I never thought I'd live to see Caravan of Garbage doing the oldest movie they've ever done, let alone twice. I sat the kids in front of the computer and said 'this here children, this is history.'
The Wizard of Oz: The first Marvel movie? Gone with the Wind: Not woke enough, or too woke? Dracula: Come on, mate, vampires can get sexier than this! Frankenstein: So wait, the DOCTOR'S name is Frankenstein? How come nobody mentioned this before? Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Wait, I thought it was "dwarves"!
Yeah that was a super fun little segment, I assumed we had a new editor on the job but looks like Ben and Laurence are just trying something fresh and, well, straight to the pool room with that one.
i was just picturing how the edit would of been done, did it take long to edit cuz im just picturing myself doing it manually, whereas theres probably a program that can knock it out in a few minutes if that.
Wow, what a bargain! Not only did they review King Kong, but also the entirety of 1896's "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" within the first few minutes! Kudos! 🙂👍
“Twenty dollars a ticket? I’m not paying for that! I’ll just have a nice rest before my work at the pollution factory or whatever” got a huge laugh from me and might be a new favourite Maso line
King Kong (1933) is probably the movie that defines what would become the “Blockbuster” we know of today because it’s all about the spectacle and the stop motion animation at the time and still is really impressive
Typically, the first blockbuster is attributed to "Birth of a Nation". White people didn't love anything more than being racist, not even watching the god of an island of black people, a giant black ape named after an area of Africa, fall in love with and steal a blonde white woman, get chained up and shipped to the US for money, then go on a rampage when he's free and get killed by- ah now we see why it wasn't just a hit but one of the first true blockbusters.
It really is remarkable how much it resembles a modern blockbuster, decades before the term was even coined. The pacing, the fight sequences, the emphasis on spectacle, the shit acting, etc. It’s all pretty commonplace now, but I just can’t imagine in 1933 being like “Hey, check out our movie where a giant gorilla fights a fucking dinosaur.”
It was more a b horror movie foe its time elevated by special effects rather than a blockbuster, the concept wasn't a thing back then and it isn't really something thst could be seen as a pioneer of the concept just because it made a lot of movie. Otherwise something like a birth of a nation would be a blockbuster or gone with the wind.
The reason they went with the ZS Justice League aspect ratio is because they saw how Rebel Moon was viewed more times than Barbie and realized Snyder must be a visionary genius. Also the reason its in black and white is because this is the "Gorilla Is Grey" version of the film.
One of the interesting things about Son of Kong was it showed what happens to a guy when he's responsible for shipping in a violent, giant gorilla that unsurprisingly got loose and went on a rampage. The movie opens with Carl Denham being sued by everybody and their second cousin. He flees the country along with some woman who is on the lamb from the law or something (I forget the details.) The movie also answers James' question of, "would they miss Kong?" When Denham and I think some of the original ship crew from the first movie return to the island the people living there are feeling kind of lost without their god. Something like that. It's been almost 20 years since I've watched it so my memory is fuzzy.
So I take it the city didn’t buy it when Denham tried to blame it all on Ann by saying “beauty killed the beast” I thought I just didn’t fully understand that line when I was a kid, but as an adult I’m like “oh, he’s just trying to pass the blame off on someone else entirely, yuck”
I'm old, born in the late 60s, and this movie was magic to me growing up. It's janky, but so many more memorable moments than most 3 hour cgi slogs we have today. Awesome to see you guys give this early blockbuster some love. Was really looking forward to this.
My brother and I did a movie marathon... The highest grossing film from each year starting with 1915 and ending with 2023. It took MONTHS... and quite a few had Caravan of Garbage episodes. But this was not an entry I expected the see covered here. Thanks guys
Not gonna lie, I would be thrilled to watch just an entire video of James and Maso sitting by the fire in fancy suits ranting about the veracity of numbers.
Alright boys, as a 1933 King Kong fan who take this all terribly seriously, I am satisfied. I rate this review four gorillas AND a T. rex: 🦍🦍🦍🦍🦖 Trivia: the spider pit sequence was never actually filmed. There were models made and some test photos produced, but they realized at the script stage that it slowed the movie down to watch all these sailors die who were just the boys in the back. The REAL deleted scene is that the sailors were originally going to be chased from the lake to the log, and trapped on the log, by a Styracosaurus. There were even promotional photos produced with the men on the log trapped between Kong and the Styracosaurus. But in the interests of brevity and streamlining the film, they took out the dinosaur. However, the Styracosaurus model was reused in Son of Kong.
