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8/10. Here's why:

posted 8 years ago by IMDB_Vits
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KING KONG is terrifying, but also repetitive at times. The special effects still work to this day, but Fay Wray and Bruce Cabot have no chemistry. This was one of the 1st movies with sound and the makers clearly wanted to squeeze the juice out of it, because Wray screams her lungs out so many times! I know this was a landmark for monster movies and disaster movies, but I felt it was also a landmark for torture porn. I mean, the monsters' deaths aren’t graphic because there couldn’t be many close-ups, but the way the title character kills them is still gruesome. And after killing them, he moves their bodies around. And when the humans shot the STEGASAURUS and it kept moving and they kept shooting at it... Yikes!

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Any thoughts?

[–] spencerc2217 8 years ago

This was not one of the first movies with sound. Talking pictures began four years earlier .

As to the killings of the monsters, what do you want, the audience to be grossed out by graphic close-up violence like today's depraved pictures? King Kong was made when civilized values governed entertainment.

[–] millsey72 (10000) a year ago

I have to rate this movie only a 6 because its in b/w