Review(s): DVD King Kong - Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
This is amazing....
Ok, I'm sure this production diaries are great, but this people want to get their investment (lot of cash) back since day one...I`m sure this King Kong movie will have like 14 DVD versions...King Kong, King Kong Extended Edition, King Kong Super Extended Edition plus a little monkey pet..and so on...
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Peter Jackson has been a favorite for a while, but when I stumbled across these production diaries he became my hero. I have been student of film for a while but not wealthy enough to attend a film school. Peter in his humbleness offers viewers the back stage pass into the world of a major motion picture. I haven't seen the DVD collection of these diaries, but I have watched all the episodes several times over and over. And they are fantastic and full of information for those that are eager to learn.
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I am very much looking forward to this release, now even more after learning the lost spider pit sequence has been reconstructed by Peter Jackson, creator of the new "King Kong" due out in theaters in December. I'm just hopeful the spider scene is included in the newly restored film and is not just an extra on the bonus features disc.
The first movie I ever watched, according to my mother, was the original "King Kong." I apparently watched it intently from my playpen sometime in the early 1970s. "King Kong" also happens to be the first videotape I purchased in the 1980s. I remember reading the Book of Lists 2 back in the late 1970s and it featured a section on the most famous scenes cut out of movies. One of them was the scene in 1931's "Frankenstein," when Boris Karloff, playing... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Fay Wray - Robert Armstrong Director(s): Merian C. Cooper - Ernest B. Schoedsack DVD Release Date: 22 November 2005
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In 1970 and 1971 I was in the US Army stationed in the Panama Canal Zone. The Army had a string of theaters in the CZ which showed both current films and a selection of older films, all of them in 35mm and most of them subtitled in Spanish. This was where I first saw THE SEA HAWK, TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE and many other four star classics in 35mm. I went to see the unrestored King Kong print they played one week and I was shocked and amazed by the HUGE subtitles centered in the middle of the picture! A half year or so later and they had King Kong again, this time it was the version with the newly - discovered censored scenes restored...and no subtitles. The quality was stunning and I clearly recall that the aluring Miss Wray was very plainly not wearing a bra under her costume. I am... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: 22 November 2005
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Batman Begins discards the previous four films in the series and recasts the Caped Crusader as a fearsome avenging angel. That's good news, because the series, which had gotten off to a rousing start under Tim Burton, had gradually dissolved into self-parody by 1997's Batman & Robin. As the title implies, Batman Begins tells the story anew, when Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) flees Western civilization following the murder of his parents. He is taken in by a mysterious instructor named Ducard (Liam Neeson in another mentor role) and urged to become a ninja in the League of Shadows, but he instead returns to his native Gotham City resolved to end the mob rule that is strangling it. But are there forces even more sinister at hand?
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