Posted on 01/01/2006 6:22:58 PM PST by DogByte6RER
King Kong: The Greatest Remake Ever Made
Author: Red Square,
Location: Karl Marx Treatment Center
Posted: 12/30/2005, 6:37 pm
The huge popularity of our original King Kong review has prompted us to do an immediate remake. Progressive critics (do we get to read any others?) hail Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong for many good reasons - except for the real ones. Those can only be discussed among the Party elites (and The People's Cube readers, of course).
The strongest subliminal message this movie sends is that of the moral bankruptcy of America 's culture of greed and commercialism and the crushing impact that it has on a heroic giant with the noble heart of a savage. Capitalist exploitation? Absolutely. Devastating effects of globalization? Of course. Western imperialism imposing its cultural hegemony on non-conformist representatives of indigenous cultures? You bet. Animal rights issues? Lots of them. Condemnation of bourgeois anti-bestiality taboos? Sure enough. Humanizing animals while dehumanizing mankind? Without a doubt. Justified killings of New Yorkers, the "Little Eichmanns" infesting the streets of a capitalist Mecca? Most definitely - especially if you are an elite college professor.
The film's tone is set in the first few shots, moving from caged animals in the New York Zoo to the so-called "free" homeless people, welfare lines, and soup kitchens in Depression-era New York. The importance of reminding us about the Great Depression - the epitome of capitalist crisis predicted by Karl Marx - can never be overstated.
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I'll wait until it comes to DVD. As always...great satire by the subversives at The People's Cube.
The reason to see this one is the special effects. Seeing it on the "tube" won't really cut it.
Unless you have a very large projection HDTV and a THX sound system.
Speaking of remakes, we voted GOP and got LBJ lite.
I stumbled in the '76 verion the other day and my 10 year old wanted to watch it. I remember seeing it as a kid and actually seeing the big stuffed doll on the Twin Towers.
Seeing it now, it has to be one of the worst movies ever made. Charles Grodin has to be the world's worst actor. I wanted to get my razor out and shave the hair off Jeff Bridges Face right on the screen, it was gross.
But, and this is a big but, Jessica Lange was H.O.T.
Another Moonbat conservative.
FYI, LBJ increased taxes, GWB cut them 5 years in a row.
Who morphed into the world's second worst TV talk show host just behind John McEnroe.
Both radically expanded the welfare state, and GWB's percentage of increase in expenditures is right along with LBJ's.
At least George, who I love dearly as a man with a lot of integrity LBJ lacked, runs a lot better war.
My gripe is that I haven't been voting straight GOP for over 23 years to get people who want to run the welfare state better and hold hands with the "loyal" opposition. My votes are for people to kick some butt and reign in the welfare state in particular and intrusive, bloated gummint in general.
Moonbat conservative....I guess that's me, along with a lot of others here at FR.
Ditto!
Another Moonbat conservative.
"FYI, LBJ increased taxes, GWB cut them 5 years in a row."
LOL! So what if he created a new governmental department,expanded others, allowed spending to explode, and created a new entitlement, but yep he cut my taxes, and promised to increase my grand kids taxes. So what I'll be dead.
Bush is playing straight out of keynses play book, pump priming with deficit spending. He cut our taxes temporarily but nothing is permanent, and he has promised in the longterm to make it so our taxes explode as entitlements bankrupt themselves as they boomers cash in.
but nope he is nothing like LBJ no sir.
It's easy to cut taxes, but it takes a real conservative to cut spending. And that token 39 billion dollar cut is a joke.
If you voted straight gop for 23 years, you are no moonbat.
I do think your criticism is misplaced. Today, the democrats are united to be obstructionist. Their only way back to power is to see the US and the gop fail, so they obstruct. The gop then needs 60 senators and nearly all their house members to do anything.
I think the problem is in the democrat obstructionists and not the gop or GWB.
Thank you for acknowledging my bona-fides.
That being said, a considerable amount of the blame resides right with the GOP. If a primary challenge develops on the right of an incumbent like McCaine, why does the GOP money fall in "McCaine's" pocket? How could we lose by supporting the more conservative person in the primary? This hypothetical "McCaine" isn't going to vote much different than a Dem anyhow.
Once I realized that the story was just a weak vehicle to show off some really neat special effects, I just kicked back and looked for the laughable boners in the film.
For example, it's the Depression, right? Therefore, everyone must be dirty. Dirty faces, dirty clothes, you name it--dirt everywhere.....except.....
when Kong drags Anne Darrow all over the Big Apple and hauls her up the Empire State Building in a WHITE DRESS, there isn't a single mark, smudge, smear, or blemish. NOT ONE.
I can think of about three true conservatives in congress right now. If the GOP did its job, there would be a LOT more than that.
George as LBJ Lite was a little harsh, but "Dude! Where's your veto pen?".
And I won't even go into the "Spider Pit" scene with the cockroaches......
Son of Kong?!? I never caught that one.
Although as a kid I always liked the Japanese King Kong movies...you know, King vs. Godzilla, and those Japanese movies with the Robot Kong were great too (in a cheesey way.)
> Charles Grodin has to be the world's worst actor.
And he knows it. He tested for the lead in "The Graduate".
That footage still exists, and some of it is in the
supplements of the Criterion Collection laserdisc of
that film (dunno about the DVD).
Grodin refused to allow any of his footage, or even
his vocal tracks, to be used on the disc.
He lasted such a short time; I never got to see his show.
Just think if Hollywood made a movie about a two gay gorillas, it would make millions$$$$$$$
"George as LBJ Lite was a little harsh, but "Dude! Where's your veto pen?".
True, but sometimes a little tough love is needed now and then. I just dont get why he allows so much spending. And allows the demobrats to get away with so much. He has allowed himself to become there wipping boy.
Grodin? Is he the guy with the world's worst taste in women? You know, the one who married Birdbrain Streisand.
No, that was James Brolin
Godzilla & Mothra, and Ultraman. Good Cheese.
I went to see it tonight...I would disagree with you. I thought this was an action movie extraordinaire, and well done. I don't listen to the critics...they are usually people like Siskel and Ebert.
And I didn't like the original King Kong. Even when I was a kid, I thought it was so fake I couldn't get into it. I know it is a classic, at least that is what the critics say, but I always thought it was lame.
This had some realistic looking creatures and action.
well, the new Kong is a little-bit unmasculine at times. the original kong would not have wasted his time watching sunsets or ice skating, like the new kong does.
the old kong seemed interested in Faye in a very sexual way, while the new kong is more like a friend/protector.
i think the sequel, "king kong II" will probably deal more directly with kong's ambivalence about his sexual orientation, and there may be a three-some to highlite this issue (i.e., kong, a cute boy gorilla, and naomi).
Just think if Hollywood made a movie about a two gay gorillas, it would make millions$$$$$$$
Silverback Mountin', the story of two politically correct mountain Gorillas. Technical advisor Barney Frank.
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