1976 king kong full movie
A pair of Region A locked, BD50 discs are housed inside the normal blue case on opposing panels with brand new reversible cover art and a cardboard slipcover. Shout! Factory unleashes King Kong (1976) to Blu-ray as a two-disc Collector's Edition. Nevertheless, while setting nostalgia and a dated story aside, King Kong (1976) remains an unintentionally funny and entertaining watch forty-five years later.įor a more in-depth take on the film, check out Peter Bracke's review of the 2007 HD DVD HERE.
1976 KING KONG FULL MOVIE MOVIE
Adding to the unintentional hilarity is arguably the special visual effects, which admittedly, were state-of-the-art for the period, but plainly seeing a man in a suit comes undeniably with some small degree of silliness, which I still remember being aware of when watching the movie on TV as a kid. And once again, Wilson is ultimately more comical than serious baddy. The biggest change in the story comes by way of Charles Grodin's oil tycoon Fred Wilson serving as the plot's central motive for Kong's unfortunate demise, and the character of a selfish, money-grubbing company executive was clearly inspired by the oil crisis from just a few years earlier. Making it all the more problematic is that filmmakers' evidently made an attempt at updating the original script for contemporary moviegoers, starting with Jeff Bridges's Jack Prescott as the 1970s sensitive man with his long, hippy hair essentially portraying a modern knight in shining armor to Lange's stereotypical damsel in distress. Ironically, this is also the production's most deliciously entertaining aspect, the sort we might argue to categorize the movie as a "so bad, it's good" variety.
The entire encounter, especially when the tribe leader bargains for Jessica Lange's hyper-sexualized Dwan, feels so ridiculously dated and insensitive that it comes off more comical and laughable than anything else. One scene, in particular, immediately comes to mind in this Dino De Laurentiis-produced remake of the 1933 classic, and that is the lengthy encounter with the native people of Kong's unnamed island. The plot of an enormous ape-like monster infatuated with a fair-skinned, blonde woman has always been riddled with some problematic racial and sexual undertones, and perhaps, no version of the fantasy adventure tale makes it as blatant and tangible as John Guillermin's King Kong.