The director wanted to use original music, but the head of RKO thought a recycled score was cheaper. So, the director paid the composer and orchestra out of pocket.
You know a movie is memorable when you haven't seen it in 35 years... And you remember every scene shown! Can't tell you more than a couple scenes from Justice League
As much as it's disgustingly racist, I think that title probably belongs to Birth of a Nation. Pretty much revolutionised editing, had certain themes for different characters, ect.
I love how the canon of King Kong is "no one knows how tall he is." Sometimes he's 15 or 20 feet tall, other times he's 100 feet tall, regardless of the movie you're watching.
I have it on the authority of the theme song from the Rankin-Bass cartoon that he is ten times as big as a man. Furthermore, on the authority of the theme song from the Hanna-Barbera Godzilla cartoon, Godzilla is thirty stories high. So if Godzilla and King Kong are about the same size, I conclude that they had really, really big men in the 1960s. They had to crawl around on all fours indoors!
*Little known fact: the pilot of the airplane that flew at Kong on the skyscraper was named "RODNEY" and was the inspiration for a character named "Corn of Coblin" who went on to become the "Green Goblin." But back then, green didn't show up in the black and white film as well as the color blue. So they spent 8 months scouring, or "harvesting" blue corn to be used in the film, leading to the working title of the movie being code named "Blue Harvest"*
Extrapolating from that accelerating rate of reboots, we're about due another one. Guessing they'll start over as soon as _Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire_ has been released. And following that we should be getting a reboot almost every day.
I think that’s being generous tbh. The only advantage it really had over the original was the use of color, and they had the potential to have better sound, but instead they reused the same stock roaring sound effect 800 times, resulting in it having even worse sound design than the original. The effects were also somehow worse. On top of that, almost every change they made to the narrative was either redundant or was a downgrade. It’s one of a million instances where Dino De Lorentis tried something ambitious that had potential, and completely wasted it by doing it as cheaply as possible.
This is the movie that gave Ray Harryhausen the drive to be in movies. He learned everything he knew about stop motion animation from the man that did the animation in this movie. This movie helped create a legend in stop motion animation.
Can’t believe you have gone this far back with the caravan of garbage. You love to see it. Can we get a Gladiator caravan of garbage? Even though it’s definitely not garbage.
Apparently there's more recent discussion that the whole spider pit thing was an urban legend, and the scene was never even filmed. It's a whole thing.
This might actually be my favorite episode of CoG yet. The jokes, observations, and editing were all on-point. Much love, and can't wait for the next episode.
Interesting bit of trivia, this Movie might be responsible for the legend of the Loch Ness monster, since the sightings of "plesiosaur/dinosaur like creature" in Scotland only started in autumn of 1933, suspiciously a few months after the film's UK release.
@@lessonmet5291 Not quite. There was only one account of a catholic saint facing a "water beast" in the River Ness (not the Loch Ness) in 565, but after that there are no mentions of any monsters in any history record for almost 1400 years until 1933 (and in the aforementioned medieval account the "water beast" isn't described as a dinosaur of reptile at all).
I understand why they cut that spider scene. It's been like 15 or so years since I last saw Peter Jackson's King Kong movie and I'm almost having nightmares just thinking about that pit scene and that giant thingy biting a man's head! Man that stuff is gross! :D but it must be crazy to one morning wake up with a crazy idea like "hey why not have a big monkey on a big tower" and thereby creating one of cinema's most iconic characters that is still relevant almost 100 years later
Fun fact: This movie was actually meant to be in full color. They developed a special filter that would make it easier to develop film in color. However there was an issue that came up during early film testing which led to the color having an odd bluish hue to it, so they stuck with black and white. Because of this the production name of the film was Blue Harvest
One of the greatest films of all time. It's great, not just for its being an amazing technical achievement in 1933, but great on its own. This film stands up even today. I've seen it maybe 25 times. I used to own the 60th anniversary VHS edition with the button on the front that played Kong's roar. And I'll give you a controversial opinion before I leave you: the 1976 version with Jeff Bridges is pretty damn good too. It's strange how Peter Jackson's godawful 2005 version was supposed to be a loving homage to the original, but wound up being far more like the 1976 version. Here's why: in the original, Ann Darrow wants nothing to do with Kong. KONG IS THE BAD GUY! She doesn't feel sad when he dies or try to keep him from being killed. But in 1976 Jessica Lange feels pity for Kong and wants to save him. In the original, Jack Driscoll wants to save Ann and destroy Kong, but in 1976 Jeff Bridges feels sorry for Kong and wants to save him. In the original, Carl Denham is a straight shooter who plays fair by his men and shows bravery. But in 1976 Charles Grodin is an exploitative con man and abuser. That being said, the different take on the characters and the story doesn't stop John Guillermin's film being a fun adventure. But Peter Jackson's version is cinematic puke. Thank god Jack Black's day in the sun is over.
