{"id":6475,"date":"2026-04-25T01:52:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=6475"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:54:12","slug":"king-kong-by-john-guillermin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/25\/king-kong-by-john-guillermin\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>King Kong<\/em> by John Guillermin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 Entertaining, with a lot of intentional goofiness, more comedy than drama.<\/p>\n<p>\u274c There\u2019s no King, merely an oversized ape\u2014everything that establishes Kong\u2019s power\u2019s been cut from the island sequence.<\/p>\n<p>\u274c After the midpoint, screenplay and editing string plot points together as if on a speeding assembly line, and not everything develops organically, to put it mildly.<\/p>\n<p>This de Laurentiis production\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@gyokusai\/116462373194926415\" target=\"somethingUnique\">release poster<\/a> promises a lot more than it delivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/25\/king-kong-by-john-guillermin\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to King Kong by John Guillermin\"><p>\ud83c\udfac Not the best score Barry\u2019s ever written.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6477,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6475\/revisions\/6477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}