King Kong Lives (1986)Movies

LifestyleMoviesHollywood The big, furry guy is back on the big screen this month. King Kong returns to movie houses courtesy of "Kong: Skull Island." The new adventure doesn't connect directly to previous Kong incarnations. Didn't Kong die after that precipitous Big Apple drop? It's simply Hollywood's attempt to jump-start a new franchise. And it just might work. Consider the cast: John Goodman, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly and Tom Hiddleston. Not bad. It reminds us all the same of the past King Kong films. We've been watching Kong fall off buildings, flirt with blondes and snare airplanes out of the skies for decades. Which Kong movies are the best, though? We'll leave out the Japanese Kong versions. Those films, with their ludicrous FX and bad dubbing, deserve a category...