King Kong extended edition

[co2]

Bought it last night. I had held off on the original release for this reason, so not having seen it since the only time I saw it in the theater, I'm ready to watch it again.
I agree that for the theater experience, it could have lost a lot of fluff...but for the home experience, where I will likely watch it in a couple of sittings..I won't mind it. I'm a giant fan of the 33 version (a framed poster of it adorns my living room) but despite a few minor gripes (ice skating Kong) I still thought PJ did a great job on this one.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I didnt think the TC was too long at all, i'd rather some character in a movie than one totallly devoid of it, a la X3.

 

[The Kid]

The original film was nothing but junk, they couldn't even make characters out of the characters, let alone out of the creatures.
Overdoing it would've been including the tons of extraneous stuff that was shown in the deleted scenes, as is he made an incredibly moving, exhilerating genre-bender that took a story that had great potential but was always horrendously executed since its conception.
Oh, and I'm not sugar-coating how horrid and unintentionally funny the so bad it's hilarious original was for its fans.
It's nice to know this very dated, bad to be generous film inspired much, much better films down the road, this being one of the many.

For the sake of respecting good quality films, please get off the internet.

this movie was everything people complain about with crappy movies. It was dumb, ridiculous action for the sake of ridiculous action, had a hollow story, jack black's acting, and characters are mostly one dimensional. I'll give pj points for trying to create some drama for the big stupid monkey, but he took way too long to do it.

I thought it was a cgi joke and a huge waste of time and money for the studio and audiences who unfortunately had to sit through it hoping their money was well spent.

I laughed out loud at my desk when I read it was called a King Kong sized sleeping pill because it is.

 

[Rac]

Yea, I'm getting it.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^Watched it again last night and watched all of the extra's on the first 2 discs, their funny and very entertaining and i love the EEcut.

 

[JTStarkiller]

I picked it up on Tuesday, but I've had very little time to actually sit down and watch it. I'm about 30 minutes into disc 2 at the moment and it's great.

I'll admit it though. I saw the '33 version right before seeing the PJ version, and I didn't see what all the fuss was about. I love old films, but this one just didn't work. It's a great technical achievement, but PJ's takes the time to really make you care about the characters. The characters in the original Kong just don't have anything interesting to do.

I've got more to say on it, but I'll shut up there.

 

[Cosmic]

I'll probably wait for the condensed edition.

 

[aaron]

What's the raft scene like?

 

[co2]

That scene was fantastic. I really don't get why some scenes are chosen to remain in a film while others are cut. That movie could have stood to lost a lot of scenes other than the raft scene.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^The raft scene was probably the best added scene out of the lot of them, although i thought all of the added scene's were great to be honest.