smsemden

The 1933 King Kong was one of the greatest movies ever made and I had hoped the Peter Jackson remake would be faithful to the original. The special effects were outstanding and after reading complaints on how long the movie was I thought it went by at a good pace.

There were some scenes that should have been left out or modified such as the brontosaurus stampede, where if real, everyone would be killed and King Kong playing on ice as he was being chased.

As for the actors, Naomi Watts was great, Jack Black was OK but whoever cast Adrian Brody as a screenwriter ??? Jack Driscoll should be banned from movie-making. Jack Driscoll in the original was first mate and not a wimp. The actor who played the captain should have had the part of Driscoll. The following is not meant to be a racist comment but Blacks in 1933 working on ships were stewards not first mates.

Marien C. Cooper created a very tight and exciting movie that was better written and directed than this movie. Unfortunately Peter Jackson changed the premise of the movie where Ann Darrow was terrified of King Kong as she would be ,to an Ann Darrow who looked to be in love with King Kong ( thankfully there were no sex scenes ).

It is a shame that modern directors want wimpy male roles. Where are the Robert Mitchem, Lee Marvin, Steve Mc Queen John Wayne and Burt Lancaster types of real men? Well, we do have Harrison Ford, Denzell Washington, Russell Crow and Mel Gibson.

For the amount of work that went into this movie, it was entertaining, but it should have been so much better.

This movie, from Sonny Terry's opening harmonica to the guitar duel is a great movie. Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca and Jami Gertz were all very believable in their parts. However I believe the writers and especially the director were the most responsible for making this such a good movie. Little things like the nurse pushing Willie back to his room, the common sense of the bartender at the White bar, not making Francys a goodie goodie. Gretchen Palmer was great as the passenger in Scratch's assistant's car and the dancer during the guitar duel. This movie could have been very hokey but it was not.

Thanks to the IMDb I found the DVD.

It is hard to believe that anyone could take such a great book and and make such a terrible movie.

Imagine King Kong being recast as an organ grinder's monkey and Fay Wray's part being played by a young boy. How about Elton John as Rambo!!!!.This movie is even worse than the TV remake of The Night of the Hunter.

By using the title Watchers and Dean Koontz's name the makers of this movie should be sued for fraud by readers of the book who expected a reasonably accurate adaptation of the book.

Read the book, I have never talked to anyone who didn't like it. Another good book is The Winner by David Baldachi.