Sentences with phrase «as king kong»

While he was neglected for over a decade, games like DKC and DK64 with Diddy Kong, put him back as king kong.

This dive is at our regular ocean blue hole dive site, also known as King Kong's Blue Hole, though we start at the opposite side.

Will it suck as much as King Kong?

That relative infancy of filmmaking is regarded as a golden age for genre features, a period that gave birth to such cinema landmarks as King Kong and Universal's horror tales like Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy.

Pitched as a King Kong origin story, this tale of mysterious islands and giant primates takes place in the 1970s, as a team of U.S. Marines fresh from Vietnam join a band of explorers.

Also, to Ms. Taymor's credit, she intelligently provides at times inspired touches such as — stop motion action shots, color tinting in brightly exotic desert shades, finely textured black - and - white sequences, shots of Diego in New York to do the Rockefeller commissioned mural against a lively Dadaist collage of the New York setting, Frida's dream of her hubby as King Kong, a puppet show in the hospital (with the help of the gifted Quay brothers animations of skeletons in the post-accident emergency room — the skeletons were copied from one of Frida's paintings).

«The Forgotten Studio» - an eye - opening look at RKO Radio Pictures, which gave us such classics as King Kong and the many dance musicals of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

The list of movie buildings collated by Construction Manager magazine using film critics include such movies as King Kong, Die Hard, The Shining, Get Carter and Blade Runner.

The heart of the operation is the War Room (also known as the King Kong room), where staff gather to control the launch of a new series.

Not exact matches

Thursday's exchange was expected to produce a new record poster price tag, however, the rare movie memorabilia came bundled with several other classic posters for films such as «King Kong» and «The Invisible Man,» so the sale did not qualify.

The Raikes opened their first Larry's Giant Subs in 1982 and incorporated into the company logo the image of King Kong on the Empire State Building, holding a giant sandwich as a tribute to their home state and their larger - than - life sandwiches.

The Raikes opened their first Larry's Giant Subs in 1982 and incorporated into the company logo the image of King Kong on the Empire State Building, holding a giant sandwich as a tribute to their home state and their larger - than - life sandwiches.

Yellow orchids trail in the river, similarly colored butterflies dance over it, and as the mind wanders in the noonday heat, the ululations of the howler monkeys make it no great imaginative feat to conjure up the towering image of King Kong ripping down the 200 - foot - high, mist - wreathed cedars that stand all around.

But from these scraps, we are slowly piecing together an image of this real - life King Kong -LRB-... or — as portrayed in this year's remake of The Jungle Book — King Louie), how it lived and why it eventually vanished from the face of the planet.

While Peter Jackson's King Kong had some serious issues, it is clear he was still trying to make something unique and memorable as a filmmaker whereas Kong: Skull Island just wants to look good and cash a check.

Very loosely based on the video game franchise of the same name, «Rampage» manages to screw up the source material's signature idea: The 1986 arcade cabinet was so popular because it flipped «King Kong» on its head and allowed players to control a trio of gigantic monsters as they fended off military forces and reduced Earth's cities to rubble.

For those who never dropped a quarter to play a video game, the arcade classic Rampage offered players the chance to destroy one city after another as one of three giant monster archetypes: a crypto - King Kong gorilla, a pseudo-Godzilla lizard, and a «we need a third giant animal» wolf.

He has also appeared in several films such as Prince of the City, The World According to Garp, Jumpin» Jack Flash, King Kong Lives, and Wolfen.

Much as I love King Kong, I'm growing bored of him.

He can be spotted in tiny, anonymous roles in a multitude of early -»30s movies, including King Kong (1933)(as a reporter) and one Three Stooges short.

His most famous role while at RKO was as the heroic Jack Driscoll in King Kong (1933), rescuing Fay Wray from the hairy paws of the 50 - foot ape.

I didn't mind Brody as an action hero in King Kong, but the difference here is that Brody seems to be acting tough.

Jackson's sense of the ridiculous hasn't lessened, so whilst proceedings don't get as OTT as, say, the dinosaur stampede in King Kong, there are some pretty outlandish moments.

As Gandalf (Ian McKellen, Stardust) clambers into creepy caves, Legolas (Orlando Bloom, The Three Musketeers) threatens diminutive sources of disturbance, and Bard the Bowman (Luke Evans, Fast & Furious 6) takes a troupe of strangers into his watery home town, the feature finally becomes the immersive fantasy Jackson and his co-scribes Fran Walsh (The Lovely Bones), Philippa Boyens (King Kong) and Guillermo del Toro (Pacific Rim) dreamed it would be.

