KING KONG (1933) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

Enjoy my reaction as I watch "King Kong" for the first time!

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00:00 - Intro
02:53 - Reaction
34:02 - Review

[classics]

Fay Wray later said that after making this film, she always felt sad whenever she passed by the Empire State Building, because, as she put it: “A good friend of mine died up there.”

[MalnourishedGoat]

What still can be said about the special effects in King Kong is that they may not look "real, " but they are still, to this day, effective. Your grimacing reaction to Kong snapping the T-Rex's jaw (and then playing with it) says it all... the effects still work because they stimulate the imagination. I am a teacher and have shown kids the Kong/Dinosaur fight scene and they were really into it. Love this movie.

[tremorsfan]

When Fay Wray died in 2004, the Empire State Building dimmed the lights on the spire for 15 minutes in memory to her.

[kurtgriffin]

Kong is the beginning of “movie magic” and special effects. To someone in 1933, this was jaw dropping.

[stephenbeecher]

This was 4 years into the Great Depression. She was in a soup line to get food. A lot of people could not find work to be able to afford to eat.

[dfstout]

He went to the shelter soup kitchen because it was 1933. During the great depression. People were homeless, out of work and hungry.

[dereklopez]

For a movie that came out in 1933 and is now 91 years old, the special effects by Willis O Brien still holds up to this very day. It's unreal.

[RaedViera]

My 10 year old son just asked me to watch this movie with him a couple of weeks ago. I was SO amazed at how much he loved a film from 33. If you tell a story well, it will work forever. Greetings from México.

[excalibur]

King Kong was actually filmed pre-Hays Code, so a lot of stuff from the film ended up getting censored in rereleases in the 1940s and 1950s. The original footage wasn't put back into the movie until the 1980s.

[JakkFrost]

Kong was never originally the size of Godzilla, but he was enlarged for their first meeting in the Japanese King Kong vs Godzilla in 1962, and then later in the series of Legendary movies.

It was really the only way to get the two iconic giant monsters to meet, east meets west style, since shrinking Godzilla to Kong's size would essentially remove all danger from him and defeat his purpose.

[imahoare]

Almost 100 years old and this film is still a technical marvel.

[bradparnell]

This movie inspired a Los Angeles teenager named Ray Harryhausen who began working with models and later met Wills O'Brien who helped guide him to become even bigger. Ray's name is synonymous with stop motion animation in the movies from the 50s to the 70s before computers changed everything. Some of his highlights include "It Came from Beneath the Sea", "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad", "Mysterious Island", "Jason and the Argonauts", "One Million Years B.C.", "The Valley of Gwangi", "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger", and "Clash of the Titans".

[celt]

You have to realise, this movie came out a mere 5 - 7 years after talking movies were invented. It would be decades before its effects were improved upon. It was staggeringly ambitious for 1933, especially since it was made during the great depression.

[bobblebardsley]

7:41 "You gonna tell us what happens when we get there?"
"How can I? I'm not a fortune teller!"
Bones McCoy himself would be proud of that line.

[ericjanssen]

According to legend, Fay Wray was such a screaming meemie in the movie, that when they were sound-editing her scenes with Kong, the sound rattled Katherine Hepburn taking an early RKO screen test next door: “What are they DOING to that poor girl??”

[johnkeenan]

To this day, that T-Rex battle is still amazing.

[GrinderCB]

When Peter Jackson was making his Kong remake about 20 years ago, he wanted Fay Wray to make a cameo, but she died before filming started. Fay Wray died in 2004 at age 96.

[Actrjay]

Stop motion animation was used to bring Kong alive. Close ups of his head was a full scale puppet.

[wiggywan]

In 1933, they [audiences] didn't understand stop motion. Kong was covered with bunny fur to complete the look. And every frame they'd pose Kong, the fur would shift. When run back through the projector, it created an effect that caused the film critics [of the time] to comment, "Kong is so realistic, his hair bristles in the wind."

Also, Jack is a nickname for John.

[gnomesanemann]

My Nana saw this movie with her siblings when it first played in the movies. She was only 7 years old. She said they had never seen anything like it. She said they all thought King Kong and the dinosaurs were real, and nearly scared them to death.