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	King Kong (2005) Movie Review \| Peter Jackson \| Naomi Watts \| Adrian Brody \| Jack Black \| Bad Movies \| Cinema de Merde
		This film makes a point of avoiding that big first reveal of Kong, letting him appear in an understated way, and the effect is to spread that “wow” feeling at looking at him all throughout the movie, rather than blowing it all on the first shot.
		Where this movie is completely different is that this Kong is completely expressive [yes, we can argue that the 1933 Kong was expressive, but even so there’s no comparison to the range of facial expression here].
		KING KONG [1976] is pure cheese, but still kind of cool and can offer comparing / contrasting fun with this one.
	www.cinemademerde.com /King_Kong_2005.shtml (898 words)

	King Kong (2005) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		King Kong is a true spectacle of a motion picture.
		Furthermore, Black’s Denham is somewhat the selfish prick in the movie, but he is who he is in the name of his art, and for what it’s worth, Black is able to lend a little likability to the role.
		Kong’s battle with a pack of T-Rex’s is breathtaking, and the climactic scaling of the Empire State Building is absolutely stunning.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/archive/2005/king-kong.php (1603 words)

	King Kong (2005): Reviews
		King Kong is an homage not just to the original but to the history of movies themselves.
		King Kong may be a great movie event in a "Jaws/Titanic" sense of blockbuster impact and cultural talking point, but it is not a great movie.
		King Kong, a labor of love that's visually stunning and moving in its best moments, is also bloated, shallow, clunky, full of illogical scenes and at least an hour too long.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/kingkong (1806 words)

	"King Kong" (2005) / a review and/or comments from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		…Movies like King Kong are the movies that stick with people throughout their entire lives, and if we walk out of the theatre because of words which we hear everyday anyways then we are stripping ourselves of one of the most important tools for evangelism: common ground with non-Christians.
		King Kong tries very hard to dig up new content, so hard that each of the action scenes is so long you actually become bored, at which point he brings you another one just like it; one after another but each with a different creature.
		King Kong is the story of a Hollywood director who finds a map and, just before the studio has a chance to pull the plug on his ventures, escapes to Skull Island, an unexplored island that appears on the map.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2005/kingkong2005.html (8503 words)

	King Kong (2005) Movie Review - RopeofSilicon.com
		King Kong is a Universal Pictures release directed by Peter Jackson and was released in theaters on December 14, 2005.
		King Kong is an epic masterpiece with an emphasis on epic.
		King Kong is about the worst kind of love, unrequited love between a platinum blonde and a mangy beast.
	www.ropeofsilicon.com /review.php?id=57 (568 words)

	King Kong (2005 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		King Kong is the three-time 2006 Academy Award-winning remake of the original 1933 King Kong film about a fictional giant ape called Kong.
		Kong, with Ann, is attacked by a pair of either Venatosaurs or juvenile V-rexes.
		The fourth instance is at 01:30:05 on the bamboo stick King Kong is chewing on.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_Kong_(2005_movie) (5564 words)

	Amazon.com: King Kong (Widescreen Edition): DVD: Naomi Watts,Jack Black (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Despite the visual challenges of King Kong, the movie's most difficult hurdle is the budding romance between Ann and her simian soulmate.
		Kong himself is one of cinema's greatest creations, it is as though Jackson has brought him back to life after 70 years spent roaming in the two-dimensional world.
		King Kong, I would have to say, is one of the best films of the year.
	www.amazon.com /King-Kong-Widescreen-Naomi-Watts/dp/B00005JO20 (2573 words)

	King Kong DVD - King Kong Deluxe Edition DVD- King Kong movie
		In the King Kong Deluxe Edition DVD, it is 1933, and vaudeville actress Ann Darrow (Oscar® nominee Naomi Watts) has found herself-like so many other New Yorkers during the Great Depression-without the means to earn a living.
		The King Kong Deluxe Edition DVD is a visual masterpiece with a love story not to be forgotten.
		The King Kong Deluxe Edition DVD is available for a limited time only, and this 3-disc extended edition King Kong DVD features all new bonus content including over 37 minutes of deleted scenes and is the perfect gift to give and receive this holiday season!
	www.kingkongmovie.com (482 words)

	MMI Movie Review: King Kong - 2005
		This third telling of the "King Kong" legend is one part pulp adventure, one part sappy period romance with some Jack Black thrown in to keep the story alive.
		Overall, I can't get over how 'complete' the Kong vision of New York City in the 1930's is. "King Kong" is definitely one to see in theaters on the biggest screen you can find.
		As enjoyable as the new "King Kong" is, there's no surprises on the ride.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/kingkong-2005-pp-191093741.html (517 words)

