Anyone seen the NEW King Kong trailer?

[Sandor 459]

One word: WOW!!!!

[Romão 1,931]

I didn't catch it. It was removed by Universal before I gave it a look.

[Mr. Breathmask 480]

KongisKing.net says it should be back up soon.

The Inside Look over at Apple features some footage of Kong taking out a biplane. Nice.

Also, I don't know if you know this already, but I read in the paper last week Jackson's film clocks in at around three hours. That's twice as long as the original. I didn't realize this was going to be such a big film.

[JoeinAR 1,759]

neither did Universal, and they are worried.

John's Lost World theme would be so perfect for this film

[QMM 4]

it's out now at quicktime.com

[JohnF 0]

awesome. Nuff said. That last shot of Kong taking a swipe at a biplane almost made me cheer... I have a feeling this is going to be a thrill ride, and tug at the heart strings... Can't wait to hear what Howard's rushed score will sound like. I can hear "Dinosaur" all over it...

JohnF

[Romão 1,931]

The effects look so-so in several scenes, but this could be a lot of fun.

Curiously, the used JNH's (or Hans Zimmer's) music from Batman Begins in the trailer.

[nightscape94 965]

I watched the massive Hi-Def version, which cleaned it up a lot. It looks fantastic. When Kong started beating his chest just before attacking the T-Rex...I smiled....a LOT.

Awesome.

Tim

[Lurker 5]

I can't wait for my DVD of the original to arrive. My well informed prediction? The 1933 film is half as long and twice as good.

Neil

[nightscape94 965]

Yeah, I pre-ordered the Collector's Edition with the tin. Can't wait!

Tim

[Lurker 5]

I didn't get the tin, but I have the standard 2 disc edition on order for a ridiculously low price.

Neil

[JoeinAR 1,759]

why do so many here pre order when they can wait and get it cheaper.

BTW, the Tin set is what I plan on getting too.

[Lurker 5]

why do so many here pre order when they can wait and get it cheaper.

I'm paying less than half price for it and no tax and no shipping.

Neil

[nightscape94 965]

I'm only about 15 minutes away from a Best Buy in Delaware (live in Pa), so it wouldn't be that much of a bother with sales tax since that state doesn't have it (along with Alaska/Montana/New Hampshire/Oregon), but I don't have to pay for shipping either and I'm getting it about $20 cheaper then the list price.

Tim

[Ray Barnsbury 8]

Meh, the movie just looks so utterly ridiculous from everything I've seen! The whole dramatic uncharted island, random dinosaurs, and then Kong in New York...I just don't get a good feel for it. Plus, the effects look really poor to my eyes. Mighty Joe Young looked better than this, c'mon!

Ray Barnsbury - only anticipating the score

[nightscape94 965]

The whole dramatic uncharted island, random dinosaurs, and then Kong in New York...I just don't get a good feel for it.  Plus, the effects look really poor to my eyes.

Have you ever seen King Kong? :?

Tim

[GoodMusician 53]

I know this is gonna be a "duh" moment but, I really feel the music failed that trailer...

That their could have been better music chosen for it. I realize that the score that SHOULD have accompanied it was rejected but still, they could have found something a little more... I found it... lacking...

I'm not saying anything LOOKED bad... as the graphics were wonderful, and the trailer it self was quite riveting...I'm definately going to see the movie...

It's just I feel the music failed that trailer... completely lol

I liked the composition of the original trailer...

Also...not sure I like how the t-rex sounds... reminds me of an aligator... but... I dunno... not sure I like it... lol

[Ray Barnsbury 8]

The whole dramatic uncharted island, random dinosaurs, and then Kong in New York...I just don't get a good feel for it.  Plus, the effects look really poor to my eyes.

Have you ever seen King Kong? :?

Tim

Not the whole way through. I know that some of the things I mentioned come from the original, but I never though the original looked as stupid. I dunno, this film just hasn't piqued my interest.

Ray Barnsbury

[AC1 3,565]

How can this be entertaining? All feels so old and tired! Ah well, only kids are entertained if mommy reads the same bedtime story night after night.

[Mr. Breathmask 480]

Looks like they really did change the design of Kong.

Teaser:

Trailer:

- Marc,

[nightscape94 965]

I'm gload they got rid of that gimp tooth. Kong looks much better now.

