King Kong (2005)

Yeah but no but yeah but. I think this is my problem with it. Yes, lots of grand themes bubbling away there... in a daft story about a stupidly giant monkey snatched away from fighting with dinosaurs. In the late 1920s.

?!?!!##!

I think movie-lovers are so enamoured with the stunning work that has gone into the film, both technical and artisitc, that it takes a huge step back to see why perhaps it hasn't caught the wider public's imagination.

But, as one of my biggest movie heroes, William Goldman keeps saying, "no-one knows anything". He says all this sort of discussion - after the box office numbers are out - is nothing more than "mythology". Until a film opens, no-one has a clue whether or not anyone wants to see it. Universal obviously believed they had a Titanic hit on their hanRAB with Kong, while Fox / Paramount thought they had a dud with Titanic. Star Wars was thought to be so bad, 20th Century Fox's stock dropped massively prior to its release. I know in the industry here, it was believed that Four Weddings would be a turkey of such unimaginable proportions, Polygram had no idea how to offload it. People were going apoplectic, saying "I've seen the rushes, it's so so awful". Director Mike Newell just kept saying "why did we EVER believe this was going to work?"

All of us millions on the net like me who pass judgement after the event aren't really so bloody clever... as a filmmaker myself, believe me it is about 10,000 times harder to create than to criticise.

FWIW Magwitch, my guess is you won't like Titanic if you see it now for the first time! It's got so much baggage with it now, it's probably impossible to get round it all...
 
That is such an interesting review, thanks for posting it. At first I wasn't sure but...well, there's nothing like someone's love for and knowledge of their subject to entrance a reader!


ewwww. :eek:
Noiseboy, only you can answer why such a thought sprang to mind.... I can't begin to imagine....
 
Haven't finished reading this thread yet, but this is EXACTLY what I wanted to say.
It's probably not her fault - Jackson seems to have fixated on this expression. By the end of it I was close to screaming 'enough f****** close-ups of the teeth already'.

Still a great film, though. It really is almost a physical experience, I felt exhausted afterwarRAB.
The scenes with the native islanders were particularly menacing, I thought. You really felt as if you were right there in the middle of a group ritual that you could only escape if....well, a giant ape came along and rescued you.
 
Good film, although reall, really slow at the beginnig. Some great charachters , but it gets quite pointless after the come off sskull island. It only really shows the director and the main Male and Female.All the other people who were on the boat just disappear. On the island, the bit where the dinosaurs are chasing is great, as in a dinosaur film, they wouldn't show the dinosaurs falling of the cliff or anything like that and the very end bit at the empire states building dragged on a bit too much.


Also Billy Elliot is in it, who was in the green day video.
 
i felt ill due to sea-sickness, vertigo and the rollercoaster ride
i had a flashback at work the next day and nearly threw up

oh oh...excuse me...back in a mo :eek:
 
Of course. How stupid of me to think that. I am now imagining Kong's delight: at last, one with long-life batteries!

(So those bat-like thingies must have picked the bones clean, then?)
 
originally i went to see harry potter as i thought id wait until it was quiet and then the movie always seems better but when i got there it was sold out! but after hearing all the reviews and comments on how good king kong is, i decided that i would see that and it is one of the best movies ive seen in a long time. It is an absoluterly fantastic and epic as well!

Peter Jackson has done brilliant job with making this film, and i would reccomend that everyone sees it, although it would be scary for some children.
 
It's funny you should say that..... I find myself more emotionally engaged now than I did while actuallly watching the film. At the time and immediately afterwarRAB I thought my lack of engagement was because of the overpowering special effects and the fact that Jackson just doesn't 'do' emotion very well. I still think that, to some extent, but also now am wondering whether it is just because Kong is such an iconic figure that it is really hard to disengage from that, so to speak. But I am thinking now of those scenes of him just snorting and looking at the sunset. :(
 
the film has three distinct parts
so have one before you go in..
another when they make land fall at skull island
and the last when they return to new york with kong
 
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