To Jackson's credit, he did re-create the (supposedly) lost "Spider Pit Sequence" from the 1933 "King Kong" based on evidence (pictures, script, etc.) of what the missing scene looked like. His remake aside, I thought that was pretty great.

Or, better yet, Guillermo del Toro's "The Hobbit."

I agree with your general sentiment. I certainly commend filmmakers who manage to preserve artistic identity within the profit-driven world of Hollywood, many of these filmmakers have achieved their greatest successes within the system (Peter Weir, Peter Jackson, Russo Brothers.) To forfeit the financial security of…

Although I enjoy (most of) their blockbuster studio efforts, I hope the Wachowski siblings will make another small-scale genre picture like "Bound" (their best film IMO.)