The Guns of "King Kong" (2005)

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If I was looking for giant monkeys and dinosaurs on skull island I'd strap a New Service .45 Colt on my hip and fill my hands with a serious dangerous game rifle... like .470 nitro double or a B.A.R. for 'camp defense.' :uhoh:

The Lewis gun is slightly dated by the '30s.

In "The Land That Time Forgot" the WW1 German Sub crew was accuraely potrayed as armed with Lugers and Mausers, and the slightly anachronistic MP-18 with a snail drum, which proves that even the lowly 9mm can still kill a plesiosaur, provided you put all 50 rounds into its head. They ate the plesiosaur.

I love those old movies.
 
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He's supposed to be making the Halo movie next. And THAT will have some cool guns in it.
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I hope they are faithful to the existing storyline, and I hope they cast the Cortana in the game to be the Cortana in the movie, personally.

I can't stand it when a director takes a well-known, extremely popular story and mucks it up B-movie style because they thought they could do it better. Exhibit A is Patriot Games, in which the genius screenwriters and director axed Clancy's hair-raising-but-entirely-believable ending and replaced with a B-movie chase scene that sucked like an Electrolux.

"Same thing with "War of the Worlds". The concept works fins for a 19th century setting, but it is hard to believe that any level of technology would be immune to our weapons yet still rely on manually picking up people."

Or some kind of technology to see whether or not the atmosphere would be safe for sustained living. Millions of years in planning and they didn't even bother to check the air! And not a single advancement in their weapons technology in that time either?
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My wife and I actually liked the War of the Worlds remake. I was surprised at how faithful it was to the original novel, aside from the necessary technology shift.

BTW, it wasn't the air that did in the aliens, it was the microbes. In Wells' story, the aliens didn't have pathogenic microbes on their homeworld, so it hadn't occurred to them to check for that on Earth. The planning period could have been a few hundred years, not necessarily millions (the concept of the machines having been there for centuries was chilling, both in the original and the remake).

The aliens' weapons rocked, though their remote sensing technology was a bit unwieldy to say the least...
 
I don't know if anyone here reads the Wheel of Time series
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I used to . . . but by around the 5th or 6th book, it became glaringly obvious that Robert Jordan was getting paid by the word.
About the 1890's version, the other day I bought a tape at WalMart of a strange UK version of the WoW which does the HG Wells original story in period mode in England.
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Is that the one by Pendragon? It supposedly had a $13,000,000 budget so I expected something on a par with the specials on the Sci-Fi channel . . . but instead they ended up with an embarassment that made the production values of films like The Giant Gila Monster shine in comparison. Too bad . . . a decent period piece could have been a gem.
He's supposed to be making the Halo movie next.
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Let's hope it turns out better than Starship Troopers.
 
GEM said:
Which he did - hilarious! When I was a kid, Million Dollar Movie played King Kong for a solid week, twice a night on Channel 9 in NYC. I watched every showing.
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That brings back memories.

When I was a kid we used to go visit family in NY for Thanksgiving. Every year, Channel 9 played King Kong, then Mighty Joe Young, then wrapped up with a Godzilla movie or two.

So what's the best gun for Mothra? :D
 
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Oh, I'm there.
 
jerkface11 said:
He's supposed to be making the Halo movie next. And THAT will have some cool guns in it.
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"Permission to leave the ship sir."
"For what purpose?"
"To give the Covenant back their bomb."
- Said by the Master Chief just after disarming a massive bomb the enemy had planted abroad the spacestation and right before he rode said bomb out an airlock and deposited it on the hull of the enemy flagship.

Coolest. Line. Ever.

When I found out that Jackson was directing the Halo flick I almost wet myself. I'm not normally a fanboy, but I will beg, borrow, or mug someone to see the Halo movie on opening night.
 
Coolest. Line. Ever.
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You ain't lyin.

I had no idea Jackson was doing a Halo movie...for that matter, I didn't know there was a Halo movie being made. If "Halo The Movie" and "Splinter Cell The Movie" come out in the same year, I'm not makin any plans. :D

Only thing better than "Halo The Movie" would be "Halo The Gun Shop." Gimme two needlers, one fuel rod cannon, and a side of energy sword, please!

S/F

Farnham
 
Some video game movies turn out well, (see Resident Evil) others don't (see Alone In The Dark or Aliens Versus Predator...if you've played the games you know what I'm talking about). Often it depends on how close the director sticks to the themes of the game, or somtimes if he deviates from the game on the right issues (see First-Person-Prespective in Doom). I do have high hopes for the Halo movie, but on the other hand there is the Hitman movie (great series that I highly recomend). They have cast Vin "XXX" Diesel to play Agent 47, a highly trained, highly profesional hitman (think James Bond's finesse crossed with Terminator's emotions and calculations). I fear Vin will just be to ganstah (yes, I spelled it with an 'h') to pull it off.:(
 
Vin Diesel as "47"??? That's just stupid. Patrick Stewart (not just because he's bald and skinny) would make a better 47 than Vin Diesel. Bruce Willis would make a decent 47, so long as he don't talk. Also didn't know there was a Hitman movie, but add it to Splinter Cell and Halo, and I've got my movie budget for the year spent.

For all you Hitman players...butlers suck.

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Farnham
 
Vin is allready signed, unless there is a massive uproar from the fans, (it worked to keep N'Sync out of Star Wars) it looks final.:banghead: Even worse, there is talk he may become the voice of 47 in any further games (not counting Hitman: Bloodmoney due out in March). Even though Ive been a fan of the games since day one, I will not buy any game with that :cuss: voice in it.
 
