News for Dec. 22, 2005

With King Kong, bigger is, well, better

12/22/05, 2:11 pm EST - Xoanon

Whatever else it may be, Brokeback Mountain was supposed to be this Christmas season's big, double-hanky love story. It's got competition, however, from an unlikely source — the soaring romanticism of Peter Jackson's King Kong. That's right, the Lord of the Rings director turned Merian C. Cooper's 1933 adventure-horror classic into the ultimate story of unrequited love. The ending, in fact, may remind you as much of Titanic as of the two previous King Kong versions. [More]