King Kong (4K Ultra-HD) (+ Blu-ray) [2005]

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Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin) is the money hungry Petrox Oil Company executive who is hot and heavy about getting to an uncharted island in the Indian Ocean to access a huge deposit of oil. Universal Studios Home Entertainment brings King Kong (2005) to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray as a three-disc combo pack with an UltraViolet Digital Copy code. It also doesn’t become a product of the modern time but it also paves the way again visually for he and his special effects crew. With recent films including visual effects, there are some side effects left on the look of the picture but not this one. At the same time, director Carl Denham (Jack Black) is struggling with studio executives on his latest project and when news is overheard of firing him, he makes a run for it with a chartered ship and his film.

Updated daily and in real-time, we track all high-def disc news and release dates, and review the latest disc titles.Whilst it’ll never have the same impact and legacy of the 1933 classic, at least Peter Jackson had this in mind and pays loving tribute rather than trying to surpass it or make out to be the first film to feature the giant gorilla (cough, 1976 film).

Granted, nighttime sequences show an improvement in the specular highlights, giving some light sources a tighter glow and glimmers on various surfaces, like faces, moisture-covered rocks, the wet streets of New York and metal objects, with a nice, realistic splendor. I’m very aware, though, that the notion of an extended version of King Kong won’t exactly come as music to the ears of the many people out there who already think Peter Jackson films are self-indulgently long. From the run down Depression Era New York to the hellish Skull Island, the scenes are beautiful, detailed and captivating.

One of my favourite aspects of this film is the dedication Jackson and Weta put into creating the mythical world of Skull Island.