Kong: Skull Island

[butters]

no spoilers

best kong movie i've seen even if it's thin on plot - visually stunning, masses of action, some laughs, lots of 'ooooh!' moments, and a soundtrack most 40+'s will LOVE!

needs the big screen fer sure. tom hiddleston was easy on the eye and sounded super cool, too, and samyewel jackson? does what he does good *nods*

 

[rocket_surgery]

I enjoyed it. One of the better Kong flicks.

 

[Super-Surprise]

no spoilers best kong movie i've seen *nods*

Any gratuitous nudity?

 

[JuanVato]

I kind of liked it. I really did enjoy 1973 assets taking on the Monsters.

 

[butters]

newp

the heroine's perfect bewbs were perfectly contained in an invisible bra beneath a mostly dry grey vest top. not a hint of nipple through the material. don;t know about america in the 70's - maybe they already had the all-pervasive 't-shirt' bra of today - but in the uk lingerie was either very lacy and thin or industrial-strength pieces of architecture generally worn by matronly ladies. and those thin, lacy little numbers did nothing to hide a bit of nipple bumpage under clothing.

 

[rocket_surgery]

I kind of liked it. I really did enjoy 1973 assets taking on the Monsters.

It was wise of them to place it in the time period they did because it fits the whole King Kong thing well. Not too high tech but not too low tech either.
Movie was balls to the wall action with almost no plot but that's ok with me in movies like this. I don't go in looking for plot.

 

[Hard_Rom]

newp

the heroine's perfect bewbs were perfectly contained in an invisible bra beneath a mostly dry grey vest top. not a hint of nipple through the material. don;t know about america in the 70's - maybe they already had the all-pervasive 't-shirt' bra of today - but in the uk lingerie was either very lacy and thin or industrial-strength pieces of architecture generally worn by matronly ladies. and those thin, lacy little numbers did nothing to hide a bit of nipple bumpage under clothing.

Maybe she bought a WonderBra while in Canada.

 

[Magnetron]

no spoilers

best dong movie i've seen even if it's thin on plot - visually stunning, masses of action, some laughs, lots of 'ooooh!' moments, and a soundtrack most 40+'s will LOVE!

needs the big screen fer sure. tom hiddleston was easy on the eye and sounded super cool, too, and samyewel jackson? does what he does good *nods*

Fixed typo.

 

[Fata Morgana]

I'm going next week, can't wait. I love all the Kong films. I remember watching the 1933 version when little and blubbing my eyes out at the end. I love the bit where he's peeping through the window. And I remember vividly my mum taking me to see the Jeff Bridges version in the 70's and going for chips and sausage in the cafe over the road after! Love the last version too, I'd have stayed with Kong happily on that island but for those fucking spiders. He was so lovely.

 

[Bacigalupo]

There is a post-credit scene, if you do not know.

 

[trysail]

Can You Make A Movie With King Kong Without Perpetuating Racial Undertones ?

March 11, 2017
by Gene Demby

(NPR) This month brings us the latest remake of the iconic King Kong story. Considering the history of King Kong you might wonder if there's any way the movie can avoid racial tropes.

DEMBY: Kong, the giant rampaging ape who somehow happens to have a deep cross-species preference for flaxen-haired, white ladies - and this is where the racial antenna goes up for people like Robin Means Coleman...

ROBIN MEANS COLEMAN: "King Kong" was clearly also a metaphor for race, for black masculinity. That's the low-hanging fruit of black metaphors.

DEMBY: Coleman says you can draw a direct line from "The Birth Of A Nation," that defining 1915 film about the black male threat to white woman - and coincidentally the movie that helped resurrect the Ku Klux Klan - and "King Kong" in 1933. "King Kong" premiered at a time when black men were regularly depicted as ape-like...

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http://www.npr.org/2017/03/11/51984...g-kong-without-perpetuating-racial-undertones
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[lovetoread]

i'd watch loki in any movie no matter how bad

 

[jomar]

Fun movie, even if some things were laugh out loud zany.

 

[rocket_surgery]

Fun movie, even if some things were laugh out loud zany.

All Kong movies have those moments. Part of the fun.
Of course I've always wondered why everything is so big on that island. It's only explained a couple times and neither makes much sense. Prehistoric doesn't work because just being old doesn't mean really freaking huge. Underground works even less because there's less room and food so smaller would certainly better.
Of course we don't ask those questions because then we wouldn't have a movie. Like asking why they don't just leave the haunted house or woods where the serial killer hangs out.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Just seen it. Oh Kong.

I tell you what, there's not much to choose between me and Ms Lillith right now.

 

[butters]

lmao