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packmule	Sep 9 2009, 07:25 AM
Site founder - Your best nightmare Posts: 32,923 Group: Administrator(staff) Member #1 Joined: January 29, 2006 Favorite giant monster film: Gojira(1954) Favorite horror film: House Of Wax(1953) Favorite sci-fi film: 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)	josh TX Sep 9 2009, 12:23 AM Going slightly off topic, I saw a mechanical ape that plays piano in a replica whiskey bar in a country western town in South Dakota. The ape looked as old and mangy as the King Kong suit did in this film That mechanical ape you saw must have looked awful if it compares with the Kong suit in King Kong Vs Godzilla(1962). Perhaps the greatest disappointment for me personally watching this film is the absolutely horrendous looking Kong suit. I understand that the suit cannot be perfect. What kaiju suit could? They all have their flaws. Still, a creative looking and well made kaiju suit will IMO garner much more positive feedback than negative. As I said before in "revisits" of King Kong Vs Godzilla, the Kong suit resembles a cross between Quasimodo and an ape, more than anything. I have also found myself, at times, reminded of a Sasquatch when watching Kong suit actor Solomon Hirose inside this costume. The face of the suit is somewhat misshapen, there appears to be no discernible neck, giving Kong a hunched look, and the use of the extra long arms in certain shots of the film only worsened IMO the overall presentation of Kong in this movie. There have been, I think, far more hits than misses in overall effects and suit quality in the older Toho kaiju films. Unfortunately, the Kong suit in King Kong Vs Godzilla(1962) is a huge miss.
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