Wednesday, June 2, 2010

T'was beauty killed the beast.

King Kong is a long movie. It's three movies in one. You got the whole boat story and getting there then there is the whole island story of getting the giant ape. Then finally there is the whole city story at the end where the ape dies - sorry if I ruined it.
While watching this, the one question I have is why get the ape? You get to this island, find numerous ancient artifacts and then pass those and find real life dinosaurs! Real ones! But no, dinosaurs are not good enough. They are too common place because everyone has heard of dinosaurs. But a giant ape? That is awesome people need to see that, dinosaurs are old news.

Besides other little problems with the movie, like the length, I don't mind this movie. It has action, suspense, thrills and romance. Its also good to have one or two long epic adventure movies in your movie collection, just for those times when you want to leave planet earth for a good three hours.

And of course, who better to do it with then with peter Jackson guiding your way? He knows how to expand the celluloid. He had lots of practice with lord of the rings. Each movie in itself you have to set your day around to watch. Then if you are a true fan, you have to watch them all together, which basically fills up the whole agenda for that day with just enough time to eat and a few breaks to get those muscles moving again. So I guess king Kong was an easy movie to make very long.

Finally, the one memory I have of this movie is the unnerving insect scene. When I saw it in the theatre, I was all by myself and had nowhere to run. Oh looks like Kong is headed for the big building of doom- need to watch it.
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