Better than PJ's remake!
Just kidding. I didn't even know this existed. Looks pretty horrible.
sharethis was actually the first Kong movie I watched back when I was a lil kid. It makes me wonder why I would even bother watching ANY other Kong movie, but still. Heheh.
--somebody set up us the bomb!--
Call me crazy, but I loved and still love this film, and think its much better than the remake!
Its 1000 times more realistic and is not as long and boring as the new one, its also kinda gets straight to the point.
I think they did a good job with this and rate it well!
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We all have our opinions einstein
shareI don't know if you're responding to me or not, but I'm gonna try to do the anti-internet thing and play it cool and calm. I've actually never seen King Kong Lives, and like the first poster, never even heard of it till whenever I posted my first post. If you like it better than Jackson's Kong, that's cool. We all gots different tastes, and not too many can get that through their heads when posting randomly online. I do, however, like easy l-c-d comedy, and wanted to be the first one to call you on the whole "crazy" thing.
But I also gotta defend Jackson's Kong, 'cause, well we're all nerds, and this is what we do.
I saw this movie on 12/28, at a time I'm usually still asleep. So, I was up early, tired, grumpy, hungry and hadn't yet had any caffeine.
And this movie rocked my world. Far from boring, I dig character studies, and everything leading up to the arrival at Skull Island is all about that, from then on, it's nothing but action while still developing characters and story. It's just pure great storytelling, and when it was over, I didn't feel like I had just sat 3+ hours in a movie theater, I felt like I just had an amazing experience.
Serenity was the last movie that made me react that way, and before that... I don't know. Pulp Fiction, maybe. Long time.
But, we all differ, doesn't mean we can't get along in the vast and cranky world of online bitching.
Firstly I was not reffering to you at all, and great post man!
I probly see movies in a very different way to many of you guys and thus the different opinions, I can see how you would say im crazy, I just preffer the more action 80s stuff so yeah...
It's all good.
shareI wouldn't put it as better than the new Kong. On so many levels it falls short. The F/X are weak, even for the time when it was made. The way they keep Kong alive is ridiculous and some of the other situations really don't make much sense.
All that said, this movie is a guilty pleasure of mine as well. I think it has tons of rewatchability. To keep that in perspective, however, I also thing that Swamp Thing is a great movie and I love the 1976 Kong and the two Toho Studios Kong movies.
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This movie is an abomination, no wonder it's director no longer makes movies! The acting was cheap and cliche. The story was boring. This should have been a half hour tv spoof show of Kong, not a movie! You have to wonder, who gives people the funds to make this type of film. . .
shareI was looking forward to seeing this one, even if it had already been said it was a bad movie. I finally got to see it and yup, they were right it was crappy, but I still sat through it. I'll probably never make it a point to watch it again and will avoid adding it to my movie collection.
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this was the very first movie i saw in cinema ever -- one of the few USA flicks let thru the soviet censorship // i loved it and remember lots of detail even if i last seen it close to 20 yrs ago -- so hands off *beep*
(well, actually i am afraid there's not that much value to KKL other than nostalgic)
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I'm watching it on TV as I post this message. It is incredibly cheezy but
pretty cool at the same time.
I also saw this when I was a kid. I can barely remember it. The only thing I remember is Kong and the female Kong hangin' out on the side of a hill.
Annoy your fellow posters and vote 10 now! >>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107978/
"(well, actually i am afraid there's not that much value to KKL other than nostalgic)"
This was the first movie I ever saw in a theater, so there's tons of nostalgia here for me.
But looking back on it years later, I can see all the ludicrious plot elements and whatnot, yet I don't loathe the film. In fact I think pretty highly of it. I think the hardest thing in the world to do isn't simply making a sequel, but to try to make a sequel to a movie that basically said everything that needed to be said in the first film and ended with killing off its main character.
You're not left with many options on "where to go next" as far as moving the story, characters, & mythology forward a step.
Don't compare KKL to Peter Jackson's remake, that's just not an accurate analogy. The correct comparison should be between KKL and Son of Kong. And in my opinion KKL wins hands down. Although I feel it only does so for actually having the title character of the original actually return rather than give us his son. Which I find even more unbelievebale than all the heart transplant/coma/blood transfusion stuff, because we never saw any glimpse or hint of Kong's son in the original so where in hell did he come from? And for "son" to exist, he would need a mother, so where the hell was she at in either film???
KKL at least tried to answer those questions and I think KK '76 & KKL fit together better than KK '33 & Son of Kong.
i agree wholeheartly-)
// oh and loved that huge mechanical heart!:O
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