I'm not finished with Kong:Skull Island so I can't give a full assessment. Seems like there's a bigger emphasis on giant monsters while Jackson's island was teeming with horrific creatures of all sizes, from T-Rex's to crickets.
I gotta say, the biggest let-down yet (in K:SI) was the Native arc. The scariest part of Jackson's KK was when they encountered the natives which is something that could actually happen (North Sentinal Island). When I saw John C. Reilly's goofy ass come out and break the suspense, I was disappointed. Totally botched that part.
Peter Jackson's King Kong was a bit pretentious and a little too slow-moving for my tastes.
Skull Island is pretty dumb fun, with decent visuals and a more engaging cast. Aside from the two leads. Hiddleston is mis-cast as an action guy and the girl's boring.
Same problem I had with Legendary's Godzilla, really. Both had boring leads and more interesting supporting characters (Jackson and Cranston) who would have been more interesting to follow.
Kayden Fisher
I recently rewatched PJ's King Kong and I most say, it was much more scary then what I remembered.
Xavier Walker
Did you watch the extended cut? Absolute kino.
David Hill
Skull Island is capeshit disguised as a kaiju film
Definitly PJ's King Kong. The Extended Cut makes it a bit better too.
Isaiah Barnes
I know people rag on PJ's Kong for its massive runtime, but I would much rather watch one 3.5 hour beast that is a complete story than get roped into a series of 1.5 hour flicks that each end with a cliffhanger.
Also Kong's death still makes me cry.
Luis Roberts
Peter Jackson’s King Kong was a sprawling epic with real emotion and cinematic gravitas. Movies of its caliber simply aren’t made anymore. A real Hollywood motion picture with fleshed out characters and immaculate directing. Jackson’s respect for the source material practically shines throughout every frame of the film.
Kong: Skull Island was an attempt to recreate the virtues of the genre-defining action film sensibilities of Zack Snyder’s 300. The film's visual pallet even has a subtle similarity to the 2007 film, not to mention the slow motion sequence with Tom Hiddleston swinging around in a green fog was blatantly reminiscent of the Leonidas one shot track sequence from 300.
One is spectacle filmmaking at its near peak while the other is a glorified video game cinematic spearheaded by the current Deadpool Era birthed by Tim Miller and Ryan Reynolds.
Carter Gomez
Bump
Dominic Gomez
THIS
Andrew Moore
>Peter Jackson's King Kong was a bit pretentious and a little too slow-moving for my tastes. Agreed. The Ann/Kong relationship just didn't work in my eyes. The entire beginning sequence before the island seemed like it was trying too hard to build a relationship between the characters and audience. Mr. Hayes/Jimmy dynamic was awkward to me. And when the ship cook tries to save his Asian friend from falling off the log and is then seen crying over his corpse? Were we supposed to feel sad over that? A lot of the character arcs were too contrived.
Oh yes it is. Like I said in OP, I was pretty disturbed by the native scene. If I ever somehow land on an uncharted island and see paleolithic-tier architecture, I will be getting the fuck out of there.
Bug scene was fucked up too and did a really good job at illustrating that they're the prey on that godforsaken island. I also have phobio of centipedes so that scene where Ann is hiding in the log and those two giant centipedes crawl on her, I shudder every time.
Andrew Clark
The pit scene gave my gf at the time night terrors, and it made me feel creeped out and I don't even have a bug phobia. Also I'd say the PJ version was truer to the original, in that it had a strong subtext of connection between Kong and the woman. Skull island is more of a Jurassic park style monster romp.
Ethan Gonzalez
This is the first time I've seen such a high opinion of the movie to be honest. Only sitting at 7.2/10 on IMDb, I think it deserves more though. I thought the general consensus was that it was pretty good but not amazing.
Mason Cooper
Yeah, PJ's kong had some actual interaction with the girl i cant recall right now.
Tyler James
I feel like this was written by my dog after I jingled my car keys in front of her for 5 seconds.
Thomas Parker
it has music but its really subtle its called ambience
Daniel Phillips
The film certainly has its haters for some reason. I think Jack Black’s presence soured a lot of people but I always enjoyed the notion of positioning established comedic actors in more nuanced roles. I think it’s the same trope Shane Black is trying to emulate with Keegan Michael Key for The Predator.
Leo Allen
Jackson's Kong is really good once they get to New York, but the island bit is WAY too fucking long and a stupid CGI fest.
Kong 2017 doesn't aim as high but it's a more entertaining movie overall. I could see myself rewatching it someday, something I could never say for Jackson's.
William Morris
Fucking love Jack Black in that movie. It’s kino
Charles Miller
which king kang movie is this ?
Camden Taylor
Jackson's Kong is pure unfiltered Kino.
I remember seeing it in theaters when it came out and was floored at how amazing, emotional and full of passion it was.
Julian Ward
thats the predator
Jonathan Morgan
>Jackson's Kong is really good once they get to New York, but the island bit is WAY too fucking long and a stupid CGI fest. This is objectively wrong. The island bit is the center of the movie. The New York sequence starts off strong with Kong breaking out of the theater, but the whole sliding around on the ice laughing with Ann was kind of silly. I know that women are not known for logical thinking, but what is she expecting to accomplish by trying to save the 500lb gorilla that's causing mayhem in the city? What is the alternative goal she's pushing for, to go back to Skull Island with Kong and live happily ever after?
Carter Butler
>I know that women are not known for logical thinking
kek. love the subtle jab.
Wyatt Johnson
PJ > K: SI all the way mate
Jacob Martinez
I liked Skull Island more, but you could probably put John C Reiley & Brie Larson in anything and I'd dig it.
