SEE KING KONG!
SEE IT A DOZEN TIMES =)
Some quick late night scattin' on it...
All the reviews and review excerpts used to push this perfect chunk of entertainment - they're all true, correct, and accurate!
It has everything, and in super-sized amounts! Romance! Comedy! Non-stop action! Vaudeville, even! The environments are perfect. If Jackson's re-creation of 1930s skyscraping Manhattan isn't completely accurate, it IS freakin beautiful. Jack Black is perfect as the overzealous director-showman. Except for perhaps being too hot for the period, Naomi Watts is a perfect retro-modern damsel in distress. Adrian Brody... Well, he fits, but I hafta say, except for one little moment between the two of them, his chemistry with Watts pales in comparison to that found between Watts and King Kong. Crazyzay, but true.
FRENCH CONNECTION-ish chase scenes... with dinosaurs! Military artillery versus gigantic ape! Action-packed, brutal, even acrobatic, ape-v-dinosaur battles! Also, the "Great White Way" brought to film life.
For comic book/sci-fi/movie fan me, there's this one short cut that just epitomizes the greatness of this story and its storytelling... of the playwright Jack Driscoll (Adrian Brody), costumed in 1920s-30s wardrobe, beaten and scratched up, rushing thru the jungle brush, tommy-gun in hand, chasing after the sweet and beautiful Ann Darrow (flapper'd Naomi Watts), with "Lost World" man-eating creatures on his tail... That, for me, is some powerful, joyous, crack.
Quick eyes will spot the Sumatran Rat-Monkey of Jackson's zombie beauty of a film, DEADALIVE. If you remember correctly, they're an abomination, created when the monster rats of some doomed ship came ashore on a lost little island and raped its native monkeys. Jackson genius, no? =)
Kong should be up for best actor. I had these flashes when watching Kong in action to Toshiro Mifune, of Kurasawa/samurai movie fame. Uncanny, really. If you pay attention to the credits, or probably all the behind-the-scenes bits about the effects and such on AccessHollywood or E! or SciFi you'll see a familiar name is actually behind the expression and motion-capture of the big ape. Amazing that he could be the go-to guy for this sort of work, but then, if it ain't broke, right?
Here's a crazy remark - the movie itself was all icing - really sweet and crispy icing, with little tiny STAR WARS figures laid into it to make it look like the Hoth battle scene from EMPIRE - after seeing my first trailer for Michael Mann's MIAMI VICE! =)
Woo-HOO! =)
I had no idea that was in production. The trailer was on screen for maybe 15 seconds when I said, "Hey... this looks like Michael Mann coolness..." And then some trademark bits of Miami, and then Jamie Foxx buddied up w Colin Farrel (whom I don't love, but he does seem like a good choice at this time and place for a Sonny Crocket/Burnett, eh?)... I can't remember a signature car, frack. I wonder what it'll be. Ah, the old Ferrari Daytona Spider. One of the only cars I ever bothered to learn the make and name of, heh.
Allright. Enough for now. I need to get some Zs. If you haven't gotten the gist of this ramble yet...
GO SEE KING KONG!!! IT IS THREE HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT GOLD!! If you hafta go to the bathroom, during the show, it's allright, you're gonna come back and see it again =) I had to leave at what felt like the 1 hour mark, anticipating a lot of unmissable action in the following 2 hours. It was a few minutes after Kong first meets his blind date Ann Darrow. Of course, he picks her out of the crowd instantly, it being fate and all, but y'know, she emailed him to let him know that she'd be the one wearing the screaming-and-tied-to-two-posts. Just how I like to meet my dates, heh. It seems like what I missed was mostly angry Kong rushing thru the island jungle... Y'know, now that I think about it, perhaps the best/quietest time to run off might be when the movie leaves the island.
Yeah, I thought about not getting any popcorn and soda, but how much more of a popcorn movie can this be? =)
Keep on keepin on~
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