Friday, December 16, 2005
KING KONG
Featuring: Jack Black, Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody
Brief Synopsis: An intrepidious film maker decides to go and look for a mystical island and gets a lot more than he bargained for. A lot = a really big monkey...
Comments: When deciding to watch any film at midnight, you want it to be engaging enough to keep you awake through the bewitching hours. And King Kong does this with aplomb keeping the viewer on his toes throughout the second and final third of the films. I believe my brothers' words regarding the first 40 minutes were, "it's been an hour and we still haven't seen King Kong" but the first third starts off by merely introducing the characters in their various settings before they all ominiously board the ship.
However it all swings into action once they reach the island. The natives are enough to frighten any grown man (well ok all the men in my family), King Kong is pretty scary when you first meet him, the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex (and there were more than one!) but nothing made my brother put his hands in front of his face more than the giant sized creepy crawlies that hid in dark spaces of the island. Someone on Peter Jackson's team has a twisted memory and there were some fairly young kids sitting in the audience too!
For me, it was all an enjoyable cinematic experience. I don't think the film pretends to be anything more than a thrill seekers ride, despite the odd moments of romance, as there are a fair number of holes in the plot than swiss cheese (how did they get such a large mammal onto the boat? what happened to all the natives?). The women that I know who have seen it say amusing things - my wife says it was damned violent, my work colleague (who disliked it) says King Kong just behaves like your average Indian man!
Regardless if you are going to watch it, you have to watch it the film on a large screen to get the full effects; I caught a short section in a pirated DvD shop and King Kong just looked puny and cheap!
Things to learn from this film: Don't make a big beast angry. Learn some stage tricks. Whenever you fall into a large abyss, make sure you have a plentiful supply of bright lights.
Rating: 8 /10
Featuring: Jack Black, Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody
Brief Synopsis: An intrepidious film maker decides to go and look for a mystical island and gets a lot more than he bargained for. A lot = a really big monkey...
Comments: When deciding to watch any film at midnight, you want it to be engaging enough to keep you awake through the bewitching hours. And King Kong does this with aplomb keeping the viewer on his toes throughout the second and final third of the films. I believe my brothers' words regarding the first 40 minutes were, "it's been an hour and we still haven't seen King Kong" but the first third starts off by merely introducing the characters in their various settings before they all ominiously board the ship.
However it all swings into action once they reach the island. The natives are enough to frighten any grown man (well ok all the men in my family), King Kong is pretty scary when you first meet him, the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex (and there were more than one!) but nothing made my brother put his hands in front of his face more than the giant sized creepy crawlies that hid in dark spaces of the island. Someone on Peter Jackson's team has a twisted memory and there were some fairly young kids sitting in the audience too!
For me, it was all an enjoyable cinematic experience. I don't think the film pretends to be anything more than a thrill seekers ride, despite the odd moments of romance, as there are a fair number of holes in the plot than swiss cheese (how did they get such a large mammal onto the boat? what happened to all the natives?). The women that I know who have seen it say amusing things - my wife says it was damned violent, my work colleague (who disliked it) says King Kong just behaves like your average Indian man!
Regardless if you are going to watch it, you have to watch it the film on a large screen to get the full effects; I caught a short section in a pirated DvD shop and King Kong just looked puny and cheap!
Things to learn from this film: Don't make a big beast angry. Learn some stage tricks. Whenever you fall into a large abyss, make sure you have a plentiful supply of bright lights.
Rating: 8 /10
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