Posted on 12/28/2005 3:36:50 AM PST by Al Simmons
Sorry, I've seen it. I loved it. I watched the movie for the fun of watching another Kong. Jackson did a bangup job IMO. I remember the fights a little differently between the dinos and Kong. As for the Bronto stampede, sure, people will die and people will live. That's kinda the point. You ever been in a bronto stampede? The weight of brontos is estimated because nobody really knows - all they can do is guess. And I very much doubt they were running at 30 - 40 mph given that the people were keeping up - kindof a giveaway. Methinks you bought into your own hype a bit too much.
As much as you like picking, you have a few good points piled onto by a bunch of apparently inaccurate observations that you take poetic license with.
Kong is a good flick. It's the most realistic portrayal of a great ape on screen to date IMO. Despite it's length, it kept attention, and didn't dissappoint. I don't even know what Halo is; but, I'm ready to go see it if Jackson handles it with the attention paid to Kong and the Rings. The man has become genuinely successful at what he does because he's good at it and has hired help that is good at it. We seem to have seen two different movies.
Here's the latest on BB Mountain.....
http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2005/12/minimal-appeal.html
CGI has pretty much thrown open the gates for excess. Very very little CGI has a reality to it any more, and it seems to take video games as it's template of reality-- SFX are becoming less convincing, lately, not more (George Lucas, call your office).
I've always hated it when a movie disregards the need to "qualify" what happens in a film (goes for books too). It becomes so distracting that I can't pay attention to the story. I have always called it "poetic liscence", but that doesn't really fit the case.
BTW, what a great post!
I loved the film.
On and on. I can enjoy it for the action part of it, but those suspended physics and other issues keep popping up while you're watching it. I mean, you're in a dino stampede for 10 minutes and only a few people get squished? Yeah, right.
Saw it. Someone should have held a gun to Peter Jackson's head and kept it there till he cut a full hour from this movie. At 2 hrs 17 min, we'd be talking about a breathtaking masterpiece.
Show a couple of skulls and skeletons, not 50. One eye-rolling native, not a full minute of them. 10-20 long close-ups of Naomi Watts, not 648. One good close-up of the biplanes, not 20.
And cut the whole dino stampede scene. It was dumb, and quite frankly, the effects sucked.
I could go on and on, like the movie.
This reminds me of the Indiana Jones series.
The first movie depicted incredibly "unlikely" feats, but never crossed the line into fantasy. Thus it kept the audience riveted to the action.
The subsequent movies crossed the line and lost the edge that the first one had.
This reminds me of the Indiana Jones series.
The first movie depicted incredibly "unlikely" feats, but never crossed the line into fantasy. Thus it kept the audience riveted to the action.
The subsequent movies crossed the line and lost the edge that the first one had.
I was wondering about that myself...The way Kong was carrying her, she'd either be dead froma broken neck or severely brain-damaged.
Oh, and has Mr. Peter Jackson ever been outside on the observation deck of the Empire State Building? Well, I (and probably half his US audience) have been there. And, besides the dizzying fear of heights, there is also something known as THE WIND that ALWAYS is whipping around up there like a gale. Still, never saw Ann's clothes flap, never heard any wind, and she and Driscoll hopped up and down those exterior ladders 100 stories up in the air like, like, well - like there was a net and a blue screen below them, onto which NYC was later super-imposed.
It's winter. There's snow on the ground. She's up there where it must be even colder, in a skimpy dress and HIGH HEELS climbing on the ladders. That was undoubtedly the very stupidest part of the film-never mind the wind, the hypothermia'd get her. And when she leaves the safety of the deck to climb up those slippery metal ladders IN HIGH HEELS I heard people in the audience saying "Idiot!" and less polite words.
Shall we spank him, mum?
If you think this is bad, you should read his review of Gilligan's Island.
"WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anybody think of anything I left out???"
You forgot to put "it Sucked" in your thread title.
Thank You!!!
Big Al should go watch a documentary or something...sheesh...
Haven't seen it yet, but do any of my fellow old-time aeronuts know what type of biplanes are shown in the film? I saw the original Kong the other night, and they looked like some model of Curtiss two-seaters.
i thot the 40 foot tall ape was not believable ... i don't think it really could have grown to be that tall, bone mass not being able to support its weight and all
The response was immediate. "You're right, but did you know that there's an even bigger continuity error in the film that I'm surprised you didn't notice? Shoeless Joe Jackson is DEAD! It's a movie! GET OVER IT!
The movie is about a 25 foot tall ape for cripes sake. It's not Shakespeare. Take it for what it is, a tribute to a fantastic "B" movie from 70 years ago that has stayed with us to this day, even with the crude special affects of the time. He cast Jack Black in it, for goodness sake.
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