King Kong [HD DVD]
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Movie Reviews of King Kong [HD DVD]
Movie Review: Higher Definition on Low Quality
Summary: 3 Stars
The WETA folks must have took the year off when they were working on King Kong because this movie looks horrible in HD. The compositing errors and weak green screen work are only highlighted by the HD DVD's quality.Movie Review: A Little Girl With a Little Curl
Summary: 2 Stars
For the first 45 minutes to an hour my wife and I were really pleased with this film. It was engaging; it started to develop the story and the characters, and promised to be really entertaining. In fact, it reminded me of how effectively movie makers of the 1930's and 40's could tell a story and engage you in the telling of it. Then, the main characters reached the island of Skull Mountain and the special effects began to run amok in the film much like King Kong ran amok in New York city.
Once the special effects were introduced, they violently (very violently, in fact) wrenched away control of the story from the director and began an almost non-stop convulsion, a flood, an avalanche, a torrent of mindless computer-generated effects. Kong stomping dinosaurs. Dinosaurs stomping men. Men stomping giant insects. Kong contemplating the sunset. It was as if the XF crew became addicted and lost control of the sequences, and could no longer discern when special effects were helpful and required to move the story along or when they were thoughtlessly trampling on it. Overdone? Holy cow!
At one point the graphics people push the story so far out of the way they decided, for whatever bizarre reason, that it would be really good to show King Kong ice skating in Central Park! They were wrong.
I was lured to this film because I was familiar with the story, and because this 2005 re-telling won the Academy Award for Visual Effects. In fact, many of the visual effects are stunning -- but only when they are not ridiculously over done, and that is not often enough.
My assessment is that when the film is good, it is very, very good. But when it is bad, it is horrid. Unfortunately the good part lasts less than half way through.
Movie Review: Good cause it played
Summary: 2 Stars
2 stars.
1 Star cause it worked
1 Star cause I liked the movie before I bought this
-3 Stars because it is SOOO sharp and picture is so clear. You can always tell Kong is CGI when in a scene with a live actor. I just wouldn't recommend anyone buy the HD or Blueray version of this. However the Dino vs Kong Scene is freaking awesome.
Movie Review: Great movie, bad price!
Summary: 1 Stars
I made the mistake of ordering this HD DVD on Amazon thinking it would not be in my local store. To my surprize I found dozens of HD DVD movies at Wal-Mart for 19.99 including this one. With shipping I paid over $32. I WILL NOT be ordering DVD's, or CD's from this site again! Shame on you Amazon!Movie Review: Visually stunning. But a terriable movie
Summary: 1 Stars
BORING. LONG. It stars Jack Black, which automatically makes it bad. But the drawn-out story just makes it worse.
On the positive side, it looks good. HD-DVD is a winner. And the fairly reasonably priced XBox 360 HD-DVD adapter is well worth every penny.