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  Review by karsten ★★★★ 5

  I watched this in a class when I was super young but I barely remember it so I figured I’d rewatch. 

  Such an entertaining time. Something about the shaky stop-motion still holds up really well and adds a lot to it. Oh but it is also very sexist AND racist.

  “I love you”
  “But Jack, I thought you hated women”
  “You aren’t women”
  L M F A O

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 5

  94/100

  King Kong was and always will be a rip-roaring, dynamic, and stunning adventure film, overloaded with spectacular set-pieces and a classical sense of tragedy. The magical stop-motion effects still are unmistakably brilliant, and combined with the marvelous matte work, this 1933 classic is unrelentingly vital, never stopping and always providing a genuine aura of spectacle.

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  Review by Ian West ★★★★★ 11

  The special effects in this movie are the real eighth wonder of the world.

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  Review by ciara ★★ 3

  i honestly got distracted by the whole big monkey situation after the best conversation i’ve ever heard in a film, “i love you” “but jack, you hate women”, was delivered about 20 minutes in... i literally could think of nothing else for the rest of the film i was in fucking hysterics

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 4

  my sweet, large son.

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  Review by Owen ★★★★ 1

  simpanzee

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  Review by RetroMovieNerd ★★★★★ 5

  Several years before Citizen Kane, King Kong set a standard for the cinematic experience, opting for spectacle and breakthrough special effects. If Kane is a seminal film from an all-around quality point of view, then Kong is a seminal film that built the stage for future blockbusters like Jurassic Park. King Kong is the great grandaddy of the modern summer tent-pole action/adventure blockbuster.

  The special effects by Willis O'Brien were surprisingly sophisticated for 1933. He had shown off his work previously in the silent classic The Lost World, and just in that eight year time span between the two films, had perfected his technique. Stop-motion animation, matte painting, rear projection, miniatures--they're all used here to great effect and shock in…

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  Review by pd187 ★★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  she was fearless

  and crazier than him

  she was his queen

  and god help anyone who dared to disrespect his queen

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  Review by Evan Eaton ★★★★½ 4

  Unbridled creativity, so stuffed with technical sorcery you‘ll have to think up new adjectives just to describe it. Even when considering its world-dominating impact, King Kong’s contribution to the evolution of cinema is surprisingly more significant than one might first imagine. It’s widely known how Willis O’Brien’s pioneering animation directly inspired the magical work of the great Ray Harryhausen, but the real key to its importance lies in its record-breaking gross. Kong’s revenue is often credited as the reason for saving RKO from bankruptcy, rescuing the company set to produce what would become the world’s most critically revered picture. To put it simply, no King Kong, no Citizen Kane. 

  Wrapped neatly in a cautionary tale of the liberties artists take to…

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  Review by Den_of_geeks ★★½ 2

  “I guess I love you”
  “But Jack you hate women”

  Kong was down horribly bro

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  Review by 𝐏𝐚𝐨𝐥𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐆𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐧 🇮🇹 ★★★★½

  King Kong is one of the most powerful and enduring myths that cinema has given us. The film, brilliantly directed by Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack, is a reinterpretation of the archetypal legend of beauty and the beast. The couple of directors, in fact, places at the center of the story an impossible love, a bond as unlikely as it is unshakable, between a white woman, emblem of female beauty, and a titanic, destructive and violent monster. An invincible king who suddenly finds himself vulnerable, tormented by a previously unknown enemy: desire. The gigantic gorilla embodies the symbol of the rebellion of nature, shocked and offended by the arrogance and greed of man. In this sense, King Kong compares two…

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  Review by Justin Peterson ★★★★ 9

  (Criterion Laser Disc Collection)

  The original version of one of the greatest monsters in movie history.

  Some how I had never seen this movie, and I had a blast watching it with my 6 and 4 year old sons. The beginning did test their patience some with how it slowly it gets going with filmmaker Carl Denham looking for a leading lady to take with him to Skull Island.

  But once they make it to the island and Kong shows up they were glued to the screen, loving ever moment of the whirlwind of action that drives the story to its climax with Kong climbing the Empire State Building. I have always heard the special effects in this movie were…