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Originally Posted by Bansheelinks
have to agree with you GregB. i know we were both looking forward to KK and it certainly didn't disappoint.........in fact, in many key areas, it exceeded my expectations, which were already sky-high considering he did the great LOTR trilogy. however, you didn't even mention the battle with the T-rexes. in my mind, that simply laid waste to anything thats ever, i mean ever, been done in an action adventure movie. it was so good and amazing it annihilates everything else.
and if you want emotional depth, i'd refer anyone to the whole incredible empire state building sequence. its enough to make you question if Kong was real or not, the cgi was that brilliant and the emotional connection that well established. between Jackson's use of Gollum and now King Kong, this is a real threshold in cinema history of the use of cgi. i totally agree with what you said before, if you don't catch King Kong on the big screen before it goes to DVD, you are really missing out on something special.
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Banshee, I didn't mention the TRexes because I didn't want to spoil it for the rest of the gang. But now since the cat or dinosaur is out of the bag, we might as well go on with this scene and not spoil anymore
The T Rex scene/battle/melee/rumble/throwdown/smack down etc. was so awesome it takes a day at least to get over it. I'm a fan of the original Kong and bold enough to admit I freakin' love "King Kong vs Godzilla". The coconut bra on that chick in KK vs GZ is enough
Kong and Zill threw the fuck down! My standard for movie fight mayhem.
Yet I knew Kong fought a T Rex in this new version and when I saw two show up, I said to myself, " He had to add two to out do the first Kong. Now if he is really a sick/psycho he'll add a th-" before I could say a 'third' the 'third' T Rex showed up and then I KNEW I was in for a major ride for the rest of the movie. That scene has to go down in history for a bunch of reasons. My high point was when Kong finished off one T Rex, he grabs it's still moving head and drives the upper nose through the brain. That shit was soooooo fucking off the hook! That's what gorillas do.
The scene kept getting funnier and funnier and ferocious.
I hadn't seen the LOTR trilogy until last week. I sat down and watched all three back to back. The extended versions at that. Took me three days to get through them all. Gad, it was like they would never fucking end! The technical brilliance is unquestionable for sure, so I was at least familiar with Peter Jackson's sense of humor and figured he would go all out for Kong.
It only made $10 million on Wednesday but expect that number to rise for the weekend even though it's fucking winter. Had this movie come out in Summer you would have had to beat people with sticks.
Hype is what's selling this movie, BUT, word of mouth is the extra ammo.