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Summary: A LANDMARK FILM AND ONE OF THE GREATEST EVER MADE
Review: KING KONG in 1933 set the movie-going world afire with its fierce creativity and innovation, and is just as fascinating today on multiple levels. Steiner's score was revolutionary, and Willis O'Brien's copious realistic animation effects were absolutely inspired. A realistic and quite violent Depression-era adventure film which is often mistakenly lumped into the category of fantasy films, this movie has little in common with the cuter and largely benign films about mythical heroes and Greek gods. In the uncut version of this film, people get killed in a variety of unpleasant ways. The screams of the sailors eaten by a brontosaur and dumped by Kong into a deep ravine, natives stomped into the earth and a woman dropped upsidedown from a skyscraper, prove this was serious business in 1933.Homages to this film are now regularly slipped into other movies, demonstrating that KONG is the seminal landmark. The movie has countless testimonials to its credit for having changed awestruck viewers' minds and lives, including that of O'Brien's prolific disciple Ray Harryhausen. KING KONG stands head and shoulders above everything that came before and after in the genre, and deserves to be seen as the historic original that it is thanks to a combination of talents (Cooper, O'Brien, Steiner et al) working at the top of their game.
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Summary: It sure was swell!!!
Review: I think King Kong is really swell. It is really boss. I like the part when King Kong eats the native.
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Summary: THE FAMOUS "SPIDER" SCENE!!!!!!
Review: In April KONG fans can see what they're waiting for, The scene in which kong shakes the sailors off the tree (already included) And then an army of giant insects eat the wounded sailors. This is my second favorite movie, behind only "Dawn of the Dead"
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Summary: The True King of Monsters.
Review: Forget the bad 1976 remake! The 1933 version of King Kong simply cannot be beaten. The stop motion animation of Kong is fantastic and the acting and story are as fresh as they were all those years ago. The sound track is great with some truly excellent music. A classic.
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Summary: MY ALL TIME FAVORITE SCI-FI/HORROR!
Review: COULD SOMEONE PLEASE EMAIL ME AND TELL ME WHY THE US WOULD RELEASE A GODZILLA AND NOT THIS GREAT BEAST CALLED KING KONG? THIS KING IS AWESOME AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A GREAT HIGH TECH RE-RELEASE WITH A VERY ACTION PACKED ADVENTURE THEME LIKE THE LOST WORLD.BUT....HAVE THE KING LIVE AT THE END AND NOT NUCKED!!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE DISNEY'S JOE YOUNGCOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY THEY HAVE NOT ATTEMPTED TO EVEN TRY TO RELEASE KING KONG ONTO DVD?????NOW I AM REALLY WAITING ON THIS TITLE TO HIT DVD WITH THE STOP MOTION ANIMATION TECHNIQUES AND INTERVIEWS, THE MAKING OF THE MOVIE AND ACTORS BIOS.WELL, THAT IS ALL FOR NOW.....
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Summary: THE GREATEST MONSTER MOVIE EVER MADE
Review: Well. Everyone says it. And it`s true. IT IS the greatest horror monster film ever produced. Produced in 1933 by RKO/David O. Selznick(of Gone With the Wind fame)it is surprisingly fresh 65 years after its premiere. The sound is outstanding and so is the music and photography. Fay Wray is NO match for Jessica Lange, so THERE. She is a great screamer, but too stereotyped. Bruce Cabot is good in a James Bond-way. How- ever; KONG is not that great in his close-ups, you don`t feel sorry for him in the end. In the 1976 version you gain sympathy for the monster. However, be SURE to get the original version in which Kong stamps on people and eats them up.
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Summary: The most realistic of the All
Review: The movie industry has outdone itself in this classic Movie. The Beast was as real looking as the Star herself, Fray Wray. This has become my all time fwavorite. Keeps you on the edge of your seat.
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Summary: What really happened to the 2nd Avenue el!
Review: Interpretations--psychological, anthropological, social, evolutionary, racial--abound about 1933's KING KONG. "King Kong is about our inner animal of rage", "King Kong is a critique of man in modern urban times", "King Kong is about technology killing our true nature..." Ad infinitum, ad nauseum. PUH-LEASE! KING KONG is simply a great story, perfectly directed, with the best animation techniques for its time. While the acting (by humans) is admittedly the weakest link in this film, it has so much else going for it, like suspense, horror, pathos, love, and tragedy. King Kong, the animal, is complex and there are different emotions we experience about him. We don't like him when he gobbles up people or smashes the 2nd Avenue el (an incredible scene!). We admire him for trying to save Fay Wray from the flashbulbs. And we feel incredibly sad when he's killed. Why? I think it's because we see him as a human, at least of having human qualities. But to extend that to some deeper, intellectual level is pointless. It's just an amazing film. Last comment: The film also has some humor. As a New Yorker, I love the dialogue between the two women at the theater, waiting to see King Kong. Girl one: "Hey, what's this show about, anyway?"
