How did Peter Jackson manage to fuck up adapting King Kong, right after finishing Lord of the Rings? Source material FAR more complicated to adapt for the screen... I think the set design, costumes, CGI, and action are still great (for the most part). But the writing for all the characters is godawful. Every dialogue scene is exactly like the corny LOTR Extended Edition, comic relief scenes with Merry and Pippin. Jackson took literally the simplest story to remake, and managed to add an extra hour of shitty, cringe character scenes...
>>220231476Because he also fucked up Lord of the Rings AKA the origin of capeshit
he had been thinking about LotR for years and years and had extensive pre-production time to focus on what really mattered. plus haven't you noticed by RotK there was already a ton of bullshit he was adding, like anything to do with Arwen? once you've watched The Hobbit it becomes really clear that Jackson's only storytelling habit is bloat and melodrama.
>>220231555saar
>>220231476What is it that you don't like?, that characters are making stupid jokes all the time?
>>220231569But If I remember correctly, the original King Kong was one of his biggest influences for filmmaking. He had probably seen it dozens of times, and was basically as much a part of his DNA as LOTR was... So I would expect it to have been executed with a similar level of perfectionism. As for The Hobbit... I've always let him off the hook for that one because the studio essentially forced him to turn it into a trilogy. Plus he had significantly less time to plan it than he did with LOTR. Of course, that being said, I agree that what's in the finished product is extremely embarrassing...
>>220231476His King Kong movie would've been near perfect if a solid 30-45 minutes was cut from it
>>220231555>the origin of capeshitUh you mean X-men
>>220231604But it's more than that... Not just that they're constantly making (bad) jokes, but also the overall tone of those scenes. The characters themselves are also very poorly written, in terms of their intentions, and what exactly we're supposed to feel about them. I'm sorry if that's too general a criticism, but I know I'm not the only one who feels that way about it. Someone else here mentioned "capeshit"...I don't think LOTR qualifies, but I would 100% say that that's what this movie felt like to me. In a way, very ahead of it's time
>>220231476I enjoyed it, effects were great and it had vision, not just a by the numbers rehash
Gorillas are so fucking cool
>>220231687Almost all mainstream movies have that thing of the jokes and trying to be cool. Take Predator Badlands as a recent example. Some people need jokes because if it's a serious movie they get bored or something. I don't know what is the reason exactly. Like I have met people that start to watch The Matrix and it is so serious and deep that they get bored of it and don't like it.
