You came, you saw, you were conquered? 
Saw it yesterday. A terrific movie. Can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t like it.
Oh, by the way, where the heck is a movie ticket $20? Holy crap.
Well, more like $7.50 (me) + $7.50 (girlfriend) + $4.75 was it (???) for seemingly bottomless vat of overly buttered popcorn, which, in total came to about $20 (or did we get a soda too?)…
Since it was I who wanted to see it, the $20 was the price I was willing to pay to be more entertained than I was (which usually isn’t that big of a deal, but in this case, felt the $20 would have been more wisely spent (flowers for the girlfriend? renting of the previous versions of KK? etc…))…
Hmmm…
ElGuapoHuesudodeNada… I know that I, Terrifel, do not have your superior intellect and education… but could it be that once again you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on Peter Jackson?
Honestly now… the girlfriend didn’t want to snuggle, did she? You spent $20 and sat for 3 1/2 hours in the dark, and she didn’t let you get to first base. That’s what all this is really about, isn’t it?
Oh, you can bet your ass that it’ll sweep the technical categories.
Apart from that, I think it has a chance of being nominated in the “Best Adapted Screenplay” category. (It’s going to have a spectacular appeal for ‘movie’ people.) Of course, Brokeback Mountain is a shoe-in for the actual win, there.
Worse. Not only did she turn him down, throughout the second half of the film, she kept screaming “KONG! KONG! GIVE IT TO MOMMA!”
yeah, that’s it. :rolleyes:
OK, just saw Kong today so I can put in my two cents:
As many have commented, the movie went at a snail’s pace. I couldn’t see my watch in the theater but it must have taken an hour or so just to get to Skull Island. Some movies need to be three hours long- Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire could have been three hours long and still not do full justice to the novel. Not only could Kong have been a full hour shorter, but it should have been.
Part of the problem was that many of the action sequences were unnecessary, overlong, and especially with the Tyranosauri fight, way over-choreographed: They not only fall off a cliff into a gorge, but fight on their way down dangling from vines?!?. And the animators must have been so in love with how they did Kong that they just couldn’t pass up any opportunity to show Kong bouncing around like a rubber ball. Which by the way didn’t seem to match his scale in terms of how fast it took him to drop his own height.
Ok, and that’s just the pacing. Then there’s the plot. This version of Anne Darrow developed the worst case of Stockholm Syndrome on record. She fell in love with the friggin’ gorilla! And unlike the original movie where there was a strong (human) male lead to win Anne’s affections, this movie effectively split the character into three parts: a reedy screenwriter, an egotistic pretty boy actor, and a slightly sinister German captain. The decision to basicaly make Kong the unrivaled romantic lead was a mistake in my opinion.
Minor plot hole: the army just guns away at Kong without caring if Anne is in danger of getting shot?
I did sorta like the numerous “winks” to the original film, which I won’t list here. But in summary, this was the first movie in a long long time I was tempted to actually get up and leave before it was over.
It’s amazing how many people dislike this movie so vehemently. I stand aghast at the anger that people seem to have about its length and content, as though they were punished or tortured by it.
But what makes that especially surprising is how many people absolutely adore it too! Surely with so many people who love it so much, then the dislikers should really have a more reasonable reaction, and not be so expressively annoyed at it and Peter Jackson - they take it so personally.
Ann does have an enormous case of Stockholm Syndrome, though not entirely unbelievable considering that Kong had more personality then Driscoll.
As for the Army, considering there’s a giant ape that’s in the process of tearing manhatten apart, I think their first priority is killing it, and worrying about the civilian caustiles later. It would be hard to imagine the army doing more damage then Kong.
Wasn’t there a scene early in the army’s attempts to kill Kong where they fire a howizer into a building when they miss the big ape? Yeah, I don’t think they were sweating the civ casualties.
Never mind Ann – they’re strafing over Manhattan with big honkin’ Lewis guns. You would expect a great deal of casualties on the ground.
Not really a plot hole, though. What did you expect them to use? Bad language?
Besides, anyone killed can be blamed on Carl Denhem. After all, if he hadn’t brought the ape to New York, none of that would have happened.
I kinda half-expected, right after the “Beauty killed the beast line” to have somebody come up to him and say they were gonna sue his ass into the ground.
I’ve yet to see Kong, but hearing the words “slow-mo” just made me a lot less excited. Jackson is a great filmmaker… but two things about him suck. That he lets his wife write the scripts, and that he thinks slow-motion is acceptable in the sorts of films he makes.
Let’s face it, if your film is three hours long, the audience does not deserve slow-mo. They should never be subjected to it. But even without that, slow motion is one of the most cliched and pathetically obvious tricks in the book. About the only time it’s ever acceptable is during explosions, and then only in CAMPY or comedic action flicks. I can count on a single hand the number of times its been used properly and effectively in a drama or a serious action film. And none of those times include Sam fucking Gamgee drowning in slo-mo for what seemed like hours while some of the best material and dialouge was cut out of the film. Stuff like Frodo almost dropping the ring are passable, because they are at least physical actions that would be hard to catch al the elements at work without the slo-mp. But horses running? Fucking hobbits crying? No no no no!
Denhem? Sued? HA!
You gotta catch em before you can sue em, & Denham will hop a subway 5 seconds after delivering the line.
He’ll be halfway to Hoboken before Ann gets an elevator to the ground floor, & BAM! in no time flat, he’ll be in Nome, selling refrigerators to Eskimos. Which will explode.
Which? Nome, the refrigerators, or the Eskimos? 
Knowing Denham, as he is portrayed in the film–all three. :smack:
I saw the movie.
I liken the film to shaking a 25’ set of keys in front of an audience and watching them giggle and coo. Some of them spit up a little.