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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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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.
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Perfect merging of Jackson’s love of 30s adventure romances & monster movies, the technological advances of Spielberg and Cameron, and the nasty genre movie playfulness he got growing up on Romero and Raimi. Has to be one the most beautiful, sentimental, and old-fashioned blockbusters (me every time there’s a close-up on the big monke’s eyes 🥺) that also happens to feature this many crushed skulls, decapitations, and a man getting viscously eaten alive by a giant worm. Still kinda crazy to me that the man who made Bad Taste and Braindead was ever trusted with this much money.
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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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kong was damn near gonna kill the entire city of new york just for some coochie
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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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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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70 Peter Jackson’s Snyder Cut. Nothing is left on the cutting room floor. You’d think that the 3 hour and 20 minute extended edition would add further characterization and dramatic beats but it’s mostly additional scrimmages with Skull Island creatures, as if it didn’t already have enough! Love how nasty this is. Truly a blank check epic. The scope of it is overwhelming but it doesn’t hold back. More than half of the movie is PJ and Weta Workshop going crazy with brutal dinosaur encounters and disgusting insects. That final third is brutal and emotionally devastating. Can’t say it doesn’t have tell-tale signs of where Peter Jackson’s filmography was heading, but there’s plenty of his early horror/adventure spirit in this movie, and that’s enough for me. All this and more on the podcast! 🦍 🦖 🛩
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The amount of crap overstuffing this movie is at the very least concrete evidence of how much Peter Jackson loved the original movie
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king kong fue mi primer celebrity crush
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Three hour King Kong movie shouldn’t work, kinda doesn’t work, but it’s still got this unique look and feel to it that I’m glad they gave Peter Jackson a blank cheque to make this dumb thing
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Still a great movie for a 2005 film…
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aight this one looking good
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No blonde has ever blonde in a film the way Naomi blonded in this film!
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Fantastic film🙏 So Much inspirations. One of the greatest collections of Commercial Cinema 🙏🔥
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Hello Adrien Brody
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“The eighth wonder of the world” This film was one that I used to watch on repeat at my nanas house and for some reason it never scared me I loved the scenes with Kong fighting the dinosaurs and all the other creatures of skull island I loved it that much that I even played the tie in game remember those. But now watching it as an adult I see so much more that the film had to offer First…
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DDiego F. Águila 8 月 21, 2026
De chico lloré a mitad de la película pensando que Kong había muerto, después me di cuenta de que solo estaba inconsciente y me sentí bien, luego murió…
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The hype must’ve been crazy at the time this came out, Peter Jackson fresh off LOTR trilogy adapting an iconic story. Weirdly most of this is actually pretty sub par. The first hour is so unnecessarily long and padded out. Middle section of the film feels like a pre-cursor to The Hobbit trilogy. A lot of wacky, very heavy CGI action scenes that don’t really resonate any emotional response. That scene in the pit with all the creatures getting them…
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Deuxième film Kong dans ma filmographie. Je n’aime toujours pas les kaijus, grosses bestioles et autres monstres. Mais par contre, j’ai vraiment aimé l’idée que notre grand Peter Jackson nous fasse un réel remake, point par point et à la même époque que l’original. Par contre, je n’ai pas du tout compris l’utilité des scènes au ralenti : j’ai trouvé que ça coupait le film. Et le choix du casting est fou furieux : Adrien Brody est un monstre d’acting.…
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Rrinrinfate 8 月 20, 2026
Loved the dinos
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this was my favorite film when i was a kid.so it will have a special place in my heart. :)))
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SSandra 8 月 20, 2026
this movie is very epic and very long
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Best King Kong
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Le gros signe qui tape des dinosaures c’est incroyable.
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“It was beauty that killed the beast”
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MONKE
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اناااااااا كينق كوق الفلم رقم 35 من August movies اهههخ اقسم بالله دمعت من الضحك والله اكثر فلم ضحك فيه بحياتي ماكنت متوقع اضحك كذا والله وبعيدا عن المزح والله الفلم دراميا حلو و فيه قصة جميلة يعني و ثلاث ساعات ونص وماتمل والله مو اي فلم يسويها و ايه كينق كونق اعلى من تقييم ايريش مان واقولها بكامل قواي العقلية 🦍9.3/10 مع الكونق عبود
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Already a fantastic remake that does its own thing while still being in the spirit of the classic film, but if that wasn’t enough, the final 20 minutes are some of the greatest filmmaking you will ever see, period, from the set design to the remarkable visual story telling, it’s peak.
