Line #6 Awesome/KingKong2005


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kongfight.jpg A Vastatosaurus rex, a small woman, and an enormous Gorilla. The Gorilla ''wins'', by the way!]]
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3	* Kong battles ''three'' V-rexes at once.
4	** This fight is incredibly pleasing for its aversions to MookChivalry. All three V-rexes are continually coming after Kong, forcing him to constantly keep them at bay with off-hand strikers and maneuvering them in front of each other. Kong also protects Ann from them, frequently transferring her between his hands and feet and keeping her away from the V-rexes' snapping jaws.
5	* Standing between Kong and the last V-rex, Ann now knows where things stand with her and Kong and slowly backs toward him while looking at the V-rex with a face that seemingly conveys defiance.
6	** During this standoff, when Kong looks down at Ann backing toward him, he also grunts and shoots the V-rex a look daring it to make any sudden moves.
7	* During the stampede scene, Hayes ''kicks a fallen Venatosaurus in the face'' while jumping over it for no reason other than Main/KickThemWhileTheyAreDown.
8	* The bug pit rescue. Especially when [[ChangedMyMindKid Bruce Baxter, after giving up and heading back to the ship]], swings down into the pit on a rope, blasting at bugs with a Tommy gun the whole time.
9	-->'''Bruce:''' [[BadassBoast Nobody get in my way.]]
10	* Captain Englehorn's Main/BigDamnHeroes moment, when he saves Denham and the film crew from the natives, and then ''again'' when he and Bruce Baxter save what's left of the rescue party from a ravine full of giant insects.
11	* Preston gets one in the log scene. As Kong tumbles the log with Carl, Jack, Lumpy, and Jimmy on it into the bug pit, Preston avoids the bugs by grabbing a nearby vine as the log is falling. It makes him not only one of the four survivors when Englehorn and Baxter arrive but also the only one not to encounter the bugs and almost get eaten.
12	* Weta gets a RealLife [=MoA=] for producing, purely out of love for the ''King Kong'' mythos, a re-creation of what the 1933 film's planned "bug pit" scene '''could''' have been like had it been achievable with the technology, time, and budget available to RKO. Check it out!—it's a DVD extra with the 2005 movie.
13	* After Kong knocks her around a few times out of amusement, Anne rightfully snaps, swats his hand away, and tells the oversized ape to ''knock it off''! It gets him to treat her with much more respect after that point, after the obligatory temper tantrum.
14	* A scene of Carl Denham in the insect trench and all of his crew are dying around him—the real kicker is that the fall's impact destroyed his film. So not only does this mean this entire trip was pointless, but he wouldn't be able to complete his promise to his dead friend, donating its proceeds to the man's family to keep them financially stable. So when this happens, Carl SNAPS; he grabs the closest rifle he can find and starts kicking all forms of bug ass. It's not much, but to show that the character wasn't always a money-grubbing bastard who cared only about himself was a nice touch.
15	** Also of note is that he isn't just fighting off a swarm of dog-sized wetas, as Jack is, but also taking on at least a pair of HORSE-sized crickets. Carl's response? He repeatedly smashes one of them in the head with his aforementioned empty rifle. For a creature with such an inhuman face, you can almost ''feel'' the cricket thinking, 'Wait...this isn't how it's supposed to go...' before it's finally knocked senseless.
16	** Jimmy also gets one when he grabs a Thompson sub-machine gun and unloads it on a swarm of bugs crawling on Jack, and he kills them all without hitting Jack.
17	* Carl gets another one when he knocks Kong himself out via a well-aimed chloroform bottle to the nose.
18	* Jack Driscoll gets one during the stampede scene, where he—without breaking stride—''shoulder checks'' a Venatosaur into the side of the canyon, triggering a chain reaction of dinos falling behind the group and saving their lives.
19	* Weta Digital gets another CMOA for [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome how good their CGI looks]] and how flawlessly they blended it with the extensive miniature work by Richard Taylor and the Weta Workshop crew.
20	* When Denham and the Venture crew try to capture Kong by netting him and binding him with grappling hooks, Ann tries to stop them, and Jack forcibly takes her away. We get a close-up of Kong practically SHIVERING with rage as Denham gets an OhCrap look on his face before the giant gorilla rears up, tears free of every restraint, and begins pursuing Ann and throwing the crew around.
21	* The iconic battle between Kong and the fighter planes atop the Empire State Building was impressive in the original—it's absolutely ''amazing'' in this remake. At first, the biplanes buzz past Kong, strafing him with machine-gun fire as he swipes futilely at them. Then one gets complacent, and Kong ''leaps from the top of the building'' to tear its wing off and send it spinning helplessly to the ground before landing back on the roof and clambering up again to continue the battle. Another is when Kong grabs the tail of a plane flying close to the building ''before throwing the damn thing into another plane, sending them both plummeting down''. Six planes participate in that fateful battle, and the fact that Kong manages to destroy half of them before his death despite being cruelly disadvantaged shows that he truly earns the title "The Eighth Wonder of the World."

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