Board Thread:Movie Discussions/@comment-24868748-20140518055647/@comment-25098873-20140715165847

Bioniclezilla76 wrote: Am I the only one who thought the King Kong remake was redundant and boring?... The first time I saw it I liked it but that was because I saw it before the original.

Wow, Godzilla fans are blasting it for not being EXACTLY like the original. Yeah so no original new concept aloud, this isn't a Godzilla movie because it wasn't the original. All of the Japanese Godzilla movies that aren't the original, those are fine. My god now I just want a bunch of sequels to the zilla movie to remind them what it could have been. You may well be the only one who thought King Kong 2005 redundant and boring. Mind you, I saw both the 1933 and the 1976 versions before seeing 2005. It wasn't exactly like the original, and has at least one distinct improvement over the previous films: at least this Kong didn't molest the woman.
 * rant over*

At the risk redundancy, let me point out that my disappointment over the new movie has nothing to do with it not being exactly like the original. I neither expected nor wanted that. What I did expect (especially from a reboot) was that it would capture the essence of the original, regardless of the exact story it told.

Just thinking about a bunch of sequels to the 1998 abomination is going to be enough to give me nightmares for a week. Thanks.