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King Kong: Don't Mess With the Monkey
Noodles22 writes "King Kong: Don't Mess With the Monkey began as an audition piece for Eden Phillips. After adapting some scenes from Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh's 1996 King Kong screenplay, the natural appeal of the Kong story attracted more and more enthusiastic volunteers who generously gave of their time to make Kong a rich, funny short film. We are honoured to dedicate it to Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Wingnut films, and all those involved in the Lord of the Rings films, and upcoming King Kong remake."
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87 megs divx
And here you are, reading slashdot.
Man.
You are the lose.
Big time.
he'll climb to the top of the building and throw the ring to it's doom.
King Kong was one of Hitler's favourite movies. The other one was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
NOT!
I'm just posting.
Sucker.
Why don't you go to a bar and pick up a fat/ugly chick?
and I have my dick hanging out of my sweatpants. I think it is time for some porn. You know, get the old sweatpants sticky. Who wants to masturbate with me?
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All together now!
But I'd rather stick my wang in a wood chipper than bone anything that would marry some ass posting anonymously to slashdot on saturday night. Is she missing limbs or anything?
Posted AC for obvious reasons..
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The Story
KONG: Don't Mess with the Monkey is essentially a prequel to King Kong the feature film. They year is 1933. A party of three adventurous archaeologists make a first foray into the depths of the previously unexplored Skull Island which, rumour has it, is home to the dreaded great ape known as King Kong.
Our film opens on a youthful and attractive Ann Darrow, an aspiring archaeologist on a Sumatran dig site. She is accompanied by her father, Lord Darrow, a world renowned archaeologist and leader of this first expedition to Skull Island. Walter Douglas, Lord Darrow's assistant, is the reluctant third member of the expedition.Douglas appears to be much more at home in the comfort and safety of the Oxford University Library than out in the field. Our expeditionary team is also supported by two jovial Sumatran natives, Motumbo and Mentawei, who are all too familiar the feared Cult of Kong.
Kong: Don't Mess with the Monkey shows British science's first foray into the mystical and savage world of Skull Island. Our intrepid archeologists are stunned to discover the first evidence confirming rumours of the Kong cult and the ritual sacrifice employed by the natives to appease the beast; they are on the cusp of the archaeological discovery of a lifetime!
Jack Driscoll, an unsavory American entrepreneur, is on Skull Island to fulfill a forestry contract. Driscoll recruits a workforce from the Sumtran natives of the island, and sets to work clearing one hundred thousand acres of rainforest.
Once evidence of the re-emergence of Kong is revealed by our archeologists, the terrified natives abandon their villages and flee to the mountains to escape the return of the Wrath of Kong!
An enraged Driscoll, blaming our archeologists for the loss of his workforce, demands they leave the island within an hour. Driscoll's expulsion threat follows immediately on Ann's unearthing of an ancient map revealing the location of the Sacrificial Site. Legend holds that at this site the great Kong ripped sacrificial victims' flesh to ribbons.
In spite of Lord Darrow's stern protestations, Ann shows herself unable to resist the discovery of a lifetime when she compels an unwilling Douglas to join her desperate search for the Sacrificial Site. The clock is ticking on Driscoll's threat - but a mysterious roaring emanating from the jungle presents a far, far greater one...
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Your wang requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful orgasm to allow it a fair chance of recuperating.
It's been 1 minute since you last blew a wad
she can mess with my "monkey" any day... any day of the week that is!!! he eh he
The guy really should have taken a break after the massive effort that was LOTR filming and cutting. There are so many great ideas for movies that haven't been made and we have to go back to King Kong? I hope this doesn't ruin the reputation he's acquired.
I bow to your skillz, boyo!
You sure showed me!
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I was so worried about the King Kong remake like with Planet of the Apes, but Tim Burton's epic masterpiece proved me wrong. I suspect I'll be just has surprised with this remake. The scuttlebutt I hear is that they've hip-hopped up the new ape by 10% and added a new companion character called poochie or something so it will be great.
