Kong: Skull Island

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SpeedBash

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Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Halb

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Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Another remake/retellling?

lukeyman

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Sunday 24th July 2016
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Unless Margot Robbie is playing the Ape I aren't interested!

markcoznottz

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225 months

Sunday 24th July 2016
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Weird collection of actors? Samuel L Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, John Goodman??

Killer2005

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Sunday 24th July 2016
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Halb said:
Another remake/retellling?
A retelling leading to a Godzilla vs King Kong film in a few years.

ukaskew

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222 months

Sunday 24th July 2016
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Trailer looks pretty interesting, great cast as well.

Willing to give this a shot, loved Godzilla so looking forward to seeing how they link up.

Halb

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Sunday 24th July 2016
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The Godzilla thing isn't a joke?

Killer2005

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Sunday 24th July 2016
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Halb said:
The Godzilla thing isn't a joke?
http://www.slashfilm.com/godzilla-vs-king-kong-2020/

Halb

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Sunday 24th July 2016
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Killer2005 said:
Friggin' ell.
The size discrepancy, I doubt they resolve it.
It sounds like a recipe for cack...it sounds like it but I hope it isn't. The AVP films were mediocre at best.
I do like the fact that new Kong film is in the 70's though.

Killer2005

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Sunday 24th July 2016
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Halb said:
Killer2005 said:
Friggin' ell.
The size discrepancy, I doubt they resolve it.
It sounds like a recipe for cack...it sounds like it but I hope it isn't. The AVP films were mediocre at best.
I do like the fact that new Kong film is in the 70's though.
I read on Den of Geek that this King Kong is going to be much bigger than a few previous versions which will make up a bit of size discrepancy.

Halb

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Sunday 24th July 2016
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Killer2005 said:
I read on Den of Geek that this King Kong is going to be much bigger than a few previous versions which will make up a bit of size discrepancy.
He looks bigger. But it would be far better to reduce Godzilla.
Kong isn't new to size manipulation, in the 1933 original they had to scale him up to see him on the building, then they scaled him back down for different shots.
There is evidence of an ape that was one third the size of Kong.


JagLover

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236 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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Halb said:
Another remake/retellling?
It actually might work for this one.

Jackson's version was far too slow and went in for CGI overload on the island (dino stampede for example)

GTiRichTea

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138 months

Thursday 28th July 2016
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Cant wait, loved Godzilla smile.


Halb

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Thursday 28th July 2016
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JagLover said:
It actually might work for this one.

Jackson's version was far too slow and went in for CGI overload on the island (dino stampede for example)
I love the third Kong version, it was extremely good for me.
This new one looks like effects over story, like a lot of modern features.

SpeedBash

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Thursday 17th November 2016
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irocfan

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Thursday 17th November 2016
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SpeedBash said:
ohhhhhh thumbup

SpeedBash

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Friday 17th February 2017
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amgmcqueen

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Thursday 9th March 2017
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Anyone seen this yet...? Thoughts?

ajprice

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Monday 13th March 2017
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I'd posted in the films i watched this week thread as i didn't know this was here but basically.. it's a big budget B movie, 70s soundtrack is great, you can see what's happening in the monster fights, unlike a Michael Bay Transformers fight. I've seen it mentioned a few times, but it's like a Doug McLure monster film with bits of a Vietnam film in it. I haven't seen the Peter Jackson film, but it's much much better than the 1976 Jeff Bridges film that was on TV lastnight.

surveyor

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185 months

Monday 13th March 2017
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I was not impressed. Story line was crap. Effects were quite good.

I'm very surprised at the 12A rating. I would not want to take a child much younger than a 12 year old to see it.