[Max]

One of the best movies I have ever seen. I simply don't have the words to describe it. I've never felt like this watching a movie...it was an awesome experience. It all seemed so real. I felt like a kid watching this movie. It was so exciting. The whole thing was beyond my imagination. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

I am not just talking about the fx. Kong seemed real. Man, he was REAL.
Go and see this movie! It's worth it. And don't forget to see the wonderful original back from 1933.

This movie might have the same effect on me like it had on Peter Jackson when he saw King Kong the first time at the age of 9. Seriously,...

[Gort]

Ok Max . . . tell us how you really felt!

Actually this movie seems to be the rave and quite positively. Jackson is amazing; just when you think he couldn't raise the bar any higher, he just keeps on rising.
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[Ian Jones]

Loved it! The movie was so well made. Every minute was packed full of something to see, awesome scenery, creatures and of course KONG was brilliant. What a cool character. The whole movie was way beyond my expectations.

[Ranath]

I wasn't too happy with most of the film, but the sequence of the ship approaching the Skull Island and all the parts including those natives, that was bloody awesome!! The mood was incredible, otherwise the movie was a lot about Kong vs. other creatures which got a bit boring

[ten]

skull island, natives, forgotten island architecture..cool stuff. but it should have had about an hour cut out of it.

i think all that action was generally done well except for some obvious compositing problems. some beautiful matte shots and wonderful design in the jungle and with the critters as well as lots of clever/entertaining scenery but i was gagging [not in a good way] on the melodrama b/w kong and blondie. maybe i'm just not from the generation that bonded with this movie first time around but it all kinda fell flat for me.

and only 6 biplanes in the final battle?! we had the most outrageous bronto stampede and dogpile in film history just an hour earlier don't tell me they couldn't afford a dozen more planes and a derigible or two

[Max]

I can't agree with the overlengh of the movie. I really enjoy long (3h) movies which seem to get slowly accepted again today. They normally have much more depth and usually aren't sterotype xyz ripoffs. It seems people don't have time today to really sit down and enjoy a movie. I hate to hear directors had to cut down a movie because of the audience.

Peter Jackson put alot of new stuff into this movie which I really appreciated. It's not just a simple imitation. The Kong vs Trex part may seem abit long. I loved them anyway. The editing was perfect. The sound was even better.

About the "movie physics". Yeah, some of it was weird and slightly overdone. The scene in which Kong starts to shake Ann made me smile. However I don't care that much since it's a fantasy like movie. We could start to argue about the fact of an giant ape too. : )
The original hadn't much more than 6 planes eighter. Another great air battle would have been to much I quess.

I love this movie for the personal emotional impact it had on me. This has the biggest value for me. Therefore it's one of my personal favourites. There are many movies out there which are (objectively) WAY better than King Kong which have a different effect on me though. I love them because they have perfect acting, perfect editing, lightning, screenplay, story just everything which makes a movie great. Most of them just haven't that special kind of atmophere Peter realises in his films which lets me forget all these values. This is a highly subjective opinion of course!

[Ranath]

3h was too much, because when you think about it, what did you really see? Kong vs. t-rex, Kong vs. bloodsucking bats, Kong vs. X. Then we saw the rescuers running from monsters, rescuers fighting against spiders, rescuers fighting bugs, rescuers fighting X... I mean, boring? Not like I didn't have time for it or that I'd dislike 3h movies in general, no, LotR movies are the best I've ever seen.

It was like, all the time something was jumping to my face and it got pretty exhausting, and that's where 3 h got too much. And that's why I started enjoying the drama between Darrow and Kong, I liked the ice skating thing a lot, I though that "finally a bit of piece and quiet" but NO. A general decided to blast the whole pond to abyss with a BANG. I really started to look for "peaceful chat between 2 people in a quiet place" type of stuff.

One thing why I probably didn't like the Kong vs. everything is that it somewhat lacked mood. It showed everything in well lit situation, it was like "oh yeah I'm observing this stuff right now" and not like moody "ohhh yeah this foggy Skull Island and the natives are triggering my imagination sooooo much right now!!"... Kong was too clean, left nothing to my imagination, it was a bit boring, not so much mood as we saw with the natives (which was close to be the best thing ever seen in movies)

[Max]

I also missed the usual quiet moments. There were just a few like the ice skating scene as you mentioned which was truly wonderful. The blast was indeed shocking. I could have looked at them forever. I think all the scenes with Ann and Kong getting closer to each other were absolutely wonderful. The scene in which Ann tried to cheer up Kong with her acrobatic tricks was pure magic.

[Drunken Monkey]

i wish the whole movie was just king kong fighting the t-rexes...
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[Jimmyjimjim]

I thought it was good, but WAAAAYYYY too long.

Usually I don't complain about length, but Kong made me feel like I kept seeing the same things over and over. I started getting bored of Skull Island about halfway through. I thought the New York sequence rocked all the way.

I loved the Kong/Ann relationship they built up. They did a phenomenal job giving a giant CG gorilla a soul.

If they do a sequel/prequel, I think they need to set it in the 1700s, have multiple Kongs (see the skeletons?) and tell the tale of how the map got off the island. IMHO.

[Drunken Monkey]

[Capt. Fred]

I went in with enthusiasm, expecting a cool new version of Jurassic park/godzilla, wasn't expecting art house, but was disappointed.
I thought it was okay overall. Some awesome bits but generally flat.

There's more to realism than well rendered, well-built models though. What's up with the tacky animation? He roars and emotes well but it is as if there is no thought behind the forces the govern the movement of the large masses in question when it comes to larger movements. reminds me of Shrek.

This style of film making really turns me off. Same with Lord of the Rings. Things that should be amazing (if you were to describe them) become mundane and so ordinary you don't care about any of it.

Good bits: When the ladder comes loose on the empire state, the film all of a sudden became real to me and I was squirming in my seat with the height; Roaring, any time he roars; The beautiful fog horn noise.

[Jimmyjimjim]

Totally and completely agreed, Cap'n! ::EDIT::

except for the stuff about LOTR. I think Jackson did a much better job on those.