This was right off Lord of the Rings success, Peter Jackson had all the budget and creative freedom to make the exact film he wanted, and we got the best king Kong movie of all time.
@@Mystify0324 But this Kong if primal asf. Killing 3 T rexes whilst holding someone at the same time, and climbing up a sky scrapper and catching planes mid air is crazy for a 25 foot Kong.
41:20 he wasn’t just tired from Fighting all those 3 dinosaurs. He was also lonely because all of his family are dead. He was the last of his kind, dude.
I'm honestly surprised he didn't try to...repopulate...with Ann. Seems like an animal that was the last of its kind, when finding another animal that has similar anatomy, they would try. but no one would put that in a movie tho lmao
I love how Jack Black delivers the final line of the movie after Kong takes all those bullets and falls off the Empire State Building to his death: "It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the Beast." FUN FACT: Andy Serkis, who did the motion capture acting for Gollum from Lord Of The Rings and Caesar from Planet Of The Apes, did the acting for Kong in this movie. Also, this movie is set during the Great Depression.
You know, Fay Wray (the actress for Ann from the original was going to make a guess appearance and say that line) Unfortunately she passed away before production.
I remember a ton of special features talking about the backstory of the island. It used to be way bigger. But it sank into the ocean over time. The civilization used to be really advanced. They built the wall to keep the kongs and dinosaurs out, but as they sank into the ocean they got over ran. So now they use the wall to keep the animals in.
@@mavvynne444 not like this. This is all just implied through the environment. If it was the monster verse they would blatantly spell it out, much like an anime stopping for five minutes to explain something I could have figured out through context clues and better writing
The Empire State Building is absolutely a building and landmark in NYC. Fun Fact: The top of the building was originally designed to be a docking station for airships, but the high winds in Manhattan made it too unsafe.
another neat fact is that the original King Kong actually made it a popular NYC building and saved it from suffering a fate like other towers did, like the singer tower
This movie was such a huge part of my childhood, that t-rex fight is still one of the best fights ever and thst bug scene in the ravine still gives me fucking nightmares😂
At first this types of comments wore just jokes, till i realized how bad most cgi in todays times look like, i mean i remember watching the twisted metal show there was a scene where a car crashes into another car and that looked like it was straight out of a fkn mobile game bro 😂
I'm glad more people are checking out this version, it's an underrated epic. BTW times were so bad because it takes place in 30s (The Great Depression), they also show the Empire State building being built at the beginning, because that's when they finished it.
I haven’t watched this movie since I was 10, now I need to rewatch it. I forgot how good it was. The cgi was good too, especially for the time. The game based on this movie was actually really great too.
This movie also had a really fun video game adaptation that dove into the different types of creatures on the island. They even had an extra ending where you could save Kong.
Now that was a reaction! I love it when someone gets immersed in a movie and the characters without spending a lot of time criticizing it, if you do not like it, drop it
Watch the extended version. There's so much more to the film in that version, including giant killer fish, a ceratopsian attack, and more... Also, the 2005 King Kong is a homage to the 1933 Kong movie. Peter Jackson even had 2 of the gas grenades in the original film in his remake. Additionally, many of the creatures in the film are homages to old depiction of dinosaurs from the 1930s. Even the Brontosaurus, and Vastatosaurus rex (fictional descendants of Tyrannosaurus rex) were depicted like this. The raptors were also reused designs from his first attempt to make this film in the 1990s, and the 3 on 1 fight was based on the fact that the tyrannosaurs were supposed to be a family group. The insect pit was also based off a deleted scene from the original film, as is the swamp scene in the extended version. There's also a book called The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island, that builds off this film, showcasing many of the creatures that never appeared that were originally designed for this movie. It's very rare now, but I have a copy and you can find it on eBay. Also, on a separate note, I hope you'll do more reactions to the rest of Castlevania. Those were awesome!
I just watched the extended version on 4k Blu-ray yesterday thanks to Amazon Prime Day and I haven't seen the film in years so to watch the extended version for the first time was just so thrilling I was on the edge of my seat
There are water creatures too on Skull Island. In fact, a extended edition scene shows how Jack Driscol and Co makes a raft and float over the lake we see in the scene where Bruce Baxter decides to give up. First they're getting attacked by some water bugs that look partly like scorpions but they flee once a underwater dinosaur called the Pirahnadon appears and smashes one of the two rafts, forcing Jack to go underwater. As they make it to shore (with Preston struggle to keep the camera out of the water) Carl get the camera from Preston and tests it to check if it wasn't damaged and "luckily" gets when one of the sailors gets eaten by the Pirahnadon and Lumpy says "Lucky, that you got that on film, are you?".