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Sempre esqueço do ‘poder cinematográfico’ desse filme, mas não é uma crítica negativa. É absurdo de bom! Contando com cada trajeto narrativo, as sequências mais intensas até a sua decisão acertada.
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Carl c’est la version maléfique de Christopher Nolan. Le rythme est pas bien géré le film parait trop long et malgré ça les personnages ne sont pas plus développés que ça. Le 1v3 de Kong contre les T-rex masterclass. Encore une fois les humains de merde qui viennent déranger la paix d’un animal qui a rien demandé…
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Easily in my top 5. This movie is so good. Comfort movie of all time
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انا مش خروونق لا لا انا كييينق كووونق هذا اول فلم تابعته بحياتي واحبه حب مو طبيعي فلم اسطوري بمعنى الكلمة والمشكله لاحظت محد يحبه غيري وفريمات اخر نص ساعه كانت رهيبه وايقونيه بشكل فريمات مستحيل انساها والله حبيت كينق كونق اكثر بعد اعادته ثلاث ساعات ونص ماتحس فيها كونق/10
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LLRiver05 8 月 20, 2026
Rewatched the 2005 Kong Remake by Peter Jackson (extended cut). All I can say is that this is a perfect loving tribute to Kong’s entire history at that point and the peak of Beauty & Beast. Never has Ann Darrow ever been well developed like this. What more can I say about this film that hasn’t been said already, there’s a reason why the MV ditched Beauty & Beast for their Kong
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Still the best kong movie. Shame some of the CGI sections don’t hold up
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I watched this movie when i was a kid and I like it so much and also I could watch it many times more than one honestly it’s a good movie
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Awesome monster flick. The bug pit still creeps me out. I saw Norm and Barbara from Casey’s here!
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This movie is awesome I loved this as a kid. Peter Jackson could do no wrong in those days
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Is it weird that I kinda prefer the 1933 King Kong movie over this one? Also why in the world is this movie longer than Endgame?
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Tested out the HD-DVD player we found at Goodwill. Picture quality was amazing. It felt like I was in an alternate reality booting up a DVD player from 2007, almost like I went back in time Peter Jackson’s King Kong is so fucking cool. They don’t make shit like this anymore, not even the good looking movies of 2026 look half as good as this one does
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Top películas tristes de la historia. Amo esta versión de Peter Jackson, fiel a las vibras del cine de los 30’s y con secuencias memorables ya icónicas del cine Hollywoodense. Creo nunca he odiado más a la raza humana como en esta película.
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ME and kong got a soft spot for hot blondies🥷
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Adrian Brody always gets my socks off baby. Also Jack Black and a narcissistic selfish filmmaker who constantly fks over everyone is such an awesome choice in casting that it reminds me how good the man is.
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Fun to watch for the first time, but the run time did make the film drag for me as I felt the first and 3rd acts could have been trimmed to result in a much quicker and faster pacing as the middle of the film was where this was great. The usage of a movie being made to help add to this world with characters who were likeable and some that I found annoying in a good way. Overall, I give this film a 6/10 or 3/5 stars
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Sah vraiment très très bien, je m attendais pas à voir autant de dinosaure mdrrr
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I really do and always have liked this movie more than anything else that has King Kong
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Amo esta película, mi parte favorita es cuando pelea kong con los tiranosaurios, quiere tanto a Anne Darrow que la protege increíble, con manos, pies, garras y dientes, cono les arranca la lengua y soporta mordidas de esos animales; esta super esa escena
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I still think this is amazing. Good acting, great effects and the scene with the natives on Skull Island traumatized me as a kid….. Probably my favorite monkey movie.
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Sa fait plus de 5ans que je l’ai pas vu mais j’avais aimé.
