CGI is the special effects language of movies these days, but classics like the original King Kong and The Adventures of Captain Marvel boasted some very impressive practical effects for their time. I'm sure young audiences thrilled to the wonders before them. The only thing cooler would have been to combine the two properties.
would have given my quarter all twelve weeks to see this chapter serial.....
ReplyDeleteit looks amazing, Ross....
nicely done....
Willis O'Brien would be proud of you......
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ReplyDeleteAs in, Beautia Sivana? Played, perhaps, by Linda Stirling? For that reason, alone, I would've gone to see this movie (as a seventh grader) every weekend for twelve weeks. Or fifteen...or even a hundred!
DeleteSuperb work, today, Ross. :-)
I'll make a wild guess that while Superman was taking Starro (to Starfish Island?), shortly after STF #4446, Billy Batson yelled "Shazam" in order to transport Kong back to Skull Island. Inadvertently interrupting the Henry Jones, Jr. Expedition (@ STF #3823) who had been hoping to benefit from Kong's absence!
ReplyDeleteVERY nice. Add me to the number of people who'd watch that film.
ReplyDeleteHow about a team-up between Captain Marvel and (from an eponymous film made IIRC in the early 1980s) Captain Invincible?
OMG! I would have gone into a serious allowance deficit rewatching every ep of that serial!
ReplyDeleteI would've gone to see every episode just for Peter Lorre as Dr. Sivana. Sometimes you really do come up with the most brilliant casting ideas, Ross.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that it says “and”, not “vs.”. Apparently the Captain gets the King to work with him! Would be fascinating to see how that plays out.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they battle the kaiju known as Kurobahata (from that little-known Showa-era flick, "It Came From The Field of Clover").
DeleteYou WILL Marvel at the King as they play all star football! What a field post!!
ReplyDelete"GOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!"
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