Doctor 1313 wrote:
It would have been nice if Peter Jackson had remade KING KONG VS. GODZILLA instead of just KONG. With the care and respect he put in that remake, it would have been really cool to see what he would have done with KK VS. G.

DOCTOR 13

Peter Jackson isn't a big fan of Godzilla, apparently.

I liked his remake even if it is a mess. His post-LOTR movies are like poorly prepared dishes with great ingredients: piles of slop that taste delicious. I love the Peter Jackson style, the grotesque monsters and imagery, macabre humor and wide-angle lens heavy camerawork he uses is quite the aesthetic turn on for me, so maybe I'm a bit biased. Kong and Lovely Bones are overwraught and paced badly (they are "weighted" in the wrong places), but would have been great films with an editor who could give Jackson more constructive criticism. Notice that Lovely Bones was not edited by Jamie Selkirk who cut all his films prior (save for the first two LotRs since they hired a different editor for each film since it was such a massive amount of footage)? That could be a good sign that there was a falling out between the two of them over Kong's edit. Even The Two Towers and Return of the King were starting to develop that slightly "overindulgent" quality. The Arwen stuff in those movies is almost completely superflous and everyone's complained about the ending of King enough.

King Kong vs. Godzilla is one of my least favorite of the classic Godzilla films and probably Ishiro Honda's worst film in my book (though All Monsters Attack may trump it). The Kong suit is way too silly to be anything but a big visual eye-sore. It was a bad idea to pair them and one totally motivated by commerce, given the classic O'Brien Kong would in reality be about the size of a cat versus a human compared to Godzilla and Toho should have been left out of the picture. The Japanese version is better and actually has interesting human characters which the US version mutilates, it's a way better salaryman comedy than a monster film, they should have shot O'Brien's King Kong vs. Prometheus script back in the 50s instead of made this. King Kong Escapes is much like it, though that film would have been far better had they built a better Kong suit.

Since I'm not even enthused by the idea of it in the first place, they shouldn't remake this, I agree on that. I'm surprised they didn't they try to remake this in the brief "vs" movie fad with Freddy vs. Jason and Alien vs. Predator and all that. Godzilla vs. Gamera is a much more fertile field, but even that is better served by gory fan fiction written by hairy men who don't shower enough.