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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: King Kong Trailer Debuts Tuesday, June 28, 2005 King Kong Trailer Debuts I should have posted about this last night when I watched it, but the first trailer for Peter Jackson's upcoming King Kong remake is now online. It's also playing on every print of War of the Worlds, which we'll apparently be seeing Thursday, so bully for us. The trailer is hosted by Volkswagon.com, for no discernable tie-in reason, but you'll probably have better luck using the mirror links on the infinite bandwidth KongisKing.net official fan site. The King Kong official site is also now online, but it's nearly content free and has annoying pop up windows for the tiny bit of content there, so it's really not worth your click. As for the trailer itself, it's interesting. I wondered how they'd do it, since King Kong is somewhat similar to LotR in that most people watching the trailer and waiting for the film already know the plot. I often hate movie trailers that give away the entire plot in order to make the movie seem interesting, but in the case of KK and LotR, PJ's sort of doing the trailer backwards; trying to make movies interesting to people who already know their plots. He succeeds with me and KK, though it's a good trailer, not a great one. Lots of time is spent pre-skull island, setting up Jack Black's movie-maker character and the desperation of people during The Great Depression, and then when they sail off to Skull Island all we get are scattered shots of awesome Aztec-esque architecture, ominous shots of strange natives, and quick flashes of dinosaurs, swamp monsters, giant insects, and finally Kong himself, as he battles a T-Rex for his little blonde hottie. There's no hint of the whole "capture Kong and take him to New York" conclusion, so if you didn't already know the movie's plot, you'd really have no idea what was going on at all. Which might be the whole idea, come to think of it. It's a good trailer though, if not quite as epic and majestic as the LotR ones were. The special effects look okay, but not spectacular, but it's often hard to judge those on a tiny trailer. Sometimes they look cheesy when blown up on a huge screen, and other times they're much more convincing on the big screen. The effects in both SW3 and Batman looked lame in their online trailers, but were great in the movie. Update: Regarding the CGI and image quality, check out this post on AICN with two photos in full quality of the charging T-Rex and Kong's face. (Scroll down and click them for the full size.) They are truly awesome, and as Harry the Knowles babbles on about in his post, it makes you wonder why movie companies with fantastic images in their films post trailers in such tiny size and shitty quality that everyone who watches them thinks the CGI is cheesy. Malaya and me are likely going to see War of the Worlds Wednesday afternoon, and I'll post something about how good or bad the Kong trailer looks on the bigscreen. Not to mention something about War of the Worlds, which is doing very well in early critical returns. Posted by: Flux # 2:42 PM Comments: Maybe it is just me but every time I see Jack Black in the trailer all I can think about is School of Rock, Orange County or the numerous other garbage films he has been in. Let's hope he is a much better actor than he lets on. It was nice to see that not every car on the street looked like it just rolled out of the showroom though. I guess that is something that the CG lets them do. Previously they would have had to rent all of the cars from the period which are either immaculately restored or rusted beyond repair in some junkyard. #: 4:54 PM posted by Donnie (aka Shadowtwin) Fortunately, I've never seen Jack Black in anything but Tenacious D videos, and while those are wacky and memorable enough, him being clean-shaven in King Kong makes him enough of a new person for me to forget the singing "rock your socks off" version. As for the cars, watch the production diaries on Kongisking.net. One of them from months ago focused on the vehicles, and they are largely authentic cars from the 20s and 30s, courtesy of various car enthusiast clubs in NZ. PJ and Weta seem to spare no expense or trouble in making things realistic for their films; at least since LotR. #: 12:26 AM posted by Flux Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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