Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: KING KONG ESCAPES 

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TOTALLY CAP!

@@adam6620 why do people find it so hard to have a celebrity live near you? They’re normal people it’s not like they’re living on some secret island, why do you think so many people MEET celebrities in the first place?

I LOVED MIA HANNA

@@angryboi595 Obviously they all live like Scaramanga, an assistant named Paco and all.

@Angry Boi Well, I’ve never stumbled upon them in a department store or on the street, so that’s why I haven’t seen any I know. However, my son is only 3 years younger than Millie Bobby Brown and a couple of his friends are about 2 or 1 year younger than her.

Incredible theory, this is official for me now.

Yup a incident that is now known as the 2nd Korean War spanning 1966 till 1969

I was thinking the movie was trying to point out she was NOT from one of the countries listed, and really was just from a fictional Asian country. I am impressed the listed so many countries, instead of the American way of assuming there are only two countries (maybe four) is Asia.

Really I had some inclination she worked for the Red Chinese considering the time of the films released.

Maybe she's from Hong Kong. (no pun intended)

We could throw Micheal Kelso in there too

How about Chong and Kong? Lol

Just don’t search Cheech and Dong.

Skillnogo He’s just stupid, stoned or not. 😆

How about a movie in which Godzilla, King Kong, Gamera, and Ultraman get high? And then King Ghidorah, Gigan, the MUTOs, Gyaos, a Skullcrawler, Gomora, and Alien Baltan are on meth.

Look what happened!!!

You got to wash your hands after you touch your pee wee or pee wee hermit won’t go to heaven

Look what happened

I really dont know how that kaiju became a fan fav. It is rather a basic design that doesn't really do anything special in his films

@David Schweighofer Sorry, not saying he is bad or anything he is just not one of my personal favs. But everyone has there own opinion of a character/movie. Heck I like Ebirah and he is just a giant lobster in a mediocar godzilla movie

Maybe king Kong thought she was a banana

Said argument was over who was actually going to make the film. Rankin Bass demanded it be directed by Ishiro Honda and the effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Toho said "No, it'll be directed by Jun Fukuda and effects by Sadamasa Arikawa." So R/B pulled out. Ironically enough, Tsuburaya did wind up directing the effects (at least partially) for the resultant "Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster."

Just a few tidbits here. -O'Brien wanted to make King Kong vs Frankenstein but John Beck stole the story from him and sold it to Toho behind his back. They wanted to have Kong fight their own monster instead and Beck agreed. O'Brien was left out in the lurch and was ripped off by Beck. -Toho didn't do the King Kong vs Godzilla sequel because the rights they negotiated with RKO was just for the one film. They had to renegotiate the rights for the second film and they felt they overpaid for the first film (They ended up paying $200,000). -King Kong vs Ebirah wan never made because Rankin Bass felt it didn't reflect their cartoon series enough. It had nothing to do with no Honda. That's a popular misconception. Toho was always eager to get money from American investors (like Henry Saperstein). There is no way they would have said "No" to American investors. -Kong was supposed to be in Destroy All Monsters but the license they got in 1967 was set to expire. So to avoid any legal mess they dropped him. Interesting note this King Kong suit was used in an episode of Go! Greenman in 1973. The character was renamed "Gorilla".

Goji73 hey goji fan, what's up!

Goji73 Willis o' Brian had nothing to do with toho he planned on making king Kong vs Frankenstein in 1959 and made a deal with john beck but beck turned his back on o' Brian and started pitching the idea to foreign studios toho saw the idea and bought the movie and changed it to Godzilla without o' Brian's permission and when the movie came out he died of depression ( I'm not kidding )

Willis O'Brien died before KKvsG was released in the United States. It's very doubtful that he saw the Japanese version.

Me too when I was 6 or seven I first sawthe war of gargantuas as my first kaiju film

@@Superior968 Yes War Of The Gargantuas is one of my personal favorite films too. Including Frankenstein Conquers The World.

He needs to be in the new monsterverse movies

​@@cinemaseeker2634 or godzilla Vs mechagodzilla or 98

@@genesismultiverse4896 Yes Chris Pratt possibly love to be part of the franchise.

He looks more like The Master

He looks more like Doctor Shinigami from Kamen Rider.

Oh you touch my tralala.

"A fucking alien."

jliller god bless you

Ken Kerrison better get T.A.P.E yup I went there

Ohh shit

Can't spell R.A.P.E. without A.P.E.

A.P.E is still better than things.

Me Too 🤣🤣🤣

Time stamp plz

I love it as well! XD

6:45

OMG XD

For real?

Probably but the license ran out

He played Doctor Shinigami in Kamen Rider.

@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 I KNEW he looked familiar!

