Cheddar J. Cheese wrote: Clavius wrote: Man do I feel pretty lonley here among all this hate. I gotta say I absolutely LOVED this movie (and yes I've been a big fan of Kong '33 for years too). It was simply a grand, old-fashioned adventure story AND a fantastic love story to boot.


I loved this movie (and the original '33). I held off buying it so I could get this one. While the 13 minutes are little, the 40 minutes could be 2 second "walking" scenes that just make it longer and not better.

Agreed with you guys. Anyway, Jackson is a filmmaker who knows what his film needs. Certainly I look forward to the swamp scene in all it's glory plus a hopeful pay off for Englehorn and his crew.

That is a damn sweet cover, though I'd have liked a theatrical tie in to Kong on Broadway. Anyway, special features and further deleted scenes will give this DVD plenty of rewatchability.

Yeah, mowing the lawn. That's a good euphemism

Ah S**te... Spread over 2-Discs. Oh well...no biggie...

i just hope they will eventualy put all the deleted scenes into the movie.....that would be great

I liked the movie, but I do agree that it was a bit long, especially in the first and second hours. The last hour of the film, I thought, was perfect. I already own the 2-Disc and will most likely buy this cause of the extras and awesome artwork. Hopefully, the added scenes will improve the film, however I think the film would have been awesome if it was only 2hrs and 25 minutes.

This is one moster of a set, Peter Jackson really knows how to please his fans

-standard DVD
-2-Disc Special Edition
-Production Diaries DVDs
-3-Disc Collectors set with extended cut

that is crazy.

Well, that settles it.....I will be getting this damn it! This is what we should have gotten the first go around.

KK 05 Cool art better than the movie Why ? THE MOVIE SUCKED thats why
Well Chris I misjudged and I apologize. We can agree that these new films suck and Ive been watching G films since I was a kid and found GFW to be so awful with bad acting, bad story, out of place music by Emerson and no Godzilla until 1 hour and the monster fights were shorter than a WWE RAW match ! LOL
The director for GFW had NO CLUE as to what makes a monster movie - epic monster fights. Monster X - Kaiser Ghidorah was a sluggish beast.
Back to King Kong, well Peter Jackson actually. This movie did not do as good as they thought in the USA, so it was quickly released to R1 DVD within 3 months. As with all PJ movies, you can expect a longer,longer,longest version w/ more stuff months later so that they can gobble gobble GOBBLE up even more of your hard earned money by double-dipping. With so many new titles that are coming out for the first time ever, I hate wasting money by double dipping for the same movie again, unless it has something more significant than the first movie.
Beavis and Butthead do America , The Transformers the Movie, Asylum, and maybe Texas Chainsaw Massacre(original) are examples..
It would not surprise me that still later this year or next year they release the Ulitmate Edition of KK 05 with the PJ chronicles that people spent 40.00 for that nifty box set.
Im glad I hated this film, saved me a lot of money...
I bet PJ does this with the Hobbit and other Kong films as well..

yes I do

Well, I was wrong... there are many more bonus features on the EE than I thought there were (and even the trailers to promote the movie are included, a rarity among Universal DVDs). No isolated music track, no multiple commentaries and no DTS = no buy for me.

The package art is very nice, though.

dsman71, if 71 is your birthyear, we only differ 6 years from eachother, cause I'm 28 years old. The only difference is I act my age and you do not.
 

I like the theatrical cut well enough, but it was already at least 30 minutes too long.  No way am I even considering getting this one.  I was kinda hoping PJ's director's cut would be shorter. :D

damn too long, but I havent bought king kong yet, ill be buying it  I guess....cool artwork but holy c**p nearly 4 hrs...like ROTK....

Well, I thought 3 hours was enough. But I got the special edition in March, but since there's about 40 mins. of extra footage and it's a 3-disc set, and it's relatively not expensive, I'll probably pick up the one w/out the statue.

thats not what your mom said after I banged her wildjem77 wrote: dsman71, if 71 is your birthyear, we only differ 6 years from eachother, cause I'm 28 years old. The only difference is I act my age and you do not.