King Kong (1933)
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Features
• Black & White
• Closed-captioned
• HiFi Sound
• NTSC
In Theaters : 07 April, 1933
Video Release : 01 December, 1998 |
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King Kong (1933) Customer Reviews
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LET'S TALK ABOUT ALL KING KONGS
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| First there was KING KONG 1933. This is the unsurpassed classic fantasy, but I'll get back to that in a bit. Then there was KING KONG APPEARS IN EDO (Japanese) 1938. Unfortunately it's been reported that the film has been lost or destroyed. Maybe a copy will surface someday. Then there was KING KONG vs GODZILLA 1962. This was honestly meant to be a tribute to the original classic for inspiring the Godzilla franchise. Why King Kong looked the way he did I'll never know. He looked pretty bad. But I still love that film. Then there was a King Kong cartoon called THE KING KONG SHOW 1966 where Kong is a friendly hero which inspired the live action movie KING KONG ESCAPES 1967. Which had by far the worst looking Kong suit, but for some reason I always enjoy that one too. Maybe because of Dr. Who voiced by Paul Frees (American dub) and Robot Kong. Now he looked awesome. Basic, but awesome. Speaking of Robot Kongs this leads to KING KONG 1976. If you were alive and aware of your own existance in the 70s You couldn't help but hear the hype of a brand new King Kong movie that was going to use a full sized mechanical Kong to star in this movie. But that just wasn't the case. The robotic Kong looked so terribly unconvincing they had to hire a man to design and wear a suit. At the time seemed to look convincing, but doesn't compare to the very realistic looking Peter Jackson's KING KONG 2005. More of that in a moment. Then of course there was the forgettable KING KONG LIVES. Year of release also forgettable. KING KONG 2005 had the potential to be a fierce competitor to the original 1933 classic, but dropped the ball big time by overdoing unecessary human character development and wasteful silly Kong moments. My personal edited version is really cool. It runs 2 hrs and 15 mins and makes perfect sense. The one thing that really stands out in my mind is; The natives in the 2005 version were truly horrible nasty people. If anyone should have been "Kong stomped", it was definately them. Women and children included. I now return to the 1933 masterpiece. Regardless as to the faults that people point out, this movie is perfection unto itself. The pacing is perfect. The matte shots are breathtaking. The acting is as it should be. Every moment counts. A terrified screaming female makes the most sense. Let's face it, no girl is going to fall in love with a 25 foot gorilla that kills innocent people no matter how sweet the music soundtrack is. The puppet animation in this movie set the standard for many generations to come and has never really been improved upon. I'm not referring to CGI, only Stop Motion filming. I remember one time they showed a heavily edited version of this on Channel 9 New York, five days in a row at 1 pm. I believe it was during the winter recess in the late 1960s. (Please chime in if you remember this or have factual information). No matter how you slice it Kong had to be killed off. He was a brutal vicious murderous beast, even in the sappy versions. Even with the technology of today if anyone attempted to duplicte this movie exactly as it is. They would fail miserably because magic can't be duplicated. Thank goodness for this DVD. |
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