Yes --it would make sense as one of his regenerated forms, at least in a movie production. There were two Dr. Who movies made around this time. Or at least he could be cast as The Master.

Someone at the BBC should take note

Godzilla and gamera :"are you sure about that????

They did make a skull island series and focused heavily on the other monsters and King Kongs biggest roll was as a secondary character in the last episode

Nahhh The movie wqs King Kong vs Frankenstein Godzilla vs Frankenstein was a proposed SEQUEL to Godzilla vs Kong

Not to mention an extraterrestrial three-headed wyvern that shoots LIGHTNING.

LoL

LoL

The funny thing is that he looks like an oriental version of the first Doctor. I mean look at him! The same coat, hair and hat! He has the black fez!

omg, right? XD

Thats because he's the Valiard

cringe

Michael Jr Sadgwar TALK ABOUT SPOILERS AM I RIGHT

She's straight bangin

IronPiedmont1996 she knows Kong’s name

Yes. 😍

@@teedup8995 soy rain I think your a simp

Love the hair and design, but she actually hated eho ever dub her in the film, though.

Adira

Hell, it's better than the 1976 King Kong

*L I B T A R D*

@Tadpolegaming Oh shut up!

@@Tareltonlives Nah!

I can agree, I totally lost it at that part of the video.

Goji73 Snake: I'm gonna get you (Dong.) Doh!

Still the best 1973

Classic Hanna-Barbera sound effects.

that bonk sound effect never gets old

Bone up on your Indochina history :)

Women back then embraced their natural beauty and enhanced it with good makeup.

@@davidalvarez5659 Found the incel

1960's waifu!

@@stephendecatur4510 found the SJW.

Classic american girl beauty back then.

Marshami absolutely.

And Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) is related to King Kong Escapes (1967).

MrAitraining which one the American girl of the Japan girl

Amir Bagherzadeh yes

She has a very sweet adorable personality.

or frankenstein conquers the world

Hell yes, Frankenstein Conquers! Unlike King Kong vs Godzilla, FCTW did in fact have two endings, and like A*P*E, it features a toy farm animal! Plus there's the whole insane mad-scientist-primary-color-test-tubes-monster-heart-submarine-bombing-Hiroshima-transplant-operation-nuclear-bombing-victim-cannibalism set-up to make the most jaded head spin.

Self Elevation Gargantuas (war of) the American version cutting all the hints and dialog to Frankenstein was AWSEOME....don't get me wrong Frankenstein's Monster (Karloff /Strange) is my ALL TIME FAVORITE Monster. .but putting him against Japanese giant monsters. .noooooooooo...now Godzilla vs The Wolfman (no man just giant Wolf Monster ) was on the right track!!!!

I prefer Madame Piranha myself.

@@DLRX lol the name piranha alone sends up a shit ton of red flags.

@@opie6272 lol

Yea she one of the best next to ann darrow for me. As one of iconic characters in king kong.

The movie is good until the overlong defeat of Dr Who. Just have Mia Hama kill him or have them kill each other while Kong saves the girl.

They used to replay this heavily on a local channel in the 70s, when I was around 10 years old. One of the greatest disappointments of my young life was that we never got to see Mecha-zilla and Mechani-Kong together.

Matthew Wolfstein you remind me of myself.. Lol. . we're def into our Godzilla/Toho movies, aren't we?... Lol... .

Indeed we are; I think the most information I ever got about Godzilla was David Kalat's audio commentaries on the Criterion Collection release of Godzilla (1954). Definitely a must listen ^.^

Matthew Wolfstein oh yeah... that's where I learned the right way of pronouncing "Gojira".. the Japanese way of saying Godzilla is 'Goh-zee-lah'. that's the right way of saying Gojira, not how it's spelled out.. that's it was originally translated to 'Godzilla', from Goh-zee-lah.. feel me?...

That was a great part of the commentary. In fact, a lot of the information from the two commentaries are well worth storing in one's head.

Matthew Wolfstein agreed!.. . . .those commentaries def gave a lot of good info!. . .

Brandon reminds me of Cinema Snob except entertaining and not making me fall asleep. I'm not even trolling, Snobs reviews bore me so hard that I fall asleep, and I mean every time.

Yes! Her and fellow Only Live Twice star Akiko Wakabayashi were rising Toho Stars (you may remember them in What's Up Tiger Lily) and appeared in King Kong vs Godzilla together and Wakabayashi starred in Ghidorah the three Headed monster. Sadly, Wakabayashi suffered a serious injury and retired from acting while Hama's star went into decline with the rest of the Japanese film industry in the 70s.

Tareltonlives Bizarre!

That scene doesn't feel right without that sound effect, it's so comedically timed