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Peter Jackson's King Kong Trailer is up.
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Did you ever watch the original?
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Originally Posted by starman
Did you ever watch the original?
Just looked it up. I guess it's been a while since I've seen it... live 20+ years. 
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wow. looks pretty good. Seems like maybe the story will take precedence over the special effects.
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Originally Posted by Eug Wanker
Just looked it up. I guess it's been a while since I've seen it... live 20+ years.
Where's the Giant Squirrel from the original? They better not leave out the Giant Squirrel.
Here's a colorized screenshot from the original King Kong film.
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Wow, it does look really good. Though I have one problem. There is only one King
Hail to the king, baby.
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The only part that freaked me out was the giant crickets 
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If Jack Black is in it I am there.
Kinda wierd seeing him in a serious role.
And Naomi Watts is one thirty-something hotty! We need to see more of her, in less clothing.
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Originally Posted by Macpilot
If Jack Black is in it I am there.
Kinda wierd seeing him in a serious role.
And Naomi Watts is one thirty-something hotty! We need to see more of her, in less clothing.
I agree on both counts!
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What? No rabbits with bunny AIDS, no muppet S&M, no filthy walruses? Peter Jackson is going downhill.
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Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker
Looks better than I thought it would be.
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Originally Posted by DeathMan
wow. looks pretty good. Seems like maybe the story will take precedence over the special effects.
That's what I was thinking as I watched the trailer.
Oh, and Naomi Watts:
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What? No rabbits with bunny AIDS, no muppet S&M, no filthy walruses? Peter Jackson is going downhill.
mate, i couldn't agree with you more 
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Originally Posted by JoshuaZ
Wow, it does look really good. Though I have one problem. There is only one King
Hail to the king, baby.
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Well considering the whole premise of King Kong is retarded to begin with, this looks pretty good.
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Looks like it will be full of cheese.
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HOLY GEEZE!!!!! Peter's done it RIGHT! This is gonna be GREAT!
Is it December yet?
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THAT looks MUCH better than I expected it to.
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Ugh. Why can't Hollywood come up with some new ideas? I am sick of all the sequels and remakes!
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Originally Posted by Eriamjh
Ugh. Why can't Hollywood come up with some new ideas? I am sick of all the sequels and remakes!
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Originally Posted by Stradlater
I presume you're referring to Jackson's weight loss. IIRC from reading somewhere, his wife (or SO) Fran Walsh, pressed on him to lose weight. I don't believe there's anything wrong with his health.
Anyway, I'd think that Kong is less stressful than shooting and producing LoTR for six or seven years.
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Looks good! Can't wait to see it
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looks very cool. just put the original king kong at the top of my netflix queue
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Interesting better than I was thinking it'd be.
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Peter looks a lot better than at the end of LOTR! He looked like he was working himself to death through those films, and what a lot of people don't realize is that obesity can be a result of poor diet rather than lack of exercise-which Peter was obviously getting while shooting three movies at the same time!
And I still think the movie is going to ROCK!
One more thing: Eriamjh wondered why redo something instead of making a completely new movie. Some films are so important to some people that they are moved to make their career choices because of them. "King Kong" is why Ray Harryhausen got into stop-motion animation, developing a huge body of very successful work that led to many of the advances in the field. He heavily influenced such people as Phil Tippet, who engineered the "snow walker" sequence in "The Empire Strikes Back." That's a lot of impact. Peter Jackson says he was moved to become a director by "King Kong," but as a director, he felt he would like to tell that story in a slightly different way. Instead of telling a similar story by translating it into a different place and time ("Edward Scissorhands" is a retelling of "Frankenstein" by Tim Burton), Peter is telling the story with different actors in a more realistic acting style and with much more advanced effects. That's something directors do.
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Good point -- I'm *thrilled* Jackson isn't trying to modernize this flick. It's not so much a remake as it is an update.
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I'll say one thing: Peter Jackson has lost weight!
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Damn. And I thought it would look awful. Too bad Adrian Whatshisname's in it. But Black balances that out. Odd seeing him outside the Mr. 420 role I usually see him in.
I might actually go see this. It will be the first movie I've seen in theaters outside of…well…LotR.
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Looks GREAT in HD:
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Heh. Even made an iPod version.
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Originally Posted by Macpilot
If Jack Black is in it I am there.
Kinda wierd seeing him in a serious role.
And Naomi Watts is one thirty-something hotty! We need to see more of her, in less clothing.
Every freakin movie I see her in she shows off her nipples extensively, so I wouldn't worry.
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Is that what they refer to as... "monkey love"?
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Originally Posted by Cubeoid
i am king kong.
Do you like bananas? If so, I want to shove 200 down your throat. That would be cool!
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Jack Black and Adrien Brody - looks like a good movie to me
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king kong
who knows the name of king kong?
who knows the name of king kong?
ten times as big as a man...
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Well, Jackson effed up the LotR series pretty good, so I'm having a hard time holding out hope for this one. Please, please, resist the cheese Peter. That's all I ask.
And: CGI looks a little spotty. A couple of those action shots with the dinos made me wince.
And let's face it, folks: Jack Black, trying to be intense and serious, just doesn't work. Listen to his voiceover – "Imagine, if you will, and uncharted island..." – and his acting. Hey, maybe it'll be better when it's seamless, but that just made me think of Barry giving buying orders to some loser who doesn't yet own Blonde on Blonde.
Other than that, I think from the trailer it looks like a pretty sweet movie.
I dunno. Maybe I'm just bitter over the Rings job. 
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