"Give 'im another one!"
I'm really excited now about Peter Jackson's upcoming "King Kong." (You have to see the trailer.) The movie looks beautiful and Jackson, as he so amply demonstrated with, well, all of his movies, obviously "gets" his material in a way that lots of big-project moviemakers obviously don't. Judging from the trailer, this really does look like more of an update than a remake, keeping some of the original story elements and, most importantly, the beautiful '30's New York settings, adding supercharged special effects. The original, which I believe is one of the greatest movies ever made, did not need perfect special effects to punch across its every jolt, but now that these effects are available, that's the only way to make the movie. I hope that, no matter how good his new movie is, Jackson will push people who may have dismissed the original to see it. It's sitting rated at 7.9/10 on IMDB - this is a crime, in my book. Maybe, and this is an actual suggestion, the producers of the DVD can find a way to include the original.