Peter Jackson’s King
Kong is a film that’s always sort of haunted me. In case you don’t remember this movie was huge when it came
out, dominating a lot of the film conversation that year as well as landing #5
at the year-end box office round up.
It was Jackson’s first post-Lord
of the Rings effort and clearly cost unfathomable amounts of money to
produce with a lot of CGI work that was top notch, cutting edge for the
time. And despite all these
factors, any impact it might’ve had was wiped away within just a couple of
years. Nowadays people don’t even
bring up King Kong ’05 as an example
of talent gone awry like that same year’s Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory or as an example of major film with no impact
like we regard Avatar. What is it about this movie that makes
it so completely forgotten by popular culture? Let’s find out.
