BornOfAJackal
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This one is not "horrible". It's got too much artistry to be that.
Yes, a few extra shots as I recall. Another good scene is Kong tossing a car into a building.The mechanical Kong was a disaster. Do you see more of it in the TV cut?
It was an assertion Dino repeated with minor variations. "Nobody cry when Jaws die. When monkey die, everybody cry". There was a great feature on him in EMPIRE magazine recently.The only nostalgia I have for this film is the interview the late, lamented Stuart Byron did with Dino De Laurentiis. I don't remember whether it was in "Film Comment" or the "Village Voice" but what I do recall is that Mr. De Laurentiis' responses were in the kind of Italinate English that Chico Marx specialized in. I don't know if that was accurate, but Stuart Byron, when I ran into him at MOMA, insisted that was on the tape recording. Anyway, at one point in the interview, Mr. De Laurentiis was quoted as saying, "When Konk die, everybody gonna cry."
John Belushi must have read the article, for in one of the first episodes of "Saturday Night Live" he kept repeating, "When Konk die, everybody gonna cry" throughout the broadcast. Or at least, that's what I remember.
Yeah. I remember. But what I particularly found funny is how Belushi used Dino's words--and KONK, not ape, as reported in Stuart Byron's "Film Comment" piece--as a Zen Koan throughout the first episode of SNL. "When Konk die, everybody cry!" It was free-form poetry, a call to arms, a command from on high, so absurd it made perfect sense. "When Konk die, everybody cry!" Other than subscribers to "Film Comment", I wonder how many people picked up on it.It was an assertion Dino repeated with minor variations. "Nobody cry when Jaws die. When monkey die, everybody cry". There was a great feature on him in EMPIRE magazine recently.
I found everything about it, except its score, deplorable. Outside of seeing it during its original release, I never felt compelled to ever see it again, and that's saying something, because I did extra work on it.
I found everything about it, except its score, deplorable. Outside of seeing it during its original release, I never felt compelled to ever see it again, and that's saying something, because I did extra work on it.
I’m “OK” with the Peter Jackson’s remake just prefer this one much better at it was modernized for its time as the PJ version set in the same time as the original was totally all CGI and looked itSame here. Well, I don't know if I'd call it "deplorable", but after seeing it in its original theatrical release, I'd only ever seen it once more, on cable, many years later. Like a number of other movies I didn't care for, I was willing to give it another try to see if my opinion changed, and it hadn't. Granted, the cable viewing was in 4x3, so it might not have been a fair assessment when it comes to presentation, but the overall flow of the story just didn't work for me. I agree that the cast was solid, and Rick Baker's work was terrific, but I just have no great desire to ever see it again. The 1933 original I can watch again and again. And unlike Noel, I was OK with the Peter Jackson remake, though even that I don't like nearly as much as the original.
Capsule plot description of King Kong (source forgotten): "Large ape moves to the Big City and fails to adjust to urban life."
I am too looking forward to the viewing this. The 4.5 visual rating and a 5? for sound from RAH gives me hope as it’s always looked crappy in all its iterations- cable, laserdisc, VHS, DVD, broadcast.I want the BD so I can try and see myself in the stadium, just before he breaks loose. The SD is too crappy looking and no detail.
What King Kong is not REAL? ... Next you'll be telling me there ain't no Sanity Clause !If I remember correctly, in the press-book that was basically the gist of the synopsis of the movie. I think Rick Baker was mentioned once and the phony Kong was what was used through the movie.
It might be the same transfer but Shout always does additional work on transfer and many times create their own transfers.Has anyone watched the HD streaming version available on iTunes and elsewhere? I am wondering if Shout Factory simply used the HD transfer that Paramount provided and, thus, the streaming version would be the same?
Mark
What King Kong is not REAL? ... Next you'll be telling me there ain't no Sanity Clause !
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