King Kong is a great movie if you watch the movie within the movie, or Adventure on Skull Island as I like to call it;-)
I love sci fi and fantasy epics and special effects, and have no problem making leaps of faith and “suspending disbelief”. But when I saw the girl getting flung around the jungle like a freaking toy rag doll only to emerge unscathed, and when I watched a pack of people running and talking as a herd of mammoth dinosaurs stampeded over their heads, it was all I could stand. My son looked at me and said, “I think I have homework.” I turned the movie off.