Monster of the Day #1500

Updated on January 30, 2017 By Ken Begg 25 Comments

Monsters have not been in vogue for quite a while now, although the American Godzilla film did OK. And the company that owns the rights to him, Legendary, also owns Kong, so they will rematch them in a couple of years. We’ll see if that attracts audiences.

In the meantime, the now obviously supersized Kong will headline an orginal flick this year. We’ll see if that turns out better than Peter Jackson’s remake. That had good stuff, but that guy needs to learn the advantages of brevity again.

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  • Eric Balzer

    Speaking of Peter Jackson … Not long ago I was stuck in a hotel. As I was surfing the TV I came upon his last Hobbit film and having read the book I saw that it was near the end of the story so I stuck with it figuring there”ll only be maybe 30 minutes of movie left. It turned out that there was an entire hour of movie left to go, a full 30 to 45 minutes of which consisted entirely of characters jumping around on cliffs hacking at each other with medieval weapons. It was like watching someone play a video game.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Every time I try to watch Jackson film I keep yelling “cut”.

  • bgbear_rnh

    I am still trying to decide if I want to watch “Apocalypse Kong” .

  • Eric Balzer

    Featuring the secret weapon of the Viet Kong.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I could watch it if they have the VC and Americans work together to escape the giant gorilla. Heck, I’d watch it just for the giant gorilla.

  • Gamera977

    ‘How did you not see a fifty-foot tall gorilla Captain!?!’

    ‘Sir, he came at us out of the sun!’

  • Gamera977

    I’ve been told there’s a three hour version of ‘The Hobbit’ films where some guy cut out everything that wasn’t in the novel on the internet. I keep meaning to search for a download of it but never get around to it.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Smell that? You smell that? Banana oil, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that.

  • Eric Balzer

    How long could Kong possibly hold out against the US air cavalry or a couple of B-52s?

  • bgbear_rnh

    As long as required to fill up a two hour film.

  • Wade Harrell

    Jackson’s Kong had a great look, reminiscent of the production art from the original film, and I was pretty excited by what I had seen in trailers, I thought it was going to be like a love letter to the original. Unfortunately, the result felt more like he was trying to one-up the original instead of celebrate it. “Iconic fight with a T. rex? Ha, we have Kong fighting THREE T. rexes!!, take that 1930’s!!”

    The frustrating part is there’s a good, maybe great, movie hiding in there somewhere. Edit out, say HALF of it, most of the 45 minutes or so before they even set sail and the more indulgent (or riduculous) action scenes (dino stampede, Kong fighting the T. rexes while hanging on vines, etc) and you might have something watchable.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Kong will doubtless be bulletproof or the like.

  • Wade Harrell

    That’s the problem I have going into this new movie. Doesn’t he have to be four or five times the size of the original Kong to eventually fight Godzilla (which is how the Japanese version managed it)? And doesn’t that mean there will probably be no dinosaurs here? That was what sunk the 70’s version as much as anything else IMO, Kong without dinosaurs just ain’t right.

  • The latest trailers have dinosaur like monsters running around the island, as well as I believe a giant spider. Looks pretty cool, actually.

  • Wade Harrell

    That’s good! I’ll have to check it out. It would be great to see a really good modern Kng movie…

  • CaptNemo

    Well, the Kong don’t surf!

  • The Rev.

    I know you can trust a trailer only so far, but I like what I have seen Kong looks good, there are extra critters everyone can fight, they’ve got some strong actors, and the last shot of the first trailer was bad-ass. They have already taken care of one major issue with the Legendary Godzilla movie, which is acting chops (assuming they don’t Cranston them all, though I highly doubt they will). If we also get a higher ratio of monster stuff to running time, I’ll likely be quite pleased with it. We’ll see in a couple months’ time.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Imagine the tagline: “This time, it’s Cong versus Kong!”

  • Eric Hinkle

    Just watched a trailer. I do hope that they don’t make the soldiers all evil/stupid. And why don’t the gunships just stay out of Kong’s reach and hose him down with their Vulcans? Or whatever they call those tank-destroying guns now? I guess he really IS bulletproof in this film.

    Still, it looks like it’ll be fun.

  • Ken_Begg

    Well, he (or a relative) will be fighting Godzilla soon, so being bulletproof is sort of mandatory.

    I imagine the radiation that made him bigger–that seems the most likely storyline–will have also made him somewhat resistant to Godzilla’s atomic breath. Plus Godzilla takes a bit to prepare that now, and Kong is pretty fast, so he can probably generally attack Godzilla before his range weapon is prepared.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Don’t they know that it is beauty that kills the beast?

  • Flangepart

    > And why don’t the gunships just stay out of Kong’s reach and hose him
    down with their Vulcans? Or whatever they call those tank-destroying
    guns now?<
    In the 70's flick, they should have used the 7.62mm Gatlings (Same caliber as the 30.06 Lewis guns the biplanes had) as a stand off weapon. Choppers can do slow speed and hover like nobodies business! And lets face it…a TOW missle that can kill a 64 ton Russian tank can hand Kong his lunch.
    So…yeah, if kong ain't 'supered up' Godzilla will step on him and go "Huh, what's that between my toes?…it's usually slow soldiers…"

  • Rodford Smith

    I’m still waiting for “Anna and the King Kong of Siam.”

  • Ken_Begg

    Ugh!!*

    [*Or, I wish I’d said that.]

  • Chris Lutz

    For how successful LOTR was, the chaos that reigned in making The Hobbit is baffling. Anyways, the best parts of The Hobbit are the ones that actually come from the book. The rest is pretty meh.