A neat idea
Peter Jackson's "King Kong" is faring much worse than expected at the box office so far. I actually think Jonah Goldberg is onto something when he says people are hesitant to go see it when they know in advance that it's going to have such a bummer of an ending. That's true in my case, anyway, and I've been excited about this movie for a long time.
But my wife had an interesting thought this morning: What if Peter Jackson had decided to remake the movie with a much happier ending, but had conspired with the media to keep it a secret?
That woulda been cool....
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That movie has already been made- twice. It was called "Mighty Joe Young". Giving "Kong" a happy ending would be like letting Romeo and Juliet elope to America.
Posted by: Paul Moore | December 17, 2005 03:55 PM
Are you familiar with the movie 'Brazil'? The one time I saw it on TV some suit decided it needed a happy ending and editted it so the dream sequence of rescue was left as the movie's ending...
Bah!
That just sucked.
Miserable, crappy, unhappy endings are so much better.
Posted by: Anonymous | December 18, 2005 05:55 AM
It's a terrific film. Anyone who doesn't want to see it because of the ending is a moron. If you recall, back in December 1997 there was a movie released which involved spectacular deaths of over 1400 people, and one of those deaths portrayed was of a character played by then-heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio, in a scene very similar to Kong's death fall (just one scene in KONG lifted almost verbatim from That Other Boat Movie).
That movie went on to gross over a billion dollars worldwide.
I think KONG is a summer picture, not a December one. People are still out shopping, not going to the movies. If it still does poorly after Christmas, then we can talk.
Posted by: Jill | December 18, 2005 09:57 PM