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Peter Jackson's KING KONG - 3.28.06

post #1 of 16
1/31/06 at 4:44pm
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Well, it's official - Variety confirmed it today.

Although there's no word on anything else other than the release date. Warner's KING KONG (1933) should also be getting a "re-rerelease" in a single disc edition without Jackson's RKO documentary on the same day.

You should also probably assume that it's going barebones first and Extended Edition later, a la RINGS.
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post #2 of 16
1/31/06 at 4:47pm
Four month window!
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post #3 of 16
1/31/06 at 5:08pm
Extended Edition? I'd love to see all the deleted scenes as extras, but the last thing this movie needs is more flab added back in.
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post #4 of 16
2/1/06 at 7:00am
This is probably why I haven't been able to motivate myself to see it in a theater again; I knew the DVD had to be coming before too long. Or maybe it's just because I didn't want to sit through the first hour again.
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post #5 of 16
2/1/06 at 10:09am
And apparently Fox is introducing a 2-month theatrical to blu-ray window. Wonder if this will apply to new dvds as well ?
Looking foward to Kong. A shorter director's cut would be welcome
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post #6 of 16
2/1/06 at 3:42pm
Why would a director's cut be shorter? Do you think the theater chains wanted the movie to be 3 hours long, and Jackson would have preferred less?
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post #7 of 16
2/1/06 at 7:26pm
The theatrical cut was the director's cut.

But I sure wouldn't mind a "Jimmy Can Go Fuck Himself" cut, to be perfectly honest.
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post #8 of 16
2/4/06 at 1:29pm
Christ, that kid was painful.
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post #9 of 16
2/4/06 at 2:39pm
The only film in history where I wished for a 90-minute director's cut.
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post #10 of 16
2/4/06 at 5:05pm
If ever one of his film's didn't need to be longer, it's "King Kong". Way too much flab, I'd rewatch the T-Rex fight and the scenes with Naomi Watts, but nothing else really impressed me.
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post #11 of 16
2/5/06 at 2:02am
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Originally Posted by Hewlett
Extended Edition? I'd love to see all the deleted scenes as extras, but the last thing this movie needs is more flab added back in.
I can just see the extended edition now.

"well, i felt the dvd needed the scene in which the bi-planes circle around and shoot kong thirty more times...."

ugh.
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post #12 of 16
2/14/06 at 2:59am
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Make sure you jerks read The Special Edition, since I need to drum up some business for it - but still, this is what you'll find inside:



Special Features are still being planned as we speak.
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post #13 of 16
2/14/06 at 3:35am
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Originally Posted by devincf
Four month window!
Can't wait. But only 4 months? Crazy. Feels like the industry is giving up... or giving in. I guess it's the way of the future. I can't fault a business for wanting to make money while it can. When a film does well, everyone's seen it and it needs a break before people want to see it on video. When it doesn't, interest will be high sooner rather than later. You can thank me for stating the obvious some other time.

Also, just curious, is "window" in this context an industry term? When refering to a span of time, I'm accustomed to window meaning the period during which something can happen, not the period that must elapse before something happens.
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post #14 of 16
2/14/06 at 3:53am
The movie, to me, is pretty much perfect minus the 20 minutes or so that get dragged out on the Venture with Jimmy. If ever there was a character that needed to remain another name in the backround, it was that kid. Also, the "Hearts of Darkness" scene was so incredibly out of place.

With that chunk cut out, I think a lot of complaints about the movie's length would dissapate. Oh, and maybe re-score the Spider Pit with some real music that fits the scene.
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post #15 of 16
2/14/06 at 4:21am
I never chimed in on the King Kong thread but i'm glad i'm not the only one who thought it was way too bloated.

I wanted to see King Kong but hadn't until a friend convinced me to finally see it. When I mentioned I wouldn't get the DVD he quickly said he would. I replied with " I'll bet you a 1000$ dollars you skip all the boat scenes and go straight to Skull Island. " he quickly got quiet and the debate ended on whether the movie was a good but flawed film.
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post #16 of 16
2/14/06 at 4:29am
You know, what bugs me about the Jimmy stuff is that all it needed was a final cathartic scene with him telling the captain something like, "I'm gettin' off this boat. I'm never puttin' out to sea again once we get home." 60 seconds or less would have done it-- as long as it would take to sell us a haunted look of having been through too much of an ordeal to go on with that kind of life. Because the Hayes character told him earlier that he shouldn't spend his life on a boat. Hayes' death confirmed for Jimmy that that kind of life could consume a man-- that was the intention, I think, although it wasn't made clear-- and all the film needed to finish off his arc as a second act character was a brief farewell like that. Then we wouldn't all be wondering, "What happened to that Jimmy guy?" for the rest of the movie.

Jimmy's part still wouldn't have been integral to the main story, but would have happily existed as a story within a story, rather than an incomplete story within a story.
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