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12-13-2005, 01:11 PM
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James B. The rating is high, but the words seem to rate it a little higher than that 
He has a lot of love for the older versions as well, which possibly informed his review.
I definitely have to whiz at the long ones, but I never leave my seat during a PJ 3 hour monster. I've learned to quit drinking at the 10 PM point, and take said whiz at 11:55 PM. I can't stand missing anything.
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12-13-2005, 01:21 PM
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I never had a problem with the length of king kong.. it followed like the original movie.. however
other then that.. it was fine.
many people waited an hour for batman to show up (in begins) .. and I felt that this movie moved much faster then that.
I am not sure how women will react to it.. the audience that I saw it cheered during certain actions scenes.. there were certain jurrasic park scenes where you say "OH shit".. suspense.
I think mr jackson has perhaps challeged steven speilberg in the JP susense type of stuff..
is it better then lotr? its a differnt animal.. its better then the original movie.. this version fixed the problem that I had with the original..
I think women will like the adventure that noami watts has in this movie.. noami is the hero.. you care about her and her friendship with kong. which was not in the original movie..
yes, she is the damsel in distress, but also a strong woman character..
Jacob.
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12-13-2005, 02:40 PM
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yes, she is the damsel in distress, but also a strong woman character
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Which is more a product of the times than a "weakness" of the film. Much like the special effects, attitudes towards female characters have evolved by leaps and bounds.
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12-13-2005, 03:12 PM
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I was angry when Howard Shore's score was replaced
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Can someone please fill kme in on this. What happened?
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12-13-2005, 03:17 PM
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Can someone please fill kme in on this. What happened?
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Not much to it. Jackson didn't like what Shore had composed for the film, talked to him about it, and they both agreed to let someone else score the picture. |
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12-13-2005, 03:17 PM
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Which is more a product of the times than a "weakness" of the film. Much like the special effects, attitudes towards female characters have evolved by leaps and bounds.
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I just watched the original yesterday and there are lines like "women just can't help being in the way", "do you think I want a woman involved, but the public, bless 'em, have to have a pretty face."
I did some guessing there for the actual lines. And then there's Ann Darrow's most repeated line, a big loud scream. And, jeez, does she faint a lot.
Times have changed. Two of my favorite films, Alien and Aliens have a kick butt female hero. It would seem to me to be a bigger challange for modern film, which is a period piece from the 30's, to have a modern female character.
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12-13-2005, 06:08 PM
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How's life under the rock?
James Newton Howard scored it. Howard and PJ had creative differences, but they parted on friendly terms apparently. |
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12-13-2005, 06:23 PM
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In fairness to the original film, I think lots of women and men would do nothing but scream their bloody head off if a monster the size of Kong scooped them up, carried them into a deep jungle filled with dinosaurs, climbed up the Empire State Building with them, etc. Not everyone can make friends with a 50 foot gorilla.
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12-13-2005, 06:51 PM
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Two of my favorite films, Alien and Aliens have a kick butt female hero.
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For "Alien" in 1979 to have Ripley be smart, resourceful, and survive was considered somewhat new and refreshing. For Sigourney Weaver to *lead* an action picture like "Aliens" was somewhat uncharted territory.
So, when put into perspective, "King Kong" 1933 isn't weak in that way. |
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12-13-2005, 07:09 PM
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"The question is not: 'Will it be big?' The question is: 'how big it will be?'," he said. "It is poised to be the highest grossing picture of December."
At a cost of more than $200 million to make and tens of millions more to market, Universal needs "King Kong" to play big in order to make a profit.
So far Jackson's remake of the 1933 classic about a giant ape plucked from a mysterious island and transported back to the United States has a lot of factors working in its favor.
The movie has been widely anticipated and Jackson has a stellar reputation and huge fan base from the three "Rings" movies, which have raked in more than $2.6 billion combined.
Moreover, critics have raved about "Kong." Kirk Honeycutt, reviewer for show business newspaper The Hollywood Reporter, called it "spectacle filmmaking at its best."
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