Finally a movie that lives up to the hype. "King Kong" is fucking amazing. Action, adventure, romance. A monster movie with heart and soul and a really, really big budget. Peter Jackson should just be given truckloads of cash and allowed to make whatever movie he wants at this point. (Everyone repeat after me, "The Hobbit," "The Hobbit," "The Hobbit.") You guys all know me. I don't cry at movies. I got through "E.T." and "Steel Magnolias" and all those chick-flicks designed to make girls all weepy and whatever and I never shed a tear. No, apparently it takes a special FX giant ape to get me all teary-eyed. This is really a great film. It's worth seeing just to watch the fight scene between Kong and the T-Rexes, but there's so much more to this movie than just action sequences. It definitely doesn't feel like a 3+ hour film. You all know what this movie is about. I don't have to tell you the plot. The cast is great. From Naomi Watts, to Colin Hanks, to a very subdued Jack Black, but this movie is all about the monkey, and the monkey delivers. I'd say Kong is unbelievable, but that's not the case. He's totally believable. Like the "Jurassic Park" dinosaurs that came before him, you just know that he actually exists out there. Peter Jackson convinced us that Middle Earth is a real place and now you just know that he went out and really found Skull Island and brought Kong to us. Thank you for that Peter. All I have to say is, go see it. Go see it. Go see it.
"If you really loved it, you would have jumped." -- Jack Black - "King Kong"
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