Robert Perry
Kong: Skull Island is vastly superior. PJ's is a bloated, unnecessary mess.
Caleb Thomas
Jackson's Kong is a pleb filter. Skull Island is shallow, commercial shit.
Oliver Lewis
>posting on Sup Forums while in the midle of watching a film. Disgusting. I could understand doing it during some meme reality show for shits a giggles, but not a film.
Luis White
People can watch films on their computers, genius.
Kevin Gonzalez
Skull island doesn’t even compare to Peter’s masterpiece
Ryan Watson
Jackson's Kong is shit tier mates. Overlong, too much CGI and retarded scenes everywhere, especially the fucking ice skating scene. Not enough Jack Black either. 2/10
Charles Smith
Didn’t Jordan Vogt get accused of sexual assault by some pornstar or whatever?
Oliver Rivera
SI is more of a monster flick than an adventure film/monster film hybrid the older ones went for. Both are quite fun though.
Kinda wish SI was longer and had more monster sequences, it also felt shorter too.
>Jackson triceratops swamp fish Brachio stampede bug canyon kong ann running from bugs & small dino 5 seconds of a giant dodo Rexes (vs. Kong and maybe another scene on their own?) Plus natives & the skyscraper fight
>Skull Kong treetrunk grasshopper & skull monster intro Squid vs. Kong spider bamboo skull monsters 5 seconds of killer birds
I feel like I might be missing something. Also, I wish they showcased the killer ants they mentioned in SI.
Jaxon Wright
jacksons kong was so much better than si which was garbage in general. also didn't help that i wanted to puke everytime brie was in a scene
Mason Lopez
>King Kong >500 pounds user...
Robert Miller
An idiot
Jaxon King
Jackson's Kong is easily better, Skull Island was shit. This isn't even a question
Parker Green
this. plus pj king kong was the closest ive ever come to crying during a movie
William Kelly
bries character was terrible and her chemistry with hiddlestan was nonexistant but she is a qt and a really good actor
Juan Thomas
His point is that some manchildren don't have the attention span to sit and watch a movie without posting their literally half-baked opinions on a Vietnamese sheepherding website.
Ethan Parker
Where is the trailer
Xavier Adams
I can't stand Jack Black. If I never see his face in anything again, I'd be more than okay with that.
Elijah Rogers
PJ’s Kong is for sure messy and has flaws, but it’s way better than Skull Island
Skull Island feels like another action flick while PJ made an epic that ended up having a lot of problems, but it still lands higher than skull island
Nathan Lewis
Do you even School of Rock?
Jonathan Cooper
Skull Island was as average as a movie can get. Perfect 5/10.
PJ's Kong I enjoyed a lot when it came out, but to be fair I haven't seen it since.
Ryder Robinson
Fuck off uridon no one cares about your shitty youtube videos and your shitty advertising
Owen Thompson
This
Grayson Powell
I distinctly remember that quote from the movie. Or maybe he said ton. Oh well, point still stands.
Cameron Kelly
Skull Island is the second worst movie that was supposed to be good I've ever seen right behind suicide squad. So shit like the room doesn't count in this category because I went into them expecting something terrible. But Kong Skull Island has like a 75% or rotten tomatoes. And it is just wall to wall nonsense. I love godzilla and kaiju movies but this was just a fucking embarrassment from start to finish.
Andrew Stewart
this guy gets it
Jeremiah Thomas
>watch Skull Island with friend >all she can talk about is how it's not even subtle with its message
Am I a brainlet for not knowing what fucking underlying ""deep"" message she was talking about? Is it 'humanity destroying nature/americans invading countries' or some shit? Cause that's not even a message, that's just kinda the plot
Wyatt Price
>it's a "marathoned the first 30 minutes of this kino, what did I think of it" thread but he isn't joking
Asher Martin
You never had a point to begin with my dude
Hudson Gray
The state of this board
David Ross
>user starts watching movie >stops >initiates comparative discussion online that he can't even contribute to since he hasn't finished the movie being discussed >but he's on a computer so it's normal >no sir, no ADD here
Jonathan Cruz
PJ's had its problems but it was a passion project and still miles better than that Skull Island extended universe launching shit.
Why say anything if you're not done faggot. Take ur adhd meds
Nathan Scott
Eh
Nicholas Gomez
Why don’t you fuck my wife first
Lincoln Ward
I unironically thought Kong: Skull Island was 10/10 monster kino
Ethan White
>dumb fun >a little too slow-moving Go watch cape flicks, child
Julian Allen
both are absolute garbage, skull islan had better cgi (on the monkey alone, the skull snakes looked terrible) and better camera angles, pj's had a better story and better actors.
Christopher Nelson
the initial contact with kong was the most retarded shit I have seen in an action movie. They just flew eagerly to thier deaths without retreating or even keeping distance. They displayed no emotion or reaction to losing 80% of thier force other than "well now we gotta go over here i guess" fucking pile of shit
Samuel Martin
PJ's was great and all, but the beginning and ending 5 minutes of each should've been trimmed.
The Island is all anyone really cares about, plus the Empire State climb.
Kong Skull Island was marred by some of the performances, but overall was still good.
Joseph Nguyen
Which movie again
Tyler Powell
Jackson’s easily
Julian Mitchell
they're both flawed but fun, although i slightly lean towards the latter
Kayden Wright
The film is pretty blatantly antiwar bro
Elijah Bailey
Skull Islands version has a man in an ape suit look and feel to Kong as opposed to PJ's gorilla feeling giant gorilla. I'm sure as he gets bigger foe the eventual crossover with big G his proportions will look even more odd.
Zachary Hernandez
I think that Robert just liked very much Apocalypse Now and the 60's vibes rather than finding an actual "message"
