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cjh5801		#741	[-]
Sep 8 11 3:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"Universal made a profit of roughly $70 million dollars off of Kong's theatrical run." Unless, of course, you're contractually entitled to a share of the profits, in which case it's still in the red. - Clark hollowaypages.com
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delgadosaur		#742	[-]
Sep 23 11 2:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	As in the original, I think the audience would have had MORE pathos for Kong if he were played simply as an animal, with everyone around him trying to kill him and Ann just trying to get away. That was the magic of the first film, that Kong totally kicked butt on Skull Island but was relegated to extinction in New York.
Gojira		#743	[-]
Jan 11 12 5:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jackson's Kong would have been more fun had it been made in the wake of BrainDead. It needs a wacky sense of black humour, which the original has, as well as a "gee wiz" nature. I think Lord Of The Rings had make Jackson want to approach Kong on the same level, but in the process, the fun got taken out of it - and the weird video game scenes don't really count. The highlights? Jack Black's humourously insensitive Denham, and the stage show. Don't care for the more "real" looking Kong either, he looks less imposing then the more fantasy looking original. Ditto the dinosaurs.
Gojira		#744	[-]
Jan 12 12 2:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Oh, and those penis worms are DISGUSTING!!!!!
skull island escapee		#745	[-]
Jan 13 12 4:55 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It would have been even WORSE if you found them 'attractive', Gojira! 'the horror..............THE HORROR!' Cartoon-strip blog here [updated regularly]: http://zoomertoonsrabsmith.blogspot.com/
Great Ape		#746	[-]
Jan 13 12 2:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The fun taken out of it...what? Jackson's Kong (to this Monster Kid) is one of the funnest films ever made.
Gojira		#747	[-]
Jan 13 12 2:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think i found it a bit too glum really.
Babetician		#748	[-]
Jan 13 12 4:00 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Gojira wrote: I think i found it a bit too glum really. I even find the main title theme music a big downer. Like sucking on a lemon. It's like 5 notes or something. Whenever I hear it, I think "Oh no! THAT!" The sunset music was rather nice, but belonged in another movie like Benjamin Button or something. Contrariwise, the Max Steiner score can be listened to multiple times with delight.
Babetician		#749	[-]
Jan 13 12 4:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Gojira wrote: Oh, and those penis worms are DISGUSTING!!!!! "Meat Weasels". I bought the book about the wildlife of Peter Jackson's Skull Island. Way too many crickets and not enough spiders. Someone should tell Peter Jackson that his fixation for giant crickets is his phobia, not ours. The cricket scene was brilliantly executed technically. The idea of a guy removing giant crickets from his friend with a machine gun was kind of like sick humor. By the way, Skull Island looked like crap, (no sense of grandeur) and the natives and their village looked like crap. I don't mean in terms of "unconvincing" but rather unnecessarily nasty.
Gojira		#750	[-]
Jan 13 12 5:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The music score was, aside from the brief bits of Steiner, very unremarkable. A pity, as every other Kong feature (even King Kong Lives) has a great score.
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Rakshasa		#751	[-]
Jan 14 12 12:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	God, I love the musical score to the 2005 KONG. Beautiful, strange, ethereal, and haunting. I listen to it often. Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
The Giant Pacific Octopus		#752	[-]
Jan 14 12 1:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Rakshasa wrote: God, I love the musical score to the 2005 KONG. Beautiful, strange, ethereal, and haunting. I listen to it often. Me too! I rarely buy movie soundtracks, but I picked up the CD for this because I found the score so enjoyable. The Catch of the Day!
G Vallejo		#753	[-]
Jan 14 12 9:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There's a bit in the score towards the end that's just a few piano notes. I love that part. A perfect Monster has no end...
Monsterpal		#754	[-]
Jan 16 12 1:00 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My favorite part was the pole vaulting. I don't know why Cooper didn't think of that.
Wich2		#755	[-]
Jan 16 12 10:57 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Or the dinos swinging in their vine hammocks. Or the zombie natives from hell island. Or the machine-gun bug repellant. Or Kong as Tonya Harding. Yeah, ol' Coop, Schoedsack, & Wallace were clearly lacking in imagination!
Monsterpal		#756	[-]
Jan 16 12 6:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Let's not forget the eight-ton Kong skating in Central Park. Or the cabin boy saying ominously, "It's not just an adventure story, is it?" No, it's a cheese dip, too.
Wich2		#757	[-]
Jan 17 12 12:03 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>Let's not forget the eight-ton Kong skating in Central Park.< (I didn't, MP! That's the "Tonya Harding" part...)
