King Kong
my personal take after seeing it on Wednesday night: What a great movie. True to the original. Filled with action and excitement, love and emotion, big spiders and scary zombies.
Ok first thing, this movie isn’t for little kids or the faint of heart. I think when people went to the movie they were expecting it to be ok for kids, so there ended up being like three crying kids when I watched and the boy sitting next to me decided he needed to sit on his dads lap for some parts. Oh my goodness, Liz would die.
Second thing, it is so great that Jackson stayed true to some of the movies great lines. “Don’t be alarmed, ladies and gentlemen. Those chains are made of chrome steel.” and “Oh, no. It wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.” I got pretty excited over the chrome steel line because back in the day when James and Ian and I watched the original, we rewound and replayed that line half a dozen times because we thought it was funny.
Third, the action is something. You can definately see Peter Jackson’s background in horror movies. Some of the action is stomach turning, some is over the top, but it all works perfectly. A couple scenes you roll your eyes and some scenes the CG is weak, but these scenes make the movie just that much more true to the original. Everything combined the action is really great. There were more then a couple times when everyone in the theatre was clapping.
Finally, all the characters were perfectly cast and were very well developed. There was great chemistry and lines and altogether they fulfilled all expectations. Jillian enjoyed it and I would say its a great date movie. The love stories are a great ballance for the action. Something to look out for, that I read but didn’t catch the first time I watched it: Peter Jackson is one of the bi-plane gunners in the end of the movie. If you have seen the movie already you should check out this article for more on that and some other interesting trivia.
Grade: A
muddled Said,
December 19, 2005 @ 13:59
I read some reviews that were less than flattering to this movie. I still wanna see it, though.
I like the new theme here, it looks good.
Kev
bradlands Said,
December 19, 2005 @ 14:21
What did the less then flattering reviews say about it?
muddled Said,
December 19, 2005 @ 14:42
that it was too long and boring…and that the ape is the only one that had any character development.
bradlands Said,
December 19, 2005 @ 14:54
I would say that it was long, but not boring. Kong was definately developed best, but I thought there was good development for the other main characters. I would think that to develop them more could clutter the movie and would detract from the main theme which is Kong falling in love with Darrow. You’ll have to let me know what you think once you have seen it.
muddled Said,
December 19, 2005 @ 15:59
I’ll do that. I hope to go see it sometime this week.