Kong Skull Island is not connected to the 2005 film, rather it is a part of the Monsterverse which includes the Godzilla movies. Godzilla 2014, Kong Skull Island, Godzilla King of the Monsters, Godzilla vs Kong. You don’t NEED to watch Godzilla 2014 for Skull Island, but just keep in mind they have no real ties to the Peter Jackson movie.
The building that Kong climbs up is The Empire State Building which exist in New York. At the time of the original King Kong, Merian C Cooper was thinking of either using The Chrystler Building or The Woolworth Building as Empire State was still under construction. It was when Empire State were finished that he decided on to make it the building because it was the tallest building (at the time, it has been eclipsed by the original World Trade Center decades later) in the world.
The Venture Ship was done in several ways in the movie. They bought a ship from the 1950's and rebuilt it to make it look like the turn of the century (around the end of the 19:th century and beginning of the 20:th century) but they didn't film on the ship, it was mostly used for the wideshots. A big model version of The Venture was used when it approaches Skull Island and in some shots it is CG. Since filming out at sea is really difficult to do and you can't control the weather (those problems what Gore Vibrinsky had during Pirates of the Caribbean franchise) so all the filming on the boat was on a set that was either inside Kong Stage at Stone Street Studios, Wellington, or out on the parking lot depending on the shot. The interiors of the ship was filmed on sets in the studio with green screen for the port holes and windows.
I was like 8 when this movie came out and my parents took us for a late showing. This was the greatest thing I saw in my life at the time, but Goddamn, I will not make my children sit through a 3hr movie at 10 at night, smh
The movie is set during The Great Depression which lasted from 1929, when the Wall Street stock market crash, to 1939, which caused many people to lose their jobs and business went down, caused thousands to become unemployed. People got mass evicted as they were unable to pay the rent and most of them lived in shacks at either the docks or at Central Park, called Hoovervilles, named after President Herbert Hoover who was unable to prevent all this from happening or to help the people back on their feet. To help out the out-of-work people, organistations had soup kitchens where they could get soups and biscuits, though they went out of business pretty quickly. The year 1933, when King Kong was released, it was the height of The Great Depression.
If you like this, you'll probably like the monsterverse version of kong. And the order for that goes Godzilla, Kong: Skull island, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Godzilla vs kong.
I mean since you have been introduced yourself to Kong i think monsterverse is something you should check out it is I would say the level in terms of cgi so I think you will love that
This is my favorite King Kong movie. This is the Kong I wish they used in Godzilla vs Kong. This one seemed to “stand on business” as the young folk would say.
Kong protected Ann, because she took off the sacrificial necklace. If she hadn't, kong would've eaten her. The natives kidnapped ann, because earlier when ann screamed, kong responded, so the natives thought kong wanted her.
I'm so nervous that he's gonna watch the Monsterverse movies out of order. Hopefully he doesn't but just in case: Godzilla 2014, Kong Skull Island 2017, Godzilla King of the Monsters 2019, and Godzilla vs Kong 2021.
gotta watch godzilla next, then kong skull island, then godzilla king of the monsters, then godzilla vs kong then the monarch legacy series starts on the 17th. cant wait to see your reactions
There’s an entire book that goes into the world of Skull Island for this film. Unfortunately it’s out of print, but there’s a few videos that go over what was in it. I’d highly recommend it when you get the chance. The detail they went into for this film is WILD.
Very nostalgic, I have VCD tapes From this movie, and I always played it when I came home from elementary school, ah and it's one of the best movies of my childhood
This is a phenomenal remake. And I won't lie, it made me chuckle when you asked if the Empire State Building was an actual building lol. But I understand the question as you're not an American. The Empire State Building is one of the most iconic skyscrapers in New York. In the 1933 film, Kong climbs up it as well. In the 1976 remake, he climbs up the World Trade Center instead as the WTC was a more iconic set of buildings and taller.
Nah that canyon is what I call hell's pit... Always fun to show this movie to someone and see their reaction to it for the first time - so far the best was my little sister, with constant screams and tears
Almost 20 years later and that scene remains to be one of the most horrific things I’ve watched in my life. I LOVE horror movies, but I can’t think of any other scenes that filled me with such revulsion at the creatures and absolute dread. The mounting horror and desperation of the crew as they’re very slowly overtaken and devoured with almost no sounds other than the creatures and the men fighting to their last breath…we’re lucky Peter Jackson doesn’t really do full out horror films 😅
This movie is beyond amazing. It is by far one of the best monster films ever. I absolutely love the humans too. This movie makes the Monsterverse look like crap, and I loved KOTM, even comparing monster fights. There was a video game made for this movie, which was also PHENOMENAL. It had an alternative ending where Kong lives and goes back to the Island... I liked that version better.
