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Posted by Y2kBen_2000 on Wed Dec 14th at 5:12pm 2005

King Kong is out, and wa up till 2:00 am last night screening a copy for my job.

I want to know, what yall think of it.

I, personally, loved the film; on of the best 3 and a half hour movies I've ever seen. Loaded with spectacular footage. When at great heights, the ground terrain looks so real with the right amount of blur. The creature all look too real to be fake. The story is thin, but fits well with the theme, plus Peter Jackson added the right touch of laughable parts. (Not phoney thing but thing that tend to make you laugh to yourself. Example below |/

Spoiler:
[start]After Kong tumbles down a cliff with the three TRex's, he looses Ann; but she gets cought by a couple vines. She however was tangled right next to one of the rex's. So, the rex is near death and decide to start swinging to try and grab ann.
You have to see it to understand.[end]

The sound is unbelievable. They actually used true surround sound tech. The whole movie actually sounded alive.

As many have said before.
"Peter Jackson puts Spielburg to shame, making Jurassic park look like Disney World."



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Posted by Andrei on Wed Dec 14th at 5:16pm 2005

I didn't like it at all. When I got out of the Movie-theatre, I was convinced I had just seen a documentary on cliches.



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Posted by OtZman on Wed Dec 14th at 5:58pm 2005

Haven't seen it yet, this thread makes me want to watch it though. Anyone played the game based on this movie?



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Posted by Nickelplate on Wed Dec 14th at 6:32pm 2005

I WANNA SEE IT!


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Posted by habboi on Wed Dec 14th at 7:23pm 2005

The game is quite amazing! It's like playing a movie or something because I couldn't tell whether I was in a cutscene or playing the game <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Crono on Wed Dec 14th at 8:52pm 2005

Enjoyed it throughly.

Everyone forgets it's still based off the original movie. So, that's why those cliches are there. Surprise, surprise. It's a bit of a change, but, yeah, awesome.

I don't know if it's a joke or not, but they've been tossing around making the other two in the series.

Morphine, see it, you'll see what I was talking about in the other thread.

I agree, I laughed at many parts, but that means he did his job well. It's just weird at times, with the whole real actors looking fake because the digital characters are so realistic. Even if it is a 25ft silver-back.

Jackson seems like he's pretty good at adapting stuff. Weird to think he made Dead Alive.

It isn't three and a half hours. Trailers at the beginning don't count, the movie is barely over three hours.


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Posted by Myrk- on Wed Dec 14th at 8:56pm 2005

Looks crap tbh. The story, the effects. To me the creatures look like something you see in an Xbox game, not nearly good enough graphics or animation.


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Posted by Andrei on Wed Dec 14th at 8:58pm 2005

? quote:

Everyone forgets it's still based off the original movie.


Oh, don't worry, i've seen the 1933 original aswell.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Dec 14th at 8:59pm 2005

? quoting Crono:
I don't know if it's a joke or not, but they've been tossing around making the other two in the series.


According to IMDB.com it's a joke:

"On April Fools Day 2005, Peter Jackson posted an elaborate practical joke, which he posted on a web diary at www.kongisking.net. He "revealed" that they were already starting production on "King Kong: Son Of Kong" and "King Kong: Into the Wolf's Lair". Both films, supposedly to be released in 2006, contained the principal characters riding Son of Kong, strapping machine guns to his back and fighting Hitler's genetically mutated creatures. The film was going to be produced under the banner of "Big Primate Productions". Peter Jackson has been known to pull pranks of this sort before; see _Forgotten Silver (1995)_ ."




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Posted by Y2kBen_2000 on Thu Dec 15th at 5:21am 2005

I hate to break it to ya'll but the movie is 3:20 long, not counting the previews. One of the requirments for screening a movie is to calculate from the actual start of the movie to the last bit of credits, I must admit, though, that those were some long credits.
--Got print started at 10:30, credits started at 1:50.

I have my sources because I work at AMC, pretty soon I'll be upstairs working on projectore, getting away from all the idiotic guests that don't bother to read their tickets to find the right auditorium and those that pester you o sell them a ticket to a sold out movie, WHEN THE SYSTEM WONT EVEN LET ME SELL ANYMORE TICKETS!!. Anyway, machines good; they don't complain to the manager about a common employee practice and nearly get you fired.



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Posted by French Toast on Thu Dec 15th at 10:19pm 2005

I want to see it so badly. Peter Jackson is just a great story teller, he has a nack for it. And Myrk-, I'd like to see this game that you're talking about.





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