1933, 1976, 2005...Yeah, I guess It's About Time For Yet Another 'King Kong' Remake.. - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 06-07-2011, 08:46 PM

Points to anyone who read that headline and remember it as one of the best accidentally-funny lines of dialogue in movie history: In the 1933 classic, King Kong's on a rampage, and a group of cops hear a calm voice on the radio, "Kong is making his way up Fifth Avenue...That is all." A giant ape is on the loose, isn't that enough?!?

But actually, Kong is making his way to the multiplex, again. Deadline Hollywood Daily reported Tuesday that Fox Animation will be bringing the movies' biggest ape back for a new CGI adventure, "told from the ape's point of view'" (which means, what, more banana breaks? A chance to sit and ponder that pterodactyl he wrestled from the sky?).

God knows, Peter Jackson's 2005 remake -- the second, after the 1976 Dino De Laurentiis-produced debacle -- didn't add anything special to the story, aside from a more human/ape-y performance from Andy ("motion capture guy") Serkis as Kong. Yet we have to wonder, will CGI do the big guy any more justice? Classic monsters haven;t benefited from the genre; animation didn't help Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame." And "Igor" a few years back was a bit brain-dead.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/sho...ue-that-is-all

MrCleveland · 06-08-2011, 05:00 PM

Great...an animated version of "King Kong"? Is there going to be a dancing banana?

Tweety · 06-12-2011, 12:16 AM

First they wait 40 years for a remake... then 30... now, 5.

Something tells me Hollywood is out of ideas.

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Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	1933, 1976, 2005...Yeah, I guess It's About Time For Yet Another 'King Kong' Remake.. Points to anyone who read that headline and remember it as one of the best accidentally-funny lines of dialogue in movie history: In the 1933 classic, King Kong's on a rampage, and a group of cops hear a calm voice on the radio, "Kong is making his way up Fifth Avenue...That is all." A giant ape is on the loose, isn't that enough?!? But actually, Kong is making his way to the multiplex, again. Deadline Hollywood Daily reported Tuesday that Fox Animation will be bringing the movies' biggest ape back for a new CGI adventure, "told from the ape's point of view'" (which means, what, more banana breaks? A chance to sit and ponder that pterodactyl he wrestled from the sky?). God knows, Peter Jackson's 2005 remake -- the second, after the 1976 Dino De Laurentiis-produced debacle -- didn't add anything special to the story, aside from a more human/ape-y performance from Andy ("motion capture guy") Serkis as Kong. Yet we have to wonder, will CGI do the big guy any more justice? Classic monsters haven;t benefited from the genre; animation didn't help Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame." And "Igor" a few years back was a bit brain-dead. http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/sho...ue-that-is-all
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