1933 Directed by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
An adventure film about a film crew in search of a monster on a remote island. The crew finds King Kong and decides to take him back to New York as a money making spectacle. The film is a masterpiece of Stop-Motion in filmmaking history and inspired a line of King Kong films.
"The Eighth Wonder of the World"
Often times I wonder what it was like to see classics up on the big screen when they were first released. At that point, they had no idea how much of the entire landscape of the medium would be changed within a mere hundred minutes.
Think about how lucky we must be to witness some of our own, soon to be, hopefully, classics. The ones that shape our decade, or create an entirely new means of showcasing the medium. But at these points, we don't know. We have no idea what will go down in film history and what will simply be dust in the wind.
This is not what we get here.
This…
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.
Do you hate monkeys? Then don't watch this movie. It's got one of the biggest monkeys I've ever seen.
Film #10 of Project 30
” He was a king and a god in the world he knew, but now he comes to civilization, merely a captive, a show to gratify your curiosity. Ladies and gentlemen, look at Kong: the Eighth Wonder of the World!”
This is as amazing as it can get. A wonderful and staggering action-adventure which after all these years is still breathtaking and pleasing. The most astonishing thing about this top-notch thriller from 1933 is that it hasn't aged at all, of course Kong looks quite strange with the stop-motion animation but surprisingly the film’s action scenes and the overall visuals still look marvelous. Kong’s fight with the giant T-Rex, his madness in the streets of…
The stop-motion for this movie is so good they should just give the dude who did it an Oscar every year to make up for them not having a category for it at the time of its release. A film of genuine awe and wonder, for which the phrase "magic" does not seem the least bit hyperbolic. Problematic as fuck, but in keeping with the tenor and the attitudes of the time. Quite a film to behold, and mean in a very New York 1930s pre-code kind of way, before people stopped being raging assholes for no good reason.
Ernest Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper direct this classic horror in which a gorilla is taken from his prehistoric island home to be exhibited in Manhattan.
Ernest Schoedsack, Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong had teamed up earlier to do the classic horror The Most Dangerous Game. Now, the team behind that movie team up once again to do this classic horror, which introduced the world to perhaps the most famous movie monster of all time.
Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong play the roles of Ann Darrow and Carl Denham. Ann is an actress and Carl is a movie director who go to the Indian Ocean to do place shoots for Denham's new film he is working on – set in…
A film that captured a generation and continues to inspire generation after generation to this day. This timeless classic was an innovation for special effects and gold countless timeless moments.
Hailed as the greatest monster movie and certainly the finest standard of movie making. Notable not only for the landmark effects but also its heart warming story, thrilling battles and sometimes corny dialogue. This film is a Hollywood masterclass on how to make films and it has never been surpassed.
Die Geschichte von King Kong und die weiße Frau könnte glatt einem Pulp Magazin entsprungen sein. Das was den Film wirklich so besonders macht, sind die Stop Motion Effekte, die noch heutzutage beeindruckend sind. Man merkt ihnen zwar ihr Alter an, aber dennoch sehen sie nicht „scheiße” aus. Das ist die Magie der practical effects!
Most people today will watch this movie and laugh at it, finding it over the top, the special effects painful to watch, and some might even find this masterpiece boring. But this film used techniques that no one had ever thought of before to make this picture come to life. The storytelling is excellent, the script is intelligent, and the special effects, though cheesy by today's standards, were far ahead of their time. There are even scenes in this movie that film critiques today still don't know how they were shot. This film continues to blow me away each time I watch it, and if you choose to watch this film for it's genius in special effects and powerfully emotional moments, I guarantee that you will be blown away as well.
The 1933 horror classic, King Kong, not only spawned one of the most iconic movie monsters of all time, but also created one of the most famous movie quotes and an incredibly successful franchise involving the gorilla. It's been over eighty years since the release of the original and studios are still creating films surrounding the legendary Kong. The monster has even gone on to join folklore and legends such as the Loch Ness Monster and the Kraken. With all of the history surrounding this movie, it leads me with one question: how did a feature with such a confused tone go down as one of the most recognized movies of all time.
The film does not appear, to me,…
I watched the hell out of this as a kid when my hometown still had a video store. Even at the age of twenty, I'm still overwhelmed by the fascinating relentless terror of the monsters on Skull Island. Sucks about how flat the characters are, but wow; that stop motion is really something.
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