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07-26-2021, 06:02 PM | #11 |
Cobra Viper
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Man do I feel like a simpleton for just wanting to see big monkee lol
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07-26-2021, 06:33 PM | #12 |
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Kong is a really big deal. Before Star Wars it was pretty much the ultimate sci-fi fantasy movie for geeks. The glorious thing about Peter Jackson's Kong is that he was a massive lifelong Kong fanboy who got to bring his passionate vision to the screen. It's just the kind of thing we're missing from the Joe movies. We don't have a Joe fanboy in charge of them and it shows. The director of Skull Island, to hear him talk, he wasn't interested in a Kong story at all until he thought about making it a hybrid to Apocalypse Now and Platoon.
Jackson's Kong vs V-Rex fight still seems to be the most viewed Kong clip on YouTube if you add up the different versions of it. Universal just posted a 6-minute one last year that has 199 million views. Shorter versions have 137m and 97m views. The Kong/V-Rex fight is still one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. |
07-26-2021, 06:52 PM | #13 |
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I'm not buying it. I passed on buying Ghostbusters 2016, Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla vs. Kong too despite owning other movies in the series (saw the latter two in the theaters and disliked them). The most important defining category for my collection has to be 'stuff I like.' Completism based on a brand name means I'm spending money on and filling my home with stuff I don't like, which is as wasteful as it gets. Bad for my wallet, my home, the environment, you name it. And sends the wrong message to the corporations who made the stuff I don't like.
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07-26-2021, 10:49 PM | #14 |
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Well, I love the original Kong and Peter Jackson's 2005 one. With Skull Island, they inserted a bunch of politics into the movie to its detriment. They very transparently turned the whole thing into an on-the-nose, preachy Vietnam allegory, setting it in the '70s and even showing a Nixon bobblehead. Not stuff any of us should be asked to think about while we're there to enjoy something that was always a pure fantasy story. It diminishes an imaginative fairy tale into a topical, dated plot. There was no reason at all to set the movie in the '70s, considering we already had a Kong movie made in that era. It shows a terrible lack of interest in the subject matter. If you get to go to Skull Island as a writer and all you can think about is Vietnam, you're the wrong person to make the movie. Compare to the subtext in the other Kongs where it's about a man making a movie, and you get a movie-within-a-movie plot that underlines how they were trying to make Kong into one of the greatest movie spectacles of all time. So you're thinking about filmmaking and film history as you watch it, which helps you appreciate the movie on another level.
They turned the natives into a silly joke rather than someone who added to the threat of the island. The movie had a washed-out, sepia look that goes against the lush landscapes Kong movies always tried to portray. The monsters and the kills were mostly unimpressive. Kong was very weakly developed. He didn't have the imposing movie monster qualities of the original and he didn't have the sensitive, human-like qualities of Peter Jackson's. Most of the scenes with him seemed like pale imitations from other Kong movies. All the human characters were forgettable. The final battle was fine, but that's the only part I liked. I think Kong worked better as a character in Kong vs. Godzilla. Using sign-language to connect with him in the modern world was a good idea. But overall the humans were way too involved in driving the action in that one. And some of the human characters were terribly annoying. And the effects got really bad near the end. Just think how in Jackson's Kong, the monster is fully motivated by protecting the human he's fallen in love with. The humans don't have to push a button on an electronic device to make him do things. The story is so much deeper and meaningful and not full of artificial gimmicks. |
07-27-2021, 08:05 PM | #15 |
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4K and Blu-ray preorders are up at Amazon. And there's a Steelbook option plus 3 movie collection option.
4K Steelbook https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...f_=as_li_ss_tl 4K Blu-Ray https://www.amazon.com/Snake-Eyes-G-...f_=as_li_ss_tl 3 Movie Collection https://www.amazon.com/Snake-Eyes-Or...f_=as_li_ss_tl |
07-27-2021, 10:50 PM | #16 |
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Why would they package the 3 movies together when they are trying so hard to separate their failed reboot from the first two pieces of garbage..
It's like buying two Sigma Six Episodes and an episode of Sgt. Savage.. Well.. Actually... even those would have made better movies than the first 3 we got... Come on Hasbro! |
07-27-2021, 11:53 PM | #17 |
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Why would they package the 3 movies together when they are trying so hard to separate their failed reboot from the first two pieces of garbage..
It's like buying two Sigma Six Episodes and an episode of Sgt. Savage.. Well.. Actually... even those would have made better movies than the first 3 we got... Come on Hasbro! 2. Paramount is doing the 3 package deal and including Snake eyes for marketing and brand appeal. The hope is that they can milk yet a few more dollars from Rise of Cobra and Retaliation by bundling them with the newest film featuring the brand. Same reason Bumblebee is included in various Transformers collections, despite being a reboot much as Snake Eyes is. Expect a Top Gun and TG: Maverick two pack when THAT film eventually goes to home video sales.
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07-28-2021, 03:38 AM | #18 |
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Jackson's Kong vs V-Rex fight still seems to be the most viewed Kong clip on YouTube if you add up the different versions of it. Universal just posted a 6-minute one last year that has 199 million views. Shorter versions have 137m and 97m views. The Kong/V-Rex fight is still one of my favorite movie scenes of all time.
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07-28-2021, 10:55 AM | #19 |
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I'm not buying this movie. I didn't go see it. I hate the synopsis. I do not like some of the choices, hell, many of the choices made. So. No thanks.
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07-28-2021, 11:06 AM | #20 |
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I chose to give it a chance and went to see it in the theatre. To paraphrase the line in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,”I chose poorly.”
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