Girl two: "I don't know. Some big gorilla."
Girl one: (after a clod accidentally steps on her toe): "Aw. Ain't we got enough of them in New Yawk?" I can't get enough of this classic film.
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Summary: i have the spider scene-warner does not want to pay
Review: the scen in question is 1:37.its not in great shape and 16mm.but with allthe technical advances it can be fixed. but warners does not want to meet my price.
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Summary: FIRST LESSON: KING KONG 101
Review: How many KING KONG movies are there in total? Here is a complete list of the official licienced films and a list of the illegal rip-offs also.
#1 KING KONG (1933)
#2 SON OF KONG (1933)
#3 KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962/63)
#4 KING KONG ESCAPES (1967/68)
#5 KING KONG (remake 1976)
#6 KING KONG LIVES (1986)
#7 THE MIGHTY KONG (animated musical remake 1998)
#8 KING KONG (remake 2005/6)
Kong also appeared in THE KING KONG SHOW (1966-67), a saturday morning cartoon and more recently in "KONG" an animated series on TV.
and the rip off movies....
#1 KING KONG APPEARED IN EDO (1935 a lost japanese film, possibly the first Japanese monster film ever made, a tragic loss. Kong, or his ancestor, attacks the capital city in ancient Japan.)
#2 KONGA (1962) A British chimp is transformed into a giant ape by a mad scientist and attacks London.
#3 THE MIGHTY GORGA (1969) A guy in a gorilla suit battles a hand puppet T-rex. Awful but fun. at least they don't call him KONG.
#4 KING OF KONG ISLAND (1970?-AKA KONG ISLAND and KING OF KONG'S ISLAND No giant apes in this one. Just regular sized ones and ,in the euro version only, a bare naked jungle girl. There is a scientist but no "king", lots of apes on the lose but no "KONG" to be had. And it takes place on the continent of Africa. The largest continent on earth can hardly be considered an island.))
#5 QUEEN KONG (1974- a British comedy.)
#6 SUPER KONG (1976- AKA A*P*E, APE, KING KONG VS. JAWS, KING KONG VS. THE SHARK, HIDEOUS MUTANT, KING KONG GOES APE, KING KONG GOES BANANAS, SUPER APE, SUPER KING KONG,
3-D MUTANT, KING KONG AGAINST THE U.S.A. (and sometimes refered to as ATTACK OF THE GIANT HORNEY GORILLA) A giant ape attacks Korea and battles a giant shark. Semi comedy/ semi serious delivery makes this a very confusing movie.Characters refer to the ape as KING KONG in a kind of half joking "we dont want a lawsuit", half serious "this will confuse the audience just enough" kind of way. This was shot in 3-D but not shown that way in the US. At the climax KONG dies while puking blood at the camera.
Most prints had the title card removed so theatre owners could call it whatever they liked. No joke.
#7 GOLIATHON- THE MIGHTY PEKING MAN (1977- chinese) This is really an homage to KING KONG, TARZAN, SHEENA ,JUNGLE JIM and other classic adventure movies. Its really quite good actually with a distinctly asian looking giant ape man. And a truly beautiful jungle girl.
#8 KING DONG (198? a porno. An edited, no sex, 20 min version has shown up at conventions.)
#9 ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET KING KONG (194?) This is just a retitling of the movie AFRICA SCREAMS that was sold on VHS in the early 80's. The tape was dropped after a law suit was threatened. But the movie, by any name, does feature a giant gorilla.
#10 WHERE TIME BEGAN (1975?) This film version of Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH features a pretty good giant gorilla and some killer dinosaurs and a few fanged (?) turtles. (Perhaps a distant relative to Gamera.)
#11 YETI- GIANT OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1979) a very weird italian film about a 28 foot hairy abominable snowman who goes on the lose in a city. Some scenes were copied directly from GOLIATHON oddly enough. Very peculiar.
#12 WANGMAGWI- THE GIANT MONSTER (197? Korean) Aliens attack Korea with a giant Monkey/Gorilla.
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