Posted on 08/31/2006 8:45:18 PM PDT by Hal1950
Well, Kong just wasn't the artistic triumph (or smash hit) everyone hoped for.
Jackson won armfuls of Oscars for Return Of The King... Kong didn't even get nominated for anything, and rightly so.
Despite it's impressive modern sheen, it was basically just a third re-telling of the same old story with no dramatic interest for the viewer.
Thanks for the info! I think the movie alteration can be forgiven -- otherwise, we wouldn't have had McQueen!
Wrong on both counts.
It was basically just a third re-telling of the same old story with no dramatic interest for the viewer.
Okay, scratch that. Wrong on all three accounts. I recall applause in the theater at the end of the movie, which I'd never heard before.
Kong didn't even get nominated for anything, and rightly so.
Ouch. Wrong on all FOUR accounts. It was nominated for best sound.
yeah but who could forget the grit that hollywood added with those American characters?
The focused resolve of "the cooler king"? The scenes where he just bounced that baseball for months on end to while away the bordom?
Hollywood did well with that. Its film classic
My grandfather took me to see the great escape at the fox theater in atlanta in i think 65.absolutely loved it and still do.McQueen helped make the flick and have been a fan of his ever since.
Spectacularly wrong. Despite being a remake, its take on the material was so filled with imagination and creativity, I found it to be one of the freshest and most original movies of 2005.
It's one of my favorite movies. Just perfectly cast.
PJ certainly did justice to the Greatest Novel of the Twentieth Century, I think he'd do fine with Dam Busters
French caption:
Largage d'une bombe cylindrique
Looks like a cylinder.
Andy Serkis will play the bomb. They'll use motion capture and CGI to recreate the effect of him rolling across the water ...
Most of Hollywood would root for Hitler nowadays, if it would bring down Bush. But Jackson is not like that.
BTW I am a Tolkien fan, those flicks were pretty good, too much left out, too much put in. I could understand the neccesity of the Liv Tyler put in parts, (Hollyweird romance scenes), but the SOB skipped half of the last book!
The 3 hr monkey movie, was a close runner up for the Nobull prize for curing insomnia. First prize still goes to Dune.
Yeah. Rule #1 don't even think you can improve on a classic!
Rule #2 Don't believe your own PR!
That's stupid. He wasn't trying to "improve" anything. The new one is a loving tribute to the old classic, which is Jackson's own all-time favorite movie.
To get this to happen, the bombers had to be flying at the right height, at the right speed, and release at the right time, all at once.
The bombsights were something out of the ordinary too-- IIRC they were jury-rigged together with floodlights and wood supports, so that when the lights intersected on the water (height OK), and some landmark (maybe the towers at either end of the dam?) were OK, AND the speed was right, THEN the release should occur.
They took endless runs practicing.
Source: my hazy memory, cribbed from Time-Life books on WWII.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Dambusters is the movie that Bog Geldof is watching as Pink in the movie version of Pink Floyd's The Wall. They show footage from the film (including keeping the dog's name n***er). In the DVD commentary, I think Roger Waters even makes a point to ridicule Americans being so defensive about that word. (which is funny since he's a grade-A lib).
DHF
Love tribute????? BWAAAAAAA!!!! Yeah right. Hollywood makes loving tributes. Hollywood makes remakes because it can't think up original storys like King Kong anymore, it was hugely popular, and they thought they could make it better! Only thing is that they made it more boring.
When I walked out of the movie with my 8 year old son, I asked him how he liked it. he told me that he liked the B&W one better. CGI does not make a movie, and with Peter Jacksons over blown, 1 hour too long epics, its clear he is more into himself then a good story!
Yah know, ever since the awful Pearl Harbor movie, I've been waiting for some aerial epics to be made or remade, fictional, like Sky Captain, or historical. The CGI aircraft were wonderful!
I have been VERY disappointed.
I am happy to see that Dambusters is being remade, but what about some action-intense movies? WWI, WWII or just plain fiction. Maybe a remake of 633 Squadron?
Something?
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