I thought it looked fine and could only tell it was a TV scene usually by the fact I hadn't seen it before. There's only two scenes that should have been included, with Bridges telling Dwan that if Kong dies they can't be together and the badly filmed death of Grodin. Even as a kid in the...
After listening to Rick Baker's fantastic commentary, this makes the whole disc. Imagine this poor 25 year old whiz kid hired to build/play Kong in one of the biggest Hollywood films in history and encounter pure Delaurentis/Rambaldi/Hollywood incompetence and how all of this came back to lead...
The original has quite a bit of humor. Denham whistling casually as they walk away from the natives is funnier than anything in the 1976 version not to mention "I read that it's a giant gorilla!" "Gee, ain't we got enough of those in New York?"
I picked up the blu and it looks pretty good to me...
I was a 9 year old monster kid so very excited for this even tho I was a Kong/Harryhausen fan and didn't want to see a man in suit Kong (tho I love Toho Kong too, it's just different) and I was aware of the controversy about Jim Danforth resigning his Academy membership when they gave a spfx...