First Review: King Kong Movie - "Jaw-droppingly Brilliant!" [Archive]

LilAbner

12-02-2005, 12:23 PM

England's Daily Mail newspaper has the first review (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/bazbamigboye.html?in_article_id=370370&in_page_id=1794&in_a_source=) of Peter Jackson's King Kong. Here's an interesting snippet from the review:

There's a beautiful moment with Kong sitting on top of a mountain, Ann in the palm of his hand, both watching the sunset. I actually heard one tough broad of a movie executive sobbing. Jackson evokes such a sense of empathy for his beast that Kleenex should be sold along with the popcorn.
Dec. 14th can't come too soon.

bradlay

12-02-2005, 12:55 PM

Very excited.

StoneGut

12-02-2005, 12:56 PM

Wow... I can't wait!

TheKeck

12-02-2005, 12:58 PM

Dude. Dude! DUDE!

Ernst_Jager

12-02-2005, 01:01 PM

Now if Peter can somehow make me cry with the Halo movie...

MaiXu

12-02-2005, 01:01 PM

While "jaw-dropping" may be a tad hyperbolic, I am excited for this film. Jackson was always a great director visually, but I think his last few films - Frighteners, Heavenly Creatures, and Lord of the Rings - have shown that he can draft compelling characters as well. Kong seems to be a great marraige of those talents. Plus, the action sequences should prove exciting in a way exploding cars and gun fights just aren't.

And to anyone decrying Kong as another needless remake, I don't think you could be more wrong. Yes, Jackson has obviously based his film off the 1933 original. But it looks compelling enough on its own right to be interesting. Spielberg made Jurassic Park, and while that had some interesting Crichton-influenced fiction behind it, it was basically an excuse to have awesome-looking dinosaur fights. Kong should allow for awesomer dino fights, with some giant ape and spider and other monster fights thrown in.

Anyway, I'll be in line opening day, that's for sure.

Last of the Red Hot Mamas

12-02-2005, 01:02 PM

England's Daily Mail newspaper

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Captain Awesome

12-02-2005, 01:29 PM

Kong should allow for awesomer dino fights, with some giant ape and spider and other monster fights thrown in.

Anyway, I'll be in line opening day, that's for sure.

hahaha awesomer :D

earthworm48

12-02-2005, 01:29 PM

I was just about to say, watch out its a shitty tabloid that overates huge films like this.

Wadmaasi

12-02-2005, 01:33 PM

Yeah, it's got T-Rexes (or V-Rexes, as Jackson apparently calls them) in it. I'm so there, even if they only get a minute's worth of screen time. I'm telling you, the final T-Rex shot from Jurassic Park where it's roaring inside the lobby (erm...nevermind how it got through the doors) and the "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" banner flutters down in front of it shivers me timbers just thinking about it.

The Iron Weasel

12-02-2005, 01:39 PM

Now if Peter can somehow make me cry with the Halo movie...

Well I would cry if it turned out really shitty.

Last of the Red Hot Mamas

12-02-2005, 01:56 PM

I was just about to say, watch out its a shitty tabloid that overates huge films like this.

They probably liked it because they thought it was an allegory for immigration. "See what happens when you let scary black foreigners come to your country? This is what we've been saying all along!"

Abash Alarmist

12-02-2005, 02:14 PM

^Wtf?
10char

Last of the Red Hot Mamas

12-02-2005, 02:27 PM

Explanation: The Daily Mail is a nasty, xenophobic piece of shit rag. With boobies.

Edit: Never mind, no boobies in the Mail. So they don't even have that going for them.

XenonCJ

12-02-2005, 02:36 PM

Wait, hasn't this movie been done before?

holycrapper

12-02-2005, 02:38 PM

So excited, I can't wait. I haven't seen a movie in theatre's since shawn of the dead, and I wasn't gonna see this one, but oh well, got a gf now i guess, might as well. Gawd, I wish working at blockbuster video for 2 years hadn't convinced me that everyone who goes to see movies is illiterate, snobby, moody, and sometimes downright intorlerable. I still might not see this one because of that.

Rakael

12-02-2005, 02:42 PM

Wait, hasn't this movie been done before?

