GBW #6: Gorilla Filmmaking (King Kong [2005] / King Kong Lives / King Kong Escapes)

<p>Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!</p> <p>This week, we continue with the second part of our “<strong>Godzilla vs. Kong</strong>” primer with a discussion about the history of <strong>King Kong</strong>, the Eighth Wonder of the World. We touch on nearly every “King Kong” film, but in the spirit of the show, we only go into complete detail on three. Last week, it just so happened that the “<strong>Godzilla</strong>” films we discussed went in chronological order for “good,” “bad,” and “what?” This week, they’re in reverse order, so we decided to flip our order so we could go chronologically and really contextualize the series and speak to its strengths and limitations. We start with our “what?” this time out, which is 1967’s “<strong>King Kong Escapes</strong>,” a co-production between <strong>Toho</strong> (it is directed by “Godzilla” mainstay <strong>Ishirô Honda</strong>) and <strong>Rankin/Bass</strong> that features an awesome Mechani-Kong and a terrible King Kong puppet. Then, we move into 1986’s infamous box office disaster “<strong>King Kong Lives</strong>,” which we argue should have really been called King Kong, uh, fornicates. Finally, we finish out the show discussing <strong>Peter Jackson</strong>’s brilliant, epic 2005 recreation of the original film, and how even within the limited confines of the “King Kong” series that he was able to find new ideas and textures to bring to the story.</p> <p>You can find this and future episodes on our website&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thegoodbadwhat.com/"><strong>thegoodbadwhat.com</strong></a>. You can subscribe to our show on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-good-the-bad-and-the-what/id1554493814"><strong>Apple Podcasts</strong>,</a><strong> </strong><a href="https://anchor.fm/thegoodbadwhat"><strong>Anchor.fm</strong></a>,&nbsp;<a href="h