This may not be in the conversation for best movie of all time but I'll say one thing seeing this in theatre as a kid who was super into dinosaurs and this kind of action/adventure stuff, nothing will ever top this viewing experience for me. This movie was it
You should be start the monsterverse bro 1.Godzilla 2014 2.Kong Skull Island (This is not a sequel to this movie) 3. Godzilla King Of The Monsters 4.Godzilla VS Kong
So Kong: Skull Island is not in connection to the Peter Jackson film but shares continuity with the recent Godzilla films. Consisting of Godzilla 2014, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and the film that all 3 other films have been building up to 2021’s Godzilla vs Kong.
King Kong 2010 is somewhere in my Top 10 films of all time. I watch it every year and it’s an experience I wish I saw in theaters in 2005, but I couldn’t because I was 5 years old😂. Hopefully on its 20th anniversary next year, they’ll re-release it in theaters. Also this film is better that Kong Skull Island.
The game of this was also amazing you played as jack and Anne, Mr Hayes, and Carl were you're allies through the game and i remember getting to play king kong for the first time when you had to save Anne from the dinosaurs 😂 only thing i hated was Hayes death he got stommped out by dinosaurs
This and minus one in my opinion are perfect adaptations of the original films, and the monsterverse is just the best mix of fun and action in my opinion, this and 1998 Godzilla were my favorite as a kid
So the scene with king kong opening and closing the V Rex mouth was Peter Jackson paying homage to the original king kong. He also took a scraped scene from the original King kong that never made it to the big screen (bug scene) and made it his own.
fun fact actually there was second movie also, where kong had child who was born from that kong cuz it fell coma. And in second movie girl tries to take small kong back in skull island. and third is skull island one. I saw it when i was child. but its not made 2000s it was made in 1980s or 1990s something.
The reason that Herb the Camera Man didn't climb was because he couldn't, he has a tin leg. It's not obvious in the regular version but in the extended version, after an encounter with a ceratops, you can see Herb lift up his right leg with his arm in order to get over a log since he has a false leg. In a deleted scene he shows tinkering with a spare tin leg onboard The Venture and he tells that he lost his leg to a sea lion when filming one (and it also crushed his testicles in a strong hint when Lumpy cracks a walnut with a nut cracker shaped like a woman's legs). It would have been better if they kept that part so it was more obvious that Herb couldn't climb because of it.
Director Peter Jackson appears in a cameo as one of the gunners who shoots at Kong during the Empire State Building scene, in a reference and homage to the original where Merian C Cooper makes a similiar cameo. He's a bit unrecognizable as he had his trademark beard shaven off.
The "Komodo dragons" are actually Wetasaurs (named after Weta Workshop, which in turn is named after weta, a big bush cricket native to New Zealand, those giant insects that attack Jack are giant wetas, they can bite really good) which are completely fictional and done specially for the movie (unlike the Brontosaurus, the Velocoraptors, the V.Rex and the extended only Ceratops).
The fact that at the start bottles of alchol are smashed on the ground, a destiller being destroyed and Carl Denham smuggles aboard whiskey in a case of lemonade, shows the movie is set during the probation when it was illegal to make or sell liquior, as a way to improve moral and decrease crime. The irony was that it only increased crime as people wanted to have a drink and sneaked to hidden bars, which would either be shut down by the police once discovered, or if they were corrupted, they would be bribed into not shutting them down. This would also be a benefit for gangsters who'd make alcohol and sell it illegally, funding for their criminal organastions.
Well the order of the monster verse 🥸is Godzilla, king Kong Skull Island, Godzilla King of the Monsters,and Kong vs Godzilla. I'm actuallly pretty excited they're your reacting to them🫠
The Kong and Godzilla films are called the Monsterverse. I highly recommend you watch them in release order, starting with Godzilla (2014), then watch Kong: Skull Island. Afterwards, watch Godzilla: King of the Monsters then Kong vs. Godzilla. 🤔
This movie completely destroyed me once they took my baby Kong to America. Exactly why i hate people and how they treat animals. Honestly cried so badly watching the end of this movie, broke my heart into tiny pieces. 💔 Animals have always been a soft spot for me, especially apes in particular. I hated Jack Black so much after this movie lol, yes King Kong definitely made himself an easy target by climbing up the empire state building but he simply just wanted to be with her, died for her.
Am I the only one who laughed so hard I peed when he said is the E.S. building a real tower or made up for the movie like wtf XD!!!, i didn't know there were people who didn't even know about the most famous old building in all of freakin NYC
For some context, those T. rexes are actually V. rexes. A descendant of the T. rex, and bigger too. They are also inbred, because there is no other choice on an island with a limited number of their kind. Also, that building is real. It's the Empire State Building. One of the most iconic structures in the whole US.
