King Kong (Blu-ray, Ultimate Edition, Includes Digital Copy, UltraViolet)
The eighth wonder of the world.
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King Kong (4K UltraHD + Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 12, 2017
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kyle Chandler, Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black & Colin Hanks | |
Performer: | Thomas Kretschmann & Andy Serkis | |
Directed by | Peter Jackson | |
Edited by | Jabez Olssen & Jamie Selkirk | |
Screenwriting by | Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh & Peter Jackson | |
Composition by | James Newton Howard | |
Story by | Edgar Wallace & Merian C. Cooper | |
Produced by | Ernest B. Schoedsack, Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh | |
Director of Photography: | Andrew Lesnie |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
From start to finish, this is an extravaganza, a classic and a love story that you will long hold in the palm of your hand as Kong holds us in his.
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Behind The Lens
[T]he movie seals Jackson's reputation: He's the most gifted big-picture artist working today....What resonates is the story, which is a very human tale of compassion, greed, loss, bravery, creativity, foolishness, and love. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: B+ --
Jackson takes a slow and methodical approach to the story, with Kong not appearing until over an hour into the film. But like that first climb on a rollercoaster, once the action picks up steam, it is nonstop.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- [I]t has a marvelous fairy-tale kinetic grandeur....KING KONG attains a primal-pop romantic glory...
Entertainment Weekly
From dinosaur stampedes to tooth-and-claw fights with Tyrannosaurs to the titular ape's inevitable, doomed climb up the Empire State Building, Kong Version 3.0 is the very definition of spectacle cinema.
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Zaki's Corner
Jackson worked fresh magic at his Weta studios in his native New Zealand, where he had Kong do battle with prehistoric predators on Skull Island...
Rolling Stone
Kong is a showy, state-of-the-art popcorn movie, faithful to the spirit of the 1933 original but generously adrenalized with the best effects money can buy.
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Newsweek
Product Description:
Despite his origins as a low-budget filmmaker with a taste for the unsavory side of life, Peter Jackson has turned into an "event" filmmaker--someone who can conjure up a movie on a scale unlike anything we've seen before. KING KONG is his sprawling, epic remake of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 movie of the same name, and it is as big as the gorilla that runs riot through Jackson's rendering of Depression-era New York. Keeping the simple yet effective plot intact--a film crew travels to the mysterious Skull Island, picks up Kong, and brings him back to New York City--Jackson expands on this basic premise by drawing on the jaw-dropping talents of his special effects team to satisfy his thirst for the grand spectacle.
The movie posits Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, the starry-eyed blonde beauty whom Kong falls for; Jack Black as Carl Denham, a low-rent Orson Welles look-alike who drags the crew to the island to make his movie; and Adrian Brody as Jack Driscoll, a hack playwright who battles Kong both physically and for Darrow's heart. As the men struggle against Kong and the lumbering dinosaurs of Skull Island, Andy Serkis, who made the character of Gollum so believable in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, steps in to form the facial features of the mighty gorilla, lending a real emotional sucker-punch to the scenes between Darrow and Kong. But it's the final third of the movie where Jackson really delivers; his 1930s New York is stunning, and when Kong breaks free from his shackles and stampedes on a lovelorn trek through the city, then iconically climbs the Empire State Building with his sweetheart, it's impossible to not be swept away by the sheer beauty and sadness of the moment. While its three-hour length may prove daunting to some, the payoff in Jackson's KING KONG is ultimately worth it, proving once again that he is a director of breathtaking vision.
The movie posits Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, the starry-eyed blonde beauty whom Kong falls for; Jack Black as Carl Denham, a low-rent Orson Welles look-alike who drags the crew to the island to make his movie; and Adrian Brody as Jack Driscoll, a hack playwright who battles Kong both physically and for Darrow's heart. As the men struggle against Kong and the lumbering dinosaurs of Skull Island, Andy Serkis, who made the character of Gollum so believable in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, steps in to form the facial features of the mighty gorilla, lending a real emotional sucker-punch to the scenes between Darrow and Kong. But it's the final third of the movie where Jackson really delivers; his 1930s New York is stunning, and when Kong breaks free from his shackles and stampedes on a lovelorn trek through the city, then iconically climbs the Empire State Building with his sweetheart, it's impossible to not be swept away by the sheer beauty and sadness of the moment. While its three-hour length may prove daunting to some, the payoff in Jackson's KING KONG is ultimately worth it, proving once again that he is a director of breathtaking vision.
Keywords:
Action
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Adventure
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Classic
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Fantasy
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Science-Fiction
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Jungle
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Dinosaurs
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Sci-Fi / Horror / Fantasy
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New York City
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1930s
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Adventurers
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Based On A Novel