The point about Jackson's remake being more like DeLaurentiis' is so true. In both cases they totally missed the reason behind the tragedy in the 1933 classic. We feel sorry for Kong on our own -- Ann Darrow doesn't do it for us. Although I think the '76 remake is terrible, I agree it's still better than that gawdawful mess from '05.
Please do the train arriving at the station film next. Maybe a tier list of different trains arriving at different stations films? Just a thought. Hope this helps
My grandpa saw this movie in theaters as a child and it was a staple in my family when I was growing up. It’s very much of its time but it has a very important place in my life.
This Caravan of Garbage is phenomenal. I can't stop laughing. The banter is on point, the edit is even better because of it, really stellar work to all four of you. This movie really is quite amazing when you see just what they were able to pull off back in 1933, and despite some of the more dated aspects like racism and the treatment of women (and animals because that Stegosaurus didn't deserve it), the story itself actually holds up. Having seen the 1976, I don't really get what they were thinking, and they kind of go a bit too far in the relationship between Dawn and Kong. 1933 becomes a bit annoying with how much Ann screams and can't handle being around him, 1976 goes too far where Dawn is just totally cool with Kong stripping her down and almost kind of falling in love with him, too, but hey, that movie also had Kong go up the Twin Towers just a few years after they were completed, so you know, keep the tradition going I guess. Personally for me, my favorite version is Jackson's 2005 movie because it is a love letter to the 1933 one, while having all the things that didn't work or hold up in the 1933 version gone or made more palatable, and you also get the bug pit, it's just the best. Extended Version goes a bit far in places, but I still like it. I've been meaning to pick up a copy of the 1933 movie though just because I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I have, and to kind of complete the collection so to speak, but that might also require getting the 1976 version, which, eh. But 1933 and 2005 are good. The other interpretations of Kong I have seen, well, he's cool. Japan has Godzilla, America has King Kong (and other apes, we really do love our apes in cinema from Kong to Mighty Joe Young and a ton of Planet of the Apes movies), we love our big monsters.
The cool thing about going to see this movie back in the day is that there were still undiscovered islands on Earth at this time, so movie goers would have been able to imagine it could really happen. Kind of like sci-fi nowadays going to another planet.
Ben & Laurence also broke a Mr. Sunday Movies record of having a Ben Shapiro cameo in both caravans of garbage……. This should be an ongoing bit even if it doesn’t make sense
Something they forget to mention was that the clay they used to model Kong in the city had to be bleached from black (because he was blending in with the city too much) to white and redyed blue, this was referred to in set as the blue harvest which as you may not know, was the original futile for Star Wars
90 years on and still great! I've seen this classic more times than I can count. The pacing, acting, effects, music -- all of it so sublimely satisfying. None of the remakes/spinoffs come close. And Fay Wray is such a babe!❤😊
The editors for CoG are always so damn good! You know what they'd have a great time with? 1999's Mystery Men, the original and most influential superhero movie of all time!
Very rare to have a movie these days where you actually have 10 to 20 of your boys around when you need to do some stuff. Now you get 2 to 4 of your boys at most, and that just isn't enough. That's one of the many reasons a movie like Furiosa stands out, because anytime something big needs to be done, there are actually enough of your boys around to make something happen.
I grew up watching these movies on tv back in the 1970's and I would rather watch these than 90 percent of the films today. I hate it when people put down old movies just because they are old.
Alright Boys, let’s leave a like!
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Hey wait a second, I don’t want to be just one of the boys in the back
**mumble mumble**
@@brooksklepper2853 shut up and fall off the tree!
I’m one of the boys in the back hiding behind a rock (I will never die)
This video was good but it wasn't as good as the spider thing.
That spider thing was crazy!
I wish they recorded more of it
Yeah Madame Web really was a great movie.
