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On this day in 1933 the movie King Kong opened in the United States of America. Whereas the film’s special effects haven’t aged well, mostly thanks to some very bad reacting to the effects, for the time it was spectacular and inspired the superior Japanese ‘giant monster’ films like Godzilla. Some even contend that certain aspects of the ‘popular culture myth’ that surrounds Bigfoot/BHM can be traced back to King Kong. Another debt society owes King Kong is that without the original skyscraper-based rampaging ape Nintendo would never have been inspired to create Donkey Kong and its hero Mario, and without Mario there would be no Legend of Zelda games and no Pokemon (which inspired a whole new generation of children to show an interest in natural history, cryptozoology, care for the environment and animal rights). It’s quite astounding to think of the knock-on effects one fairly ropey film has had on modern culture.
And now, the news:
Digger wasps protected by antibiotics
Boozy chimp off to rehab
It's raining fish ... no really
For most fortean researchers, witnessing a rain of fish as it happened would be a ‘bream’ come true….
EDITOR'S COMMENT: King Kong 'fairly ropey'? Really, Oliver. Tut tut.
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In reply to the editors comment and in the interests of fairness I should also point out that the super mario bros movie was a lot worse than ropey...
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