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PTSD après avoir vu les insectes
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I did not think I would come out of this feeling bad for a 30ft Gorilla
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Chimpanzee News Giant, misunderstood monkey fella slaughtered by stupid Yanks has caused massive outrage among Karl Pilkington and primate communities, as well as a couple of tears shed by myself.
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This is like textbook the kindof film they rightfully talk about in video essays about racism, holyyyyyy. Think it’s ok to have very racist depictions of indigenous folks as long as there is a black crewman (who dies half way through the movie of course). And then they proceed to show even more racist depictions of indigenous folks near the end, critiquing racist 30s American culture, as if Mr. Jackson didn’t just do the same exact thing 2 hour ago.…
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Uma história envolvente que te prendi do começo ao fim, o único problema é que é muito longo e meio cansativo.
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Wwombin 8 月 18, 2026
rewatching this after so longgg. i remember the cinema being packed and a little humid from all the people, me and fam were in the front seats only 4-5 rows from the screen. everyone was so responsive like the whole theater reacting together. and i was just a kid, so blown away by how massive the screen felt and how loud the sound was. i’d go back and experience that night all over again in a heartbeat 💛
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King Kong is action-packed, visually impressive and well-performed enough to (mostly) overlook a stupidly bloated and criminally over-indulgent runtime where virtually every single scene overstays its welcome.
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3h de grand spectacle, d’aventures et d’émotions comme on en fait plus, une reconstitution du New York de 1933 impressionnante, une histoire super bien raconté, des scènes d’actions dantesques, un casting impeccable et une mise en scène maîtrisée par le grand Peter Jackson. Bref, un chef d’œuvre !!!!
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o ser humano é desprezível mesmo né
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Better than any LOTR or Star Wars movie and I’ll happily die on that hill (but I’ll be taking a lot of you down with me).
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The bit where Andy Serkis got sucked to death by the big sucky sucking monsters haunted me as a child
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графика супер но бляяяя не три часа очень теряется в размерных соотношениях в одном кадре гг ему в ладошку помещается а в следующем она уже по колено
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a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,…
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decided to revisit this after like 10 years and can confirm it caused just as much agony and pain and suffering after all this time 👍🏻
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Shoutout to the guy who kicked a raptor in the face while escaping a dinosaur stampede.
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So many ridiculous moments but it’s fundamentally a film about a giant gorilla smashing shit so who cares
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HOMBRE VER MONO GIGANTE PELEAR CON DINOSAURIOS, HOMBRE SER FELIZ.
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Racist af without any of the redeeming qualities of the original, plus the additional weird zoophilia shit.
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todos malos simplemente malos my king tu valías le pena
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A great remake of the classic King Kong film, with amazing direction, great effects that holds up today, and more fleshed out characterisation, yet I feel this film drags out quite alot.
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3.5 hours is a bit crazy, but the mix of nostalgia and decent movie aspects makes it somewhat worthwhile. “I’m the big monkey, RAHHH!!”
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PEAK NOSTALGIA (8).
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مهم ترین سوالی که از خودم پرسیدم این بود که آیا قراره این فیلم ارزش 3 ساعت و 20 دقیقه رو داشته باشه یا نه به نظرم جواب آره ست، این فیلم یکی از زیبا ترین ساخته های دست بشره، فیلمی سراسر هیجان و احساسات خیلی ازش لذت بردم و جزو معدود فیلم هایی بود که در موردش دلم میخواد حرف بزنم سکانس های تماشایی زیادی داشت اگه یه مانیتور 4K داشتم اولین فیلمی که دلم میخواست توش نگاه کنم همین بود درود بهت پیتر جکسون وقت منو تلف نکردی!
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Loved rewatching and seeing the bug scene again
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odiei que ele tenha morrido, o ser humano destroi tudo que toca
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Decent film, but I don’t know why this film needed to be 3 freakin hours long when it’s mostly generic action and melodrama…
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I haven’t seen this in a hot minute and mostly I just remember this being reaaaally long, and yeah it is. There’s no denying that there’s a lot of excess here, it takes like an hour to get to the island, there are a lot of scenes that repeat established ideas, and the scenes can move a little slow. Regardless, this still kinda slaps actually and I was sucked in. There’s a grand, theatrical quality here and a consistently effective…
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a luta entre o kong e os v-rex tem mais aura do que metade dos filmes de ação lançados atualmente.