A masterpiece!!!
Not as good as King Homer.
"King Kong: Just a Bloke Havin' a Go" should absolutely be the next Monsterverse movie.
I feel like I need this on a shirt
😂😂😂😂
"...it was a woman that killed the bloke."
Godzilla x Kong: All Right Boys
Too funny
It's a very important film but its downfall is ultimately not giving Kong his famous gauntlet earlier, which makes this movie "too boring" and "old"
This was pre MCU, there wasn't a precedent for gauntlets in cinema yet so the studios were too scared to go with it
Yuck.
PINELY MENTIONED 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲 ITS PINING TIME
Don't forget king kong ripped off Zack Snyder's aspect ratio
Holy balls Pinely commenting on a Mr Sunday video?!?
I never thought I'd live to see Caravan of Garbage doing the oldest movie they've ever done, let alone twice. I sat the kids in front of the computer and said 'this here children, this is history.'
They gotta do Metropolis at some point and break the record again
They should do an even older one next week!
Or am I a madman? Maaaad, you say?!
@@Dave175always was curious about Metropolis. Id love if my first exposure to it was these two bozos talking abt it
Then follow that up with The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and break the record AGAIN
@@Dave175 They could do Metropolis when they review Superman Legacy
I would love it if you guys covered all the old classics like this. The Universal monster movies would be great.
Yes! Nosferatu 2024 is around the corner too.
The Wizard of Oz: The first Marvel movie?
Gone with the Wind: Not woke enough, or too woke?
Dracula: Come on, mate, vampires can get sexier than this!
Frankenstein: So wait, the DOCTOR'S name is Frankenstein? How come nobody mentioned this before?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Wait, I thought it was "dwarves"!
@@augustthepineapple such a missed opportunity if they don't rename it "No24atu" and make the 2 backwards to look like an S.
The thing from another world, blob, etc!
Abbott and Costello Meet X might get a biiiiit meta.
It's like Tom Cruise climbing the burj khalifa in 2011! Exactly 2 years after its completion
And that bit where Tom Cruise grabs a woman through a window and throws her to her death is just incredible.
@@zonesproductions 🤣
@@zonesproductions lmaooo
I thought of that too!
@@zonesproductionsyeah, but not as good as the spider thing
The James and Maso classy parlor scenes were an absolute delight.
James’s head flying in a big circle when he says ‘waaay off’ has absolutely done me.
Yeah that was a super fun little segment, I assumed we had a new editor on the job but looks like Ben and Laurence are just trying something fresh and, well, straight to the pool room with that one.
i was just picturing how the edit would of been done, did it take long to edit cuz im just picturing myself doing it manually, whereas theres probably a program that can knock it out in a few minutes if that.
That part was so good 😂
When you said record breaking, I was totally expecting the record to be for most episodes of Caravan of Garbage
That is also true
Gonna be pretty hard to top that tho. Its a remarkable achievement
Wow, what a bargain! Not only did they review King Kong, but also the entirety of 1896's "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" within the first few minutes! Kudos! 🙂👍
“Twenty dollars a ticket? I’m not paying for that! I’ll just have a nice rest before my work at the pollution factory or whatever” got a huge laugh from me and might be a new favourite Maso line
I thought that was very funny but then I thought I might just be drunk. Good to have backup
"And before I go to bed I'd better brush my teeth with uranium toothpaste", which was a real thing and had terrible consequences.
Fun Fact: King Kong's roar was a lion's roar and a tiger's roar combined, slowed down, and run backward.
Well, that is actually a fun fact, thanks.
That is cool. They did something similar for Star Wars for Chewbacca's voice
What animals did they combine to get Fay Wray's scream tho?
At this point I read “fun fact:” and I assume it’s going to be a blue harvest joke
And then if you speed it up and play it backwards you can hear Kong say "hail satan"
King Kong (1933) is probably the movie that defines what would become the “Blockbuster” we know of today because it’s all about the spectacle and the stop motion animation at the time and still is really impressive
I'd say JAWS more so, but opinions
Typically, the first blockbuster is attributed to "Birth of a Nation". White people didn't love anything more than being racist, not even watching the god of an island of black people, a giant black ape named after an area of Africa, fall in love with and steal a blonde white woman, get chained up and shipped to the US for money, then go on a rampage when he's free and get killed by- ah now we see why it wasn't just a hit but one of the first true blockbusters.
