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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."
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.
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...
Pathetic karma whoring attempt. You didn't even point out the high-quality 137 MB version at http://www.kongmovie.com/Kong-Full-(DivX-HQ).avi.t orrent
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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.
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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.
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Thank goodness as for a second I thought this was yet another single geek advice article on valentines... !
I'll see your pathetic karma whoring attempt, and raise you one! High-quality Clicky.
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not only was that not "rich" or "funny" but those were the LONGEST TEN MINUTES OF MY LIFE
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.
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!
I think there should be a Steve Balmer quip around here somewhere...
Putting the romance back into necromancer.
It should be noted that these are the same people who did Fanimatrix.
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I say give Jackson the money to do Zelazny's Amber series.
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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.
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I am pretty sure King Kong can't handle /. traffic himself. ;)
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Slashdot killed the beast!
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.
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!
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Hmm, looks like no one has a sense of humor... or at least is in need of a history lesson:
Nintendo was originally sued by Universal over "Donkey Kong" and it's similarities to "King Kong" in both plot and name. However, Nintendo later discovered that Universal never actually owned the rights to "King Kong" to begin with, thus invalidating the suit.
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Geeks go Ape after hearing 'Geeks Spank The Monkey'
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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?
There are only three real monsters:
Dracula, Blackula, and Son of Kong
Who moderates the meta-moderators?
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).
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?
Interesting that you bring this up. LotR had a main character capable of only three expressions (eye wide, eye moving, eye glaring).
Just like Sauron, King Kong is a plot device. The real drama happens with the people around Kong.
Oh you meant Sauron, for a second there I thought you were talking about Frodo.