Jackson's King Kong: 3 Hours.

[demiurge1138]

If you like that kind of stuff, you might want to check out Greg Bear's novel Dinosaur Summer too--it's kinda the same premise; what if there was an area where dinosaurs survived and had 65 million more years of evolution than we actually saw. Here, though, the premise of the novel was the Professor Challenger's expedition to The Lost World of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fame was real, and the novel takes place several decades later. It has cameos of a lot of folks who went on in the real world to become famous monster movie guys, like O'Brien, Harryhausen, etc. Just for fun. Plus, the books illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi.

Ooh. You had me at Greg Bear, then pushed it to the top of my list with DiTerlizzi. I'm going to have to track this one down.

Demiurge out.

 

[Desdichado]

Ooh. You had me at Greg Bear, then pushed it to the top of my list with DiTerlizzi. I'm going to have to track this one down.

It's pretty good. I bought it in hardcover for a few bucks at HalfPrice Books several years ago. It's got four or five full color plates (plus a full color cover) and quite a few ink drawings by DiTerlizzi. Turns out the man can draw a mean dinosaur.

And the story itself is pretty intriguing, and certainly unique.

 

[barsoomcore]

Two new books for me! Hurrah!

 

[frankthedm]

DiTerlizzi, might be "The Man" for stuff like Planescape and Faery stuff, but for dinosaurs, I think Ron Spencer could make them look more alive.

 

[Desdichado]

I was surprised; I wouldn't have thought he'd be a good dinosaur illustrator. Turns out he is, though.

 

[trancejeremy]

I was thinking this last night: in today's culture, why would someone take away King Kong, instead of the various dinosaurs that inhabit the island?

You would make so much more money with the dinosaurs. King Kong is basically just a monkey. A big monkey. But a monkey. Dinosaurs are far more exciting, both as part of a cultural phenomenon (though it's cooled down a bit since the Jurassic Park/Billy & the Cloneasaurus days) and scientifically.

But when the original was made, apes were in style. I've never really understood why, but apes were in a lot of things back then. Tarzan, Conan, the villains in a lot of horror movies. So it made sense then.

 

[Desdichado]

The new movie takes place in the 30s, like the original movie, though.

 

[Ranger REG]

Women are so weird.

Men can suffer from say an overactive bladder.

 

[Desdichado]

Men can suffer from say an overactive bladder.

I can sit through movies like crazy--I have a gigantic bladder. In fact, I'm always getting porn producers calling me to star in their golden shower movies.

 

[KenM]

I can sit through movies like crazy--I have a gigantic bladder. In fact, I'm always getting porn producers calling me to star in their golden shower movies.

Thanks for sharing, that was a little bit more info then we needed to know.