Saw KONG again while I was home for the holidaze. This time, with my best bud Zorknapp and his best gal, Sue. The entertainment gold doesn't tarnish any on viewing number two. Maybe I was a little hard on Adrien for not bringing fireworks to his onscreen connection with Naomi. They definitely had a couple of good moments. It's just that, well, sad to say, who can compete with Kong? Basically, a well-aged-but-not-old Sean Connery type, y'know, before that ridiculous ENTRAPMENT mess of a movie with Catherine Z...? Worldly-wise, hale and hearty, dinosaur-beater...
The intellectual Driscoll (dry skull?), the man of letters, "loses out" to the brute, the palooka, the King, who very literally paws at the dames with his big mitts. Playing second fiddle to a big gorilla... Hrmmm... I wonder if Bill Pullman turned this role down?
Man-o-man, the hot ape-on-dinosaur action doesn't stop being freakin amazing! Who gets to imagine these fights? How is Universal gonna come up with a ride for this movie? Just show the movie again, I say. I know Peter Jackson has been walking around with his dream of this movie for most of his life, but did he have this knock down, drag out, chuck-em-over-a-cliff-but-it's-not-over-yet battle all laid out in his head? Given the players involved in this fight, MATRIX and HK action flick fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping could do no better. Frickin genius. Snapping, gnashing reptile jaws, muscled legs and tail, brought low by the opposable thumb! Granted, a massive thumb, the size of a man, and okay, backed up here and there with a good set of chomping teeth, and levered by some powerful arms...
Woo-hoo - that Flying Spaghetti Monster sure knows how to design intelligently - yay warm-blooded mammals! =)
A lot of the battle involves keeping Naomi's Ann Darrow out of danger, and seeing how Kong protects her while delivering the smackdown is truly a most impressive kind of courtship. The follow-up in attitude is just perfect, too.
I can't really do it all justice without something like spoiler-ness, so I'll just say it again - GO SEE THIS MOVIE!
Yes, there's quite a bit of violence, done to both creature and man, and some really skin-crawling creepiness when you get a glimpse at the insect life that thrives on the island home of giant reptiles and apes, but the goriest image you'll catch on screen, and treated so for the enhancement of Jack Black's P.T. Barnum of a director, and no doubt, the sentiment of Peter Jackson himself, is the spilled innards and exposed celluloid entrails of a film camera, eviscerated in a deadly fall.
Tommy guns and dinosaurs on Skull Island... Doesn't get any better than that!
Keep on keepin on~
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It was quite good... When someone asked me if I was going to see Brokeback Mountain, I said I'm really only into relationship movies between Naomi Watts and a 30 foot ape.
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