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Title: No Progress in 73 years.
Review: First and foremost, the original 1933 version of King Kong stillstands as the quintessential monster movie. The special effectsare still unsurpassed, realistic and wrenching. The cast is perfect, especially Fay Wray who by herself invented the movie scream. the fact that the original is seen in glorious black and white adds to the films moodiness and mystery. In short, it is an unequaled work of art that required no further rendition.Now to the recent remake. I titled this review No Progress because as soon as I saw the action on Skull Island I realized that the CGI looked cartoonish, unrealistic, phony and remarkedthat 73 years later, film making took a giant step backward.This remake, like many others is a classic example of subtraction by addition. The sad fact is that many young peoplewill only know this colorized version and not appreciate theextraordinary vision and achievement of the original.No, it wasn't the airplanes. it was CGI killed the beast
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