King-Kong-a-Ding-a-Long

I've never really like King Kong and I think Roger Ebert said it best in his scathy review of King Kong Lives when the characters don't seem to be afraid of Kong. Yes, Kong might have been scary in the 1933 original, but even when I was a young kid, I could tell it was just a man in an ape suit in the 1976 remake, the aforementioned sequel, and even King Kong vs. Godzilla.
Two and a half years ago, I'm sitting in the Hilton hotel in Atlanta reading my complimentary USA Today paper while I contemplate how I can make it from the hotel to a good restaurant to get breakfast without running into the panhandlers that are all around the downtown area. Anyway, I was reading a article about The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Peter Jackson who directed that movie said he is going to make a remake of King Kong and I nearly lost my appetite.
The same year the 1933 movie opened, there was Son of Kong, which is kinda cheesy. Then, there is the King Kong ripoff of Mighty Joe Young, which was also remade not so well like the 1976 remake, even though I've never seen the original Young movie.
I've never found apes interesting characters on film, whether it is Planet of the Apes or Congo.
I had totally forgotten about Jackson's King Kong until about two months ago when all the publicity started. The movie is getting good reviews which makes me think that anything can be better compared to the 1976 remake and 1986 King Kong Lives. One of the joys of watching the 1976 version is how "mechanical" the mechanical hand of Kong moves. Why is it just that one right hand? How goofy he looks in the close ups. His hair is also a black color. Ape suit Kong is brownish red and walks like the man in the suit has just crapped his pants and the suit has chaffed his thighs. But the best mistake is in the movie poster that has Kong standing comfortable with a foot on each tower of the World Trade Center. In the movie, he has a hard time trying to jump from one tower to the next. But take a look and notice how big the Jessica Lange character of Dwan is. Lange is 5'8 1/2" according to www.imdb.com. To be that size in his grip, she would have to be at least three times as taller and Kong looks like he's going to take a big dump on the Big Apple.
There's more ape suit in the sequel, which helped bankrupt the Dino De Laurentiis Group in the 1980's. The 1976 movie cost approximately $24 million and grossed about $53 million in the USA and $80 million worldwide. King Kong Lives only made $5 million. Ouch! Even worse, it was an unfunny running joke and major plot point in The Big Hit.
Kong has always been portrayed as a misunderstood person but he is always portrayed in the movie posters and stills as a monster. (Notice the almost red eyes in the poster to King Kong Lives.)
Maybe this will be the last Kong movie for a while and maybe Hollywood will start making original movies people want to see rather than gay cowboys eating pudding. (I don't know if they eat pudding, but I want to see that movie to make sure there isn't even a Jell-O pudding box in the background or even any reference to it.)