He takes the material so seriously that its laughable. He introduces character arcs that dont matter in the ultimate finale. The dialogue is overwrought and sappy. There are way to many scenes that dont work and characters that could be combined or cut completely. The free floating physics of the effects take you out of the movie and just dont work because of how elaborate Jacksons action scenes are. This includes the boat scenes, the dino stampede and underwater scenes. The preamble should be 20 mins and instead takes nearly an hour before you get to the island and by that time you are done with the movie. Kong is cool but the bullshit surrounding him just bogs down the whole movie.
He had zero restraints on him after filling the LotR franchise truck up with a load of cash, and dumping it at the feet of his producers. They let him do whatever he wanted. It's more often a great way to kill a director, than it is to see what he's capable of.
Ryan Hall
Yeah, it seems that he is way too in love with his material. A studio would normally ask why there are so many scenes in the movie that could be cut and wouldnt ruin the flow of the movie. Jackson wants to include everything even if it isnt necessary. Im one of the few people that also feels the theatrical cuts of LOTR are better because Jacksons self indulgence and inability to portray dramatic scenes is shown more clearly in the extended.
James Walker
I know but I still like it and even watch the extended version even though most complaints are accurate. King Kong is fine the original is of course a classic although I don't consider it the best monster movie of all time. But it's definitely paced a lot better.
Brandon Anderson
I liked it.
Julian Cooper
I think you could do a re-edit of the film to make it better. That being said, the original does everything better in half the running time. You could argue the more sympathetic Kong is a nice touch but it just adds to how sappy the whole thing is.
Robert Adams
>giant worm insect attack scene
still one of the most disturbing sequences ever.
Jayden Hernandez
A lot better than the new Kong and Godzilla vs Kong.
Connor Campbell
It gets boring once they leave the island.
Evan Evans
lotr was successful because of the producers jackson is a thankless hack
Adrian Johnson
>feels the theatrical cuts of LOTR
Wasnt LOTR saved in editing? I think there is an extra couple of hours of the movie that is still not been seen by anyone including more battle scenes underneath Helms Deep and multiple endings cut from ROTK
Robert Carter
Not really but there are of course many scenes that were part of longer sequences that were never finished.
When it comes to giant monster movies America crawled so Japan could run.
Angel Smith
Pretty much though King Kong itself came 20 years too early and studios prefered gothic horrors that were much cheaper to make.
Christopher Ortiz
>getting filtered by an adventure movie about a giant monkey
Your parents really fucked up.
Hudson Gray
To some degree.
Zachary Jenkins
Low expectation having motherfuckers.
Aaron James
Arguments for King KOng 2005
>Just turn your brain off >ITs an adventure film with dinos >Im a retard with retarded taste
William Robinson
I agree mostly. Movie is good but it felt 90 minutes too long
Dylan Wilson
The preamble is kino, fuck you
Nolan Howard
Contrarian faggot opinion
Ethan Ross
spot on
Nathaniel Jones
It’s the best King Kong movie ever made.
Xavier Collins
I could watch the original twice in the time it takes to watch the shitty Jackson version.
Nicholas Nelson
>Contrarian faggot opinion
Everybody agreed with this opinion on release. The general consensus was 'GET TO THE FUCKING MONKEY!'
Nathaniel Green
> Everybody agreed with this opinion on release. The general consensus was 'GET TO THE FUCKING MONKEY!' What did these digits mean by this?
Charles Sanchez
>Movie is good but it felt 90 minutes too long lol
David Ortiz
lol, lmao. It's completely forgotten because of how shitty it was. No one rewatches it, no one rediscovers it. For a film that big this should've been a standard yet literally no one does it. People come back to the original version and will be coming back to many others, especially to the one with John C Reilly but Jackson's kong will be ethernally forgotten.
Nolan Collins
Wasn't even a bad movie. It also is at least in the top 3 of best movie-to-videogame adaptations of all time.
Luke Williams
>eternally forgotten >it’s the first thing that comes up when you type King Kong on google Kek the first movie is that bad, huh?
Gavin Ramirez
It gave us this absolute 10/10 though so I'll forgive it
> It's completely forgotten because of how shitty it was. No one rewatches it, no one rediscovers it. For a film that big this should've been a standard yet literally no one does it. > but Jackson's kong will be ethernally forgotten. The shitty new Jurassic park reboots copy and pasted the V. Rex design twice. The skull crawlers are basically the vrex face on two leg's. The shitty new Godzilla vs King Kong movie literally ripped off shots from this movie. > especially to the one with John C Reilly Literally nobody gives a flying fuck about that shitty movie. 0 staying power.
Cooper King
>it’s the first thing that comes up when you type King Kong on google based retard poster
Jace Robinson
>Kek the first movie is that bad, huh? The first movie is unwatchable.
Elijah Gomez
Not exactly a movie for people with ADHD.
