Ouch, I disagree that scenes that have been censored throughout the years deserved to be, for whatever reason. It's true the "big head" doesn't match the animation model as well as it could (though personally I think it's quite effective), but it's used in other scenes that have never been...
As I said, I don't understand how anybody could say these DVDs have robbed the "life" of the films. Maybe I'm not enough of a videophile to see it. Maybe... It's not as if they "digitized" the image and completely recreated it in CGI. The films look very clean, but we certainly agree a clean...
To say the DVDs I mentioned no longer "look like real movies" (as well as your Van Gogh analogy) is, with all due respect, an absurdly over-the-top statement. Did you see Citizen Kane in it's original run? If not (which I'm guessing is the case), how do you know what the "original look" looked...
I'm sorry, I simply do not understand this way of thinking. :frowning: I hope Kong looks as good as Kane, Sunset Boulevard, and North by Northwest. These are astounding looking DVDs, IMO.
What I've heard is that the spider scene was a part of the "demo" footage (to get RKO to okay the rest of the movie), but if it exists or not is not due to this. The rest of the demo reel is in the movie. According to what I've read, Schoedsack cut it from the movie when, at an early preview, it...
-Ray Harryhausen/Fay Wray commentary -Extensive stills and artwork gallery (hook up with Forry Ackerman; for years he planned on releasing a book called, The King of Kongs cataloging his incredible still collection of Kong) -Gallery showing advertising material (posters, pressbooks, etc.)...
"Bad news: King Kong is now a lost film!!" :D I was really, really looking forward to Kong this year, but I guess I'll tow the party line and also state as long as they're making it super-duper, it's okay. I'd have thought it'd come out sooner than this, though. To my knowledge, Kong...