and emotion.

and that business with the insects? UNNECESSARY. just filler to show off the CGI and make the film longer. didn't add anything to the story. and it's gross.

oh, and bits of it were very similar to LOTR. the natives are orcs, or hadn't you noticed?



EDIT: just been on imdb and "Trivia: The scene where Denham, Driscoll, and the crew fall into a pit filled with giant bugs is a reference to a scene in the original King Kong (1933), where the crew fell into a pit and encountered giant spiders, which was cut for being too gruesome".

just goes to show what I know!

 

[muser]

dude...u ok?

quality, pissed myself laughing

 

[Orang Utan]

Jack Black is really not that good... I found his presentation of the beast in the theatre to be really embarrassed and flimsy

True, though 'I am touching the beast' had me rolling in the aisle

 

[moomoo]

The best effects are the in the insect cave scene - some truly horrific creatures that made the kids gasp the most.
The freakiest creatures were some truly hideous black penis worm things with retractable foreskins and toothy bell-ends.


We went to see this today and my 6 year old asked if we could have one of those worms as a pet

Fantastic film - loved it (although i did hide behind hubbies hat for some scenes!)

 

[Pigeon]

The worst part of the movie was the last line right at the end when the Jack Black character says ..."beauty killed the beast".

If you haven't seen the film yet, don't read that last paragraph.

Well, FWIW I thought the laboured delivery was in character-like the numerous "sincere" pleas Black's character made to get the film finished in memory of whichever unfortunate had just been battered by vexed tribespeople/sucked to death by giant willies etc. Made me laff.

Anyway, I saw it with two 8 year olds and we enjoyed it, acted bits out on the way home etc. All good.

By the by- when they get to Skull Island, there's the old girl who recites the curse/ritual whatever just before Kong turns up...does anyone know, isit Diamanda Galas doing the voiceover...?Sure sounds like her.

 

[nick1181]

and that business with the insects? UNNECESSARY. just filler to show off the CGI and make the film longer.

I've actually heard that sentiment from people who worked on it. I thought they were pretty spectacular to be honest. I'm not sure that getting giant wetas off someone by shooting them with a machine gun is a terribly good idea though. I think that if a weta that size did actually try to bite you then it would be all over very quickly as well. Their mandibles would be about six inches long.

oh, and bits of it were very similar to LOTR. the natives are orcs, or hadn't you noticed?

Yea - they got the same people that acted in LOTR to be the savages. Just gave them different hats. King Kong was actually played by Gollum - wearing a gorillagram outfit.

When LOTR finished there were all these orcs and elves and things out of work so it only seemed reasonable to give them work on the new thing. His next project is going to be a "When Sally met Harry" style light-romantic-comedy about a taxi-driver set in Brooklyn in the early 90s so it's going to be fairly challenging them fitting into that. The smart money says that they'll be his passengers etc, but it's still going to be a challenge fitting loads of orcs into it. I mean they don't exactly scrub up terribly well. Not even the gay ones.

 

[chilango]

okay. louis malle it isn´t ...but you do get some woman being chased by a crocodile thing which gets attacked by a big nasty dinosaur which then gets attacked by a bigger dinosaur which has a fight with a giant monkey. Bloody brilliant!

 

[Dandred]

This film bored the hell out of me.

I spent waiting for nearly 1 1/2 hours to leave the cinema.

No story line, shit acting, very poor dialogue, TBH It was the worst fim I've ever seen.

Even the full on action parts made me yawn, just so predicable.

If you haven't seen this film don't bother unless you like mind-less pulp where no thinking is needed.