Did Anyone Just See The King Kong Preview on NBC?

[THUNDER HANDS]

My GOD, this movie looks awesome.

[Deja Q]

1. I saw a personals ad...

And that version of King Kong looked rather more impressive...

But that's mixin' oranges with apples... nice oranges too. :evilgrin:

I've never been keen on remakes... just wait until they re-do "The Wizard of Oz" ('The Wiz' being sufficiently different, with Michael Jackson looking for a brain...)

[misanthrope]

2. It's three hours long...

...Peter Jackson's got some serious Oscar-hubris working there.

I remember seeing the 1930s original on television when I was about 8 years-old and crying at the end because I felt sorry for Kong. I didn't think he deserved the rap he got at all.

[Zomby Woof]

3. This looks like a mistake

I don't think it will be as cheesy or disastrous as the 1976 remake, but it looks like a soulless, boring, overwrought blockbuster just the same. I get that vibe heavily from the previews.

Some movies should never be remade. What made the original work can not be recaptured, no matter the talent of the director, the sophistication of the effects, or the bombast of marketing hype. The cast doesn't impress me, and after the initial buzz wears off, it will be crushed by the weight of its own expectations.

It will get the expected big bucks the first few weeks... then poof. Jackson's career will survive, since LOTR gave him a lot of mileage. It cannot, and will not, replace the 1933 original.

[DS1]

6. Agreed, I'm tired of remakes, no matter what technology has come

along.

[Floogeldy]

7. Hey ZW.

You work in the movie industry, correct? :)

[THUNDER HANDS]

11. soulless?

I saw more emotion on the face of this computer-generated ape than I have in many movies I've seen with real actors in them this year.

I think this will be the biggest film of the year and get tremendous reviews. I can't wait for this to open.

And how can a King Kong movie be boring?

[Chovexani]

12. I've said it once, I've said it a million times

Andy Serkis got screwed out of an Oscar.

Hell, the CGI acting I've seen lately has beaten most of the "real" acting out of Hollywood (FF7 Advent Children...which may be coming to an arthouse theater near you in Jan). No wonder they were scared shitless about Gollum and fought against that nomination as hard as they could. Primadonnas might actually have to, you know, earn that 20 million or get replaced by a computer.

I can't wait for this movie to open either.

[rug]

4. Son of Kong was saddder.

That hand sinking with the island.

This one seems to follow the original plot straight through. If he nailed New York City in 1930 this will be very good.

[Floogeldy]

5. Go to this site and see the Teaser . . . .

Go here: http://www.kingkongmovie.com /

Click on Trailer. Choose Teaser.

Woooooooooooh!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

8. No, but I saw an extended on in the theatre before Harry Potter...

It looks great...and who knew that Jack Black could act something other than stupid.
Duckie

[NewJeffCT]

9. damn, forgot all about it

wish I had remembered.

is the new trailer up anywhere else? I know i saw Kong leaping up at a bi-plane while on top of the Empire State Building...

[WCGreen]

10. Just saw the teaser.....

I am glad they kept it set in the 1930's....

[mockmonkey]

13. I am too

It makes it more interesting visually. Hard for them to use product placement every 5 seconds also.