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Posted: Nov 17 2006 06:22 pm

Thank GOD they came out with this DVD. King Kong was waaay too short.

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You put it elegantly sir, thank you.

My version would have involved a great deal of capitalization and swearing.

Posted: Nov 17 2006 08:24 pm

King Kong was one of the most meandering, hard to follow, badly directed and unengaging films I think I've ever seen in my life.

Posted: Nov 17 2006 08:33 pm

Special effects aren't special if they're overused, and this DVD boasts that it has MORE OF THEM!!! Shocked

Posted: Nov 17 2006 08:59 pm

I liked that movie, but damn is peter jackson a glutton for moviemaking. Did we need the dinosaur stampede? Or hows about the extended 20 minute death sequence?

Posted: Nov 17 2006 11:01 pm

It's 38 minutes longer making the film about 3 and a half hours (from the time given on the back of the box). I'm interested, because I must see the longer versions of every film ever made, but at the moment it's back behind "Ali" and "Kingdom of Heaven" on my to watch list.

I actually didn't hate "King Kong" and liked it a hell of a lot more than "The Two Towers", but there will never be another "The Frighteners" Crying

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i thought kong was excellent.

Posted: Nov 18 2006 02:38 am

Tebor wrote:

It's 38 minutes longer making the film about 3 and a half hours (from the time given on the back of the box). I'm interested, because I must see the longer versions of every film ever made, but at the moment it's back behind "Ali" and "Kingdom of Heaven" on my to watch list.

Does that mean you have sat through the 4 hour director's cut of Dune?*

I tried once, but kept falling alseep.

*I mean the 1984 David Lynch one, not the recent SCI-FI channel miniseries.

Posted: Nov 19 2006 10:57 pm

Knyte wrote:

Tebor wrote:

It's 38 minutes longer making the film about 3 and a half hours (from the time given on the back of the box). I'm interested, because I must see the longer versions of every film ever made, but at the moment it's back behind "Ali" and "Kingdom of Heaven" on my to watch list.

Does that mean you have sat through the 4 hour director's cut of Dune?*

I tried once, but kept falling alseep.

*I mean the 1984 David Lynch one, not the recent SCI-FI channel miniseries.

Dune (Lynch) haven't gotten around to it.
Dune (TV) - haven't gotten past disc 2. Lynch's theatrical version is way better.

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how long do all the extended LOTR films clock in at?

Posted: Nov 20 2006 09:40 pm

JEW wrote:

how long do all the extended LOTR films clock in at?

According to the back of the Extened Edition Box Set:
654 minutes

So, almost 11 hours, though, that may include all the special features and stuff too.

Posted: Nov 21 2006 12:40 am

2 things they added to LoTR III strike.

1. An orc dropkicking another orc for petty reasons.

2. The guy who pilots the ornithopter in MAD MAX as the mouth of sauramon, being extremely nasty.

Maybe the king kong movie will be improved by the presence of cut scenes. But usually scenes are cut because they make the movie to long, and king kong was already too long. To add anymore would be so wrong.

Posted: Nov 21 2006 12:42 am

Knyte wrote:

So, almost 11 hours, though, that may include all the special features and stuff too.

The difference is that I could watch 11 hours of LOTR.

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I, on the other hand, could barely stand what the theater showed me.

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Eh, y'know, I thought "Kong" wa s decent enough. Jackson's problem is the one shared by a lot of pretty good filmmakers who go astray. He falls in love with his story and can't see it objectively anymore. Spielberg's been guilty of this (every film he made between "Saving Private Ryan", which was pretty good, and "Munich"< which was my favorite film last year). Lucas is guilty of this (he does NOT see "Star Wars" the same way the rest of the world does... though I'm a fan of the prequels, so bite me). David Lynch falls into this, but I wouldn't classify him as "going astray". His movies are SUPPOSED to function in that fashion. There's been some griping that at almost 3 hours, "Inland Empire" goes too far, but we'll see.

At the very least, when it comes to his extended editions and re-releases at least it's obvious Jackson put care into the re-cutting and selling of the movie. A lot of "director's cut" DVDs piss me off because some suit orders two more minutes chopped back in to barely raise the rating past what it was saddled with by the MPAA and that's it. Hell, look at the "X-Men 1.5" dvd. Bryan Singer APOLOGIZES at the start of the disc for making the consumer shell out again for no real reason... Ugh.