King Kong Trailer Tonight

[Magneticzero]

Anyone else here pumped as I am about the Kong trailer tonight!!!

:rock

[EriatarkaESP]

Yup... I've already got my Tivo set to record it. :rock

[chosenbuffy]

It's showing here in the UK tomorrow at 6pm, I can't wait!!

[Wetaholic]

On what channel in the UK?????

[Agent23]

I won't be around to see it.

I'll probably catch it online tomorow.

[TURINS BANE]

Yeah, which channel is it on in the U.K.?:wave

[BTVSnut]

I'm not going to be able to catch it on TV due to work :( , but it's going to be posted online on this Volkswagon site (http://www.volkswagen.com/vwcms_publish/vwcms/master_public/international_portal/en.html) at 8:44 PM Eastern time (according to this article (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050617/laf009.html?.v=13). So I'll be tuning into the web version. I've heard it's excellent.

[TURINS BANE]

Well I'll look forward to seeing it, but which channel is it on.?

[screamingmetal]

The trailer will premiere tonight on NBC at the end of Fear Factor! (which is on right now)
:dance

www.nbc.com/ (http://www.nbc.com/)

[TURINS BANE]

I don't think we get that over here.

[BTVSnut]

Online NOW! - www.volkswagen.com/vwcms_.../home.html (http://www.volkswagen.com/vwcms_publish/vwcms/master_public/international_portal/en/home.html)

:rock

[Azog of Moria]

Yep volkswagon got it up early...

[RichardW]

Looks good! I'm glad to see they didn't place it in modern times like that other remake (*cough* War of the Worlds *cough*).

[Morgan the Raider]

Wow! King Kong looks very cool. I wasn't a huge fan of the LOTR movies, but this might be good.

[jlcmsu]

This looks to be very very awesome!!! PJ may have another home run on his hands :rock

[Agent23]

Looks very good from the trailer.

PJ rules. :bow

[screamingmetal]

I might be in the minority here, but I thought the special effects where a little bad in some shots. The scene where they're on the rocks and they hear Kong's howl for the first time, as the camera pans around the waves crashing on the rocks behind them look strange, as if they are not locked to the same ground plane the actors are on.
And when the camera is over head the what I think are Brachiosaur, the CGI Dinosaurs look unrealistic, also some of the shots of the environment later on in the trailer have the CGI background moving on a different plane then the foreground.
You really can't really see the problems on the Volks Wagon trailer, but when it was on NBC it was easier to spot the problems.

But this could be early CGI stuff that they have yet to fix.
The rest looked pretty good, I'm going to see it in the theater regardless of how the special effects look.

[Winged Shadows]

Looks promising.

Not sure about Jack Black though!

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[JSAuctionService]

@#%$ @#%$ @#%$! ;) :lol

Just kiddin' sm. Actually I agree - BUT I don't care at all.
I can't wait to see Kong whup on some T-rex @$$ no matter what!

Bring on da big monkey! :banana :carrot

JS :wave

PS - Yes I know gorillas aren't monkeys. :thwak ;)

[JSAuctionService]

Now that is a good one! I typed in b-i-t-c-h, b-i-t-c-h, b-i-t-c-h
minus the -'s and it automatically turned into @#%$ @#%$ @#%$!

The wonders of modern computers never cease to amaze me! :google

JS :wave

[Viking28]

Yea SM I noticed it also, probley just a early version.

[Gruson]

Yet another movie with horrible CGI effects...I was hoping PJ would make everything actually look real not have overdone CGI effects. Oh well. It looks ok but nothing special IMO.

[EriatarkaESP]

I'm actually very encouraged... I was never really looking forward to King Kong; I was only really excited for a new PJ movie, 'cuz hey, if it's PJ, it's gotta be good. (He did make Dead Alive, after all.)

After seeing this trailer, I think this is going to exceed my expectations... :dance :dance

[Hjalmarr]

I'm sold ;)

[Finrod]

Looks great! :banana

[dstephan]

I'd agree that some of the SFX seems unfinished, but overall it looks fantastic. I wasn't really looking forward to it at all, but this shows great promise.

[chosenbuffy]

Looks amazing!!

[pitchin4eva]

Here's a link to the Hi-Def trailer of King Kong.......the special effects look better in that version.

WARNING........LARGE FILE.......96.7 MB
AND YOU NEED QT7..........AND AT LEAST A 2.8GHZ CPU PROCESSOR

LINK (http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2F22W4U5CYYUB1UPLG26KI1L0V)

[Dassy]

Smaller 30mb Download!

Quicktime (http://kingkongmovie.com/ef239524432ba87f1ca8f70eed4b1fa7/en_large.mov)

[pitchin4eva]

Have to say....lovin' the music in the trailer....hopefully it's part of the Howard Shore OST.

