I'm watching the *original* 'King Kong'

Nothin' else like it. Nothin'. :thumbsup:

I hadn't seen it in probably 20 years, and I was amazed to see the complexity of the special effects. The degree of integration was astonishing, and they did some remarkably clever bits of back-projecting. This is one of the films to which I really wish I could have seen the original audience's reaction.

I was also stunned to rediscover the range of emotions that Kong was able to convey. Not the full-sized biting-head model, but the stop motion figure. It really expressed confusion, sorrow, amusement, anger, pain, and a whole lot else.

I haven't yet seen the Jackson version, but I recall with horror the 70's remake. The only thing that it added, I think, is the sympathy that the female lead (damned if I can remember her name right now) feels toward Kong in the end. Fay Wray seemed to want him dead the entire time, but Jessica Lange's version injected grief into the character.

In the copy of the 1933 version that I saw, Fay Wray was, I believe, given top billing. Was this the case in the original release?

Out of three of us posters, TWO OF US may potentially be referred to as "O Rex."

I'm feeling a little left out.


*pout*

I doubt you could pass the initiation. :P