6. Holy Twin Towers, Batman!
King Kong (1976) was briefly a box-office blockbuster, despite the disapproval of purists. Its screenplay was by Lorenzo Semple, Jr. who, with the mid-1960s Batman TV series, had made a trademark of treating pop-pulp culture as knowing camp rather than playing it straight. The new heroine, the peculiarly-named Dwan (Jessica Lange), is a wannabe starlet who survived an explosion on her director's yacht when he was watching Deep Throat; when Kong manhandles her she shouts at him that he's a "male chauvinist ape". It's amusing but in every sense more dated than the 1930s version - no more so than when Kong dies atop the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, riddled with missiles by military helicopters. The scale of the buildings dwarf him (contrary to the tower-straddling promotional poster), and with the original WTC building obliterated by history it's now the 1970s version which seems like a relic from a more innocent age.