[elwood49]

:sleep I didn't enjoy the teaser at all. I was really looking forward to this movie, but my anticipation is tempered now. I'm glad I cancelled my Weta Kong v. T-Rex order. I may really like the film, but there's no way I'm preordering collectibles from it.

It looks like the release of the original on DVD in November is the Kong I'll look forward to for now. The new Kong could be a fun movie, but we will see in December.

[B Electronic]

I wasnt expecting anything from this movie. And sure enough it lives up to my expecations. Its another Hollywood bluckbuster. I'm sure I'll enjoy watching it, but it doesnt look like its going to knock me off my socks...

[elwood49]

Its another Hollywood bluckbuster. I'm sure I'll enjoy watching it, but it doesnt look like its going to knock me off my socks...

Those are my exact feelings. I don't understand why this movie isn't being released during the summer. It looks more along the lines of a summer brainless "popcorn film" than character intensive movie such as LOTR that usually is released in December.

[Dassy]

release of the original on DVD in November

Hope they have found some footage of the `Spider Pit` sequence at long last,only ever seen stills.!

:peace

[TURINS BANE]

It looks ok, but i'ts not going to be PJ's best work. The Dinosaurs looked a lot better and realistic in Jurasic Park.

[Magneticzero]

There's still 6 months to go....a lot of these shots were done in 3 weeks to prepare for the trailer.

If anyone has been following War of the Worlds the effects got better and better after each trailer. Even LOTR's had trailers with uncompleted shots which improved over time.

PJ will not let us down....this is his dream project!!!!

[Wetaholic]

Yes, I am informed by reliable sources that the Weta artists all killed themselves almost to get it finished in time, but they are not finished effects shots by any means!!! They'll be doing a ROTK and improving effects shots right up until a couple of weeks before the films is released!!!

[Magneticzero]

Thanks Wetaholic....it's actually quite remarkable the quality of shots we have considering there is still 6 months to go.

It was just an appetizer:)

[Doomhammer]

Sure is no LotR but looks like great fun, looking forward to it :banana

[Lembas Eater]

This looks truly fantastic and I do not say this lightly. Watt's Scream is incredible. Jack Black actually resembles Orson Wells here, a fantastic touch. Kong seems a bit short but I think thats because we haven't seen him with true gorilla posture before.

I don't know if Frank Frazetta's Kong paintings were any influence but the vegetation of the island looks just like his.

I'm not looking at CG, I'm looking at fantastic creatures that are not supposed to exist. These effects will be worked on and improved (look at the Gollum from the TTT trailer and how much better it looked in the film, etc.) but I have no problem with what i'm seeing here.

I originally voiced my concerns about the Bridal Altar. After seeing the Trailer on an Actual Movie Screen instead of the postcard size Quicktime, I have some huge Crow to eat and boy, its tasty! What I was seeing is not the altar itself but Ann being "delivered" to it. I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN that Peter was smarter than that! How could I have doubted?? If any insiders read my original post, they're laughing and they're laughing hard!:bow :bow :bow :bow

It will be very interesting to see the emotional arc of Kong and the audience, not to mention Ann; the point being that you cannot see it from his first appearance. I understand this is a deliberate choice and a brilliant one: if it works, you'll be in tears when this ape falls to his death.

I just showed the trailer to my father, not generally a genre fan but a fan of 'classic' movies, and he was really excited, too.

In the words of Karen Mason:
"Can we buy tickets yet?"

[Gazmog]

Loved it! :rock

[Magneticzero]

Thanks Gazmog
:toast

[Nemo Nint]

I'm worried this trailer may push me over the edge of calm waiting into desperate anticipation!

*waits for it to download*

[WestBatman]

http://www.aintitcool.com/images/kkt/kk1.jpg

http://www.aintitcool.com/images/kkt/kk2.jpg

:google

Andy

[Nemo Nint]

Um, westbatman, it's a bit big! I can't see it all unless I change my screen rez...

any way of shrinking it please? :)


BTW...

I just saw the kong trailer...LOOKS GREAT!

Count me in on seeing it on opening night! It looks very stylish and sorta like surrealistic like Batman Returns, just in a 1920s way.

wah way way awesome.

:D

I'll ... just wait though. It's not as exciting as seeing the trailer for The Return of the King the first time. :)

[TURINS BANE]

I'll ... just wait though. It's not as exciting as seeing the trailer for The Return of the King the first time.

Yep those where the days hey.:D

[Magneticzero]

For those who liked it on your computer screen....it's 10X better at the theater...I saw it with WOTW and everyone in the audience was like OHHH MY GODDD!!!!

[Eleventy1]

Well, I enjoyed that teaser. Geez Im getting quite into this KK thing. Im certainly going to be getting a couple of the Weta pieces that's for sure.

WBM ...nice pic thanks. Love the KK one.

NY looks like they'll be in for a big time at the world premiere.

www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2...10,00.html (http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3329967a10,00.html)