The first time I saw King Kong was at Butt-Numb-a-Thon 3 in 2001.  I know, I’m a movie geek and it is ridicoulous I’d never seen the film. As I’m fond of saying, there are way more films that I haven’t seen than films that I have.

Now, if you are going to have a first experience watching King Kong, seeing a newly struck print of the film projected on the big screen is pretty much the best way to go.  I was in love with the movie from the moment the title hit the screen.  I knew that new print of King Kong was out there and eventually would be available on DVD.  When that DVD finally hit the market, I bought it the same day.

The first time I saw Peter Jackson’s re-make of King Kong was at Butt-Numb-a-Thon 7 in 2005.  I liked it a lot.  But as I mentioned in my blog about Kick-Ass, when you watch a movie at Butt-Numb-a-Thon, it can be difficult to determine how good or bad it is outside the context of Butt-Numb-a-Thon.

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