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Well, they've started. Kong was shown this week in New York to most of the media and the reviews are starting to pop up. If you're daring and want to read one of them follow the link. It doesn't give...
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Quote:Am I just reading more into it than there is, or did that Boxofficemojo guy stick a really big spoiler in his last paragraph?No, Ann doesn't fall with Kong off the Empire State building...!"If I...
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Holleran's review reads as though he had made up his mind what to say about the movie before he saw it.
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Jacksons keen Kong is years best picture and a rare vindication of the remake imperative King Kong, which arrived in 1933 as a defining example of why moving pictures were invented in the first...
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Quote:(Peter) Jackson also has established himself as an artist who bears mentioning in the same breath with such acknowledged masters as Georges Méliès, D.W. Griffith, Orson Welles...!!!"If I had a...
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Walking away with, what, seven oscars for 'Return of the King' certainly puts him in close company with the likes of Welles.
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Harry's KING KONG Review! I was very terribly nervous, excited and anxious to see KING KONG when it unleashed upon the screens of Butt-Numb-A-Thon 7. The audience was primed, they all knew it was...
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"but I really do disagree with the portrayal of Carl Denham in the screenplay and as a result of that misstep " That seems to be the only real complaint about the screenplay. The above review is...
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I agree. The above review is brilliant. I saw the movie and fell in love with it. It doesn't diminish my admiration for the original one in any way. But the new one is a breath of fresh air. I just...
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The LA Weekly review was mostly a pan but had a few good points. I don't know how to post it here (wish I had a scanner) The Weekly is the LA equivalent to the Village Voice. The biggest piss-off for...
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Quote:The biggest piss-off for the faithful would be their reference to the 1933 film as "a B movie crudity." That goes beyond opinion. For a movie reviewer to say that is sheer ignorance.Legend, oh...
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The Weekly is the LA equivalent to the Village Voice. Enough for me to know that it's good for the parrot cage.
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Just to clairify something: I find Roeper to be extremely affable, intelligent and engaging on TV...but not so much as a columnist. On the other hand, Jim Emerson, the "editor" of Ebert's homepage,...
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Here's a good, two-person review by Howard Waldrop and Lawrence Person (terrific SF writers in their own right) on Locus Online
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A less the perfect rating in the San Diego Reader: www.sdreader.com/publishe...pherd.html I do not know if it will remain so I am attaching Duncan Shepherd's Kong portion of the review: "King Kong....
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Here's my half-fast drop in the KONG-review bucket: www.bumscorner.com/bumnuk...ent&id=370Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.
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Thanks for posting the link. You wrote a very comprehensive review. While the Ann/Kong tie was slightly overwrought, Jackson did a good job of showing how, on Skull Island, Kong was the lesser of the...
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Thanks! I appreciate that.Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.
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"Walking away with, what, seven oscars for 'Return of the King' certainly puts him in close company with the likes of Welles." Ah come on, we all know he only won the Oscars for that one because he...
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Quote:Thanks for the link... ...those ARE lovely giraffes. But...you weren't supposed to really go there instead! :(Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.
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