Trailer wasn't that great. It is more like a teaser trailer (doesn't show King Kong, only his sound). I haven't seen the movie one yet and only getting 6 KB/sec. :(
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Hey, now, this is Slashdot! Where are all the computer-related stories? NO MORE MONKEY BUSINESS!
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Thank goodness as for a second I thought this was yet another single geek advice article on valentines... !
not only was that not "rich" or "funny" but those were the LONGEST TEN MINUTES OF MY LIFE
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I keep thinking "Donkey Kong" and not "King Kong" while reading these comments. Maybe I spent too many happy hours as a young child with a SNES controller in hand.
Mod "Overrated" instead of replying "I disagree with you," you coward.
You know why they don't offshore Cowboy Neal's job?
It would mean that whole families would lose their jobs since he eats 20 times his weight a day. He's keeping entire food corporations afloat!
If you're stupid enough to like Donkey Kong you deserved every bit of it.
more like don't mess with the waterskiing squirrel
KONNNNNNNNNGGGGGG!!!!!
Seriously, they mentioned "the wrath of kong" twice, but they never did the yelling. I had to get it out of my system.
This is going to be a big dissappointment for fans of LOTR expecting more of the same from Peter Jackson.
The LOTR trilogy contains a beautifully realised fantasy world and an epic story with way more material than you need for a movie. King Kong is a just a fifty year old screenplay.
Why not come up with a new idea instead of remaking a fifty-year old idea? They want the name recognition and the fanbase. I wonder, if you asked five years ago, who's name would be more recognizable, Gandalf or King-Kong?
I think the big difference is that LOTR is a 900 page epic and King-Kong is a 70 minute screenplay, and it's going to show in the characters and dialog. Not to deride Peter's directing talent, but without the genius of Tolkein's story-telling I don't think his genius with directing is going to make the 100-foot monkey movie fly.
I read somewhere (sorry no link) that as animated characters become more realistic, they reach a stage where they are so realistic that it's disturbing and (paradoxically) seems more unrealistic. The gollum character got around this because he was supposed to be disturbing... or something... anyone find the link for that? Anyhow, how would they achieve the same effect with king-kong?
Don't forget what a flop the remake of Godzilla was.
I ran a benchmark on my quantum computer, now I can't find it anywhere!
This is going to be a big dissappointment for gay fans of LOTR expecting more BJs from Peter Jackson.
The LOTR trilogy contains a beautifully realised fucking and an orgy storie with way more material than you need for a movie. King Kong is a just a fifty year old screenplay anal screw.
Why not come up with a new idea instead of remaking a fifty-year old fuckfest? They want the name recognition and rimjobs. I wonder, if you asked five years ago, who's name would be more recognizable, Bondage or Benwa?
I think the big difference is that LOTR is a 900 spoogejob and King-Kong is a 70 minute suckoff, and it's going to show in the characters and orgasms. Not to deride Peter's directing talent, but without the genius of Tolkein's dick sucking I don't think his genius with directing is going to make the 100-foot dick movie fly.
nice flick. can't imagine why it's on slashdot (because PJackson is now a geek god? because there was a bittorrent download link? the world may never know), but it was a fun movie.
That's why they spend their time making those weird dancing games and videos of Godzilla molesting schoolgirls
I think there should be a Steve Balmer quip around here somewhere...
Putting the romance back into necromancer.
sorry :)
parent has a link refering to 'uncanny valley of realism' I was refering to.
It should be noted that these are the same people who did Fanimatrix.
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if there are no titties and there is no girl on girl action, who gives a shit?
don't any of you idiots like girls? bouncy breasts, that's the type of movies you should be posting, not shit about dirty 100ft monkeys.
I severely doubt anyone here has seen any woman naked (in person, not on Usenet) within the last 3 years, including me, otherwise why would I be reading this shit?
CmdrTaco is probably getting his wick licked right now... GOOD FOR HIM. do you think he gives a shit about red assed monkeys... NO.. he is spooging into his wife's hair right now.. GOOD FOR HIM!
fuck you GNAA!
...paws off me you damn dirty ape. I hate every King Kong remake I see from King Kong B to King Kong C.
I say give Jackson the money to do Zelazny's Amber series.
--- Ban humanity.