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watched this with my cousin and she cried lol #hilarious
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Extended Edition Where AVATAR fails me with motion capture/story KING KONG succeeds. Better post MULHOLLAND DRIVE, interesting coming off THE ODYSSEY in how both share their road with perils, except in this story we capture the giant creature & bring it home. I like how visual/no dialogue so much of the action is, especially with Kong (Andy Serkis). I think what I admire most is the overall courage in the screenplay. Driscoll (Adrien Brody) risks everything for Ann (Naomi Watts), Carl…
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Probably the most ‘hell yeah’ film ever made
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when he’s just spinning around on the ice 🥺🥺 five stars underrated movie & did not realise this was peter jackson 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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Love an enraged ape story
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A movie so good even the licensed game they made about it was great too. Do you know how rare that was in 2005?
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it probably won’t be a surprise to anyone i know that i like the movie where the big monkey beats up dinosaurs and dudes get eaten by big bugs. i’m a kaiju girlie, y’know, i’m about this shit. i been about this shit. we smokin’ ray harryhausen claymation runts. the zaza got me movin’ at 24 frames a second. shorty built like she was designed by tsuburaya productions. this shit ain’t nothin’ to me, man. but i digress. weirdly i…
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You know it’s definitely aged a bit poorly due to all the CGI and there’s some moments on the island where the pacing comes to a standstill. Jackson does a pretty good job at capturing the heart of old adventure films and does a good job with a “modern” version of the King Kong story. I’d still take this over any monsterverse crap any day. Except for Skull Island that rules.
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Kong just needs a hug
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I felt this movie’s running time.
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Très bon film transitoire pour passer de ma récente période jurassic à ma période planète des singes 🙏 La première partie avant l’île est trop cool et bon un peu longuet au milieu quoi mais c ok y’a des dino et des combats
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this happened to me on my last vacation to North Sentinel Island
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This film was all surprisingly boring, exciting, and brutal. Everything involving the island is great, but the New York scenes are kinda meh, mainly due to the characters not being interesting to me.(except Kyle Chandler’s and Andy Serkis’s characters, they were great) Also those worm things in the spider pit scene still give me nightmares man.
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Honnêtement c’est fou comment king kong à full bien vieillit genre tu vois ça de nos genre et c’est beau Mais tout les autre effet spéciaux on mal vieillit. Sinon le film est bien en général il est juste trop long On ve se dire les vrai affaires, s’ils écoutaient les femmes king kong serait encore en vie
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20 years later, I finally sat down and watched this beast of a film. First caught it as a kid, and it still slaps. But that’s the magic of revisiting old movies you watch it through grown-up eyes, and man, it hits different. Let’s address the ape in the room: the CGI. Some shots still hold up hard. Kong himself looks straight-up killer even by today’s standards. The raptor chase, though? Yeah, that one’s showing its age. Also just found…
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King Kong me enseñó que no importa qué tan grande la tengas: ellas siempre terminarán con el poeta.
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It was beauty killed the beast lives in my head. But I think even Peter Jackson admitted this is too long and could use a recut. Absolutely love Skull Island even if some sequences seem to go on
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I may not be familiar with the original, but this was my first ever exposure to the story of King Kong, and I have to imagine this is a pretty faithful adaptation. The time period feels right, the tone feels right, and when we finally get to Skull Island, there’s some genuinely fun action. My biggest issue is the ridiculous amount of setup before we actually get there. There’s wayyyyy too much time spent establishing these characters and getting them…
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A parte da fossa com enxame de insetos e outra coisas ainda é uma fonte de pesadelos.
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Maybe it was a long run time that killed the beast
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Beauty killed the beast 🦍
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Saw this with my nana in ‘05. She took me to Walmart to get me an action figure of King Kong then dined at Long John Silver’s after. Good times, good times.
