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Title: Jackson's amazing ignorance
Review: Through all the hype for this movie, you constantly hear about Peter Jackson's encyclopedic knowledge and love of the original 1933 classic film. That's why it's amazing to see how much he didn't learn from the original Kong. In 1933, the producers and screenwriters worked very hard to eliminate anything from the script that proved superfluous or impeded the flow of the action. (That's the primary reason why the legendary "spider sequence" was removed from the original King Kong.) The tight pace of the action is what makes the original Kong so great. This new film is loaded with unnecessary bloat -- and lots of overdone effects just to please the people who like that sort of thing. In short, this film is a big disappointment and I was expecting much better.
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