King Kong Gorilla Film of the Year

Dec 2, 2005
Posted by CrimsonLight

The first reviews are beginning to come in for King King. At first people said it is to long at roughly 3 hours.

Just over a year ago, Oscar-winning film-maker Peter Jackson stood on the mammoth Skull Island set he had built on a peninsula in New Zealand and told me why he loved King Kong.
Speaking about Merian Cooper’s classic 1933 movie, Jackson said: “The original Kong is a wonderful blend – probably the most perfect blend – of escapism and adventure, mystery and romance. It does everything an escapist movie should do: it takes you places you are never going to see and gives you experiences you are never going to have.”

Jackson’s words came back to me as I sat in the back row at the Loews Cinema complex on New York’s West 68th Street this week, watching the first screening of his new version of Kong.

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