[Phsstpok]

I've posted this before, but your "kinda weird" comment prompts me to do so again. Jonah Goldberg on NRO the Corner bulletin board (not really a blog) had the following to say a week or so ago:

KING KONG [Jonah Goldberg]

I'm fairly psyched for the new King Kong. Good, fun story. Peter Jackson has earned the benefit of the doubt. Etc.

But explain to me one thing. A bunch of explorers go to an island. They find a giant gorilla. That's cool. But they also find dinosaurs. They go crazy for the giant gorilla -- which is totally legit. But they're completely nonchalant about the dinosaurs. "Ho, hum, found a T-rex zzzzzz....But did you see that monkey!?!"

Isn't that a bit like saying, "Hey, leave the diamonds. Take the rubies."?

The story revolves around the cynicism of the huckster willing to exploit Kong commercially. But the guy's really a moron.

[rang1995]

yes but they knew that there would already be a "jurrasic park" so they went for the box office

[jocon307]

I kind of thought Jonah had a good point with that too, but that's how the original movie went too, didn't it? So if that was the story they were stuck with sticking to it.