Daniel Robert Epstein: Peter Jackson

AWESOME INTERVIEW.... He's lost so much weight and I hear KONG ROCKS.... When I grow up I want to be like Peter Jackson!!!!

is it wrong to say that the only Peter Jackson films I have seen are Heavenly Creatures and the Frighteners (Now out on DVD Special addition)

Absolutely not. But I do recommend you watch his twisted early stuff. As gross as they can be, they are extremely fun to watch!!! Especially MEET THE FEEBLES!

Excellent interview and a major inspiration for me and others to perservere in our careers!

Informative interview.

Missy got me The Frighteners Director's Cut DVD (which was previously onlu available on Laserdisc!) for Christmas. I would have, however, liked more Q&A about Brain Dead and Bad Taste.

Yes. Dead Alive/Braindead is fucking awesome. Second best Zombie flick.

A romatic interlude on ice in central park?

Oh dear...

no its really good. i swear

Can I have a job?

wow what a great interview .. just wished the SG interviews were in bigger typeface ...

I so want to see this new King Kong .. looks great!

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It is quite amazing how many people over seas have actually seen peter jackson films and I don't just mean lord of the rings heavenly creatures of freightners . Bad Yaste is a great film though and I so need to see meet the feebles again sometime .

Fair enough.

Don't know how many of you people are fans of the original, but how do you feel about Jackson's decision to drop the following scenes:

I'm probably being pedantic.

It's just a movie. lol. But Peter IS a great film maker. As a person that has watched every minute of the appendices on the LOTR EE dvds (more than once) I understand his reasoning behind wanting to keep the crew together. And that part paid off - Kong LOOKS great. But it's not his best film. Even though I love the LOTR films dearly (read the books my entire life) I still think Heavenly Creatures is his best film. I'm not sure he can ever "top" the spectacle of LOTR...in fact, I hope he doesn't try. Something in between his early films and the more recent blockbusters would be great. Nice interview...but Pete's a pretty easy interview, really. Kong is good, but in no way is it perfect or genious or whatever superlative you want to throw at it. It's just a good escapist/adventure/romance movie.

And Peter is a really nice guy - I wrote to him just after the first LOTR, just telling him how I'd been following his career since 'Bad Taste' (the funniest sci-fi horror of all time bar-none), and he wrote back to me, making direct references to things I had said in my letter. Sent me a signed picture too, which was nice of him. Peter Jackson is so much better than Spielberg could ever dream of.

I think what would have been interesting if Jackson had taken another route for the King Kong Movie and had Kong take a a big shit while hanging out at the empire state... so I could have called that fiilm a big peice of crap!!!