Zachary Sanchez
>Not exactly a movie for people with ADHD.
Yeah, its for people missing a chromosome.
Leo Baker
>People come back to the original version That’s a lie, and you know it.
Blake Anderson
> He takes the material so seriously that its laughable ??? Because King Kong is supposed to be a comedy? Massive retard zoom zoom.
Lucas Brown
Because Jackson doesnt understand how to write a dramatic scene. Look at the Lovely Bones for more evidence. He took a good concept and treated it like Lawrence of Arabia but there wasnt enough material to justify it.
Colton Powell
> The preamble should be 20 mins and instead takes nearly an hour I like how it takes forever to reach the island. Helps establish the differences between skull island and civilization. And then it all comes full circle when King Kong is taken away from the island. Kys moron.
Elijah Diaz
>civilization
You mean the cartoon version of New York? Is it also civilisation that is being shown through the soap opera dialogue and hammy acting? Is civilisation in the pre-rendered backgrounds like the rest of the movie is? Is it in the side characters who ultimately contribute nothing story wise other than being fodder for the action? Is civilisation in the shallow viewer making baseless observations about a manchilds expensive fan fiction?
James Baker
that's dishonest and you know it
David Gomez
And it’s still the best King Kong movie. I feel bad for you.
The 33 movie is the best Kong movie and any other opinion is just the contrarian opinion of people with no taste.
Tyler Walker
That game was surprisingly scary to play as a kid, mad underrated too
Aiden Sullivan
> making baseless observations about a manchilds expensive fan fiction? Movie sets up civilized men for an hour, and the first thing the crew bump into when they reach the island are savages/uncivilized humans. In the jc reily movie, the indigenous people have a whole working civilization even though skull crawlers eat anything and destroy anything even bullets don’t kill them.
Jackson Johnson
Look, i know Jackson saw this as Apocalypse Now but with Kong instead of Brando. The problem is that any themes or motifs he was going for is drowned in his own self indulgence. There is no main character other than perhaps Anne but she doesnt but her arc has nothing to do with the pursuit of forbidden knowledge. Thats why they needed to exclude and combine certain characters to keep focus on what is important. They even set up Billy Elliott only for his story to go nowhere.
Angel Walker
> They even set up Billy Elliott only for his story to go nowhere. The movie is called King Kong massive retard.
Justin Garcia
I remember it being an exhausting slog for what is a story about a giant ape monster. The Simpson Halloween spoof is a better telling of the story and lasts about 2 minutes.
Carson Price
I like because the production values are excellent and Jackson doesn't make concessions, dumb it down or make inane references. Action sequences are particularly kino and visual effects are still excellent and much better than, say, Skull Island and other frankenmovies.
Yeah it was disappointing to watch this in the theatre. I can't really explain it either
Elijah Gonzalez
Sure. Jackson didn't resort to the midwit gimmick of burdening the movie w heavyhanded nods to other media, music etc all the time. That's bad filmmaking usually. He focused on telling a story and giving it time to be fully unraveled.
Isaiah Peterson
I saw the producers instead of this because the runtime was too long.
Hudson Parker
>Peter Jackson's >King Kong >The Official Game of the Movie Jesus Christ, kek
I loved how the savages triggered retards decades later. That’s talent.
Henry Lopez
There's a difference between taking something seriously and treating it as if it were some sort of sacred religious text that we should all be in awe of. Jackson did the latter.
Jordan Long
> King Kong isn’t sacred religious text that we should all be in awe of. This King Kong movie has nothing to do with those dogshit new king kong movies with capeshit tier cgi
James Collins
>In the jc reily movie, the indigenous people have a whole working civilization even though skull crawlers eat anything and destroy anything even bullets don’t kill them. The movie clearly explains that Kong watches out for the natives and acts as Skullcrawler pest control. They're usually not as active as they were during the movie, either, the army's bombing woke up a large number of them.
Evan Sullivan
Good for you, now react to what I actually said, because at no point did I mention the new Kong movies, you dipshit.
Jace Myers
i don't think i could re-watch the movie because of this all i see and think about are red rockets, and when i see dogs get excited all i think about is this scene
Leo Thompson
Fuck you, I liked it.
Jack Allen
> turn King Kong into Superman Brilliant. Missing the entire point if ‘33.
Hunter Nguyen
I like Jackson, but like all dorectors he's imperfect and only human. I think a lot of his childish enthusiasm is good but it needs somebody to cut it out later, which you don't get after he gained a big enough name to take control of projects.
Leo Roberts
Not everybody is a massive faggot like you.
Noah Baker
I watched this entire movie without any problem.
I almost fall asleep with Skull Island.
William Miller
Yes, because we can only tell one story with King Kong ever. Island, New York, dead, sad. Nothing else. Can't do anything else with him. Nope.
Juan Taylor
> 3 hour King Kong movie > a bad thing Op is gay confirmed
