King Kong and the Feminists

Frontpage Magazine ^ | December 27, 2005 | Don Feder

[rightwinggoth]

"Skull Island, residence of K. Kong, Esq., is an overgrown and weirdly mutated Jurassic Park. There’s a brontosauruses-going-over-the-cliff stampede, and Kong battles not one, but three T-Rexes to save the damsel in distress. There are giant insects, bats the size of single-engine planes and man-eating worms."

Sounds like intelligent design at work.

[martin_fierro]

King Kong and the Feminists

[GregoTX]

Its a great movie, an awsome movie, I liked watching it.

People like reading to much into it. It isnt about gender roles, or racism (I read an article accusing it of racism). People just just relax and take it for a remake of a classic, it isnt a morality play or carry a message, its just a good King Kong movie.

[streetpreacher]

ROTFLOL

[Esther Ruth]

It is a great movie! I loved it! Could have stayed in the theater and watched it over and over! Agree with what Don Feder said also - very good points - except it was a size 4 that he was looking for :)

[streetpreacher]

Bump

[pcottraux]

But on the other hand, I don't think there's anything wrong with putting a deep analysis into a movie, even if it's an action popcorn flick. A person can't say definitively what a movie's ABOUT, because that means that another person's interpretation is somehow WRONG and what they get out of it is incorrect.

To each his own. I'm a movie intellectualist myself.

[Cicero]

This is the third highly intelligent, extremely positive review I've read of this movie. I really think I've got to see it.

Peter Jackson made some mistakes when he did the Lord of the Ring Trilogy, but he showed, especially in the ending, that he had some understanding of the transcendent values that Tolkien strove to embody in his work. He's clearly not your average Hollywood-style, diminish everything you touch sort of director.

[Rummyfan]

Maybe tomorrow.....

[AgThorn]

"Can you fit into a size-6 dress?"

If I recall right, it was a size 4 ... but who's nit picking

[wardaddy]

that is hysterical martin!

[AgThorn]

When Darrow is kidnapped by Skull Island’s bestial natives – who behave like Congressional leftists pushing a spending bill ....

I'm really starting to 'relate' to this reviewer!! ;-) She MUST be a Freeper!!!

[Marine_Uncle]

"Kong rampages through downtown Manhattan searching for the real thing. When he finds Darrow, he carries the not-unwilling actress (who cried when he was captured) to the top of the world’s tallest building. Together, they stare in awe as the sun rises over a jungle of concrete."
heh heh heh. Yea and they stare in utter horror! heh heh, as they get asphyxiated on the gas fumes and smog. He he heh.

[PaulZe]

I can't believe anyon elike this movie. It was overbearing, interminably long, overly melodramatic, took itself too seriously. To climb the empire state building in the dead of winter in nothing but an evening gown was a bit much.

When King Kong finally fell i was glad because i could finally go home.

[KevinB]

I just returned from watching Kong with my thirteen year old son. It was one of the worst movies I've ever suffered through. I couldn't wait for it to end. I told my son that the only thing I liked about it was the female lead, who is a stunning specimen of womanhood.

I couldn't wait to get home and see what other Freepers had to say. I assumed that most would bemoan the gratuitous violence, which went on for insufferably long periods. Interestingly, the first thread that popped up when I opened FR was about Kong. I was surprised to see that the author of the posted article and most of the posters couldn't say enough good about the movie. I guess I'm officially a fogey.

[PaulZe]

Be ready to sit through an interminably long movie

[staytrue]

Outstanding ! ditto on the roflmao

[ChristianDefender]

Hilarious!

[FreeHueco]

I agree with what PaulZe said.

I was happy enough for the first 1.5 hours or so, despite the terrible dialogue and overdone special effects (let's face it, having a character's head sucked off by a giant leech was a bit much).

Towards the end, I was laughing at the stupidity of the flick, and feeling sorry for anyone who finds meaning where there is none.

Peter Jackson should have done the Hobbit...