The 'King Kong' aviation scenes

What’s interesting to note is that the flight sequences for The Aviator and King Kong look so different in realism by comparison, and they’re only a year apart.

Compared to Pearl Harbor…..

Peters certainly not afraid to go for the big films, and huge budgets. I dont think many people had herd of him as a director before he took the world by storm with lord of the rings.

If you’ve heard of Bad Taste, Braindead or Meet the Feebles, then you’d have heard of him. These were all low-budget movies (partly self-funded in the case of Bad Taste) he made before hitting the big time.

He also did The Frighteners with Michael J Fox, and Heavenly Creatures starring a pre-Titanic Kate Winslet, among other things, so it’s not as if he appeared from nowhere!

Have just been given a b###### from the missus for revealing said info.
I think I’ll get me coat.

I have herd rumours about them for about a year now. Knowing what Peter jackson has done witth his last films it would not suprise me if he is already busy working on it now.

A tip off, I have it on good authority that Peter Jackson is going to make the ‘Dark Materials’ Trilogy by Philip Pullman next year.
I think that this series of books knocks Harry Potter off it’s pedestal.
Filming to be in Oxford and New Zealand, script being written at the moment, filming due to start in August, my apologies if I’ve been given the wrong information, but I think thats it’s a wonderful series of books and have got very excited at the prospect of them being filmed, can’t wait.
Sorry, not knocking Harry Potter, but I do think that these are superior stories, and very complex, it will take up a great amount of Mr Jacksons time to make this.

I thought that these were already in pre-production and I hadn’t heard Jackson’s name in connection with them. I could be wrong though. The last I heard was that the story was being rewritten to remove any implied criticism of religion and God, which suggestion many found to be ludicrous and would have ruined the story. If Jackson is involved I have a better feeling about it.

Peters certainly not afraid to go for the big films, and huge budgets. I dont think many people had herd of him as a director before he took the world by storm with lord of the rings.

A tip off, I have it on good authority that Peter Jackson is going to make the ‘Dark Materials’ Trilogy by Philip Pullman next year.
I think that this series of books knocks Harry Potter off it’s pedestal.
Filming to be in Oxford and New Zealand, script being written at the moment, filming due to start in August, my apologies if I’ve been given the wrong information, but I think thats it’s a wonderful series of books and have got very excited at the prospect of them being filmed, can’t wait.
Sorry, not knocking Harry Potter, but I do think that these are superior stories, and very complex, it will take up a great amount of Mr Jacksons time to make this.

As long as he doesn’t have the equivalent of The Phantom Menace…

**shudder**

Eurgh!!

But look how Spielberg bounced back after that – Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, ET…..!!!

As long as he doesn’t have the equivalent of The Phantom Menace…

He will have the equivalent of Spielberg’s “1941” eventually. It happens to them all.

Michael Cimino – “Heaven’s Gate”.
George Lucas – “Howard the Duck”.

But look how Spielberg bounced back after that – Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, ET…..!!!

He will have the equivalent of Spielberg’s “1941” eventually. It happens to them all.

Michael Cimino – “Heaven’s Gate”.
George Lucas – “Howard the Duck”.

I think hes the nest Spielberg or Lucas. He certaintly has the support and backing to do it.

Last thing I heard was Jackson was gonna make a pet project of his, a movie called ‘Dem Bones’, I guess a horror flick or something since it’s one of his favorite genres…after that we’re supposed to get ‘The Hobbit’ and he has promised to do a WW1 aviation flick since he owns almost all the WW1 aircraft in New Zealand….whatever he does I’ll be looking forward to it the way I would a Spielberg or Lucas project…

M

I found king Kong went on for a bit but it was very well done and the flying scenes where very good. At times it was hard to believe they where actualy cgis.
It makes me wonder what film he will do next.
Around the world in 80 days?
20,000 leagues under the sea?
The Hobbit?
It will be interesting to see. He has a very hard name to keep up from lord of the rings and king kong.

Trumper-
I have a bad little habit of ‘theatre jumping’ after the movie I PAID to see has ended, i often sneak into another one and watch it, and I did catch ‘Narnia’ from the very beginning and was surprised to see myself looking out of the cockpit windows of an HE-111 during the Blitz!! Interesting start to the movie and not badly done at all! Saw it and a night later the newest Harry Potter, all three of which I enjoyed, but none moreso than Kong….a pure popcorn/fluff movie, but what a great effort!

Mark

Along the same lines ,i took my children,or should i say they took 2 adults with them to see The lion the witch and the wardrobe [well thats what it was called in my school days :D]OK,now called the chronicles of Narnia and i was very impressed by the opening scenes involving cgi He111’s during the blitz.
Now bearing in mind it was only an introduction into the film it makes you realise what could be achieved by the correct research and hi quality cgi programming ,maybe we can get some “extinct” planes virtually flying accurately across the screens in some films in the future.
I daresay everyone has seen these but worth looking at if you havent,
http://www.angel.ne.jp/~tochy/

I thought it was amazing! Flying bits were my favourite, I thought they’d only last like two minutes if I was lucky but went on for ages, loved the sound of them, can’t wait to get it on dvd.

I liked it. The flying scenes were pretty good IMHO. And dinosaurs! Fighting a giant ape! What more could you want? Not like you need a Tom Stoppard script with a film like this!

I watched the original a couple of days after seeing the Peter Jackson version and it really is incredibly close in many ways. A real homage, some sequences are pretty much frame-for-frame, word-for-word while adding emotional depth where it adds something and whizz-bang special effects all over the shop. Great stuff. Complete popcorn fluff, but great nonetheless. If you want Chekhov, go see Chekhov.

Daz-

Yup yup….good stuff….and gorgeously done….would love a still of that scene.

Off camber, hear about the pregnant 17 foot Great White off the coast of Hawaii that buzzed some scuba divers last week? BIG fish but everything went fine with her, one guy even got out of the cage and swam with/touched her as she swam by….amazing video…

Mark

I did hear about that – that would be some buzz! 😀

Toss him into the ravine with the giant carnivorous insects and tubeworms and let him fight his way out!! No, to be honest, having been in the Coast Guard and on a ship of roughly the same size as the one in the movie, we DID slow to a crawl in the fog off the coast of Portland, Maine in amongst the rocks and shore and were VERY careful, so I can see where you’re coming from there….but I thought the REST of the movie was a kick…

M