Kong III
WARNING: If you plan on seeing the new King Kong movie, and don't want to know that he dies in the end and other juicy tidbits, go read something else. This entry is rife with spoilers!
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So. I saw the movie.
Watts: Well, I said she'd be fantastic as the damsel in distress, and I don't think I was wrong. She screamed and ran and heaved and moaned and breathed and got her eyes tinted extra-blue at all the right moments. AND she knows how to juggle! Too bad her character was the only one who truly understood Kong...
Brody: HOT. Sexy voice, sad eyes, scrawny bod...mmm... He had great chemistry with Watts onscreen, I thought... There was just such a heavy thickness to all their eye-locking in the cheesey love scenes, and I thought it was wonderful.
Black: It's Jack Black, so I couldn't help but take the character's serious moments with a grain of salt. Black's the type of actor where if you don't see him being his crazy self, then you think that his talent is being restricted by the character he's playing. I think he did a good job as the director, but it's just odd not to see him playing his regular maniac character... Well, I guess it's a different sort of maniac.
Serkis: Two very cool deaths! Falls off a building AND gets eaten by giant mud-penises with teeth. Kong was terrific. I found myself creating dialogue for all the expressions that Kong showed throughout the film, which I think is an indication of how well Serkis managed to show the feelings of the ape. And he did it so that the emotions were those of an animal, not as a human trapped within an animal. Great job. Serkis also played the ship's cook. Again, well done, no complaints there.
All right, let's get into the film.
Now, as with many adventure stories, there seem to be things that just kinda fall into place, leaving the spectators a tad skeptical about if it would REALLY happen that way in real life (you know, if in real life there was a giant monkey running through New York). For instance, how the characters knew EXACTLY where to go on Skull Island, and there was not one situation where any of them felt lost. Also, Ms. Ann Darrow might be a hottie, but come on, the REAL Kong would have squashed that lippy little tart with one fell swoop of his massive ape-hand the second she stood up to him! In fact, she should have been half-paralyzed and limbless by the time they got to his cave from tearing through the jungle. But what kind of a story would that be?
And what was the deal with the black-guy-young-kid-Heart-of-Darkness subplot?? They started it off with not knowing where the kid came from, and the black guy was his mentor and all that, and the kid's reading the book, and then oh, the black guy dies, the kid cries, and that's the end of it. Maybe there's more to it in an upcoming extended version?
I think that if I hadn't seen the trailers so often, that native kid that shows up out of nowhere in the allegedly "deserted" village would have been SO much creepier. Yeah, the natives, they were intense! I think that they were exaggerated enough so that no one would be offended by them... since it's touchy to associate tribal cultures with savagery. But look at how the Americans treat Kong... as a spectacle to make scads of cash... COME ON, WHO ARE THE REAL SAVAGES HERE?!
The dinosaurs were cool though! Man, dinosaurs rock! And the fights with Kong were pretty sweet... Pretty gross how Kong essentially folded that one T-Rex's head in half though. Sucks to be THAT guy. Oh, one of those other things that didn't add up was that Kong fought off three Tyrannosaurs, who kept biting him with their massive bone-crushing jaws, but then he gets taken down by a few grappling hooks, and later, a harpoon. Must have hit the nerves or something...
There was a part where Colin Hanks turns to Brody and mentions how they all lost something on the island (or something like that), and he's got this tiny scar on his face from when the rope he cut whipped out at him... I thought it would have been SO much better if that one side of his face had been totally mangled. Haha, coooool.
Watching the movie was pretty entertaining, I must say. The special effects were cool, and the story was interesting enough. You can feel that it's a long movie, but there was a lot to tell, I guess. However, I'd describe my overall experience with King Kong as this:
It's like having a really super-intense crush on someone for two weeks and then it finally culminates with an amazing make-out session and you wake up in the morning and your feelings that had been so strong have pretty much fizzled out. Kinda sucks actually.
***
So, who's up for Brokeback Mountain? Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal... TOGETHER??! I'm in.
***
So. I saw the movie.