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La scène ou il shoote dans le dinosaure mdrrrrr
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Mon film préféré. Scénario incroyable, science-fiction, action etc… en plus SINGE 🐵🐵🐵🐒🦧🦧🐒🐵🙉🙊🙉🐵
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pointless
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A curious thing about Peter Jackson’s filmography is that so few film share a similar vibe or style than the other. Sure the first three films he made all share the use of comedy and gore, but after that most of his movies feel different from one another. Except this one, this truly feels like it was made by the same guy behind Lord of the Rings, and it’s cool seeing this “action adventure story on a fantastic voyage” in…
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Clássico da minha infância ( O jogo é incrível também )
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He ain’t go shit on me, that’s for sure. “Monsters belong in B movies” is a bold sarcastic claim predictably turned scathingly ironic. Jack Black is an extremely limited actor. He should not be cast in dramas. Naomi Watts gives some of the best wide-eyed reactions I’ve ever seen.
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Genuinely forgot how good this movie is, but man that bug scene creeped me out more than any horror movie
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Classic
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I need to say I hate Adrien Brody. But I also need to say physically, he’s so my type it hurts. Also, it took wayyyyy too long to see the diva, King Kong. I don’t want tension and melodrama. I want my sweet boy
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Last time I saw this movie was Halloween week, 2009. It was pre-Netflix streaming and the only things on TV were horror and King Kong. I was sick at home with swine flu and I watched this, commercials and all, twice a day for four days, and now I know I only remembered approximately 11% of it
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Me see naomi watts Me smile Me see good cgi Me give 3.5 stars
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I mean… It was just a movie until it turned so ridiculous i started laughing and enjoying it as a parody of the genre and then it made a U-turn and became so seriously unfunny that all my hopes of liking it crashed to the ground. Also WHAT WAS NAOMI WATTS’ AGENT DOING. This is 4 years after Mulholland Drive. That woman delivered the performance of the century and then she’s offered this role where i believe she doesn’t say…
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i would give it a 3 if not for the 5 hour long sequence at the island with DINOSAURS
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Seen a billion times never gets old
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Sehr cooles Abenteuer! Wahrscheinlich meine lieblings Interpretation von King Kong.
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dejen a king kong tranquilo:c
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Our Kong is here, here’s that jungle adventure feel but stretched into something more emotionally layered – the island sequence alone is a full film’s worth of ideas. Naomi Watts and the ape have great chemistry which should be very difficult but somehow isn’t. Jack Black is slightly miscast but committed. Andy Serkis as Kong through motion capture is quietly doing extraordinary work. Where it loses you is the runtime. The Skull Island section earns its length. New York doesn’t quite. Still the most emotionally complete Kong film made.
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Naomi Watts siempre con un trabajo brillante y Adrien ni se diga.
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The native ppl still haunt me in my dreams til this day
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Naomi Watts Movies Ranked: 1. King Kong 2. The Impossible 3. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) / (Rewatch Needed) 4. St. Vincent (Rewatch Needed) 5. The Book of Henry (Rewatch Needed)
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Probably the best remake out there, i do not think that this movie is as groundbreaking as the original, the 1933 version was clearly a once in a generation film it singlehandedly revolutionized special effects, and monster movies. The remake on the otherhand doesn’t feel too stale nor is it a shot for shot remake, it can absolutely stand on its own. The special effects are wonderful, performances are solid all across the board, truly the 8th marvel of the world.
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Watching this at a 11:45 PM Session with family in Lima was something of an experience. Even Cinemark went all out with the pop corn buckets. I also remember seeing the giant clock telling us how many days til christmas lol. But yes overall a fantastic first introduction for me to King Kong
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Excellent bit a tad too long
- Synopsis
- In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
- Director
- Peter Jackson
- Writer
- Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, WingNut Films, Big Primate Pictures, MFPV Film
- Country
- USA, New Zealand, Germany
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2005
- Runtime
- 188 mins
- USA05 Dec 2005
- Germany07 Dec 2005
- France10 Dec 2005
- New Zealand13 Dec 2005
- Netherlands14 Dec 2005
- Philippines14 Dec 2005
- United Arab Emirates14 Dec 2005
- USA14 Dec 2005
- UK15 Dec 2005
- Brazil16 Dec 2005
- North Macedonia21 Dec 2005
- China24 Dec 2005
- Egypt25 Jan 2006
- USA28 Mar 2006
- Netherlands24 May 2007
- Netherlands19 Mar 2009
- Netherlands07 Mar 2008
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