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Penelope (1966)
Kinda annoying, but Natalie is beautiful
Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Dick Shawn a great cast, NYC in the 60's a great location, even great opening credits
so how does this add up to such a boring movie? It is a movie I tried to there were some laughs and some great location shots, but what a bunch of annoying characters, I mean just about all of them. I guess Arthur Hiller was still just getting his feet wet; he did become a great director, and who would cast Ian Bannen as Penolpe's husband even as a straight man he's too much of a bore. As beautiful and sexy Penolpe is hers is the most annoying character of all, the Gracie Allen routine went out with... well Gracice Allen. I see that Hiller was trying to invoke the zaniness of the "screwball comedy" but this just came off as boring. High light - Natalie in her under garments being chased by Jonathan Winters
King Kong (1976)
Multimillion Penny Dreadful
I just finished watching King Kong (1976) on AMC (American Movie Classics), which was shown head to head against the original King Kong on TMC (Turner Movie Channel), which also demonstrates the huge gap in the quality of the respective channels the high road vs. the lowest common thread.
I've recently watched the original and thought I would give the 1976 version another go, the only other time I saw it, was when it was first released and I was in my late teens, and a King Kong mania struck NYC, there were even King Kong candy bars! To my surprise the film has gotten worse with time, but it was just as funny to watch this time as the first go around.
This has to be one of the worst films of all time, and one of the worst remakes, and we now live in a time where many films are remakes of earlier works and most (studio) films are dreadful. The low budget British, man in a monkey suit, film Konga (1961) was a much more entertaining take on King Kong than this dreck! Even the Japanese versions where Kong takes on Godzilla (east Vs. west),and a giant robot King Kong were more fun. Here is a film that evokes absolutely no feelings for or from any of its characters. I think they really tried to be serious in this production, but it only turns out unwittingly comical, when Kong escapes his bonds and stomps on Charles Grodin all you can do is laugh. Every time Jeff Bridges (Who really is a fine actor) mugs a serious look at the camera, another laugh, and one of my favorite laughs take place on top of the WTC when Jessica Lange begs for Kong to hold her.
I won't even go into how badly the film was constructed; high school students do a better job. The only reason to see this film is to help you appreciate the original that much more. Now Peter Jackson has turned Merrian C Cooper's creation in to his own, it seems to have a lot of CGI, which high school students are also very good at.