[tonyblue]

you go to see king kong and watch a movie that includes a 25ft tall gorilla,dinosaurs,a mysterious lost island inhabited by even more mysterious natives. if disappointed,what were you hoping to see?
isn't it suposed to be a purely fantasy based movie? did anyone compare the matrix to real life? yes a couple of scenes let the movie down but thats a matter of personal taste for the directors.
as for the cgi effects lets not forget that there was a budget(albiet large) and time constraints. to make the perfect monster movie you'd have to market research 1000's of people, have an unlimited budget and limitless time in which to make the film.
and on the subject of film length,again down to personal taste. myself i like a movie to be long. 1 1/2 hrs is over and done with in the blink of an eye.no sooner does the story begin,it ends.

[Juno Beach]

What did I want? Less roll my eyes, "c'mon they can't expect me to buy this" moments. Like a 3 friggin hours long monster movie. Like Naomi Watts not having a scratch on her when she would have a broken neck the way Kong was running with her. Like a boat that hits rocks without it ripping the hull out of it. Like natives that looked more like Orc extras than humans. Like people running under a dinosaur stampede being chased by raptors. Like a Oympic-worthy pole-vaulting native that happened to know Naomi's cabin number. Like a monster (KK) who changed size depending on the surroundings. Like Kong fitting on that tramp steamer. Like buddy shooting bugs off Adrian Brody with a '30s era rifle with the accuracy of a champion skeet shooter. Like their mountain climbing abilities (remember the size of that cliff? - it would take a Sherpa a week to climb it). Like dinos that think humans are just the yummiest thing EVER! (case in point - dinos fighting Kong for an hors d'ouerve like Naomi Watts or raptors disregarding thousands of pounds of Brontosaurus meat to get at Jack Black and the guys). I can go on and on and on. That's just some of the crap in the first two hours of this mess. No, I expected much more from King Kong, aka the Running, always Running movie.

[tonyblue]

i would agree with your point of view if king kong were suposed to be an entirely serious film,but it isn't. it's a movie that takes you on a ride through fantasy,thus not everything has to be explained.
after all peter jackson was updating(if you like) the original movie for the 21st century. if you watch the original version many of the same errors? are also there.

[Juno Beach]

Originally Posted by tonyblue

i would agree with your point of view if king kong were suposed to be an entirely serious film,but it isn't. it's a movie that takes you on a ride through fantasy,thus not everything has to be explained.
after all peter jackson was updating(if you like) the original movie for the 21st century. if you watch the original version many of the same errors? are also there.

NOBODY thinks KK was supposed to be an entirely serious film. Or even a serious film.
If you update something, shouldn't you endeavour to improve on it and not include the same mistakes?

Calling something fantasy does not give a film carte blanche to do whatever it wants. You can't go "Let's have them run under the legs of a dinosaur stampede - won't that look cool?" if in real life people would be trampled to death in a stampede of bloody cows. The ideal here is to make the fantasy as believable as possible.

[tonyblue]

interesting points. if you had been charged with remaking KK how would you have done it?

[Juno Beach]

Actually, I don't think I would.

[phenom1980]

Juno Beach according to your previous statements you must really hate the following movies.

Jurassic Park-raptors were only three feet tall. a piece of glass held back a t-rex. I don't think so.
Jaws-the shark in this film is nearly twice the size of a real white shark. and the tank in the sharks mouth would not explode.
mission impossible 2-when tom cruise and dougray scott collide after jumping off the bikes they'd both be dead.
Face/Off-trying to look like someone else by trading faces wouldn't work because if you put someone elses face on your skull you would have a face that is niether yours nor his.
Spider-Man-his webbing sticks to everything but himself.
Superman-you can't catch somebody just before they hit the ground. they'll die.

it's called, "suspending disbelief" it's what you should do every time you walk into a theater. If you don't, then you might as well stay at home.