It really is remarkable how much it resembles a modern blockbuster, decades before the term was even coined. The pacing, the fight sequences, the emphasis on spectacle, the shit acting, etc.
It’s all pretty commonplace now, but I just can’t imagine in 1933 being like “Hey, check out our movie where a giant gorilla fights a fucking dinosaur.”
The first block buster was Star Wars
It was more a b horror movie foe its time elevated by special effects rather than a blockbuster, the concept wasn't a thing back then and it isn't really something thst could be seen as a pioneer of the concept just because it made a lot of movie. Otherwise something like a birth of a nation would be a blockbuster or gone with the wind.
My favorite part in any movies is when two people are talking in a room and then they move to an other room for the next scene. Breath taking.
KING KONG, just a bloke having a go.
Congratulations to King Kong for the new Caravan of Garbage record. I'm sure Le voyage dans la Lune is gunning for the record
That’s a great movie
They have to do Nosferatu.
The reason they went with the ZS Justice League aspect ratio is because they saw how Rebel Moon was viewed more times than Barbie and realized Snyder must be a visionary genius. Also the reason its in black and white is because this is the "Gorilla Is Grey" version of the film.
19:53 RKO declined bit would have worked better if the WWE clip was actually of Randy Orton missing an RKO and not Kevin Owens hitting a stunner.
I was on my way to say this 😂 but Ben is a national(Canadian) treasure so we'll give him a pass 👌🏽
Must not be wrestling fans.
One of the interesting things about Son of Kong was it showed what happens to a guy when he's responsible for shipping in a violent, giant gorilla that unsurprisingly got loose and went on a rampage. The movie opens with Carl Denham being sued by everybody and their second cousin. He flees the country along with some woman who is on the lamb from the law or something (I forget the details.) The movie also answers James' question of, "would they miss Kong?" When Denham and I think some of the original ship crew from the first movie return to the island the people living there are feeling kind of lost without their god. Something like that. It's been almost 20 years since I've watched it so my memory is fuzzy.
-on the lamb- on the lam
@@ThreadBomb Oh, nice catch! How much do you charge for spell-check services because clearly auto-complete is not my friend.
So I take it the city didn’t buy it when Denham tried to blame it all on Ann by saying “beauty killed the beast”
I thought I just didn’t fully understand that line when I was a kid, but as an adult I’m like “oh, he’s just trying to pass the blame off on someone else entirely, yuck”
I don't know about you guys but I always find it more immersive in a movie when someone gets killed and shouts "Ugh, I'm dead and I'm dying".
Welp, that happened
How else are you supposed to know?
I'm old, born in the late 60s, and this movie was magic to me growing up. It's janky, but so many more memorable moments than most 3 hour cgi slogs we have today. Awesome to see you guys give this early blockbuster some love. Was really looking forward to this.
My brother and I did a movie marathon... The highest grossing film from each year starting with 1915 and ending with 2023. It took MONTHS... and quite a few had Caravan of Garbage episodes. But this was not an entry I expected the see covered here. Thanks guys
Best and worst?
That's a great idea! Did you find some forgotten gems?
Nice use of Donkey Kong music for the trivia segment.
Not gonna lie, I would be thrilled to watch just an entire video of James and Maso sitting by the fire in fancy suits ranting about the veracity of numbers.
This video was so good that, for a moment, I thought a real caravan of garbage was coming at me.
The real caravan of garbage was the friends we made along the way.
2 records in 2 videos? Now this is the fresh content we deserve
Alright boys, as a 1933 King Kong fan who take this all terribly seriously, I am satisfied. I rate this review four gorillas AND a T. rex: 🦍🦍🦍🦍🦖
Trivia: the spider pit sequence was never actually filmed. There were models made and some test photos produced, but they realized at the script stage that it slowed the movie down to watch all these sailors die who were just the boys in the back. The REAL deleted scene is that the sailors were originally going to be chased from the lake to the log, and trapped on the log, by a Styracosaurus. There were even promotional photos produced with the men on the log trapped between Kong and the Styracosaurus. But in the interests of brevity and streamlining the film, they took out the dinosaur. However, the Styracosaurus model was reused in Son of Kong.
6:17 And this is why Caravan of Garbage editors are the best
I lost it at the flip
The director wanted to use original music, but the head of RKO thought a recycled score was cheaper. So, the director paid the composer and orchestra out of pocket.
