He says himself that the king kong effects were amazing at the time, so isnt that reason enough to preserve it? So what if they look cheesy today, and you dont have the imagination to watch the movie and see it for its story and 'fear' king kong, all i can say to that is glad im not you.
But based on this argument we should get rid of all the information on those silly room sized computers. I mean compared to a PDA those look 'cheesy' and their not nearly as good (powerful) so why keep any history of them around...Your talking about basically eliminating a piece of history...Star Wars changed the face of special effects, and even though you apparently dont care, some people are interested in seeing the how things were done 'back in the day' before all this technology for cgi came about.
I watched The Day After Tomorrow the other day and their is a scene where they show these wolves in a zoo (the wolves are actually shown later on too, but that doesnt matter) the point is, during their first short scene one of them howled and the first thing that came to my mind was they're cgi, they didnt look real at all. the movement that they gave to the cgi model just looked fake. It just goes to show that cgi isnt always better.
-Darth Simon