Jackson's King Kong: 3 Hours.

Zappo · Nov 20, 2005

I'll watch this on the big screen, but only if there's nothing more appealing around. It's Peter Jackson and that's good, but it's also King Kong. It doesn't interest me much.

Flyspeck23 · Nov 20, 2005

barsoomcore said:
I give up. Everybody's out of step but ME!

I might be out of step with the world, but for once I'm with you. Kong is King, and rightfully so.

Dimwhit said:
Last movie I heard of with an intermission (I'm sure there have been others since) was Gettysburg. But that clocked in at about 4 hours.

Around here it depends not only on the length of the movie, but on the theater too.

frankthedm said:
Any alternate links for the new trailer? I get this odd "file has a bad atom" message from the official site stuff.

You might need to update Quicktime.

ssampier said:
The intermission makes sense, especially with 1/5 of Americans as smokers; they must absolutely die of cravings within that three hour time-span.

The day I can't sit through a 2 or 3 hour movie without a cigarette is the day I stop smoking.
And, for the record: usually I usually drink a bottle of beer while watching a movie at the cinema, or two if it's a long movie (>2h). Even at the age of 31 I can still control my bladder

cignus_pfaccari · Nov 21, 2005

I'll be hitting a matinee, most likely. It looks potentially neat, but I don't really care about King Kong that much.

At least he probably won't be dodging guided missiles, like the craptastic Godzilla remake did.

Brad

Crothian · Nov 21, 2005

Actually I think we need more 3 hours movies. Many movies are just too short.

Knightfall · Nov 21, 2005

WOW! That trailer was just... awsome! Can't wait for King Kong. (I've never seen the original.)

KF72

Flexor the Mighty! · Nov 21, 2005

King Kong was only mildly interesting when he was in Japanese flicks fighting Mecha-Kong or Godzilla. I'll pass on this one. How many remakes of a giant monkey movie do we need? This is worse than making another crappy late 1970's TV show into a movie.

barsoomcore · Nov 21, 2005

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How do you not LOVE LOVE LOVE King Kong? How is it possible? I don't get it. The 1933 King Kong is flat-out the greatest film of all time. It just friggin IS. It has dinosaurs! Native dancing! Biplanes! Beautiful women! Sarcastic sailors! Gunfire! Civic disobedience! It's romantic and violent and thrilling and real and gripping and full of pathos and power and imagination and humour and

ITS THE BEST FILM EVERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

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Okay, sorry. Under control again. All I'm going to say is that if you're basing your opinion of Kong on Japanese monster movies or other crappy pop-culture crapity crap crap crap, PLEASE. You owe it to yourself to watch the original movie -- it is honestly one of cinema's greatest triumphs. I honestly can't imagine how you could NOT love this picture.

Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm a weirdo. But I just wanted to plead for Kong -- if you watched it and didn't like it, I guess there's nothing more to be said. But he's gotten the Frankenstein treatment over the years -- so much pop culture ripoff action that the original's brilliance has nearly been eclipsed. Don't confuse the crap that rides on the coat-tails with the real Fred Astaire.

King Kong is a GREAT film. Even the AFI agrees. You wouldn't disagree with the AFI, now would you?

Broccli_Head · Nov 21, 2005

I am so looking forward to PJ's King Kong. Never liked the 70s version. Liked the original alot and the comic books based on it. Saw the trailer last night at HP:GoF on the big screen. Amazing!

Desdichado · Nov 21, 2005

Zappo said:
I'll watch this on the big screen, but only if there's nothing more appealing around. It's Peter Jackson and that's good, but it's also King Kong.

Trust me, there's not.

I'm actually not that huge of a PJ fan; the only reason the LotR movies were so good was because the source material was so good, and there was a concentrated effort to not deviate too much from them. Whenever they did deviate, the movies tended to get substantially weaker.

I was all, "why remake King Kong, especially Peter Jackson?" for a long time, but those trailers: Holy Crap on a Pita is right. Now it's the movie I'm most excited about this year.

And the Special Edition release of the 1933 version on DVD is tomorrow! w00t!