Benig a fan of the 1933 King Kong, my family obviously knew this so one of my Christmas presents was the 1933 version and this version (Peter Jackson's version (thankfully wasn't out yet.) And this was not better than the original, it's a dang good match for it. Charles Grodin did a fantastic job as the greedy oil company owner that we are strangely feel sorry for him when he dies. Jessica Lange did a good job too. But Jeff Bridges however, was superb as his role as a scientist/environmentalist who'll be very, I repeat, very angry if they kill Kong, which they sadly, in the end, do.
The directors (including the one and only Dino De Laurietes)obviously realized from the start that they could not duplicate the spirit created in the original (another mistake Peter Jackson did) they decided to go for modern and replace it the Empire State Building with the World Trade center (which makes this Kong death a grim reminder of 9/11) and added more dark humor, but it's almost impossible impossible for being angry at them for leaving out the dinosaurs.
The directors (including the one and only Dino De Laurietes)obviously realized from the start that they could not duplicate the spirit created in the original (another mistake Peter Jackson did) they decided to go for modern and replace it the Empire State Building with the World Trade center (which makes this Kong death a grim reminder of 9/11) and added more dark humor, but it's almost impossible impossible for being angry at them for leaving out the dinosaurs.