	Movie Review for King Kong (2005)
		King Kong's not pulling any punches, and Jackson’s film is almost surprisingly brutal in the way people are smashed, shaken, shot, impaled, and in many cases eaten.
		King Kong has the opposite problem, and the movie’s most ambitious scenes are consistently plagued by flesh and blood, humans who don't mesh into the beautifully constructed backgrounds behind them.
		What makes these little effects flaws all the more frustrating is that the movie’s computer generated creatures are actually quite spectacular (Kong in particular, look into his eyes, he has a soul) on their own, it’s only that the actors interacting with them don’t always look as though they’re standing on the same planet.
	www.cinemablend.com /review.php?id=1271 (1259 words)

	King Kong (2005)
		Kong turns out to be a bit of a softy and, ahem, takes a liking to our blonde heroine before he is captured by the film crew and taken to New York where he is displayed in a vulgar stage show.
		But I suppose this what one gets when remaking a movie from an era in which racial sensibilities were pretty much different from our own and “natives” were in movies like this to simply lend an exotic and threatening air to the proceedings.
		A mixture between Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park at times, this King Kong is a rousing adventure: the teens in the audience we saw it with shrieked on cue, the smaller children fled the cinema on cue and my wife cried towards the end.
	www.scifimoviepage.com /kingkong_2005.html (665 words)

	King Kong (2005) - Movie Rental Review
		Kong shifts from scary (chest-pounding and roaring) to sympathetic; he is attacked brutally by men in tanks and planes, shooting guns.
		In Peter Jackson's KING KONG, the relationship between Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) and the giant ape is everything.
		While the movie demonizes the fl natives who throw back their heads and chant during their ritual to sacrifice Ann to Kong, it also offers a complication in the ship's courageous, sensible, and fl first mate, Hayes (Evan Parke).
	www.commonsensemedia.org /movie-reviews/King-Kong-2005.html (1033 words)

	King Kong (1933) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Kong is in his cave, just before he sets Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) in a small opening in the rocks, the head of the elasmosaurus can be seen surfacing and submerging in the pool behind him.
		Willis O'Brien is the man primarily credited with bringing King Kong to the screen, but in truth, Kong was the brainchild of Merian Cooper, a truly larger-than-life film producer, on whom the character of Carl Denham was modeled.
		Kong truly was the 'Eighth Wonder of the World' just as the Empire State Building was at the time considered the greatest technological marvel.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0024216 (1188 words)

	King Kong (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Right down to her emotional connection with Kong, which is helped by the fact that Kong is pretty darn lovable when he is not ripping apart dinosaurs.
		Kong was very appealing visually, as well as the other dinosaurs.
		In fact, I doubt I have ever said it but King Kong has turned out to be a masterpiece which will raise the bar for many years to come.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0360717 (618 words)

	KING KONG 2005 movie review
		This is a layered funny moment in the film, as the actual writers of this KING KONG created a filthy, crass, ship's crew - unbefitting of Ann's affection - and basically wrote themselves into the film as the hero and dashing love interest.
		But they are murderous and brutal and this marks the first Kong movie where the natives, who inexplicably begin murdering Denham's advance party, get shot up by the rest of the ship's crew.
		The tramp steamer is old and decrepit and at one point in the movie, the fact that the damn thing doesn't break up and sink is more unbelievable than a giant ape and dinosaurs in the 20th century.
	www.feoamante.com /Movies/Apes/KingKong/KingKong_2005.html (1756 words)

	King Kong (2005) - Hollywood Jesus Movie Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		King Kong and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
		That thought is at the heart of Peter Jackson’s King Kong, a contemporary adaptation of one of cinema’s greatest monster stories, itself a retelling of the Beauty and the Beast myth.
		Triple Academy Award® winner Peter Jackson ("The Lord of the Rings" trilogy) directs the dramatic adventure "King Kong," bringing his sweeping cinematic vision to the iconic story of the gigantic ape captured in the wild and brought to civilization where he meets his tragic fate.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /king_kong.htm (879 words)

	King Kong - Movie review at CantBarsed.com
		Kong himself looks fantastic and extremely real and it seems the CGI/SFX was pushed to the limit with one of the highlights being the ferocious but incredible battle where Kong takes on the T-rex’s.
		The movie got straight to the point and there was no messing around but with Peter Jackson’s talent, a straight scene for scene re-make was never on the cards but instead he decided to give all the characters including Kong dimension and depth.
		As a consequence Peter Jackson’s King Kong qualifies only as a good movie instead of an exceptional one, which is a shame because a lot of blood, sweat and tears has gone into this picture.
	www.cantbarsed.com /king-kong-2005-movie-review.htm (991 words)

	King Kong (2005) movie and trailer
		Three-time Academy AwardÆ winner Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) directs King Kong, bringing his sweeping cinematic vision to the iconic story of the gigantic ape-monster captured in the wilds and brought to civilization where he meets his tragic fate.
		The RKO King Kong has been designated by the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress as one of the 100 Greatest Films and chosen by that organization for permanent preservation as a national treasure.
		King Kong is produced by Jan Blenkin, Carolynne Cunningham, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson.
	www.robertkaye.org /m/king_kong (306 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: King Kong (2005)
		December 15, 2005 -- The latest “King Kong” remake is a worthy successor to the 1933 original, and greatly superior to the 1976 remake and most other versions of this classic beauty and the beast tale.
		The relationship between Darrow and Kong is more believable than the one between her and Jack Driscoll (played by Adrien Brody of “The Piano”), a playwrite turned action hero.
		Overall, the new King Kong is not as good as the original, but much better than the 1976 remake, and most other Kong ripoffs.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/new/kong3.html (807 words)