Tim

[Incanus 5,519]

It would seem they changed it a bit. Looks better IMO even though it is not total make over they have done. I have not been following what is happening with this movie (except that Shore got sacked) but I must say that when I saw the trailer Jackson's earlier movies (LOTR for the most part) came into mind very strongly. It is a PJ movie so it looks like PJ movie. He has e very personal visual style. The night scene where there were torches looked like Helm's Deep alot). I am not that interested in these remakes and King Kong is the last hing that needed a remake. Remakes are what influential and rich film makers direct to sate their childhood craving of "I wish I had made that movie".

[Richard Penna 2,083]

Am I the only one who can't get f*"&$!n£ quicktime to work on any of the settings? I have the latest version yet all I get is a broken quicktime logo.

[GoodMusician 53]

yes

[Pieter Boelen 633]

The movie looks quite good to me. I love the time setting. Great time setting for a good adventure movie, which it seems to be. I also don't mind that James Newton Howard has replaced Howard Shore. Of course I cannot make a good judgement, having only ever heard the LotR music by Howard Shore, but the LotR music was, although excellent, not really fun and adventurous. So I don't know if Howard Shore would come up with some good adventurous, bombastic and fun music. On the other hand, James Newton Howard has written some very fine music for adventure movies already (Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Hidalgo, Waterworld, Dinosaur and, to a slightly lesser extent, Treasure Planet), so I'm hoping for some nice and fun adventure music from James Newton Howard. Even if it won't be Oscar-worthy, I still expect it to be fun.

[David Coscina 3]

Curiously, the "Making Of.." segment found on the Quicktime site appears to have some Shore music underscoring the interviews with Jack Black and Peter Jackson. Whether it's new material or something from Shore's existing canon is the question. I thought I heard some 7even styled string/brass chords with those open sus4 chords. Sounded good actually. The Media Ventures crap they used for the trailer made Kong look AWFUL. Luckily, I know JN HOward will produce a more vibrant, lyrical score than the trailer nonsense. Still bummed by the fact that we lost a possibly classic Shore score but maybe they'll release it as an added marketing thing in the future.....we can only hope.

[Orson 1]

I too have my reservations about this. The time period has me intriqued as well and I am curious to see if Jackson can pull that aspect off. So far, that's looking pretty good. While I do like the design of Kong, the dinosaurs look pretty weak and some of the action stuff came off as a bit candy coated. I'm really afraid the Uruk-Hai looking tribe on the island is going to bother me too. But having said all of that, I remain cautiously optimistic.

[Marian Schedenig 5,520]

I didn't get the tin, but I have the standard 2 disc edition on order for a ridiculously low price.

That will also have a PJ scene though.

Marian -looking forward to the new one.

[Romão 1,931]

Curiously, the "Making Of.." segment found on the Quicktime site appears to have some Shore music underscoring the interviews with Jack Black and Peter Jackson.  Whether it's new material or something from Shore's existing canon is the question.  I thought I heard some 7even styled string/brass chords with those open sus4 chords.  Sounded good actually.  The Media Ventures crap they used for the trailer made Kong look AWFUL.  Luckily, I know JN HOward will produce a more vibrant, lyrical score than the trailer nonsense.  Still bummed by the fact that we lost a possibly classic Shore score but maybe they'll release it as an added marketing thing in the future.....we can only hope.

The MV crap music they used in the trailer is actually composed by JNH, from his score for Batman Begins.

[Mr. Breathmask 480]

And the first part is from Braveheart.

[Greg1138 2]

Am I the only one who can't get f*"&$!n£ quicktime to work on any of the settings? I have the latest version yet all I get is a broken quicktime logo.

I have had to download the latest version (qt7) to see this, and have had no problems.....very odd.....suggest perhaps you completely uninstall Quicktime and iTunes (if you have kept it) and try downloading again?

.....oh....and "WOW" indeed......this trailer blew my underwear off......

[SturgisPodmore 0]

The MV crap music they used in the trailer is actually composed by JNH, from his score for Batman Begins.

How do you know it wasn't Zimmer?

~Sturgis

[SturgisPodmore 0]

If anyone has this trailer saved on their computer, please PM me with it, as I can't veiw it (I do have Quicktime 7). Thanks very much!!

