watched King Kong yesterday at the Premiere and I'm still ravished.
Besides all that dinosaur CGI-hullabaloo it's the greatest love story ever told. (< that comes from someone fundamentally unromantic)
I always found that King Kong and his white lady are the most tragic romantic couple in cinema history and Peter Jackson shared my vision en détail.
And what is the morale of the movie?
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Put their heads on f*cking pikes in front of the venue for all I care.
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not bothered about the love story element but every time i see a trailer for this i start jumping up and down like a six-year-old on tartrazine injections. as mrs rj will surely testify.
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I can't imagine anything coming close to the ambience of the B&W original, fancy modern visuals or not. So I'm still perplexed as to why such a keen and knowledgable student of film would want to even bother remaking it.
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Yes indeed. Whenever the trailer is shown, you would think that RJ was about five years old and had been shown a secret sweet shop!
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Because he can He's still a big kid with the knowledje of making movies, so he just does it.Planet Dave wrote:I can't imagine anything coming close to the ambience of the B&W original, fancy modern visuals or not. So I'm still perplexed as to why such a keen and knowledgable student of film would want to even bother remaking it.
Since LotR, he cannot do a lot wrong in my opinion. He filmed it exactly as I saw it in my imagination (except for the lack of Tom Bombadil! Boooo ), and I will see this King Kong movie of his, and I'm eagerly awaiting 'The Hobbit'...
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Well, Peter Jackson bothered to make LOTR - a book thought to be unfilmable. And he triumphed widely.Planet Dave wrote:I can't imagine anything coming close to the ambience of the B&W original, fancy modern visuals or not. So I'm still perplexed as to why such a keen and knowledgable student of film would want to even bother remaking it.
His ape sets a new standard - mostly due to Andy Serkis performance who "played" already Gollum in LOTR.
Naomi Watts is not a Fay Wray though, I must admit. ... but Robert Armstrong was not at all a Jack Black.
As for the special effects: of course they're state of the art - breathtaking and all that. Which means that they're out-dated next year.
Put their heads on f*cking pikes in front of the venue for all I care.
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Bored to death with CGI
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I don't see how there can be enough of a story to last three and a half hours (which is how long it is according to my local cinema leaflet thingy)
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Not really planning to go and see this one, though I don't make any judgements...
Anyway, the original ('32) one is on Arte tonight, for whoever is interested... (that is the original one, isn't it?)
Anyway, the original ('32) one is on Arte tonight, for whoever is interested... (that is the original one, isn't it?)
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..but hes never really hit the heights of 'Bad Taste' or 'Braindead' since, has he?
So it's not just me then. CGIs just never look real to me, even when they're apparently at their best like in LoTR. They're fine in a computer game but I really don't like seeing an otherwise great film peppered with what looks, to my eyes, like speeded up cartoons. If anything, I actually prefer the hand puppets and cheesy effects of the olden days. The notable exception to this rule being the effects in Terminator II, which still stun me to this day.Ed Rhombus wrote:Bored to death with CGI
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i saw a trailer for this on the big screen the other week and it looks pretty damned impressive; although i doubt the plot is sufficient to make up for losing that visual grandeur when it goes to video...and i really hate the (no-smoking) cinema too much to spend three hours watching a love story.
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I'm not really looking forward to it. You can't beat the old King Kong, even with lavish special effects and a modern Hollywood love story.
Right now I'll stick to the old RKO version with Fay Wray.
I'm also kinda pissed because I read in a couple of interviews that after releasing all three LOTR he was going to make another splatterfest, which King Kong obviously isn't.
Right now I'll stick to the old RKO version with Fay Wray.
I'm also kinda pissed because I read in a couple of interviews that after releasing all three LOTR he was going to make another splatterfest, which King Kong obviously isn't.
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*gets out flymo and food processor*SomeKindOfStranger wrote:'Braindead'
Braindead is without doubt one of the funniest films I have ever seen. I think it's about time I got that on DVD.SomeKindOfStranger wrote:..but hes never really hit the heights of 'Bad Taste' or 'Braindead' since, has he?
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DittoRicheyJames wrote:every time i see a trailer for this i start jumping up and down like a six-year-old on tartrazine injections.
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