I had a go at the boat journey myself a while back editing back in scenes.

I think I got it working pretty well.

I did run into problems I will tell you a good tip though.

When Adrian Brody typing skull Island on the type writer intercut with the guy finding the map in the box.

I put Lumpy’s scene into existing discussion around the table as an alternate I think.

When I did the filming on the shore scene I reversed the zoom in to a zoom out on the kong roar. It was then needed to cut back to Captain Hayes on the boat.

I felt the same way better character development but I also really wanted to cut out loads of silly CGI stuff to more plasible scenes like the original.

The King Kong game has a good soundtrack good sound effects and also original character dialogue voice acting be sure to check the production diaries on the fake Kong sequeal jokes too. Some Trailers have unique shots too.

Hope that helps.