Yes remember
I Love Lucy and have the set among our oldies to work through. A friend had
Gilligan's Island so have now borrowed that to try, probably next, but we have a couple of series of
Bonanza to finish first
.
I did see
The Piano a few years after its release (on TV or DVD). If I recall correctly I liked it but thought it fitted into the dark fetishy films coming from NZ then and which was becoming a tiresome overworked characteristic. Being overexposed to them and thinking such did not match NZ reality well took the edge of it for me (
Once Were Warriors was another well known dark NZ movie, released a year or so after
The Piano).
The production filming (much modified in post production for the actual film though) for the ship scenes in Peter Jackson's remake of
King Kong was shot around the island out in front of our home. I liked the movie until what I thought was a very tediously drawn out end.
King Kong the book has sat on my reading list for a long time.