10
Jul
King Kong – original version
We saw the trailer for the new King Kong movie from Peter Jackson coming this December. I didn’t know anything about it other than it was happening and I was excited to see that it is set in the 30s like the original. In fact, it seems like it will be a better made (effects-wise at least) version of the original. I’m very glad they decided to set it in the past instead of trying to cram it in to the present. Satellites seeing every place on the planet make it hard to believe there is islands we don’t know about.
Anyway, Nicole hadn’t seen the original and that made me want to see it again so we rented it. It’s still good and holds up well for a movie 72 years old! Nicole wasn’t crazy about how the level of violence in the film which is fairly high, and the ending made her sad. It is violent and sad, but she liked the movie anyway.
Oh yeah. I had a Blockbuster gift card that I tried to use to rent this, but it turns out that Blockbuster’s system for determining inventory is to dump anything that hasn’t been rented in a month. So you will never be able to rent an old movie there. There isn’t even a classics section to try and have any interest in it. Family, Comedy, Action, Drama. Those are the only categories you get.