That is a very cool fact, thank you!
Will "Get yourself a Yogo" replace James' infamous catchphrase "where's my pscetti?"
But yeah those ads were phenomenal
You know a movie is memorable when you haven't seen it in 35 years... And you remember every scene shown! Can't tell you more than a couple scenes from Justice League
"I want to live and say random numbers", favourite line from One Piece.
Love the audio inclusion of Donkey Kong Country for the trivia section. Well done, editors!😊
The original title of this movie was "Grey Harvest."
I came here for this
They hadn't invented blue yet.
Which was the style at the time
Actually, it was called 'Rabbit Harvest' as a tribute to all the rabbits used for Kong's fur
That’s very similar to “blue harvest” which is the working title for the original Star Wars.
Literally the most cinematically significant film ever made.
As much as it's disgustingly racist, I think that title probably belongs to Birth of a Nation. Pretty much revolutionised editing, had certain themes for different characters, ect.
I know this isn’t for everyone but I like that you’re talking about some old classics.
I love how the canon of King Kong is "no one knows how tall he is." Sometimes he's 15 or 20 feet tall, other times he's 100 feet tall, regardless of the movie you're watching.
In this one, they intentionally scaled him up in NYC, from 18’ up to 24’, as the urban jungle was taller than the natural one.
I have it on the authority of the theme song from the Rankin-Bass cartoon that he is ten times as big as a man. Furthermore, on the authority of the theme song from the Hanna-Barbera Godzilla cartoon, Godzilla is thirty stories high. So if Godzilla and King Kong are about the same size, I conclude that they had really, really big men in the 1960s. They had to crawl around on all fours indoors!
@@MattMcIrvin You know the name of King Kong. You know the fame of King Kong.
*Little known fact: the pilot of the airplane that flew at Kong on the skyscraper was named "RODNEY" and was the inspiration for a character named "Corn of Coblin" who went on to become the "Green Goblin." But back then, green didn't show up in the black and white film as well as the color blue. So they spent 8 months scouring, or "harvesting" blue corn to be used in the film, leading to the working title of the movie being code named "Blue Harvest"*
Interestingly, before they decided on stop motion, Kong was originally going to be played by Michael Joseph Jackson.
Blue corn tortilla chips are good
Boo. Tryhard. Teacher’s pet.
@@hada__02 I consider it more of an homage to the channel's best jokes
No
I'm a simple man. James says like this video. I like this video. No question ever.
I can't believe this film was made as a homage to Zack Snyder's filmography.
I love the King Kong films! 1933, 1976, 2005 and 2017! Classic pieces of cinema history
Extrapolating from that accelerating rate of reboots, we're about due another one. Guessing they'll start over as soon as _Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire_ has been released. And following that we should be getting a reboot almost every day.
Props to Ben and Laurence for the animations in this video. Some really hilarious ones.
70s Kong with Jeff Bridges is actually a fine movie. Solid 7/10
I think that’s being generous tbh. The only advantage it really had over the original was the use of color, and they had the potential to have better sound, but instead they reused the same stock roaring sound effect 800 times, resulting in it having even worse sound design than the original. The effects were also somehow worse.
On top of that, almost every change they made to the narrative was either redundant or was a downgrade. It’s one of a million instances where Dino De Lorentis tried something ambitious that had potential, and completely wasted it by doing it as cheaply as possible.
The editing for you two by the fireplace😂😂😂
This is the movie that gave Ray Harryhausen the drive to be in movies. He learned everything he knew about stop motion animation from the man that did the animation in this movie. This movie helped create a legend in stop motion animation.
I think if they added a Wilhelm scream to the people falling off the log this movie would be 100 times better
Can’t believe you have gone this far back with the caravan of garbage. You love to see it.
Can we get a Gladiator caravan of garbage? Even though it’s definitely not garbage.
I really like them sitting in the chairs with the fun animation. Hope to see more of it.
Apparently there's more recent discussion that the whole spider pit thing was an urban legend, and the scene was never even filmed.
It's a whole thing.
This might actually be my favorite episode of CoG yet. The jokes, observations, and editing were all on-point.
Much love, and can't wait for the next episode.
19:59 Ben or Lawrence. I'm embarrassed for you, that's ACTUALLY a stone cold stunner. NOT an RKO, the RKO is Randy Orton's finishing move smh.
RKO OUT OF NOWHERE
So freaking happy that you absolute legends are reviewing older movies!!!
