Posted on 01/27/2021 5:23:29 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
“Godzilla vs. Kong” is on the move — again.
Shortly after Warner Bros. bumped up the film’s release date two months earlier than expected, from May 21 to March 26, the studio has postponed its domestic premiere by another week. Now, “Godzilla vs. Kong” will debut on March 31 simultaneously in movie theaters and on the streaming service HBO Max. The monster mash-up will launch internationally, where HBO Max is not available, ahead of North America on March 26.
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Looks like another boring CGI fest. Recently watched the original King King from the 30s and the one from 1976. Both were so much better than anything out today.
I really enjoyed that last couple of Kong films. I can take or leave Godzilla movies.
Gee, how original.
It is so comforting to know that a movie with such terrific redeeming social value is about to be released. P. T. Barnum was so right when he said a fool and his money are soon parted.
Thank you!!
I won’t be seeing it at home or in a theater. It sounds idiotic.
History shows again and again how Nature points out the folly of Man.
And Hollyweird.
From “Inglourious Basterds”
MAJ. KING KONG: Am I German?
BRIDGET: No.
MAJ. KING KONG: Am I American?
The table laughs.
WICKI: Wait a minute, he goes to-
BRIDGET: Don’t be ridiculous. Obviously he wasn’t born in America.
MAJ. KING KONG: So… I visited America, aye?
The table says, “Yes.”
MAJ. KING KONG: Was this visit Fortuitous?
WICKI: Not for you.
MAJ. KING KONG: . . . Hummm. My native land, is it what one would call exotic?
The table confers and decides, yes, it is exotic.
MAJ. KING KONG: Hummm. That could be either a reference to the jungle or the Orient. I’m going to let my first instinct take over and ask, am I from the jungle?
The table says, “Yes, you are.”
MAJ. KING KONG: Now gentlemen, around this time you could ask whether you’re real or fictitious. I, however, think that’s too easy, so I won’t ask that, yet. Okay, my native land is the jungle. I visited America, but my visit was not fortuitous to me, but the implication is that it was to somebody else. When I went from the jungle to America, . . . did I go by boat?
“Yes.”
MAJ. KING KONG: Did I go against my will?
“Yes.”
MAJ. KING KONG: On this boat ride . . . Was I in chains?
“Yes.”
MAJ. KING KONG: When I arrived in America . . . was I displayed in chains?
“Yes.”
MAJ. KING KONG: Am I the story of the Negro in America?
The table says, “No.”
MAJ. KING KONG: Well, then, I must be King Kong.
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hasn’t this already been done?
I have always thought the original King Kong from 1933 was one of the most stunningly original movies of all time. The clever special effects still look pretty good, IMO (at the time people thought they looked great). If they had simply confined the story to the trip to Skull Island it would have still been a pretty cool movie. But they bring Kong back and he ends up scaling the newly finished Empire State Building (completed the year before)! And even after all those innocent New Yorkers are killed by Kong, they still make us feel sorry for him at the end!
Add to that Max Steiner's music score. In the early days of sound movies, not all movies had music scores. I think Dracula from 1931 plays a bit of Swan Lake over the credits, and that is it. Steiner wrote a complete score for this 1933 film, including the tribal music on Skull Island. His music as Kong acknowledges his impending death and looks lovingly at Fay Wray for the last time tugs at the heartstrings.
None of the remakes have the originality of that brilliant 1933 version. The special effects are better, but that's it. When I watch the original, I like to imagine it's 1933 and I have no idea what I am about to see. People must have been amazed when they saw it then.
That informative post is one of the things that makes FR so great.
All of hollywoods movies are bombing thanks to the democrat party and hollywoods own actions. They will continue to support the democrat party as they get large tax cuts for the industry. They will of course support large tax hikes for everyone else.
These are the movies that subsidize the SJW dreck the Studios put out.
If there is one silver lining from the lockdown it’s that it hurts them.
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