King Kong Slashdotted! Geeks Spank The Monkey!
:P
I know, I know... he's an ape not a monkey, but let's pretend it's a FOX headline
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Don't read this if you want to enjoy the film. This is critique for the teaser trailer, not the film. If you are still reading this, you're free to continue, but don't bitch about me being such a severe critic.
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I wasn't impressed by the trailer at all. it looks like another DV feature made by another self-acclaimed director-wannabee. THe trailer consists of mere 20 cuts (live shots) and several titles with busy typesets, some of the live shots are just static scenery shots, and ALL actions take place in one location. Cinematography (video-) didn't intensify the suspense successfully when danger is coming close to the characters --only with help of sound effects does the teaser highten suspense marginally. Actors' --especially the female lead-- performance is weak. In combination with poorly executed cinematography, it is a tough sell. Overall teaser has too little to show, no surprise, no eye-catching events. Was I teased? --no.
Sorry to be critical, but I've seen many of this type of DV features/shorts, and this particlar one doesn't stand out from the rest. I decided not to spend my time downloading and watching it. Nevertheless, I want to congratulate the people involved in this project for completion of the project and I do acknowledge their painstaking efforts to complete this DV film.
If "to make a film" is the final goal for a film maker, his work is accomplished once film is made. "To entertain audience" is the goal, there will be no finishing line to that goal. Life is learning.
I am pretty sure King Kong can't handle /. traffic himself. ;)
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Slashdot killed the beast!
I think there should be a Steve Balmer quip around here somewhere...
They say that if you have an infinite number of monkeys typing at an infinite number of keyboards for an infinite period of time, you will get the collected works of Shakespeare. If you get the source code to Microsoft Windows, you need to add more monkeys.
[Heard at a Linux Users of Victoria meeting]
good short film, except for the ending... pretty silly if you ask me
That was really useful. Not often do I get to add 5 more actors to my "Don't see anything these people are in" list at once.
I wrote a short article for the January 1997 issue of Collect! magazine that recounted some of the interesting history of the original King Kong filmmakers, Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack. Collect! (now defunct) covered non-sports trading cards, so don't be puzzled that there's a paragraph of commentary near the end about several Kong-related card sets.
Frankenstein
Dracula
Jekyl & Hyde
King Kong.
PLEASE, enough of this recycled crap already. Someone please come up with something new... Or I will, damn it!
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Will the crowd start chucking barrels at the chubby Italian guy running the projector?
8==8 Bones 8==8
punch the monkey?
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Not sure what you think of peter jackson, but you should see Meet the Feebles. Twisted shit...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
"The film was shot in one day, Friday 5 December 2003."
What can you expect?
....but you ruined it with the assinine comments about Kong ruining his reputation. Like one of the greatest horror flicks of all time is a bad subject to take up. Jackson is one of the few directors I trust to do justice to a great concept; a mix of beauty and the beast and monster movie.
And BTW, the term "jumping the shark" has become one of those overused cliches, especially when some anonymous authority on Slashdot proclaims it "official".
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
*yawn*
Yeah, after 400 years, it really begins to grate.
Seriously, though, do you think you've seen every Shakespeare play? For those that you have seen - have you seen them done well?
(wont somebody please think about the monkeys?)
Please don't tell me we're going to hear about every thing related to Peter Jackson now. Ok, I gave you breathing room on Lord of the Rings since that's obviously nerd territory. But King Kong? What's the relevance?
This is going to be a big dissappointment for fans of LOTR expecting more of the same from Peter Jackson.
It seems to me that there is an inherent contradiction between the title of your post and the first sentence. Jackson made his career with edgy genre-busting films. In fact, LotR is in many ways his worst work in the last 10 years. That does not mean that it's not a fine pice of work, but compared to Dangerous Creatures and even The Frighteners the story is lacking. Really not any fault of the writers, it was just the naure of that wondrous hydra of a narrative that Tolkien created, that you really can't condense or summarize it successfully.
The nice thing about Kong (70 years old, not 50 years old), is that since it was written as a story to be told from start to finish in 100 minutes, it is the perfect size for a film adaptation. There is enough there to fill the attention of the audience for an afternoon, with enough wiggle room for Jackson to put his own stamp on it.
