This article ranks all six live-action King Kong movies released before 2000, from not very good to all-time classics. It focuses on the King Kong film series from 1933 to 1986, highlighting its unique qualities and the decline of the series after 'King Kong Lives' (1986).
If you're asked to pick a defining movie monster of the 20th century, it’s going to be a toss-up between King Kong and Godzilla . Godzilla might be the King of the Monsters, and have more movies to his name, but King Kong does have 'King' right there in his name, and his first movie predated Godzilla ’s first by just over 20 years.
Both are awesome, admittedly, and could stomp all over any and all regular-sized monsters out there who became popular in the 20th century thanks to the medium of film (sorry, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Invisible Man… wherever you are). Regarding King Kong and Godzilla, both have remained popular into the 21st century, and have had several crossovers to date. But the King Kong series, between 1933 and 1986, is particularly interesting because it’s a little more digestible, and because some of the movies within the broader series are so strange and different from the others. What follows is a ranking of every live-action King Kong movie released before the year 2000: six in total, ranging in quality from not very good to all-time classics. 6 'King Kong Lives' (1986) Director: John Guillermin Though the title was King Kong Lives, King Kong, as a series, kind of died after the release of this mostly forgotten 1986 film. It was almost 20 years before Peter Jackson remade the original film and gave Kong a live-action film he more or less deserved, with that film not connected to those in the MonsterVerse, which have seen his popularity grow once more, to perhaps even higher heights. That’s all rambling, but it speaks to the fact that King Kong post-1986 is more fun and/or interesting to talk about than King Kong Lives. Thanks to a couple of goofily fun scenes, and the fact it’s not as technically incompetent as it could’ve been, King Kong Lives might not rank among the very worst giant monster movies of all time, but that’s pretty faint praise, all things considere
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