	King Kong (2005) Movie - MoviesOnline!
		Peter Jackson directs King Kong, bringing his sweeping cinematic vision to the iconic story of the gigantic ape-monster captured in the wilds and brought to civilization where he meets his tragic fate.
		Once there, they discover that King Kong is a real creature, living in a massive jungle where creatures from prehistoric times have been protected and hidden for millions of years.
		Ultimately, it is the attention of a beautiful woman that soothes Kong long enough for him to be subdued by the explorers and shipped back to New York, where his bleak future involves being put on display in front of humans...
	www.moviesonline.ca /film539.htm (297 words)

	King Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		the movie is a good cautionary example of what happens when its maker is too close to the material, who can't see the forest for the trees, the story for the ape.
		Kong has heart, and he's willing to show it in a movie made with wit, excitement and moments of visionary beauty.
		Peter Jackson's King Kong is all things cinema, in the hands of a clever but overindulged filmmaker.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/king_kong (1170 words)

	Movie Review \| King Kong (2005) Naomi Watts, Peter Jackson, Jack Black
		The result: a blood, sweat and tears movie; a true labour of love that, despite the director's supposed ill health, has won over critics and moviegoers alike, and convinced the world that CGI monsters can act, too.
		The supposed love between Kong and Ann Darrow is not nearly as convincing as it should be, and in fact I have very little belief that there was any love between the girl and the beast at all.
		The supposed "turn-around" scene is where she stands on a ledge with Kong, observing the sunset, and teaches him the word "beautiful".
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/king-kong.htm (768 words)

	Peter Jackson’s ‘King Kong’: A First Look - Holiday Movie Preview - Newsweek - MSNBC.com
		For Jackson, one of the biggest perks of re-creating "Kong," which turned him into a filmmaker for life at the age of 9, was the chance to do his own spider-pit scene—and this time show it to the world.
		Their relationship is poignantly drawn—although after Kong is dragged to New York City in chains, there's a scene on a frozen pond in Central Park that tilts toward the corny.
		To create Kong, Jackson reassembled essentially the same team that produced Gollum—a group led by visual-effects supervisor Joe Letteri and creature captain Gino Acevedo, who finally got to make use of the scrapbook of gorilla photos he's been keeping since he was a kid.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10216525/site/newsweek (1160 words)

	King Kong (2005) - Movie Synopsis, Trailer, Ratings, Reviews, Info - TEN Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Adopted from the classic 1933 film, this film is set in the 1930s, where film director Carl Denham (Jack Black), his leading lady Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) and his film crew, sail to the remote Skull Island to film his latest epic.
		The natives kidnap Ann and plan to use her as a sacrifice to the island's giant gorrila named King Kong.
		Carl decides to capture Kong and brings him back to New York City, but Kong escapes and is now out of control.
	movies.theemiratesnetwork.com /synopses.php?mv=898 (125 words)

	King Kong (2005) REVIEWS - Movie-List Forums
		I see that some of scenes used in trailer was not in the movie, like when they start to shooting scene on the island and Naomi creams or when somekind of water snake follow them when they are on boat (in the jungle).
		The movie itself is everything you want from a movie: escapism (that's why we go to movies for, right?); lots of action; a good story line; suspense; scary and gross parts; humour where it counts and a moving tearjerking ending.
		Kong opened to less than $10M (domestic) on Wednesday...and with mixed word of mouth, this may be a huge tank!
	www.movie-list.com /forum/showthread.php?t=13646 (1086 words)

	King Kong Movie, read articles and view posters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The new King Kong film is scheduled to open in theaters December 14th.
		Peter Jackson is going to remake King Kong and be as faithful to the 1933 version.
		CHUD has gotten a hold of just might be the official one-sheet teaser poster for Peter Jackson's upcoming take of King Kong.
	www.king-kong-movie.com /index.html (396 words)

	King Kong (2005) Detailed Movie Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		While Kong takes her deep into the jungle, Driscoll and Denham gather the crew and set out to find the kidnapped actress, while armed with plenty of firearms and chloroform to subdue the beast.
		Knowing Kong would come after his new female friend, Denham comes up with a plan to capture the beast to show him to the people of America, so he can make it up to the movie executives for being unable to provide a full film.
		Darrow finally makes her way to Kong, and after the two share an emotional moment on a frozen pond, authorities start the attack on the beast and Kong takes Darrow to the tallest building in the city.
	www.allwatchers.com /Topics/Info_33050.asp (651 words)

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