The Guns of "King Kong" (2005)

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I was falling asleep at the beginning of the movie (I was tired to start with), but about 10 minutes into it I woke up and didn't even notice the length. And when he started handing out the Thompsons like candy at Halloween, that just made my day. Very well done movie. Only one problem - it wasn't I-Max.

The only part that was a stretch (thinking about it afterward, really enjoyed seeing it) was the young guy who, apparently, had no experience picked up a Thompson and was firing short bursts and hitting the targets without hitting the guy they were crawling all over. But, hey, the script called for it.
 
grnzbra said:
The only part that was a stretch (thinking about it afterward, really enjoyed seeing it) was the young guy who, apparently, had no experience picked up a Thompson and was firing short bursts and hitting the targets without hitting the guy they were crawling all over. But, hey, the script called for it.
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i was wondering about that myself
i kept waiting for a round to strike jack


another question i had was with the first mate right before kong throws/kills him
he draws a 1911 and appears to fire a couple rounds, then kong picks him up
then he racks the slide before firing a final round

i don't recall where the hammer was, but why would he have to do that after already firing a few shots- it had obviously already been cocked? just one of those movie things?
 
Remake: the Movie

Saw an episode of Dark Tales from Japan where a Japanese guy
on assignment to Hollywood joked about "Remake: the Movie".

The period piece War of the Worlds was made in Seattle. People
in the UK hate it: costumes and props are just wrong for 1890s
England, the lamp posts and buildings are not 1890s English but
1890s American. IMDb.com has several reviews posted. I did
like the fact they kept the scene from the novel where a proper
young lady defends herself from ruffians by pulling a revolver.

I will say this about Peter Jackson's King Kong: it was worth my
time and money. The original 1933 version will still be my
sentimental favorite, but this'un is a keeper too.

One point about the guns: our ship captain who specialized in
transporting wild animals also had CRATES of new Thompsons
and Mausers? Was our tramp steamer a smuggling vessel too?
 
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.
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Uggh no. The only joy that book gave me was when I realized I could put it down instead of finishing it.

On the other hand if they completely rewrote the books so you saw the good stuff instead of hearing about them later, well that might be worth something.
 
MrAcheson said:
Uggh no. The only joy that book gave me was when I realized I could put it down instead of finishing it.

On the other hand if they completely rewrote the books so you saw the good stuff instead of hearing about them later, well that might be worth something.
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well your the first person i've heard that didn't love it :eek:
how much of it did you actually read?

book 3, a storm of swords was one of the best i think i've ever read
a game of thrones may have started slightly slow, but i thought it was every bit as good as anything ever written by jordan, and book 2 & 3 far surpass him :cool:
 
I saw the movie today, and I have to say to be an steam tramp ship it was mighty good armed. The captain with navy/artellry luger was a nice touch!

warthog
 
Carl N. Brown said:
One point about the guns: our ship captain who specialized in transporting wild animals also had CRATES of new Thompsons
and Mausers? Was our tramp steamer a smuggling vessel too?
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You make crates of Mausers sound like something unusual :D
 
You make crates of Mausers sound like something unusual

That many new weapons on a tramp steamer?
Every captain should have a reasonably stocked arms locker in case
of piracy or mutiny. Especially a tramp steamer in a B movie. (OK
King Kong is a Big B movie, but it is everything we always looked
for in a B movie. Oh, wait, there was no volcano eruption. Can't
have everything.)
 
Carl N. Brown said:
That many new weapons on a tramp steamer?
Every captain should have a reasonably stocked arms locker in case
of piracy or mutiny. Especially a tramp steamer in a B movie. (OK
King Kong is a Big B movie, but it is everything we always looked
for in a B movie. Oh, wait, there was no volcano eruption. Can't
have everything.)
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It had lava flows over the wall, that is ALMOST an eruption.
 
The remake was pretty faithful to the 1933 original. The natives were reminscent of modern zomby flicks and certainly didn't "ooga wawa" like their 1933 counterparts.

Observations: The tramp steamer took too much of a beating and should have been holed and sunk after being thrown against the rocks. When the crew attempted to escape in their boats they were the most inept sailors around. Firearms were accurate for the period. Mauser 98 with straight bolt handles, Thompson M1928s with 50 round drums, P-08, 1911, M1903 Springfields, Lewis Guns. The only gun I wasn't sure of was the AA gun on the flatbed of the truck. Was that suppose to be the 37mm gun designed by John Moses Browning?

Did anyone else think of the captain from Das Boote when they saw the tramp's skipper?
 
Sorry for the Late Reply...but

...with nothing better to do, I watched KK on cable last night and again, Captain Englehorn (German Actor Thomas Kretschmann ) was my favorite character. He did play the U-Boat commander in U-571 a few years back.

I always thought the best scene in KK was in the village when the natives have assaulted the actors landing party and are holding Jack Black down and about to decapitate him.

Then, the scene goes slo mo - and gunfire rings out and you see Englehorn staring down the sights of a Luger, the pistol goes off, his hand twitches with the recoil and the spent casing ejected. Then he fires again, same effect. Not a fan of one-shot 9mm stops I guess :evil:

I always suspected Englehorn (with his fully armed tramp steamer) had a bit of a shady past and indeed, might have been a U-Boat sailer in WWI.
 
Good lord, how in hell did this get resurrected? Did you actively go searching for any thread with King Kong in the title? I started reading the thread and thought "wow, a sequel to KK from Jackson? I hadn't heard of this." Then i read the post date :what: Blast you! :banghead:
 
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