Awright boys, let's all give this video a like
Interesting bit of trivia, this Movie might be responsible for the legend of the Loch Ness monster, since the sightings of "plesiosaur/dinosaur like creature" in Scotland only started in autumn of 1933, suspiciously a few months after the film's UK release.
That's interesting 🤔
Lochness monster sightings has always appeared centuries before. But it was it was around that time when that famous photo was taken.
@@lessonmet5291 Not quite. There was only one account of a catholic saint facing a "water beast" in the River Ness (not the Loch Ness) in 565, but after that there are no mentions of any monsters in any history record for almost 1400 years until 1933 (and in the aforementioned medieval account the "water beast" isn't described as a dinosaur of reptile at all).
@@lessonmet5291But it wasn't described as plesiosaurus before King Kong.
Saying RKO repeatedly and then showing footage of a stunner has wound me up more than it has any right to...
My main takeaway from this video is that King Kong (2005) playing around with the dead T-Rex's jaw was a direct callback to the 1933 original
When I decided to watch this, I didn't think there'd be a running gag of Hitler tweaking at the Olympics, but here we are😅
Ben and Laurence thank you for the incredible edit as always 🫶🏻
I understand why they cut that spider scene. It's been like 15 or so years since I last saw Peter Jackson's King Kong movie and I'm almost having nightmares just thinking about that pit scene and that giant thingy biting a man's head! Man that stuff is gross! :D
but it must be crazy to one morning wake up with a crazy idea like "hey why not have a big monkey on a big tower" and thereby creating one of cinema's most iconic characters that is still relevant almost 100 years later
Imagine showing that 1930s crowd a modern day film. CHAOS.
Considering 90% of modern movies are crap, yeah I can see that.😂
Calling out the editors for editing in a "stunner" rather than an "rko" 😤
Just watched this again a couple weeks ago. It’s an action spectacle if you’ve never seen it, definitely check it out as soon as possible.
I would genuinely love for James and mason to do a caravan of garbage on the video of a train coming towards the screen
Honestly the fact we get these amazing videos every week is miraculous. Never stop boys!
Thats a stunner tho....love your work editers
Fun fact: This movie was actually meant to be in full color. They developed a special filter that would make it easier to develop film in color. However there was an issue that came up during early film testing which led to the color having an odd bluish hue to it, so they stuck with black and white. Because of this the production name of the film was Blue Harvest
I'm loving the new style of animation in front of the fire. Reminds me of South Park Canadians 😂
The Godzilla and King Kong videos are some of my favourites that you've ever done. Long time viewer, you guys just get better and better
Thanks mate much appreciated!
One of the greatest films of all time. It's great, not just for its being an amazing technical achievement in 1933, but great on its own. This film stands up even today. I've seen it maybe 25 times. I used to own the 60th anniversary VHS edition with the button on the front that played Kong's roar. And I'll give you a controversial opinion before I leave you: the 1976 version with Jeff Bridges is pretty damn good too. It's strange how Peter Jackson's godawful 2005 version was supposed to be a loving homage to the original, but wound up being far more like the 1976 version. Here's why: in the original, Ann Darrow wants nothing to do with Kong. KONG IS THE BAD GUY! She doesn't feel sad when he dies or try to keep him from being killed. But in 1976 Jessica Lange feels pity for Kong and wants to save him. In the original, Jack Driscoll wants to save Ann and destroy Kong, but in 1976 Jeff Bridges feels sorry for Kong and wants to save him. In the original, Carl Denham is a straight shooter who plays fair by his men and shows bravery. But in 1976 Charles Grodin is an exploitative con man and abuser. That being said, the different take on the characters and the story doesn't stop John Guillermin's film being a fun adventure. But Peter Jackson's version is cinematic puke. Thank god Jack Black's day in the sun is over.
The point about Jackson's remake being more like DeLaurentiis' is so true. In both cases they totally missed the reason behind the tragedy in the 1933 classic. We feel sorry for Kong on our own -- Ann Darrow doesn't do it for us.
Although I think the '76 remake is terrible, I agree it's still better than that gawdawful mess from '05.
Please do the train arriving at the station film next. Maybe a tier list of different trains arriving at different stations films? Just a thought.
Hope this helps
"Kong was just a bloke having a go" 😂
Please please PLEASE give us more footage of James and Maso around the fireplace.