Not even remotely funny or witty. Try again.

earthworm48

12-02-2005, 03:01 PM

The paper you guys are thinking of (with boobies) is probably the Sun, the Daily Mail is a Right wing middle class aimed rag, which is probably read by people who are just like Alan Partridge.

Bushido

12-02-2005, 03:44 PM

I will not be seeing this peice of crap. Like I havent seen titanic.

bradlay

12-02-2005, 03:47 PM

I will not be seeing this peice of crap. Like I havent seen titanic.

Stupidest thing anyone has written here for awhile. That's saying a lot.

Demo_Boy

12-02-2005, 03:48 PM

Is this the movie that makes King Kong fun?

XenonCJ

12-02-2005, 04:00 PM

Not even remotely funny or witty. Try again.At least I'm not an asshole.

LilAbner

12-02-2005, 04:20 PM

Explanation: The Daily Mail is a nasty, xenophobic piece of shit rag. With boobies.

Edit: Never mind, no boobies in the Mail. So they don't even have that going for them.

Well shit....you can't see it but I'm blushing right now. Didn't know it was a tabloid. Hard to tell the tabloids from the real papers over there in the UK. :p

TheKeck

12-02-2005, 04:22 PM

I wish working at blockbuster video for 2 years hadn't convinced me that everyone who goes to see movies is illiterate, snobby, moody, and sometimes downright intorlerable.

Wait wait wait.... I always thought that "everyone who goes to see movies" is "absolutely everyone I know or ever have known or ever will know or never will know, etc".

Who in the world doesn't see movies???

(Not meant to be taken literally. I'm not talking about people in third world nations or living is poverty.)

InstaPete

12-02-2005, 05:24 PM

Wait, hasn't this movie been done before?

It would've been funnier if you'd phrased it this way:

"OH YEAH, right, this movie looks GREAT, but I liked it better when it was called "KING KON.... wait, hold on."

Babbster

12-02-2005, 06:02 PM

Who in the world doesn't see movies???

I almost never go to see movies in the theater anymore. In fact, the only one I went to this year was one in which I was featured. ;)

Personally, I consider most theatrical releases to be a 50% tax on my eventual DVD purchase. By the time a movie hits DVD, I've heard and read enough opinions I respect to know whether I want it or not. Then, I can watch it on a nice TV with surround sound. Further, if anyone in the room decides to start yakking I can pause the movie until they shut up.

That being said, I may make an exception for King Kong just because he's a giant ape who would probably be more properly appreciated on a ridiculously large screen.

Abash Alarmist

12-02-2005, 06:02 PM

Wait wait wait.... I always thought that "everyone who goes to see movies" is "absolutely everyone I know or ever have known or ever will know or never will know, etc".

Who in the world doesn't see movies???

(Not meant to be taken literally. I'm not talking about people in third world nations or living is poverty.)

No clue...but he basically did sum up 90% of the huamn race...

F3nyx

12-02-2005, 07:25 PM

Gawd, I wish working at blockbuster video for 2 years hadn't convinced me that everyone who goes to see movies is illiterate, snobby, moody, and sometimes downright intorlerable.Uh, if you were working at Blockbuster, wouldn't you have learned more about people who rent movies than about people who go to see movies?

XenonCJ

12-02-2005, 08:45 PM

It would've been funnier if you'd phrased it this way:

"OH YEAH, right, this movie looks GREAT, but I liked it better when it was called "KING KON.... wait, hold on."Perhaps I should point out that I really wasn't trying to be that funny. I'm sick of all the rehashing of shit already done, and done WELL before... "Planet of the Apes" is a perfect example... Rakael is just pissed off because his boyfriend dumped him because he's too fat, bald, dumb, poor and has weird bumps all over his small crooked penis.

Abash Alarmist

12-02-2005, 09:13 PM

Perhaps I should point out that I really wasn't trying to be that funny. I'm sick of all the rehashing of shit already done, and done WELL before... "Planet of the Apes" is a perfect example... Rakael is just pissed off because his boyfriend dumped him because he's too fat, bald, dumb, poor and has weird bumps all over his small crooked penis.