LotR fans are not necessarily Peter Jackson fans and Peter Jackson fans are not necessarily fans of LotR. I'd much rather see him do another Dangerous Creatures or Forgotten Silver (that managed to bamboozle fair number of New Zealaders into thinking that he really did discover that all of the major inovations we take for granted with film were invented in New Zealand and lost.) In fact, Jackson quipped that he promised Fran Walsh, his partner (professionally and personally) a low-budget, low-stress art film.
Don't forget what a flop the remake of Godzilla was.
The big problem with Godzilla is that the original Godzilla was a product of a specific time (post-WWII reconstruction) and place (Japan). Godzilla just does not translate well.
But on the other hand, we see a remake of The Wolfman about every 10 years, a remake of Dracula every 10 years. A remake of Hamlet ever generation. Why not do the Gilglamesh of monster movies, King Kong?
... thought "trademark lawsuits" (such as in "don't mess with the mouse") upon reading that story title?
Look, Jackson can do whatever he wants and he wants to do Kong. If you don't care to see another Kong movie then just say that. But don't give me some finger-steepling crocodile concern over his reputation when what you really mean is that you're not interested and would rather he do something to suit you.
When you've earned a reputation in the industry that makes you worthy to second-guess a working director (one recently showered with accolades for his decisions and work, I might add), maybe he'll care. Until then.. I doubt it.
- I am made of meat.
There are only three real monsters:
Dracula, Blackula, and Son of Kong
Who moderates the meta-moderators?
The thinly veiled gay midget romance movie which was ROTK would not have earned him the right to make this zero plot flick in a just world.
There is only so much depth you can get out of a monkey ... "me is mad" and "me is looking at the pretty lady wondering how to fit my dick in there" is just about it. That has to be stretched for 100 minutes.
You can put all the symbolism and subtext you want in the movie, but basically the plot will always remain wafer thin.
Our expeditionary team is also supported by two jovial Sumatran natives, Motumbo and Mentawei, who are all too familiar the feared Cult of Kong.
Hmmmm. Sumatra is in Indonesia. They choose the wrong name: Motumbo doesnt sound like Sumatran name, more like African. Mentawei sound like Borneo (another part of Indonesia) name. Also native Sumatran people doesnt look like India at all.
And if they really on Sumatra during 1933. Hopefully they prepared to meet the Sumatran Tiger. They still exist until now, and they are *a lot* in 1933. Not to mention the bears. And the guns, Indonesia was on war at that time, guerillas everywhere.
(note: I havent watch the movie, so my comments can be wrong).
I thought King Kong was a tailless primate, an ape, not a monkey. It's annoying to see such mistakes. A least Planet of the Apes are an accurate title.
What a waste of download and viewing time.
Did the editors WTFF ? - This should never have bene posted.
The sound supervisor did an excellent job. I'm a big fan of Obi Wan Kenobi's work. :)
Did anyone else notice the humorous credits?
The short is uninspiring. A waste of good production and acting effort.
Or at least it would have been.
/. is directly linked w/ ThinkGeek, which I would like to add almost solely revolves around monkeys.
I was thinking of converting to paganism, but where the hell can you find sacrificial virgins these days?
I misread the title at first and thought to myself, "Don't Mess With the Money; how appropriate coming from Peter Jackson and co." =)
Ten books:
- Nine Princes In Amber
- The Guns of Avalon
- Sign of the Unicorn
- The Hand of Oberon
- The Courts of Chaos
- Trumps of Doom
- Blood of Amber
- Sign of Chaos
- Knight of Shadows
- Prince of Chaos
plus several short stories: "Prolog to Trumps of Doom", "The Salesman's Tale", "Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains", "The Shroudling and the Guisel", "Coming to a Cord", and "Hall of Mirrors".The problem with the remake was that Sony removed the essential nature of Godzilla. An unstoppable force of nature, something powerful and menacing, and whose motives are unknown. The remake had none of that and came off as some giant lizard running amok and laying eggs. Not something to be respected or feared, just something to kill.