~Sturgis

[David Coscina 3]

Curiously, the "Making Of.." segment found on the Quicktime site appears to have some Shore music underscoring the interviews with Jack Black and Peter Jackson.  Whether it's new material or something from Shore's existing canon is the question.  I thought I heard some 7even styled string/brass chords with those open sus4 chords.  Sounded good actually.  The Media Ventures crap they used for the trailer made Kong look AWFUL.  Luckily, I know JN HOward will produce a more vibrant, lyrical score than the trailer nonsense.  Still bummed by the fact that we lost a possibly classic Shore score but maybe they'll release it as an added marketing thing in the future.....we can only hope.

The MV crap music they used in the trailer is actually composed by JNH, from his score for Batman Begins.

Actually, JN Howard wrote mostly the "father-son/love theme" string music. Remember he was asked by Zimmer to help out. That loud action music is a staple of Zimmer's, mostly because he feels like doubling real instruments with his synths giving the over-all sound a synthetic one. Howard tends to score for acoustic instruments unadorned by electronics. If he does double strings with synths, it's usually sampled harmonics for a softer quality. He admitted this practice in a very informative KEYBOARD interview around the time he was scoring Dinosaur.

[HPFAN_2 0]

Still not interested

[Snowster 4]

This is propably old news, but those of you, who have a fresh/new computer should really check out the HD trailer --- even if you don't get turned on by King Kong, maybe the quality of the trailer reaches you...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/king_kong/hd/

-Snowster

[Marian Schedenig 5,520]

The MV crap music they used in the trailer is actually composed by JNH, from his score for Batman Begins.

It still isn't good. From the trailer, it looks like a cool movie, but the trailer itself doesn't work to well, it lacks music that actually manages to bind it together.

Any direct download links to the HD trailer? Those Apple pages seem to be trying to directly start playing all the trailers at once in my browser, and always end up crashing the plugin.

Marian - who had no troubles playing the normal trailer in mplayer once he had a direct link to download the mov file.

[Luke Skywalker 1,285]

They changed king kong...

When the first trailer appeared i said the dinosaurs were so-so but know was good. Im not sure if his new face looks better, the older looked more like a gorilla IMO and the eyes too... :?

[Marian Schedenig 5,520]

Well, in direct comparison, the new Kong looks like a giant gorilla and the old one looks like a giant gorilla teddy bear.

Marian - LOL

[Luke Skywalker 1,285]

I dont think so.

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[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Hmmm...weren't you the only person on the MB who complained that they changed Gollum after FOTR?

[Luke Skywalker 1,285]

Did i complained about that, or that they did not changed him in the FOTR EE for continuity?

BTW, this is NOT a sequel.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

You Lucas fan!

Why chance something that isn't broken?

[Luke Skywalker 1,285]

It is really broken. Compared with the quality of the sequels' ones.

BTW if it isnt broken, why did you bought the EE

Deny this but his face is so different it is as if they had hired another actor for, any other human character. And you wouldnt like that right?

And Gollum didnt died sadly like Richard harris in HP franchise.

[Luke Skywalker 1,285]

Well lets just compare with the real thing...

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[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Deny this but his face is so different it is as if they had hired another actor for, any other human character. And you wouldnt like that right?

Gollum in FOTR works for the role he has in that film, to be a presence trailing in the darkness behind the Fellowsgip.

You hardly get a glimpse of him, so the transition from the newer Gollum in TTT does not bother me at all.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Well lets just compare with the real thing...

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That doesn't look like Gollum at all.

[Marian Schedenig 5,520]

So that's the real King Kong?

Marian -

[Mr. Breathmask 480]

Deny this but his face is so different it is as if they had hired another actor for, any other human character. And you wouldnt like that right?

Gullon in FOTR works for the role he has in that film, to be a presence trailing in the darkness behind the Fellowsgip.

You hardly get a glimpse of him, so the transition from the newer Gollum in TTT does not bother me at all.

Yeah, what are we talking about here? You can't even see his face.

- Marc, who wouldn't have noticed if it hadn't been pointed out in the extras.

[Incanus 5,519]

Well lets just compare with the real thing...

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Aw! That is so cute He looks little sulky in that picture. I wonder what ticked him off?