The arm chair/fireplace needs to be the set forever
Thanks to the editor for this
can't wait for the record breaking Caravan of Garbage for BIRTH OF A NATION
Crazy how this King is nearly 100 years old!!!
My grandpa saw this movie in theaters as a child and it was a staple in my family when I was growing up. It’s very much of its time but it has a very important place in my life.
This Caravan of Garbage is phenomenal. I can't stop laughing. The banter is on point, the edit is even better because of it, really stellar work to all four of you.
This movie really is quite amazing when you see just what they were able to pull off back in 1933, and despite some of the more dated aspects like racism and the treatment of women (and animals because that Stegosaurus didn't deserve it), the story itself actually holds up. Having seen the 1976, I don't really get what they were thinking, and they kind of go a bit too far in the relationship between Dawn and Kong. 1933 becomes a bit annoying with how much Ann screams and can't handle being around him, 1976 goes too far where Dawn is just totally cool with Kong stripping her down and almost kind of falling in love with him, too, but hey, that movie also had Kong go up the Twin Towers just a few years after they were completed, so you know, keep the tradition going I guess. Personally for me, my favorite version is Jackson's 2005 movie because it is a love letter to the 1933 one, while having all the things that didn't work or hold up in the 1933 version gone or made more palatable, and you also get the bug pit, it's just the best. Extended Version goes a bit far in places, but I still like it. I've been meaning to pick up a copy of the 1933 movie though just because I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I have, and to kind of complete the collection so to speak, but that might also require getting the 1976 version, which, eh. But 1933 and 2005 are good. The other interpretations of Kong I have seen, well, he's cool. Japan has Godzilla, America has King Kong (and other apes, we really do love our apes in cinema from Kong to Mighty Joe Young and a ton of Planet of the Apes movies), we love our big monsters.
6:39 The transparent puffs of smoke in front of Kong really sell the scene.
I like how Mason just starts randomly acting like he's on Numberwang in this.
He'd ace Numberwang, let's be honest.
The cool thing about going to see this movie back in the day is that there were still undiscovered islands on Earth at this time, so movie goers would have been able to imagine it could really happen. Kind of like sci-fi nowadays going to another planet.
It could be written each time: next level editing.
Loved the new gentlemens study set. Just a couple of blokes havin a go
I’m just appreciating adding the Donkey Kong theme in the trivia section.
I like how you guys always ask for likes at the outset before much of anything to like has been mentioned. Never change, and also bring back Rodney.
Low key wrapping up potentially the biggest series of these if they combine all the episodes of Kong and Godzilla
"...or they flip it..." (Inserts footage of Gorilla Anakin doing a big flip.)
That is S-tier editing. Bwillant. 5 stahs.
I'm enjoying these classic movie reviews, a Hitchock series would be great!
Ben & Laurence also broke a Mr. Sunday Movies record of having a Ben Shapiro cameo in both caravans of garbage…….
This should be an ongoing bit even if it doesn’t make sense
Something they forget to mention was that the clay they used to model Kong in the city had to be bleached from black (because he was blending in with the city too much) to white and redyed blue, this was referred to in set as the blue harvest which as you may not know, was the original futile for Star Wars
Between the opening of this episode, and next week being Rubber if im not mistaken, I'm here for the absolutely unhinged Mr Sunday Movies era.
Next week is original mad max so you are mistaken
90 years on and still great! I've seen this classic more times than I can count. The pacing, acting, effects, music -- all of it so sublimely satisfying. None of the remakes/spinoffs come close. And Fay Wray is such a babe!❤😊
The editors for CoG are always so damn good! You know what they'd have a great time with? 1999's Mystery Men, the original and most influential superhero movie of all time!
Very rare to have a movie these days where you actually have 10 to 20 of your boys around when you need to do some stuff. Now you get 2 to 4 of your boys at most, and that just isn't enough. That's one of the many reasons a movie like Furiosa stands out, because anytime something big needs to be done, there are actually enough of your boys around to make something happen.
I watch this with my monitor off because you describe everything so well, I don't need visuals.
I grew up watching these movies on tv back in the 1970's and I would rather watch these than 90 percent of the films today. I hate it when people put down old movies just because they are old.
King Kong (1933) is one of the biggest innovators in the horror/ monster movie films.
I appreciate the Donkey Kong Country music.
1933 King Kong is fantastic. Used to be an event when it came on TV. I still watch it all the time. Love the native language scene.