Watts: Well, I said she'd be fantastic as the damsel in distress, and I don't think I was wrong. She screamed and ran and heaved and moaned and breathed and got her eyes tinted extra-blue at all the right moments. AND she knows how to juggle! Too bad her character was the only one who truly understood Kong...
Brody: HOT. Sexy voice, sad eyes, scrawny bod...mmm... He had great chemistry with Watts onscreen, I thought... There was just such a heavy thickness to all their eye-locking in the cheesey love scenes, and I thought it was wonderful.
Black: It's Jack Black, so I couldn't help but take the character's serious moments with a grain of salt. Black's the type of actor where if you don't see him being his crazy self, then you think that his talent is being restricted by the character he's playing. I think he did a good job as the director, but it's just odd not to see him playing his regular maniac character... Well, I guess it's a different sort of maniac.
Serkis: Two very cool deaths! Falls off a building AND gets eaten by giant mud-penises with teeth. Kong was terrific. I found myself creating dialogue for all the expressions that Kong showed throughout the film, which I think is an indication of how well Serkis managed to show the feelings of the ape. And he did it so that the emotions were those of an animal, not as a human trapped within an animal. Great job. Serkis also played the ship's cook. Again, well done, no complaints there.
All right, let's get into the film.
Now, as with many adventure stories, there seem to be things that just kinda fall into place, leaving the spectators a tad skeptical about if it would REALLY happen that way in real life (you know, if in real life there was a giant monkey running through New York). For instance, how the characters knew EXACTLY where to go on Skull Island, and there was not one situation where any of them felt lost. Also, Ms. Ann Darrow might be a hottie, but come on, the REAL Kong would have squashed that lippy little tart with one fell swoop of his massive ape-hand the second she stood up to him! In fact, she should have been half-paralyzed and limbless by the time they got to his cave from tearing through the jungle. But what kind of a story would that be?
And what was the deal with the black-guy-young-kid-Heart-of-Darkness subplot?? They started it off with not knowing where the kid came from, and the black guy was his mentor and all that, and the kid's reading the book, and then oh, the black guy dies, the kid cries, and that's the end of it. Maybe there's more to it in an upcoming extended version?
I think that if I hadn't seen the trailers so often, that native kid that shows up out of nowhere in the allegedly "deserted" village would have been SO much creepier. Yeah, the natives, they were intense! I think that they were exaggerated enough so that no one would be offended by them... since it's touchy to associate tribal cultures with savagery. But look at how the Americans treat Kong... as a spectacle to make scads of cash... COME ON, WHO ARE THE REAL SAVAGES HERE?!
The dinosaurs were cool though! Man, dinosaurs rock! And the fights with Kong were pretty sweet... Pretty gross how Kong essentially folded that one T-Rex's head in half though. Sucks to be THAT guy. Oh, one of those other things that didn't add up was that Kong fought off three Tyrannosaurs, who kept biting him with their massive bone-crushing jaws, but then he gets taken down by a few grappling hooks, and later, a harpoon. Must have hit the nerves or something...
There was a part where Colin Hanks turns to Brody and mentions how they all lost something on the island (or something like that), and he's got this tiny scar on his face from when the rope he cut whipped out at him... I thought it would have been SO much better if that one side of his face had been totally mangled. Haha, coooool.
Watching the movie was pretty entertaining, I must say. The special effects were cool, and the story was interesting enough. You can feel that it's a long movie, but there was a lot to tell, I guess. However, I'd describe my overall experience with King Kong as this:
It's like having a really super-intense crush on someone for two weeks and then it finally culminates with an amazing make-out session and you wake up in the morning and your feelings that had been so strong have pretty much fizzled out. Kinda sucks actually.
***
So, who's up for Brokeback Mountain? Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal... TOGETHER??! I'm in.
posted by Emily at 1:01 a.m.
1 Comments:
Remember the part when Kong was spinning round and round on the lake in the end? What's up with that? Shouldn't he have drilled his ass into the ice by then?
But I really liked how they decided to make the creatures move so fast even though they're giants. That makes more sense to me than having a jeep outrun a tyrannosaur.
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