The King Of Kong baddie Billy Mitchell shows up here as a friend and cheerleader, and considering modest Iowa machinist McVay's greatest adversary appears to be himself, sometimes Man Vs. Snake has to contort itself into some pretty elaborate shapes in its attempts to create dramatic tension.

He's not just identifying moments where pop culture's twisted racial logic is made blatant, as in King Kong or John Wayne westerns or the career of Stepin Fetchit.

Making a Spoof is an 18 - minute featurette which spoofs Peter Jacksons King Kong Diaries with Adam Campbell as Jackson.

Contrast him with Robert Armstrong's feelings about bringing King Kong to his death, as described in Son of Kong, also about a giant albino gorilla.

Warner Bros. is building a cinematic monster universe featuring popular creatures such as Godzilla and King Kong.

The immensely popular and successful James Newton Howard is on board, and it's the first release of his music since King Kong; if he picked up any new fans from that who rushed out to buy this one as well, lord knows what they must think.

«Four Christmases» wants to dig into the same bleakly funny morass of American social expectations as Gordon's flawless video - game documentary, «The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.»

The film promises to act as a direct sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic and stars an impressive cast of actors that includes Oscar winner Adrien Brody (King Kong), Topher Grace (Spider - Man 3), Alice Braga (I Am Legend), Danny Trejo (Grindhouse), Walton Goggins (TV's The Shield) and Oscar Nominee Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix).

As for the visuals, they're predictably glorious — not only the titular beasts, but the bricks and mortar of Twenties New York (where the Erumpent has an ice dance that's a clean lift from Peter Jackson's King Kong).

The game stars Donkey Kong, along with his buddy Diddy Kong, as the two travel across Donkey Kong Island to recover their Banana Hoard, stolen by an evil crocodile named King K. Rool and his Kremlings.

Mamet's script does keep more in tune with the pessimistic attitude of Cain's novel, and the actors are as top - notch as you'd expect in their respective roles, with an especially sympathetic performance by Lange (Big Fish, King Kong), who alternates between innocence and sultriness with equal integrity.

However, like its title protagonist, Hulk is a schizophrenic affair, not certain whether it is Affliction (the 1997 drama about parental abuse, which ironically earned Nolte an Oscar nomination as best actor) or King Kong...

Since then he has played a mix of leading roles in small independent films and supporting roles in big budget films such as Peter Jackson's version of King Kong.

The Gangplank Galleon, though only referred to as «King K. Rool's ship», also appeared in the Club Nintendo comic «Donkey Kong Country».

I miss the visibility of brush - strokes and other imperfections, as reassuring in their way as the visible fingerprints on King Kong's fur.

There are several characters from the Lego Dimensions video game that show up in the film as well as characters owned by Warner Brothers including King Kong and Gremlins.

Andy Serkis is best known for his motion capture roles, such as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Kong in King Kong and Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

King Hu's 1965 Hong Kong wuxia pian («martial chivalry» genre) classic stars Cheng Pei - Pei as the avenging Golden Swallow, on a mission to save her kidnapped brother, and Yueh Hua as an amiable beggar with a chorus of scruffy orphans, who plays guardian angel to the warrior woman, his drunken front hiding his true identity.

By now audiences have seen her run from King Kong on Skull Island too and will soon see her enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Captain Marvel.

Having very little if anything to do with either Merian C. Cooper's 1933 classic King Kong or its lavish, richly ambitious 2005 Peter Jackson remake, this movie presents the giant ape in a heroically selfless light, portraying him as a protector of the natural order those with any sense don't go out of their way to foolishly mess around with.

As I played through Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, I wrote an extensive boss guide for how to defeat each of the six bosses so if you ever get stuck then be sure to read it and you'll soon be the king of the jungle!

Hong Kong filmmaker King Hu is known as the man who elevated wuxia films to a new level and inspired countless others to follow in his footsteps.

The movie is a prequel of sorts to the classic King Kong tale and has been said to head to the mysterious and dangerous home of the titular king of apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial islKing Kong tale and has been said to head to the mysterious and dangerous home of the titular king of apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial islking of apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.

That Debney's muscularly exotic score doesn't play like symphonic kid's stuff is emblematic as to why «The Jungle Book» exceeded just about everyone's wildest expectations, as Debney's majestic score that proudly swings through the jungle with Max Steiner's «King Kong» in terms of chest - beating, old - school symphonic power.

Thing is, I've always loved King Kong and feel he's much more than just an oversized ape, and thankfully, in Skull Island, he's still just as lovable.

As Lang notes, there's a legit business reason for this calendar shift: «The mania now is for pricey event films featuring King Kong or Wolverine, that can inspire a range of consumer products from toy lines to video games,» he writes.