Joe Molotov

Skull Island. Ominous, ain't it?

Groucho

Skull Island

(this is the same name as the island in Dead Alive, BTW)

animalmystic

Thanks, didn't mention it in the trailer, he just referred to it as "an island" and I could't remember.

Matthew Chmiel

Just from the trailer alone, the T-Rex looked terrible. Which is sad, consisting that Spielberg was able to make a T-Rex look real over 10 years ago.

animalmystic

The dude swatting the giant bugs with his rifle was hella cool.

JBurns24

eh...that shot made it look like i was watching a trailer for The Mummy 3

DRG

Nice ripoff, Peter Jackson...



First he rips off Willow, now this.

mndtrp

Looks cool, but I still don't like Jack Black.

Terrell

Well, more like ILM and Dennis Muren were able to make them look real.

I too thought some of the effects were iffy. But it is still very early.

david12

Everyone keeps saying that everything doesn't look real, but I think that is what they might be going for. All the Skull Island shots have a ultra-technicolor-realism thing going on that I was into. I noticed it first when the film crew hears the first huge roar and the camera panned from the right to left where Jack Black was. Everything just popped out and sparkled like it never would in real life.

And like other people have said, we still have six months and Jackson will probably tinker with it until the very last second. If it looks this good now, I cannot wait to see how it improves.

And was I the only one stoked to see Jamie Bell featured more than Brody in the trailer. I dig this kid more and more with each film.

caligulathegod

Are they supposed to completely redesign the T-Rex every movie? So, we've seen one in Jurassic Park now no else is allowed to use them?

At worst, you could say it's slightly stylized.

Anyway, the size seems about right. The 1933 movie varied his size depending on the scene. This seems to be about the size he was most of the film, around 25 feet. If he was too big he'd tower over the T-rex.

Jackskeleton

blah blah blah. pretty nitpicking already.

I thought it looked amazing. can't wait!

Cygnet74

i worked on this trailer. none of the fx shots you see are final. they were given a quick polish and determined "good enough" for a trailer. they will be improved for the feature.

caligulathegod

I thought they said this was being done "in-house" by Wingnut.

Cygnet74

no, the trailer was not cut by anyone at wingnut. also worked with peter for the entire LOTR campaign with the exception of the very first "crossing the mountain ridge" teaser. i don't know who is doing the kong fx work though, maybe that's what you meant by in-house?

Chew

Awesome trailer in HD. I can't wait to see the final result.

wm lopez

Kong's eye close up didn't look as good as 1976's King Kong, but better than the 1960's Japan Kong from King Kong vs. Godzilla.

treszoks

I thought it looked cool but I have to admit it's hard to imagine Jack Black in a "serious" role.

JLB

Anyone have the trailer in a form other than .mov? I don't have quicktime and cannot load it on my laptop.

Groucho

Oh, I don't think it's really that serious. In the original that character was pretty goofy.

Geofferson

I thought it looked pretty good as well. Can't wait for December!

neiname

I agree, I was not impressed at all.

Zodiac_Speaking

I don't care if it sucks or its cool, at long last it brings out the 1933 version on DVD.

JLB

agreed! looking forward to that!

JLB

I haven't found a non-.mov version yet, but on the KongIsKing website, they have a frame by frame breakdown of the trailer. Kind of neat.

IMHO, I am very psyched for this movie. The original was great. The 80's version, campy but fun and I guess good for its era. In hindsight I like the original much better than the 80s version.

I think I will like the new version a lot. Maybe strictly for a modern (technically) take on the 1930's version. Will I like it more than the original? Don't know, but I could see owning the DVD of both the original and this version, and not owning the 1980's version......