King Kong

[lukeyd]

Originally Posted by //\/\/

bleurgh - made me want to puke my popcorn - skating and having fun in a city where everybody was looking for them? it was the whole woman/gorilla thing that i thought was overplayed really - i mean - what was she thinking, exactly? falling for a fucking huge monster ape? where did she see it going, do you think? save that sort of syrup for disney, purrrrlease...

riiiiiiiggghhht. if you removed the whole woman/gorilla thing, where has the movie gone?

watched this last night, complete with annoying kid right next to my ear talking at full volume at quiet bits (grrrrrr). i think we have come to be spoiled by special effects courtesy of mr jackson. i agree with chuck that some of the cgi looked a bit rushed, but was sitting there casually watching a 30 foot ape chase a taxi, smashing the front of theatres as he goes..... and i sat up and realised OMG THIS IS F-ING AMAZING

bit with bugs - awesome (apart from ridiculously accurate shooting from a tommy gun). fighting t-rexs = BADASS. chasing after random blond women, and then subsequently tossing them aside = hilariously slapstick

[Leon]

Originally Posted by lukeyd

riiiiiiiggghhht. if you removed the whole woman/gorilla thing, where has the movie gone?

bit with bugs - awesome (apart from ridiculously accurate shooting from a tommy gun). fighting t-rexs = BADASS. chasing after random blond women, and then subsequently tossing them aside = hilariously slapstick

heh, word

I thought the movie was awesome. Aside from a big fucking monkey and an unknown island, the movie is redicilously over the top. But keeping that in mind, it really is a movie movie, and it's fucking great. It could have been shorter, but the "slow" start didn't really bother me. All of the jungle stuff is amazing, also the city scenes are great, with the old cars and stuff.

[//\/\/]

if you removed the whole woman/gorilla thing, where has the movie gone?

away from bestiality?

[chuck]

having survived a stag weekend on the toon, one could also argue that removing woman/gorilla equations would totally ruin a bloody good laugh.

[myrrh]

Originally Posted by gambit

So has Peter Jackson made a movie less than 3 hours long?

Meet the Feebles. (I only mention that because it is the first Jackson movie I ever saw, and it was forever burned into my brain because it is so insane. It had a serious effect on my three year stunt as a puppeteer.)

Anyway, I loved King Kong. I don't know if I will go out and buy the super extended DVD like with LOTR, though. I think that the movie will loose a lot on the small screen. I nearly got vertigo when the camera was panning around the Empire State building!

I forgot that your wife was working on the movie Chuck! You should have dropped her name here, for us to peep in the credits. Pass the word for a job well done!

[chuck]

her name is Karen, and she took my last name, which is Kong.

cue: much mirth, and constantly being asked "is that for real?" when she was meeting people as part of the production. thankfully her email wasn't kkong...

even the security at stone street still give me grief every time I walk/drive in.... it's only been 18 months.

"oh... it's Mr. Kong.. hehehehe"

she's one of the accounts team - they get listed pretty early in the credit roll - she's staying on to work on the extended DVD. god knows what PJ is going to extend it with! there is rumors of a 3-D version... which would really mess your eyes up, and you'd definitely not want to have eaten before hand.

[King of Snake]

Saw this over the weekend with Stimpee. I loved it! They really nailed Kong and made him a living thing even surpassing their work on Gollum.
It didn't feel like such a long movie, but some scenes could definitely have been cut a bit shorter, and yeah some things are a bit too over the top even for a movie about a giant gorilla (how many slow-shutterspeed shots of fire, skulls and shaking native people in trance with their eyes turned to white do we have to see really? I get the picture already!! )

oh, and you gotta love the gruesome death of Andy Serkis (as the cook, not the gorilla)