“Kong: Skull Island” director Jordan Vogt-Roberts clearly paid attention to the criticisms leveled at Gareth Edwards, whose 2014 “Godzilla” reboot used a less-is-more approach to the massive, atomic lizard. By contrast, Vogt-Roberts gets the human-smashing, monster action going early and often. He loads his movie up with as many man-eating beasts as he can fit […]
King Kong
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The big ape’s evolution?
One of the greatest movies of the greatest decade in American film, the original King Kong addresses not only its own time, but perhaps all time — beyond its importance in the art of motion pictures, the great ape haunts the imagination, dwarfing all the other monsters in the crowded population of movie creatures. The […]
