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| Especially when all of the other blockbusters this year have been putting their best foot foward. The compare the effects of the earliest War of the Worlds trailer and this Kong trailer, and the difference is night and day. |
I think comparing the trailers for WOTW and KK is comparing apples to oranges. THE WOTW trailers are more of a tease. We are getting only brief, vieled glimpses of the martian machines even after the movie has been released. I was surprised how much of KK was revealed in the trailer. We are getting a much more revealing look at the picture.
In the end, if the picture is good, it will be successful, even if the trailer is not up the the standards of a few.
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| Yeah, that's the way you make classics, by aiming for the lowest common denominator |
No, that's the way you make money which, to Universal, I'm sure is the overriding concern.
| The compare the effects of the earliest War of the Worlds trailer |
As I recall, the earliest WOTW trailer only had one, ever-so-brief effects shot of the freeway getting blasted as Dakota Fanning screamed out the back window of a car.
It's just disturbing to me that people are in such a negative frame of mind after viewing a trailer for a movie that's still in the middle of post-production and acknowledges (on the kongisking.net website) that the shots used were from "work in progress."
We don't judge a novelist on their first draft, or an artist when they've only painted the background sky, or a trial based only on the opening remarks.
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Seeing this trailer projected on the big screen with some real subwoofers works wonders for it. It looked GOOD on the big screen.
KING KONG indeed.
Can't wait,
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....(shrugs shoulders) the final bellowing shot of KONG sent shivers up my spine, I can't wait.
The only truly suspect shot I personally spotted in the trailer (the one that stood out for me) was the pan over shot on the rocky beach after the film crew hears the distant roar, the background FX weren't synced well with the live action foreground actors....I didn't really care because I know this is a "work in progress" but that shot in particular did catch my eye.
Like I said, don't care, I trust PJ and I know he will deliver a fine flick.
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| The only truly suspect shot I personally spotted in the trailer (the one that stood out for me) was the pan over shot on the rocky beach after the film crew hears the distant roar, the background FX weren't synced well with the live action foreground actors.... |
That was the only thing I really noticed as well. Looked like the bluescreens hadn't been finessed yet.
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| I read in the USA Today the other day that Kong will be 25 ft tall. If that is true, then he is too SHORT!! |
That's a bit taller than he is in the Skull Island scenes in the 1933 original (the scale changes when he's brought to New York).
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The words - 'work in progress' - should suffice.
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As Chuck noted, seeing this trailer on the big screen was awesome. The effects, finished or not, looked spectacular, better than they looked on TV obviously. Even better than the Hidef version.
And Naomi looks HOT!:b
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It is my hope and belief that Peter Jackson will give us a superb film that will simply be a mirror update to the '33 classic. The Original KING KONG is one of those ageless classic that I am sure will surely benefit from this remake...... I greatly anticipate a wonderful movie......
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Really great trailer, it's just wonderful.
I found that, watching it on TV, I thought
some of the effects shots (mostly of the characters running away from the dinosaurs) looked awful - the dinosaurs seemed to be lit entirely differently, washed out. But when I saw it in cinema last night, the same shots looked really good. So I'm less worried about the effect shots now.
A friend of mine works at Weta, and our group went to see WOTW and get a look at the work he's been doing. I was sitting next to him, and he was nudging me going "My shot's coming up next", with obvious pride.
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| Sure enough, months later I'm walking to the theatre to see one of my all time favorite classics when I look up and gaze upon those giant letters spelling KING KONG. He never used those letters for anything else. |
Great story. Thanks for sharing it.
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The CGI looks bad? Perhaps you might want to look at the effects in the original then
I admit I was unmoved that there was a remake announced, other than a pique of interest in how Peter would put his thumbprint on this...
...the trailer has caught my eye (and now my interest).
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In JonZ link, what building is that? Isn't doesn't look like the Empire State Building. I know times have changed, but I was hoping they'd still use the ESB.
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| In JonZ link, what building is that? Isn't doesn't look like the Empire State Building. I know times have changed, but I was hoping they'd still use the ESB. |
The file name for the picture is
kingkongempirebuilding500p.jpg.
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| The file name for the picture is kingkongempirebuilding500p.jpg. |
doh!
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