Hail to the King!
As much as I admire director Peter Jackson, I feel ambivalent about his King Kong remake, which debuts in theaters in a couple of weeks. The trailers look good, and I understand that
That said, Jason Apuzzo at the Libertas blog takes time off from bashing Hollywood's antiwar efforts to post a terrific review of the Real Deal — the restored, remastered ’33 King Kong, now available for the first time on DVD. I haven’t seen the DVD and all its extraordinary extras yet, but Apuzzo’s got me hankering to grab myself a copy.
Oh, by the way...I gotta confess that when
posted by Wally Conger @ 2:38 PM
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You gotta wonder why people are so keen on remaking "King Kong" but not "Citizen Kane," "Casablanca" or "Gone With the Wind" - can you imagine the burning of Atlanta with today's F/X?
Anyway ... I couldn't imagine a film doing justice to "Lord of the RIngs" until Jackson did it. So my expectation is that this thing will blow us away like nothing since, well, maybe since 1933. I know my most lasting memory of the Fantastic Four movie - and I loved the FF movie - was watching the Kong trailer and deciding exactly where I planned to be Dec. 14. Wow!
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