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title = "King Kong (2005)"
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date = 2020-12-13
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tags = ["movies", "reviews", "fantasy", "2 stars"]
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[IMDB Summary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360717/): A greedy film
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producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous
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Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.
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If I could summarize it, I'd simply put "weird".
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Sure, the special effects are a lot better than the original version,
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done in claymation. But the whole of the story is simple... nothing
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new. I mean, there are movies that took the original story and update
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it to the current times, like "The Day the Earth Stood Still"; others,
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are timeless, like "Twelve Angry Men" (which shouldn't make sense at
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this time), but the only update from the original is that they put
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Jack Black saying catchphrases from time to time -- not that his
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acting is bad, the character just seems out of place, like someone
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acting the way they acted in the 20s with the rest of the cast in the
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90s.
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Again, the special effects are pretty damn good, with Andy Serkis
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leading the titular monkey. But, again, it's hard to put an excuse for
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a remake only for that.
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In the end, if they just coloured the original version and updated the
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visuals, the result may be actually better.
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