Kong on the Two Broken Thumbs show

"Red Sanders" <rsanders.TakeThisOut@sss.com> wrote in message
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> "John Doe II" <firsTraveler.TakeThisOut@centurytel.net> wrote in message
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>> Watched the review last night.
>>
>> Not impressed. The animation looks too CGI. The Director (always forget
> his
>> name) was a nice guy in the original, now he seems borderline evil. And
> the
>> girl is no Fey Wrey!
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>
> Funny how we romantacize the beauty of actresses from old movies, just
> because they're old movies.
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>

I wasn't really commenting on her looks. The clips I saw made out to be so
sort of Laura Croft.
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"John Doe II" <firsTraveler RemoveThis @centurytel.net> wrote in message
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> Watched the review last night.
>
> Not impressed. The animation looks too CGI. The Director (always forget
> his
> name) was a nice guy in the original, now he seems borderline evil. And
> the
> girl is no Fey Wrey!
>
Nope, she's not "Fay Wray" either.
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On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:34:14 -0500, Russell Watson
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>Who's romanticizing? Faye Wray was just hot, period. Nothing to do
>with her being in "old" movies. Women from back in the old days did
>seem to have more of a "classic beauty" about them than a lot of
>today's actresses, though to some extent it could have been a matter
>of makeup and cinematography that made them appear that way. B&W of
>someone wearing pancake makeup definitely has the potential to hide
>some flaws that would be more evident using today's photography.

I think just the opposite. Black and white makes flaws even more evident ..
I waver on how beautiful the actresses of the 30's and before were. I have
thousands of photographs of women from that period, and the only real
beauties that come immediately to mind are Frances Farmer and Louise Brooks.
Others from the period, like Alice Faye and, dare I say, Jean Harlow and Mae
West, I find plain. Obviously all three had charisma, charm, and talent,
and were beautiful because of those, but I do not find them to be *classic*
beauties by any standard.
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Russell Watson wrote:
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> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:42:43 -0800, "John Doe II"
> <firsTraveler.TakeThisOut@centurytel.net> wrote:
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> >Watched the review last night.
> >
> >Not impressed. The animation looks too CGI. The Director (always forget his
> >name) was a nice guy in the original,
>
> He was? Opportunistic, exploitative, but all in all a nice guy. Yeah,
> that's it.

That IS it. The most amazing part is at the end when, after
his criminal negligence has caused the death of dozens of
people and wreaked untold havoc on the city, he is still
deferred to by the cops.

> >now he seems borderline evil.
>
> Or is it just a grittier, more realistic representation of his "type"
> than was in the original?

Yeah, the world has been waiting for Peter Jackson to
capture the real 1930's. Now, we'll know.

Lew Mammel, Jr.
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Lewis Mammel wrote:
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> Russell Watson wrote:
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>>On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:42:43 -0800, "John Doe II"
>><firsTraveler.DeleteThis@centurytel.net> wrote:
>>The Director (always forget his
>>>name) was a nice guy in the original,
>>
>>He was? Opportunistic, exploitative, but all in all a nice guy. Yeah,
>>that's it.
>
>>>now he seems borderline evil.
>>
>>Or is it just a grittier, more realistic representation of his "type"
>>than was in the original?
>
> Yeah, the world has been waiting for Peter Jackson to
> capture the real 1930's. Now, we'll know.

"Carl Denham" in the original was a parody of '33-Kong director Merian
C. Cooper, who had previously globe-trotted 'round the world with his
"strange cultures" documentaries ("Grass", "Chang") during the silent
era, went on to create "This is Cinerama", and apparently was *almost*
as much of a bombast in person--

Check out the documentary on the new Warner '33 disk for the details.

Derek Janssen (like our lil' pal Lefty says, "Rent a disk!")
djanss.DeleteThis@charter.net
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