King Kong redone as an allegory of how we lost in Vietnam? And it’s good? 
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While it’s set in in Vietnam war era and features a buttload of Vietnam war movie imagery, it’s actually more of an allegory about American interventionism in general. It’s also a fun, somewhat silly movie that take itself a lot less seriously than that sounds.
Plus the monsters are awesome.
Yeah, we’re gonna haveta disagree. I liked the movie and Kong. It was fun and only a couple of scenes made me roll my eyes.
BUT, the lizard monsters sucked. Is it that hard hard for Hollywood™ to get people that know something about animals to consult on their monsters?
ETA: I loved the after credits stinger.
The Skull Crawlers (neat name) weren’t supposed based on any real animal - they were supposed to be chthonic monsters from deep in the bowels of the earth. I thought they were pretty scary myself.
I think King Kong 1933 is about…
A giant ape, probably last of his kind, living in a place unspoiled by modern civilization.
Modern civilization comes along, driven by greed, decides to snatch said ape and exploit him for money.
In the end, ape dies and civilization has again destroyed an unreplaceable part of nature.
Fay Wray is like the conscience that no one is listening to.
I mean if we are looking for meanings.
I don’t see anything in it about Black man(Kong) steals White woman(Wray)
I suppose someone looking for meaning to suit their purpose could find it in anything, King Kong, Starwars, etc.
I am pretty sure that Cooper, working from a childhood idea that kept growing, probably did not even have as the last thing on his mind, Black men stealing White women, he was simply fascinated by gorillas, and wanted to make a monster movie with them, and have them fight giant reptiles etc.
As for remakes, everyone always thinks they have a better story to tell, using someone else’s framework.
You’re right. They didn’t “suck” that was me being over the top. They were scary enough, I just didn’t like the design or movements.
I did enjoy the movie, though.
That name sounds stupid. You call them whatever you want.
Seriously, John C. Reilly absolutely tied that movie together.