Jessica Lange / King Kong

[Glebb]

Posted: 6/23/07 at 11:02am

Caught some of of Jessica in Kong's palm this morning.
Anyone seen the whole flick? What did you think?

[tazber]

Posted: 6/23/07 at 11:37am

Awful, but fantastic campy fun. Kind of lame that they put him ont the twin towers at the end instead of the Empire state though.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 6/23/07 at 1:05pm

I'm in it! It's one of the worst films ever made, imo; and Lange is wretched in it.

[bschneid76]

Posted: 6/23/07 at 1:56pm

It's the film that almost killed Lange's career before it even started. It is a hilarious film! When Kong bursts out of a giant gasoline pump, I nearly fell off my chair.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 6/23/07 at 1:58pm

One of those movies that I remember loving as a kid, and being baffled that the adults around me didn't get. I must've seen it 10 times, I even had the poster in my room. I haven't seen it since, would be interesting...

[StageManager2]

Posted: 6/23/07 at 2:10pm

DD, I was just going to post almost the exact same thing. I loved it as a kid but haven't seen it since. I too wonder what my opinion now would be.

[NCGuy]

Posted: 6/23/07 at 2:45pm

I loved it as a kid, too, and caught in on TV for the first time in years when the Jackson film came out. It’s certainly not a great movie, but I don’t think it’s quite as bad as its reputation. Two things I did notice that I completely missed as a kid were how inconsistent Kong’s size is throughout the movie and how (intentionally) funny Jessica Lange’s performance is.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 6/23/07 at 2:52pm

To be fair, NCGuy, Kong's size in the original film was inconsistent, as well.

[Jon]

Posted: 6/23/07 at 3:20pm

In the poster, Kong is straddling the WTC towers. To do that, he would have to be about 200 feet tall - not 50 feet.

Updated On: 6/23/07 at 03:20 PM

[billygoatgirl300]

Posted: 6/23/07 at 7:21pm

Maybe it's just me but how is a remake of a 1933 movie original?

[marlomanners]

Posted: 6/24/07 at 7:02pm

The giant robot Kong at the end is the worst. It looks nothing like the man-in-a-suit Kong from the rest of the movie.

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/24/07 at 7:27pm

How Jessica Lange ever had a career after this film is beyond me!

I remember laughing out loud at her performance when it came out. I wasn't alone doing it, either.

The Kong effects were considered "wow!" at the time. It was an "event film." And now the whole ending at the World Trade Center has a whole new significance.