Come anticipate Peter Jackson's _Ding Dong_ with me

better hurry!

PING PONG! HONG KONG! KING KONG! SING SONG!

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So. I've specifically held off viewing much to do with Jackson's followup to Them Films What I Really Liked As Did Many Others, even though the spinoff fan site from theonering.net:

http://www.dongisking.net/index.shtml

...is one of if not the best example yet of a major film production and an organized online fanbase engaging in mutually beneficial 'you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours' shenanigans out there. Basically after my absolutely obsessive tracking of Lord of the Rings online, I just needed a break. Still, it's well worth checking out the production diaries for the whole thing, which will be continuing through post-production. It's also goddamn weird seeing the thin non-glasses wearing Jackson.

But anyway, full-on production is done and presumably some sort of trailer will be surfacing in the next couple of months looking ahead to Christmas release, so come anticipate etc.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...) (webmail), April 23rd, 2005 7:34 PM. (Ned) (link)

i really don't know what to think of this one.

-- s1ocki (slytus...) (webmail), April 23rd, 2005 7:38 PM. (slutsky) (link)

i just can't get excited about a ding dong remake, i think!

-- s1ocki (slytus...) (webmail), April 23rd, 2005 7:39 PM. (slutsky) (link)

i agree about thin peter jackson being weird.

-- s1ocki (slytus...) (webmail), April 23rd, 2005 7:42 PM. (slutsky) (link)

i barely have any connection to the original at all--i'm just having a hard time getting excited about this for whatever reason. maybe it's my ingrained remake antipathy...

-- s1ocki (slytus...) (webmail), April 23rd, 2005 9:04 PM. (slutsky) (link)

i don't get the "i love this so much i have to COPY IT CRASSLY FOR LOTS OF MONEY" stuff. if he loves it leave it the fuck alone.

-- ryan (augustuscaesar2...) (webmail), April 23rd, 2005 10:42 PM. (ryan) (link)

This will prob'ly only be classic if Peter returns to his gorefest roots and dong eats lots of people's brains.

-- Failin Huxley (noodle_vagu...) (webmail), April 23rd, 2005 11:21 PM. (noodle vague) (link)

Imagine how many he'd have to gobble up for it to be much a meal though, he'd have to have the equivalent of a cinema popcorn box full of brains.

-- Øystein (wabbitseaso...) (webmail), April 23rd, 2005 12:10 AM. (Øystein) (link)

Mmmmmmmm, Brain Poppers.

-- Failin Huxley (noodle_vagu...) (webmail), April 23rd, 2005 12:13 AM. (noodle vague) (link)

every version of this movie rules, you can't go wrong with dong

-- j blount (jamesbloun...) (webmail), April 23rd, 2005 12:26 AM. (papa la bas) (link)

? is that a zing zong?

i stand by that statement

ring ding dong ring a ding ding ding dong
keep your hands ringin'
ring ding dong ring a ding ding ding dong
uh yeah

zelffor

this is the worst film ever