The KING KONG Retrospective: The Fall & Rise of Film's Founding Monster

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  @MattDraper · 2 years ago · pinned

  Happy Ape-ril! What's your favorite version of King Kong?

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• ER

  @ericjohnson9623 · 2 years ago

  I am glad they needed a T-Rex analogue and created Gorosaurus in King Kong Escapes, because the moment in Destroy All Monsters where he and Godzilla both look at each other like, "Hey, you're a giant lizard too!" is so great.

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• DO

  @Dontuween · 2 years ago

  Willis O'Brien NEVER approached Toho!  It was producer John Beck who went directly to Toho, after every other studio rejected O'Brien's idea for "King Kong vs. Frankenstein".  Toho agreed to do the film, with the condition that they remove the Frankenstein monster in favor of Godzilla.   Beck agreed to the terms.   It was he, not Toho, who blindsided Willis O'Brien.

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• RU

  @ruffruggednraw · 2 years ago

  The original King Kong was like the first kaiju movie so without it we wouldn’t have gotten any kaiju movies

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• KI

  @KingoftheBashful · 2 years ago

  As much as I am Team Godzilla, Kong still has major respect from, since without the original 1933 film, Godzilla might not have existed. I'm really glad the MV is giving him a story where he gets to be happy.

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  @johnvonraymundoguloy9632 · 2 years ago

  I think after all the fight for the ownership rights. The Monsterverse version of Kong is really the most positively utilized version of Kong and it does make more Kong fans than the earlier versions except for probably the 2005 version which is still beautiful as well.

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• GR

  @graefx · 2 years ago

  Holy fuck that quick clip of Kong TAS just unlocked an entire chuck of my childhood I completely forgot about.

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• OG

  @ogreface8 · 2 years ago (edited)

  LET’S GO!! I love Godzilla, but I’ll always have a soft spot for Kong. The 2005 version was the first movie I saw in theaters. He’ll always be king in America!!<br>Edit: For some reason people are talking about the quality of Jackson’s movie down here when all I said was I watched it in theaters, lol

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• OM

  @omiliag904 · 2 years ago

  Not gonna lie. 2005 remains my favorite. The melodrama and doomed romance between the beauty and the beast just shakes me to my core

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  @doomguydemonkiller · 2 years ago

  Dude I was wondering when you’ll be covering King Kong, and you didn’t disappoint. As someone who loves Peter Jackson’s King Kong, fingers crossed that they re-release in theaters for its 25th anniversary next year.

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• PA

  @paulkenny105 · 2 years ago

  King Kong vs Godzilla is the greatest movie ever made! &nbsp;Does citizen Kane have a giant ape stuffing a tree down a fire breathing lizard? &nbsp;Does The Godfather have a giant ape fighting a giant octopus? I rest my case!

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• RI

  @ricardoms2072 · 2 years ago

  The original Kong is the most iconic.<br>Jackson&apos;s Kong is the most simpathetic.<br>Monsterverse Kong is the most fun.

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