King Kong

Pros: The score, Lange is gorgeous
Cons: Acting, effects, length

It's tough to contemplate why people remake classic movies. Sure the title will bring people into cinemas, but there is always a high chance you will set yourself up for a critical mauling by desecrating a cherished piece of cinema. Why anyone would even ...

Pros: Smidgeons of fun here and there; great scenery-chewing by Charles Grodin
Cons: It's a miracle that Jessica Lange had a movie career after this one

The most unfortunate line of dialogue in the second version of King Kong (1976) is when Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges), as proof of Kong’s existence, points to jungle debris and says, "Who do you think made that mess – some guy in an ape ...

Pros: The mechanical Monkey Hand is cool.
Cons: The movie actually was released to the public

At a social gathering recently, I spent some time wandering the room and polling my fellow attendees about their opinion on what could possibly be the worst or most ridiculous "modern day" remake of a classic film. Most refused to commit themselves to...

Pros: Any movie costarring an Oscar winning 6-foot tall hand can't be all bad.
Cons: The innocence and sexual subtleties of the original replaced by overacting and ludicrous dialogue.

It's so frustrating! There are times I want to rent something like "Hannibal" the first day it's out but know even Blockbuster will be copyless. What's the alternative? I sometimes go camp (not literally) and watch some idiotic esoteric flick that I...

Pros: Less a remake and more an update and character expansion of a classic original adventure-thriller ...
Cons: Terribly dated and weighed down at times by campy humor and too many '70s references ...

So much negative ink has been spilled over the years regarding Dino DeLaurentiis' 1976 remake of the 1933 RKO classic "King Kong" that many reviewers tend to forget that this is still one of the top-grossing films of the '70s with a lot to...

Pros: liked the WTC scene
Cons: humor is dated in this

I reviewed the Peter Jackson version of King Kong, and now it's my turn to review the 1976 version of the film. All in all it isn't a bad film, just has too many references that could have a lot of injokes later on. The plot for this one was set dead ...