King Kong (1933 film)/YMMV

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• Awesome Music: The "Jungle Dance" music from the original. Also used as the background music to the "Eighth Wonder of the World" show in the 2005 remake.
  • The 1933 soundtrack is still well regarded by both musicians and viewers.
• Ethnic Scrappy: Charlie the cook, whose actor was credited as "Victor Wong" and may have actually been Chinese-American, but whose portrayal is still considered offensive. Still doesn't prevent him from being competent (noticing Ann's missing first and immediately raising the alarm) or brave.
• Misaimed Fandom: For the 1933 Kong at least, to some extent. He does kill quite a few otherwise innocent people on both Skull Island and in New York when he breaks loose. He was meant to be sympathetic, but not to the extent that you should ignore his destructive qualities.
• Narm: Parts of the original, including the most blasé declaration of love ever.
• Special Effect Failure: The Stop Motion used for Kong and the dinosaurs in the original version to modern viewers who do not begin to comprehend the effort or complexity of what was done focusing on their layman assessment of "It looks like clay". For the time, they were the best special effects around, some shots still astound modern special effects artists with their seemlessness and complexity. But it's doubly impressive considering that the alternative would have been lizards in makeup.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: For 1933, anyway. The stop-motion effects were so impressive they got a kid named Ray Harryhausen interested in making that a career. There are still cinemaphiles and effects experts impressed with how Willis O'Brien made his effects.