Azazel.shoguntotalwar		#758	[-]
Jan 18 12 4:39 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm a fan of the 2005 film and its funny, Wich, cos (with the exception of the Tonya Harding scene) I really loved all those things you mentioned in Jackson's version. Also, I agree with those who think the score's a very fine piece of work. I collect film soundtracks and I listen to this one quite a lot. I feel it adds a real -and extremely well judged - emotional weight to the show, a mix of power and romance in keeping with the original movie. I very much appreciate Max Steiner's music as well but, for my taste, in most places its far too -what's the word? - strident for me to enjoy as a standalone composition. I don't understand taking exception to the dinos swinging in the vines at all. The audience I watched the film with seemed to have, like me, given themselves up to the make-believe world of the movie and greatly enjoyed that sequence for the nail-biting, cliff-hanging action spectacle it was. Great fun...which is exactly what a film like this should be. Certainly no more of a fantasy leap to someone willing to suspend their disbelief than an island that plays host to a giant gorilla creature and tons of prehistoric animals. Its a pity you were unable to have the good time with the movie that myself and hundreds of Leicester Square cinema-goers did that evening. I sometimes think that the detractors of the 2005 Kong only ever focus on what they perceive to be its shortcomings without praising its merits because they're really reacting to what they perceive as a threat to the beloved original. A film that represents putting yet more distance between new generations and a 1930's classic that looks increasingly (let's face it, to many modern movie-goers) creaky, old-fashioned and archaic. Of course, to real movie fans the '33 Kong will never be any of these things and its power is only likely to grow over the years. So I see no reason not to enjoy Jackson's Kong in the spirit it was intended even if it wasn't the film some fans thought it should be. IMO just because there will only ever be one true Kong doesn't mean that there's enough Kong in the world Long Live Cooper and Schoedsack's Kong. And Long live Jackson's Kong too. Last Edited By: Azazel Jan 18 12 4:45 AM. Edited 3 times.
joegut		#759	[-]
Jan 18 12 11:06 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Azazel wrote: I'm a fan of the 2005 film and its funny, Wich, cos (with the exception of the Tonya Harding scene) I really loved all those things you mentioned in Jackson's version. Also, I agree with those who think the score's a very fine piece of work. I collect film soundtracks and I listen to this one quite a lot. I feel it adds a real -and extremely well judged - emotional weight to the show, a mix of power and romance in keeping with the original movie. I very much appreciate Max Steiner's music as well but, for my taste, in most places its far too -what's the word? - strident for me to enjoy as a standalone composition. I don't understand taking exception to the dinos swinging in the vines at all. The audience I watched the film with seemed to have, like me, given themselves up to the make-believe world of the movie and greatly enjoyed that sequence for the nail-biting, cliff-hanging action spectacle it was. Great fun...which is exactly what a film like this should be. Certainly no more of a fantasy leap to someone willing to suspend their disbelief than an island that plays host to a giant gorilla creature and tons of prehistoric animals. Its a pity you were unable to have the good time with the movie that myself and hundreds of Leicester Square cinema-goers did that evening. I sometimes think that the detractors of the 2005 Kong only ever focus on what they perceive to be its shortcomings without praising its merits because they're really reacting to what they perceive as a threat to the beloved original. A film that represents putting yet more distance between new generations and a 1930's classic that looks increasingly (let's face it, to many modern movie-goers) creaky, old-fashioned and archaic. Of course, to real movie fans the '33 Kong will never be any of these things and its power is only likely to grow over the years. So I see no reason not to enjoy Jackson's Kong in the spirit it was intended even if it wasn't the film some fans thought it should be. IMO just because there will only ever be one true Kong doesn't mean that there's enough Kong in the world Long Live Cooper and Schoedsack's Kong. And Long live Jackson's Kong too. That's what I was trying to say to a certain member, lo those many posts ago.
Wich2		#760	[-]
Jan 18 12 11:27 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>I sometimes think that the detractors of the 2005 Kong only ever focus on what they perceive to be its shortcomings without praising its merits because they're really reacting to what they perceive as a threat to the beloved original> Not even slightly true in my case, Azazel. Appreciating the director's previous work, and professed care for the subject, I went in expecting to love this KONG. Much the same as with another recent failed iconic reboot, SUPERMAN RETURNS. When I'm fond of a property, I look forward to seeing it given new life. Among other examples, this fan of the classic Rathbone films loves the new British Holmes series; this first-run viewer of the original TREK liked the new film; and this lover of the wonderful Sim CAROL finds Scott's as worthy. It's the individual films' fault if they don't work for me (and for many others), not that of any chip on my shoulder. Last Edited By: Wich2 Jan 18 12 11:30 AM. Edited 1 times.
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