King Kong - 1976 (trailer)

If I have to explain to you why this is the best King Kong movie of all time, then chances are you ain't never gonna see it my way. Frankly, how any viewer can resist the raw magnetism of this flick's godawful performances, ludicrous yet dead serious plot and dialogue, pervy Kong, and its laughable multi-million dollar FX is beyond me. (And I didn't even mention the presence of Jessica Lange at the height of her hottie-ness!) At the end of the day though, perhaps it's the sage obversation of "King Kong"'s hack producer Dino De Laurentiis that sums it up best: "No one cry when Jaws die. But when monkey die, people gonna cry." Right on, Big D. Right on.

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[szasz85b]

@Markus77x7 Peter Jackson is the BEST ! and King Kong 2005 was far the best of all three ! 2005 felt like a video game ? lol ? u sure ? would you please tell me at least ONE game that looks just half as realistic that the 2005 version ? "The 1976 version felt more real." well if you meant this for real you have SERIOUS issues !

[htpnk120]

1933 tops all :)

[GeminaMcVeigh]

i never seen most better handsome man than king kong.

infortunately im already married.

Sorry!

You should see the middle of the video when he tooks Jessica, the way he smiles, its so perfect.

[ronaldoavich]

hey, I'm no hero. I'm the dude man!!

[Calburtonreid]

peter jackson's clearly isn't the best , its an ok film but its practically a shot for shot remake of the original and dosen't introduce anything new at all and cgi NEVER looks good when organic creatures are involved

[Moviedirector94]

John Guillermin did a great job on this movie, idk why people goes down hill on this one, it has a good director, cast, music, i love everything about this movie and the king kong was pretty cool back at the time, Peter Jackson's was also good, but i think this was the best one...and the guy can only say King Kong two times not every 5 seconds lol

[5355vbxjbj76rvn]

@jpmacco

"Jackson's version is pretentious with too many close-ups and no heart."

## That's *exactly* the problem with Jackson's version - I knew there was something about his version that seemed a bit "off"; and that is it.

[5355vbxjbj76rvn]

On balance, I think this was far and away the best of the three KKs. There was too much CGI in Jackson's version; and he tried too hard to produce a new edition of the 1933 KK, which is an untouchable classic; his version was too long. This was just right; the changes were bold, but they were the right ones.

[ThePanzerfist44]

Petrox oil is the mythical evil multinational corp thats trying to exploit poor kong - watching it again in 2004 I couldnt help imagining petrox as the type of evil oil oligarch that the bush family might own with dick cheyney as CEO .

" brought to you by Kong .... and Petrox "

man I love that line.

[supercoolbrian]

@szasz85b its not just special effects. The 2005 one was also the only one to really have any caracter development at all. Okay i dont know that since i havent seen the 76 version, but I doubt its better.

[peterhugh12134]

a soo young Jessica Lange is why its the best - EVER !

[txstate89]

@jpmacco it was panned cause of the controversy that was cause during casting of kong. during casting this is what they said they wanted for kong "wanted: tall black man to play ape"