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I think Jackson actually did his film a disservice in having so many homages to the original ... as if to point to it and say, "that sure was the definitive version."
As a repudiation of the 1976 film, this new one has a decent place in my heart as not letting the Jessica Lange version stand as the last word of the subject.
But Jack Black's pointless delivery of the final Carl Denham line was the film's fiinal, and 110th, reminder that the original remains a triumph where this remake merely entertains (and sporadically, at that).
Perhaps there was a little more to Ann Darrow in this one, but for every improvement in that regard there was a horribly over-the-top set piece that was absurd, uncalled for, and took me straight out of the film. I can't honestly say that the improvements outweighed the flawed comparisons.
Thanks, Snowflake, for reminding us of the beautiful way the death of Willis O'Brien's Kong was played. For all the CG improvements, based on a human performance no less, the central character of Kong has scarcely been improved upon.
What exactly was the point?
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