King Kong Extended Edition officially announced.

[블라스]

Longer?!

Don't get me wrong, I love the movie and own the DVD, but I believe you could make it better by cutting 45 minutes.

Yeah, I know there's lots of people that would have liked this to be shorter.
I actually loved everything about it and cannot wait to see a longer version

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Yeah, I know there's lots of people that would have liked this to be shorter.
I actually loved everything about it and cannot wait to see a longer version

I'll certainly see the new version and am intrgued to see what it comprises of.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Not a film that needs to be longer IMO

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Everybody loved this movie when it came out and it was huge .

And seriously, how is Jackson a money-grubber or anything? Tons of movies have special editions. I've seen many DVD sets with less than that for more money.

But the point is, most special editions and director's cuts expand movies that didn't have enough time to tell their stories originally, or were hampered by censors or studio interference. Take the director's cut of Daredevil, or Terry Gilliam's Brazil, or Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.

With King Kong, Jackson was given free reign to do exactly as he wanted the first time round. The movie has been criticised for not even having enough storyline for 3 hours, let alone a longer version. So it's hard to believe there's anything worthy than Jackson removed from the film.

 

[GhostPoet]

AWESOME
I've been waiting for this!!!!
I always felt there were a few scenes that could have been expanded on. =) Love this film. Really is a masterpiece in the old school classic style of film-making he's best known for.

I realize some of the short-attention spanned americans may hate it...but I thought it was FANTASTIC.

 

[Iceman]

Universal has announced a new deluxe extended edition of the Peter Jackson directed King Kong which stars Naomi Watts, Jack Black and Adrien Brody. The three-disc package will be available to own from the 14th November this year, and should set you back around $34.98. A limited edition giftset will also be available from the 14th - and this should retail at around $79.98. We're not sure what this will include yet, although it's a safe bet that it will be a statue of some kind! Further details should follow later in the day.

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Effin' A!!
I'll be first in line to get this

So what we saw was the tightly edited no fat version.

I'm happy as long all those extra minutes are used in the 3 on 1 T-Rex fight.

 

[Triligors]

Personally can't wait. This was one of my favorite films. And my favorite Peter Jackson films, yeah- I liked this way better than the LOTR films.

Right now, just hoping they announce it will have been commentaries. Which knowing PJ and extended editions, it probably will.

 

[The Dark Defender]

Worldwide: $549,216,896
- Budget: $207,000,000
- Marketing: $???,???,???
= > $342,216,896.

The marketing was definately heavy, so in the end, it made about the same amount of money as its budget give or take. That's horrible considering this was supposed to be one of the biggest grossing movies of all time.

It makes it much lower than expectations, hence a disappointment, but they still made plenty off of it overall.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

It makes it much lower than expectations, hence a disappointment, but they still made plenty off of it overall.

It's still a flop in the sense that it failed to meet expectations.

 

[The Dark Defender]

It's still a flop in the sense that it failed to meet expectations.

That's a difference between a disappointment and a flop.

A flop just plain fails, a disappointment succeeds, just not as much as it was anticipated to.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

I'd say Kong was closer to a flop than a disappointment.

 

[The Dark Defender]

And you'd be wrong.

 

[Mr. Credible]

this was a movie that's one major critisism was being too long... why would you want to make it longer? that is like putting more explanation scenes in the matrix reloaded... if anything, add the 'action' scenes (raft, more t-rex stuff, etc.) that were supposedly cut, and cut most of the first hour and the boat "characterization" stuff... and i use that term "characterization" loosely.

 

[Mr. Credible]

oops... double post.

 

[CConn]

Yeah...I really think I'd enjoy KK more if it was a 2-hour action movie rather than the 3-hour epic it was.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

And you'd be wrong.

What's saying I am?

 

[Mr. Credible]

Yeah...I really think I'd enjoy KK more if it was a 2-hour action movie rather than the 3 and a half hour "epic" it was.

hope you don't mind, i fixed your post for you.

 

[The Dark Defender]

The fact that they made well over what they spent with it.

 

[The Dark Defender]

hope you don't mind, i fixed your post for you.

No, actually you added an error where there wasn't one.

 

[Mr. Credible]

no, sorry. Kong was crap.

the only good thing about it was the special effects, which weren't even that good in most parts.

 

[The Dark Defender]

No, sorry Kong was great.

The relationship between Kong and Ann was more powerful than the action/effects were, which were phenominal in every part other than the CGI to human integration during the bronto stampede.

 

[Mr. Credible]

No, sorry Kong was great.

The relationship between Kong and Ann was more powerful than the action/effects were, which were phenominal in every part other than the CGI to human integration during the bronto stampede.

well, that's subjective... and i thought that part of the movie (what should have been the biggest part, in my opinion) was more like a girl and her pet monkey... and poorly treated. i think the only reason people thought it was so "well done" is because they knew it was supposed to be.

and nearly every special effect with an actual human interacting with a cgi creature in this movie was poorly done.

 

[The Dark Defender]

That's all subjective. Other that one scene I found the interaction nigh perfect.

As for a girl and her pet, you have a very warped sense of perception if that's what you saw (you might as well watch Jason and Freddy's fight and interpret it as an act of friendship); and I wasn't so moved by it because I 'knew I was supposed to be' I found the attempted love story in the original film as well as the '77 film laughably uneven.

I know women that have pets, the look in Ann's eyes when she's with him isn't even close to that of a girl with her pet.
When the atmosphere goes from a very loud rampage and suddenly goes quiet into a beautiful musical cue when Kong finds her as everything else but them disappears so that they can have this one moment in time where it's nothing but them...
When Kong tries to touch her one last time as the planes blast him in the back and she rests her head on his finger while he slides off hanging onto him for every last second that she can while she pours her heart out(with nothing to act to but a blank green screen, a fake ape hand, and a guy in a suit)...
I could go on and on, I've never been more moved by a relationship between two characters before.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

No, sorry Kong was great.

The relationship between Kong and Ann was more powerful than the action/effects were, which were phenominal in every part other than the CGI to human integration during the bronto stampede.

No, sorry. That's subjective.


I personally felt the movie had too many parts that weren't needed or were drawn out. The whole thing with them in the park was unnecessary (we already got it they had a connection when they were on the cliff). IMO, Jurassic Park had better CGI than King Kong.

 

[The Dark Defender]

No, sorry. That's subjective.

Yes, it is. I never said it wasn't.

I personally felt the movie had too many parts that weren't needed or were drawn out. The whole thing with them in the park was unnecessary (we already got it they had a connection when they were on the cliff). IMO, Jurassic Park had better CGI than King Kong.

I thought there were a few, not nearly as many as the films detractors make it out to be though.

I didn't even think JP did the T-Rex's better, and they weren't the primary effect in Kong.