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monkey mondays #52

hits pretty hard as the final film of a yearlong monkey movie challenge. very happy and a little sad to wrap up one of the dumbest things i’ve ever committed to

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To quote one of the funniest tweets I have ever seen: did King Kong really think he was gonna date that lady?

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naomi watts: bitch, it’s king kong
king kong: yes, i’m king kong
adrien brody: this is king kong?
jack black: yes, miss king kong!!
kyle chandler: and i’m kyle chandler :)

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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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The truly underrated fucking classic *chefs kiss*

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why the fuck was this 3 HOURS LONG?????

Review by shay ★★★½

kong was damn near gonna kill the entire city of new york just for some coochie

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They didn't have to make Kong that dummy thicc, but they did it for us.

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Watched Peter Jackson's King Kong for the first time in forever. It rules so hard. This movie is extremely underappreciated and doesn’t get talked about as often as it should. An unapologetically melodramatic, romantic, indulgent, and a grand old fashioned adventure story realized with genuine artistic flair. Epic in every sense of the word, with a truly colossal scale to match. Every penny of it's crazy budget is shown on screen through stunning visual effects & cinematography. There are so many scenes where Jackson's horror roots are on full display, stylistically and technically. Also, that T-Rex & Kong fight sequence goes so hard, one of the best action sequences I've ever seen. A lot of people hate-circlejerk over its runtime, but it has excellent world building and characters with actual motivations and development.

They don't make 'em like this no more.

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God, I love this movie and I don't care who knows it. What turned out to be Jackson's last gasp as a filmmaker of true vision and excitement, which is all the more impressive considering he takes a limited and already-remade concept and strips it of its underlying racial metaphor to simply delight in the thing itself. But this just bursts with energy, from a well-defined human cast with across-the-board strong performances (even an arguably miscast Jack Black acquits himself well by turning his naturally buoyant energy into something curdled and mean) to its amazing creature designs. To this day I'm wigged out by the bug scene, with its glacial, almost oneiric scoring and the slow pace of the beasts…

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Probably Peter Jackson's most fascinating creation, and that's including the money-grubbing CGI craziness of The Hobbit Trilogy. It's a crossroad of sorts, dividing Jackson between his love for creature features and his desire for epic cinema. With any studio giving you anything you ask after making some little thing called The Lord of The Rings, of course you're going to go overboard, and that's what he did here, albeit less excessively than with the tale of Bilbo Baggins. The Spider-Pit sequence and the stunning conclusion give this one a for me, but the flourishing CGI attachment and the overwrought connections to unneeded characters marries this version of King Kong to something of a foreboding tale of a cinematic sellout. Peter Jackson, we miss you.

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There are moments where King Kong feels larger than life— the intimate moments between Kong and Ann or the bug pit— really showcase Jackson flexing his cinematic muscles. So it’s all the more frustrating to see it fumble through unnecessary detours and become distracted by its own scale. 

In so many ways, it’s a cinematic miracle exists, but I suppose it’s not too strange they gave the guy who did LOTR a blank check to do whatever he wanted, which ultimately feels like a blessing and curse.