What the hell dude. He just called you on your remark. There is no need to bash him by calling him gay, fat, dumb, bald, poor and having herpes. Grow the hell up. He was right for calling you on it, because if someone is able to create a GOOD remake and not just a rehashed version of it, by god, let them. Bad remakes shouldn't be made, but ones that actually expand on the story and create a bigger name of the franchise, then let it. If it sucks, you win; if it doesn't, it just means you need to be more rationalized in your thinking from now on.

XenonCJ

12-02-2005, 09:21 PM

What the hell dude. He just called you on your remark. There is no need to bash him by calling him gay, fat, dumb, bald, poor and having herpes. Grow the hell up. He was right for calling you on it, because if someone is able to create a GOOD remake and not just a rehashed version of it, by god, let them. Bad remakes shouldn't be made, but ones that actually expand on the story and create a bigger name of the franchise, then let it. If it sucks, you win; if it doesn't, it just means you need to be more rationalized in your thinking from now on."Called me on my remark" what the hell does that mean? Sorry I didn't realize this was "Last Comic Standing". Sorry, I'd much rather Peter Jackson be working on The Hobbit, Halo, or something original... If that makes me a bad person then fucking shoot me in the fucking head.

bradlay

12-02-2005, 09:59 PM

" Sorry, I'd much rather Peter Jackson be working on The Hobbit, Halo, or something original...

Um... hahahaha. Irony.

RandomViolence

12-02-2005, 10:20 PM

Um... hahahaha. Irony.

Read again.

Not really.

Don't be so eager to jump on the bashing bandwagon.

bradlay

12-03-2005, 02:19 AM

Read again.

Not really.

Don't be so eager to jump on the bashing bandwagon.

OK. In closing, it's moronic to bitch on the internet about what you feel a director should be doing with his time. He's a bazillionaire, you're some dude who works at Arby's.

XenonCJ

12-03-2005, 02:49 AM

OK. In closing, it's moronic to bitch on the internet about what you feel a director should be doing with his time. He's a bazillionaire, you're some dude who works at Arby's.Translation : Don't discuss anything, just blindly accept everything that's handed to you.

Also, I guess I should point out that you are bitching ABOUT someone bitching about a director... What's more pathetic?

bradlay

12-03-2005, 03:42 AM

Translation : Don't discuss anything, just blindly accept everything that's handed to you.

Also, I guess I should point out that you are bitching ABOUT someone bitching about a director... What's more pathetic?

Yes, that's exactly what I said. Good one.

If you're going to bitch that someone is making a movie then have the fortitude to not start crying when someone thinks that's a stupid goddamn thing to say. See, you state an opinion, I say your opinion is stupid. It's how internet forums work. Just don't get all weepy and melodramatic.

XenonCJ

12-03-2005, 09:59 AM

Yes, that's exactly what I said. Good one.

If you're going to bitch that someone is making a movie then have the fortitude to not start crying when someone thinks that's a stupid goddamn thing to say. See, you state an opinion, I say your opinion is stupid. It's how internet forums work. Just don't get all weepy and melodramatic.
Dude are you reading the same forum? You didn't understand my previous statement, and I've hardly been "weepy and melodramatic"? For real dude work on your reading and interpretation skills.

bradlay

12-03-2005, 01:09 PM

Sorry I think your opinion is stupid. Move along.

XenonCJ

12-03-2005, 04:09 PM

Sorry I think your opinion is stupid. Move along.Yeah you are "sorry." At least I have an opinion, apparently worthy enough for you to comment on. So, oh well, I think you're a dumb bitch, you "move along".

TKO

12-03-2005, 06:58 PM

Um... hahahaha. Irony.
Yeah, kinda funny the way it was worded there. ....But Jackson had planned on Kong since long before Lord of the Rings' success. In hindsight it's obvious that The Hobbit would be the perfect now (technicalities of who even *owns* the screenplay rights aside), they had no idea if LotR was going to end up a success. (or a big enough success to consider doing The Hobbit.)

And heck, what is so bad about redoing Kong? The only good version so far is a hard watch because it's just so darned *old* .. you can see where the animators hands are moving the fur as he's animated for gawd sakes. I think this ape needs a modern treatment, and I think Jackson is the perfect person to do it. (I shudder to think the sappy ending Spielberg would put on it.)