King Kong plane bound for museum

www.dompost.co.nz ^ | 19 May 2004 | KIM RUSCOE

[HairOfTheDog]

OK - I'll go see the King Kong movie! :~D

I haven't heard ~any~ details about EE RoTK. Certainly soon there will start to be some spoilers that get out, and we'll ping!

[weegee]

I don't doubt the director's ability but he can't do much to eliminate eye-rolling from a ham of an actor. He can minimize that actor's patented gimmick by minimizing his screen time but frankly Jack Black doesn't have depth.

It's like the director of Heathers who said that Christian Slater's "Jack Nicholson" impersonation was all wrong for the part, fire the actor and replace him (he wasn't a name then) or else get him to shape up.

The director is in charge but doesn't always get the performance out of an actor that he needs (Marlon Brando has phoned in his performances for decades and even Dustin Hoffman has done this a lot in the last decade).

And for the record I still don't like Michael Keaton's performance as "Batman".