Rate King Kong

[Dimwhit]

I encourage everyone to stay to the end of the credits and acknowledge the lovely tribute to the original. Very classy.

Damn. I didn't stay.

 

[demiurge1138]

10. That movie took my expectations and completely blew them out of the water.

Demiurge out.

 

[Sushi]

I gave it a 9. It was a great movie but not a perfect 10. Kong himself was wonderfully done.

In the Bug scene did anyone else think. "Hey he has an 50% chance of hitting the guy instead of the giant crickets while shooting into a grapple with that tommy gun."

I wish it was not so gruesome in some parts (the worms and the natives) so my young son could see the movie with out me covering his eyes during those parts.

 

[Krug]

Gave it an 8.
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Thought the crew saved the day two times too many, particularly in the tube worm pit scene, when everyone KINDA knew they would come. I also don't think Jackson managed to 'humanized' King Kong enough; still it's great that he managed to retain the metaphors and subtexts of the original and expanded on them. The set-pieces were quite amazing, particularly the triple dino fight scene.

Felt that there could have a scene where Kong was transported back on the ship, which might have beefed up the character(s) a bit more.

 

[WayneLigon]

I, too, am filled with giant monkey joy. Great film.

One thing: I kinda lost track of Jimmy, there. Did he die in the other lifeboat, or did he live?

 

[WayneLigon]

The effect of long, long years of loneliness, IMO. That's easy enough to explain.

Yeah, that was a great little subtle addition in the aerie there. We know he's not some abberation, but very probably the last of his kind.

 

[Krug]

By the way, what was shown after the end of the credits?

 

[Knightfall]

Going to see it tomorrow (Friday)!!!

 

[TheAuldGrump]

By the way, what was shown after the end of the credits?

A dedication to the original director, producer, and the incomparable Fay Wray

There is also a reference to Ms. Wray near the beginning of the film, when they are trying to get an actress to play a role based on dress size.
Denham: Faye's a size 4.
Assistant: She's signed up to do a film for RKO
Denham: Damn Cooper!

(RKO was the studio and Cooper the screenwriter and director of the original King Kong...)

And I would say that going by this movie Kong is an entity that would rank with Father Dagon on the Cthulhu Mythos scale... though a sad, scarred, and likely half mad creature.

The Auld Grump, who gives it a '9'. And yeah, someone lock Jackson in a cage until he agrees to film Call of Cthulhu... ('A mountain walked, or stumbled...')

 

[TheAuldGrump]

My wife said those worms looked like Tube Worms to her- she just finished a MircoBiology class and saw pictures of them. Personally I thought they were leechs, but as she pointed out they were the wrong color and their texture appearance was all wrong.

Perhaps a combination of Tube worms and hag fish...

Sadly the best image that I can find for a Hagfish's mouth cannot be linked, however you can see it near the bottom of this page

The Auld Grump