One can imagine her distress, and why she retreated to TVвЂ™s Beauty and the Beast the following year. SheвЂ™s now cashing in her fame chips with the lead role here and the female lead in Black Moon Rising.

(This is played as a big вЂstarвЂ™ moment, although her name appearing in the credits a bit ago somewhat reduces our amazement.) ItвЂ™s two years since The Terminator came out. The surgical mask comes off and its * gasp* Linda Hamilton. One figure walks into the typically large and overmanned Monitor Room. As I looked around at all this activity, which apparently has been occurring over the entire previous decade, one question came to my mind: What HMO does Kong belong to and how do I join? Seeming dozens of medical personal are running around, checking various monitors and so forth. In case youвЂ™re wondering, no, heвЂ™s not great.) (We soon learn that the score was provided by composer John Scott. ItвЂ™s a swell of portentously вЂinspirationalвЂ™ music greats KongвЂ™s initial appearance onscreen. In following De LaurentiisвЂ™ unflagging belief that Kong would be a beloved figure to the viewing public, the music for this scene isnвЂ™t ominous. is later credited as the filmвЂ™s Consultant Гўв‚¬вЂњ which only serves to make the results all the funnier. A lot of effort obviously was expended on making this вЂrealistic,вЂ™ Гўв‚¬вЂњ a medical Dr. We cut to an operational theater, only one scaled for 40-foot gorillas. This segue kicks off the opening credits, the first of which tells us the film is being presented by the not very aptly named вЂњDe Laurentiis Entertainment GroupвЂќ. Yeesh!) Apparently the Atlantic Institute is a prestigious college, later identified as a rival of Harvard and Yale. Which we know when we cut to a building, which is identified by onscreen text as вЂњThe Atlanta Institute, Georgia Гўв‚¬вЂњ Ten Years Later.вЂќ (Thanks for letting us know that the вЂњAtlanta InstituteвЂќ would be in Georgia, by the way. Which is that after all this Kong not only survived for another ten or fifteen minutes but went into a coma in which heвЂ™s now laid for ten solid yearsГўв‚¬В¦. The premise for this film is geometrically more ludicrous. Of course, the square/cube law wouldnвЂ™t allow Kong to exist in his present form at all, soГўв‚¬В¦ДonвЂ™t worry, my much smarter readers will fill in the blanks on this.Д®ven as a kid I thought it beyond silly that Kong would survive long enough to exchange a soulful glance with Lange, who last seen was still atop one of the towers. Still, heвЂ™d mass a whole lot, and that should increase his velocity.

Thus if a gorilla weighs, say, 400 pounds (I think thatвЂ™s about right), then Kong would weight 400 x 400 x 400 pounds. If Kong is a regular gorilla squared in size - six by six feet tall, or 36 feet total, which is roughly correct Гўв‚¬вЂњ then the square/cube law dictates youвЂ™ve have to cube his mass. (IвЂ™m about to try science again here, so make sure to return later to read all the notes correcting me.) Think about the kinetic energy a multi-ton primate would generate while falling 1360 feet. Which, it turns out, is really quite a lot.ДЄfter plummeting 110 stories Kong smashes into the pavement below. What I didnвЂ™t remember is such much room that leaves for sucking. I was right in remembering that King Kong Lives sports far better special effects than Mighty Peking Man or A*P*E. After, inevitably, one вЂcopter flies too close and is swatted down, wobbling on a guide wire to its preplanned destruction. Jessica cries, squibs and bags of stage blood are set off in the ape suit, Kong eventually totters and falls. And indeed the carnage is quite bloody and milked for all the supposed pathos it could generate. The helicopter gunships appear and lay into Kong with gatling guns. And prop hand technology obviously hasnвЂ™t improved much either. Which means that he much more closely resembles Konga than his more personable stop-animated namesake. This filmвЂ™s Kong was realized with the best ape-suit technology that millions of вЂ™70s dollars could buy. As is they werenвЂ™t embarrassed enough with appearing in De LaurentiisвЂ™ first stab at the character. (Not a happy reminder.) Jessica Lange is slung over his shoulder, while Jeff BridgesвЂ™ hippie-haired visage looks on anxiously. Kong is climbing one of the World Trade Towers. We open with the climax of the вЂ™76 King Kong. Plot: Prodigious primate pursues paramour, precipitates panic.

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