King Kong Review

When people look back at the year 2005 in cinema history, it will clearly be listed as one of the most lackluster seasons in well over a decade. Each month seemed to mark another big budget filmâ??s decimation at the box office leading the industries insiders to predict the impending death of the cinema experience. Just when the year looked like it was going to vanish with a whimper, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire stepped up to spark a cinema revolution and bring the audiences back to theatres. The special effects masterpiece, The Chronicles of Narnia, helped carry the revolution along with a monstrous opening weekend managing to almost completely revive the dying season. Well, if Harry is the fire starter and Narnia is the lighter fluid, King Kong is the forest fire that burns higher and brighter then any other fire in 2005.

King Kong is an absolute amazing movie in almost every aspect. It manages to combine a truly iconic character in cinematic history with a mix of both action and heart-breaking drama, to create one of the most visually impressive movies to ever grace the silverscreen. This movie not only stays true to the original classic, which absolutely floored audiences in 1933, but it manages to hold its own and will go down in history as a a must have film for every collector.

Peter Jacksonâ??s Kong is King.

Ever since he was a child, Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has been obsessed with doing a remake of King Kong. Even at the ripe old age of 12, he was thinking of ways to bring the monstrous ape to life. It wasnâ??t until his first real effects film, The Frighteners, where his effects studio Weta Digital was born, that he began to see it as a real possibility. While he originally made the Kong pitch to studios in 1996, he was unable to get any takers as he was still an up and coming director with his only critical success in the film Heavenly Creatures. However, when it came time to pitch a new movie, now with a multibillion dollar trilogy under his belt, he could have chosen to make a movie about watching Jell-o solidify and any studio in the world would have given the green light. He chose King Kongâ?Š

Once again teaming with his hugely successful Lord of the Rings posse, including wife Fran Walsh, Phillippa Boyens, Andy Serkis, and the hugely talented crew at Weta Digital, Jackson was poised and ready to make his childhood dream a reality. Armed with an impressive script that remained true to the original timeline and story of the Kong, this movie was moving full steam ahead.