I think Willem Dafoe would acutally make a good agent 47 as long as were talking about computer game movies. If they do the agent 47 movie they have to have the brace of silenced 1911s.
 
Peter Jackson is a big time aviation buff. He's particularly a fan of pre-WWII fighters and owns quite a collection of aircraft and aviation art. The fact that he had a full-size replica O2C-1 Curtiss Helldiver (the same type used in the original) built for the new Kong speaks to his credentials as an aviation enthusiast and desire for contemporary accuracy. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that he's been just as dilligent when it comes to the firearms used in the film.
 
All I know is I haven't seen a true Mauser Gewehr on the big screen since the original "All Quiet on the Western Front." Somebody was doing their homework.
 
Just saw "King Kong" today. Overall, a great ride. A tad long at just over three hours (perhaps Jackson thinks the Ring Trilogy's earned him a bit of self-indulgence--so what's the uncut special edition DVD gonna run, four and a half?). Nevertheless, this movie has labor of love written all over it.

As for the guns, guys on the ship had Mauser rifles (straight bolts?) and Tommy Guns, the captain had what looked to be a Luger, his second had what looked to be a 1911, and the U.S. soldiers had 1917's. At least that's what I think I saw. :scrutiny:
 
Justin said:
Sky Captain freakin' rocked.

And King Kong is gonna rock even harder. Funny how it's taken seventy some-odd years to be able to top a movie that was made in the days when "the talkies" were just getting their footing.
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I agree. When I saw Sky Captain, I wanted to LIVE there. Eternal art-deco New York and exotic locales, miraculous P-40s that can do anything and have an oddly roomy cockpit, and, of course..."dames" in dresses that really, really looked good. :D
 
Tequila_Sauer said:
Anyway, I can't wait for this. I just love when genuine care is shown for a huge blockbuster undertaking such as this. Spiderman is what I always use as an example. It has real heart, which is rare for a film of that magnitude.
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The second one even moreso, I thought. Best possible acting choices for characters, and the "hands catching, then reverently carrying the unmasked hero", to me, absolutely DEFINED what a "superhero" movie ought to be.
 
Thefabulousfink said:
Some video game movies turn out well, (see Resident Evil) others don't (see Alone In The Dark or Aliens Versus Predator...if you've played the games you know what I'm talking about). Often it depends on how close the director sticks to the themes of the game, or somtimes if he deviates from the game on the right issues (see First-Person-Prespective in Doom). I do have high hopes for the Halo movie, but on the other hand there is the Hitman movie (great series that I highly recomend). They have cast Vin "XXX" Diesel to play Agent 47, a highly trained, highly profesional hitman (think James Bond's finesse crossed with Terminator's emotions and calculations). I fear Vin will just be to ganstah (yes, I spelled it with an 'h') to pull it off.:(
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Two words as to how absolutely, horrifically bad a video game movie can be, even if the original game it came from was highly original and had a good plot.

Wing Commander :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf:

And the ironic thing is that the GAME had actual notable actors like Malcom McDowell and John Rhys-Davies in it. The MOVIE...had nobody!

And this ignoble fate for a game in which the first of the series ended with a cinematic of spacesuited Marines raising a flag against an alien sunset in a beautiful recreation of the Iwo Jima memorial pose. Even WC Privateer reminded me more of Firefly than anything else, and Privateer 2 had Christopher Walken in it.
 
I saw King Kong last Friday and enjoyed it quite a bit. Some of the Skull Island stuff dragged and seemed a bit over indulgent...however...if you listen to Jackson, he explains that he wanted to make a movie that would WOW kids in the same way that the original WOWED him. If his mission was to give 9-15 year old boys a thrill ride I think he succeeded. Overall I thought the movie was exciting, suspenseful, funny, sad and sweet in all the right places. It'll make a gob of money....

While watching I saw the following firearms:
Straight Bolt Gew. 1898 Mausers
1911
Navy Luger
Thompsons (1928 variety with drums)
Browning 1919 MGs (in the planes and vehicle mounted)
The rear gunner in the planes appeared to be running a Lewis Gun on a swivel mount.
Springfield bolt guns (didn't catch the model)
 
what i saw:

one artillery luger
one m1911
countless 1928 thompsons
countless straight bolt handle mausers
several 03 springfields
several lewis guns
i think there were some m2's iirc

thats al on the top of my head.

i was surprised at the lack of BAR's.
 
Was the Luger a Navy Model or Artillery? I only recall a longer barrel...and just assumed it was a Navy model as it was in the hands of a German ship captain.
 
jkswiss said:
I don't know if anyone here reads the Wheel of Time series(I started reading it when I was 12, I'm now 24 and its still not done). Its been compared to LoTR, it would just make my day if Peter Jackson made a movie on those books.
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I just started another read through of the series (starting with New Spring) in preparation for when Knife of Dreams is available in paperback.

That said, perhaps the first 4 books stand up to LotR, but the back end does not, perhaps with the exception of Book 9, imo. Nothing happened in Book 10- it would be one really boring movie.

Not to say I woudn't still go see them all. :) But how many movies would it be, as we will have what 14 main sequence books and 3 prequels all said and done?


Personally I think a much better series to make for the big screen would be George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice & Fire." Now that is a spectacular series, that definitly is every bit as good as LotR, and doesn't get bogged down like WoT does.

I'm reading WoT, and every other page is detail. I think he went on for @ least half a page describing a teapot!



Back on topic: I saw Kong over Christmas, and wasn't dissappointed. I thought the beginning was a little slow, but overall it was a very well done movie. Kong was definitly a much more sympathetic character than I'd remembered, making it a much sader ending.
 
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