Kong: Skull Island – "Paranoid" helicopter scene. 11 great scenes from bad movies
- 11 Great Scenes in Bad Movies
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace – Podracer Race and the fight against Maul
- X-Men Genesis: Wolverine – opening sequence and Deadpool scene
- Spider-Man 3 – Sandman transformation
- Kong: Skull Island – "Paranoid" helicopter scene
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – Opening sequence and the Warehouse showdown
- Twilight – Baseball game
- Rocky V – Rocky vs. Tommy Gunn
- The Matrix: Reloaded – The highway chase
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets – Rihanna's dance
- Wonder Woman 1984 – the invisible jet
Kong: Skull Island – "Paranoid" helicopter scene
- Year: 2017
- Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts
- Rotten Tomatoes score: 75%
- Metacritic score: 62
Kong: Skull Island is not a bad movie, but neither is it an outstanding production. It's more of an average attempt (although I've always considered it just one of the "nice movies"). Nevertheless, the fans did not really love this production (as evidenced by the ratings). Rather, everyone was expecting something that would prove to be a better reinterpretation of the 1933 classic than the one Peter Jackson delivered in 2005! And although it worked visually, the story – for most of the screening – simply the flair.
So what scene makes up for all that disappointment? It's the electrifying moment when military personnel fly into King Kong Island to the accompaniment of Paranoid by Black Sabbath. The viewer gets three minutes of stylish cinema: slow-mo, explosions, finesse and some humor. American forces bombard a tropical forest from helicopters.
Nature never forgets though, and their playfulness ends ever so quickly. At some point, one of the helicopters is pierced by a tree trunk. And so King Kong announces it's arrival. Come on, you overgrown monke, there's Huey choppers to down.