Posted on 03/02/2020 6:21:20 PM PST by Maceman
Already got tickets for me and a couple of my kids.
It brings back memories of their great grandfather so there will be tears along with the popcorn.
“That’s racist.”
Vinyl Lp’s, Film SLR Cameras, Edison Light Bulbs, and now, the ORIGINAL 1933 King Kong!
BTW,. I am posting this on a 10-year-old Mac Mini with an OS10.6, use a flip phone, and ride an Antique Harley.
And I am a happy old lady!
Looking forward to this!
The one and only. The best from Willis O’Brien.
How many of our products were Made in China, back then?
Someone needs to make a Merian C. Cooper movie.
He was the original “most interesting man in the world”.
Oh no. It wasn’t the planes. ‘Twas beauty, killed the beast
Faye Wray, Doris Day, Turhan Bay
Great movie, especially for 1933. I’ve seen it enough times already but I hope it does well when it gets back in theaters.
Mu h better than ANY of the remakes.
And it is still way better than anything Hollywood has produced in about the last five years or more.
“Vinyl Lp’s, Film SLR Cameras, Edison Light Bulbs,
All of mine went as FREEBIES on Nextdoor app!
Archive.org has a bunch of new films BTW.
Mostly “film noir”.
There was a recent change in copyrights.
It would always be on tv on thanksgiving in the NYC area when I was a kid.
I think Fay Wray was made in Canada...
TCM had piece on the movie. The “King Kong” skeleton was custom-made, and had almost every, if not all, joints articulated, and the fur was rabbit.
If you pay attention, you can observe the disturbances in the fur as the 22” model was posed for the stop-action sequences.
(One of my favorite Gary Larson cartoons had a guy munching on a burger in a diner with the caption “Did you ever wonder what NYC did with King Kong?”)
The modern King Kong reboot universe, meanwhile, is next headed toward Godzilla vs. Kong, a loose remake of 1962’s Japanese King Kong vs. Godzilla, which saw its release date pushed back to this November after the somewhat disappointing box office of Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
Its as disappointing as the last King Kong remake, special effects over story. Jackson thought he could make a better Kong and put his faith is realistic computer generated effects, and it didnt work. I remember taking my 10 year old son to see it. When we left I asked him how he liked it.( My kid was raised on TCM movies.) He turned to me and said “Dad it wasnt as good as the origina!” If your color CGI $275 million spectacular cant beat 80 year old B&W stop animation with a 10 year old, you got a problem! This has been Hollywoods issue since Lucus and Speilberg ruined movies, special effects over a story
When Fay Wray passed away the Empire State building dimmed its lights in honour of her.
I vaguely recall that now that you mention it.
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