Peter Jackson's King Kong

MOSQUITO FIGHTER · Post by **MOSQUITO FIGHTER** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:12 pm

Anyone else going catch this movie. Looks decent to me. Naomi Watts is cool. I think Peter Jackson's got a vision.

Pshooter · Post by **Pshooter** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:36 pm

it's getting great reviews:
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/kingkong

this is a no-brainer to see in the theaters, just look at the LotR trilogy.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:12 pm

Peter Jackson is the greatest filmmaker of our time... There, I said it.

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:38 pm

Yep, i'm seeing this on Friday and i'm looking forward to it. Has anyone seen Peter Jackson now? Man has he lost weight!

Pshooter · Post by **Pshooter** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 8:20 pm

before:

after:

MJR · Post by **MJR** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:03 am

I saw it yesterday and it was great.

Nice detail for us PJ fans; there was a cage for sumatran rat monkey in the hull of the ship..

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:29 am

It was a great movie for fans of Kong. Definitely wiped clear all memories of the 70's kong, while making fantastic homages to the first kong and improving on several aspects.

I still feel the first hour could easily be tightened down though--I mean, the film doesn't really start until you get to the island, and in this version, that takes nearly an hour!

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:07 pm

Pshooter wrote:before:

after:

thats not him.. is it?

what did he get an extreme makeover or something?

gotta love the title of the game
peter jacksons King kong : the official game of the movie someone in marketing didnt get their latte that day im sure

MOSQUITO FIGHTER · Post by **MOSQUITO FIGHTER** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:11 pm

Great movie. I didn't mind the wait to get to the island. Damm, they spent alot of money on this one.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:34 am

Loved the movie, Jackson is not fooling around when he says Kong is his beloved childhood movie. This update is like a love note to the original.

Let's get CGI outta the way first: The raptors look like crap and the brontosaurs looked "meh." Everything else, especially Kong himself was amazing. I have never seen so much emotion and expression in a CGI animal before, looked just like a real, living breathing Rwandan gorilla. I thought I was gonna tear up when he was motioning the word "beautiful" when looking at the sunset.

Also loved it when Kong was teasing Ann, pushing her down and laughing at her.

Jack Black was great as Carl Denham, surprisingly excellent acting on his part, you can really tell Jackson reigned him in (as he said he did so in an interview "We held back his 'funnier' side" ) Naomi Watts, Colin Hanks and Andy Serkis who also played Lumpy (

Spoiler

I cringed when those swamp worms ate him

) and whoever played the captain, all fine work.

The length of the movie fit well, 1 hour of getting to know all the colorful characters, 1 hour or so on the island and then one hour in NY.

I also encourage folks here to check out the 2 disc re-release of the original.

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:31 am

Hmmm I was actually a bit disapointed by the movie. The end had just way too much shmaltz for my taste. Instead of being understated and highly moving, I found it too protracted and clumsily done. A bit of a shame, as the rest of the movie was superb, especially the Skull Island section.

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:03 pm

I actually thought this thread was about the Xbox 360 game, King Kong, but after reading the first post... Needless to say that I was disappointed when it was not. I was about to chime in how crappy that game was.

I haven't seen the movie yet, but from what some of my close friends have said, it's worth watching. But I'll just wait til it comes out on DVD. I just don't feel like shelling out $8 to check out a flick and end up not liking it, then I'd feel like an ass for wasting it instead of a combo meal at Carl's Jr. and a lottery ticket.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 6:43 pm

I saw it last night. Amazingly enough, i liked it. Not common for me.

Anyway... it was an excellent movie. The cg looked fake ass on everything that was moving rapidly as usual but we'll let that slide since it was still entertaining - especially the 'vines' scene.

There where actually a couple parts in this movie that scared me! ('natives' and 'insects'... eek!) I was there with my wife's little brother and i seriously thought about covering his eyes in those parts. I let that kid watch everything this side of Devil's Rejects - but those scenes made me cringe.

Good movie.

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:09 am

I really, really wish I could have those 3 hours of my life back. I couldn't wait for it to end even before they even got to the island. Then again, I'm not a fan of big Hollywood blockbusters, so YMMV.

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:45 am

I'm looking at the commercials and I'm thinking holy shit, the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park from 12 years ago look better than the creatures in this one.

I think the CGI looks terrible, but I think of that for any movie that's live and not totally animated, like Finding Nemo or Toy Story. It just totally throws me off. Kong's a big ole, shiny ape. I don't care how 'good' the CGI is (amount of hair on Kong's body, articulation, blah) because it just doesn't mesh well.

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:10 am

Acid King wrote:Peter Jackson is the greatest filmmaker of our time... There, I said it.

He was mostly known for making these cheap-ass splatter movies & only got famous after Lord of The Rings, which it sucked imo. The Cast of the actors he chose (With the exception of Christopher Lee, Orlando Bloom & the guy who played Gandalf) was below average.

I haven't seen King Kong yet, but judging by the commercials they’re generally focused on the CG fight scene with T-Rex.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:25 am

Viggo Mortensen did a good job (and wasn't PJ's first choice -- apparently he replaced someone that wasn't right for the part). Frightners was a movie he did, which was pretty good I thought. One of the first "spooky" movies that wasn't supposed to be scary.

MJR · Post by **MJR** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:35 am

GaijinPunch wrote:Viggo Mortensen did a good job (and wasn't his first choice -- apparently he replaced someone that wasn't right for the part). Frighters was a movie he did, which was pretty good I thought. One of the first "spooky" movies that wasn't supposed to be scary.

Frighteners is one of my all-time favourite movies, despite its problems. I just saw the new dvd director's cut version of it (which I presume is from the laserdisk); and now I rate the film even higher.

But then I've been PJ fan since the eighties..

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:07 pm

ST Dragon wrote:
Acid King wrote:Peter Jackson is the greatest filmmaker of our time... There, I said it.
He was mostly known for making these cheap-ass splatter movies & only got famous after Lord of The Rings, which it sucked imo. The Cast of the actors he chose (With the exception of Christopher Lee, Orlando Bloom & the guy who played Gandalf) was below average.

I haven't seen King Kong yet, but judging by the commercials they’re generally focused on the CG fight scene with T-Rex.

I always thought Orlando Bloom, was the weakest part of the cast throughout the three movies. Sir Ian McKellen was simply brilliant as Gandalf though.

Post by **undamned** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:40 pm

Poo-poo, the detail on the cgi all you want, I thought it was the definitive modern adventure film.
-ud