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Originally Posted by urgeok2
as far as king kong goes ... why would you reuse anything origional in a remake ? thats a little too close to the source.
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According to Jackson, in the Kong doc, he professed his lifelong love for the film, and intended to remake it as close to the source film as possible. And for the most part, he did. The plot, characters and scenes are almost identical. But Steiner's score is also intrinsic to the original, and not including even a chord of that score in the remake was an insult to the great composer. But aside from that, the original Kong had punch and pacing that the remake didn't even come close to capturing. The finale on the Empire State Building was excruciatingly long and overplayed. I will take that old fashioned 1933 movie over the Jackson(or any other remake of it) version, anyday.