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King Kong (4K Ultra-HD) (+ Blu-ray) [2005]

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For all our sakes I’ve no intention of detailing them all here, but there’s some really great stuff that any serious film fan will want to (somehow) find time to watch. Lovelorn and desperate for big-screen stardom, she hooks up with shady filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black), who whisks her and a makeshift crew off to a remote island, in the hopes of capturing "exotic" footage for a new potboiler. The film crew uses chloroform (supplied by the captain) to subdue him and, after a lengthy struggle, Kong is captured and taken back to New York.

Denham has a map of the mysterious Skull Island, and he pays the steamer captain, Englehorn (Thomas Kretschmann), to sail to the island before going to Singapore. The result is frame after frame that looks beautiful in a way no ordinary Blu-ray can ever look beautiful - especially the scenes in night-time New York, sequences that feature artificial light sources, and scenes lit using the classic ‘old Hollywood’ style Jackson is so keen to replicate. Scenes someti Even the actors and actresses scrape up some work, that is until one prominent vaudeville show closes and actress Ann Darrow has nowhere to turn to.The fight carries the four of them to the brink of a vine-festooned gorge, where Kong (never letting go of Darrow) forces first one and then the other dinosaur over the edge. When Kong is first introduced and Ann looks at the monster approaching her, the sounds of the giant ape uprooting trees and breaking branches fills the entire back area.

The natives grab the others and just as one of them is preparing to crush Denham's skull, Captain Englehorn and his crew show up and start shooting at the natives. His daffiness immediately blends well with the script that’s constantly taking stabs at his stupidity and blindness to nature’s wrath. At 188 minutes and 200 minutes respectively they remind us of Jackson's difficulties with editing himself – and the shorter version is notably superior. La versione Ultimate Edition include anche scene inedite, che rendono il film ancora più apprezzabile e che aggiungono ulteriori dettagli alla trama. Naomi Watts and Andy Serkis deserve Oscars for their work here; her heart breaks staring longingly into green screen, he runs about naked on all fours covered with motion sensors.That honor belongs to the presentation’s consistently jaw-dropping combination of high dynamic range and an expanded color gamut. The two main additions are a nearly 8-minute sequence involving a prehistoric sea monster attack, and a couple of minutes featuring a run-in with a triceratops.

Painfully overlong, horribly structured, badly cast, and containing some of the worst CGI I've ever seen, I couldn't wait for Kong to finally fall off the top of that stupid building and crush Naomi Watts along with him, just so the whole dumb thing would be over with. But no, Kong goes on too long; particularly in this Extended Edition, which sees a disgruntled triceratops and a giant piranha push us well past the three-hour threshold. Finding the right balance between open-eyed wonder and reflexive cautionary tale has long been a huge narrative difficulty for any adaptation of King Kong to achieve.There is bit more visibility in the clothing, the buildings of the city and in the foliage of the island, but sometimes, this also looks artificial because it's being upconverted from a lower resolution source. An upgraded DTS X track captures every effect and every musical cue in every channel dividing greatly amongst the surround channels and balancing the dialogue and effects very nicely with the score and effects taking up the majority of the outer channels.

Oil executive Fred Wilson (Grodin) sees the chance to make his fortune when he stumbles upon a remote island whose inhabitants worship a giant ape-god named Kong. Then again Jackson was pretty chatty in all of his Lord of the Rings films, so I guess this was a natural progression for him. I’ll say that the performance Grodin is turning in isn’t reflected by the other characters, and that does cause the film to stumble quite a bit, but a big budget blockbuster that’s openly critical of oil companies kind of sounds like something that couldn’t be made today.With this part and the addition of a playwright Darrow admires (Adrien Brody), the course is set but Denham has other plans when an uncharted island comes to his attention and an amazing discovery is made.

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