Dad Versus King Kong Versus the Movie Theater Versus Snow
4 min readApr 29, 2023
The 1976 King Kong remake did not live up to its expectations. But it holds a special place in my heart because Dad battled the snow to get us to the theater.
Mum wasn’t into “monster movies,” so Dad was going to take me. And I think he secretly wanted to see it, too. Like me, he’d grown up with the original 1933 King Kong. (It came out when he was a toddler!) Like…