Rate King Kong

[Insight]

Solid 9.5.

I really believed in the characters, and especially Kong. That's very important in a fantasy movie. You knew what was coming at the end, and even still, it was very sad. Says something about our society as well. We destroy what we don't understand.

One important note. I wouldn't take youngsters to see this movie. It is long, and the combat scenes are rather graphic.

 

[The Serge]

8.

I actually started tearing up before I realized it at the end.

Really, really fun film although it was too long. Some of the scenes towards the end were a tad too long. Aside from the largely pointless Jimmy/Second Mate scenes (I get the Heart of Darkness elements and the desire to humanize the crew and make us care about them, but really, it was too much), I liked the first part a lot. The middle was SUPERB! I haven't squirmed that much in a movie in a long time.

Klaus, you are a genius. Let's get a campaign for Jackson on The Call of Cthulu now! That would be sooooo awesome!

 

[Dark Jezter]

I really believed in the characters, and especially Kong. That's very important in a fantasy movie. You knew what was coming at the end, and even still, it was very sad. Says something about our society as well. We destroy what we don't understand.

Yes, and we also destroy giant apes that rampage through major cities killing innocent bystanders and doing thousands (millions?) of dollars worth of property damage.

 

[Banshee16]

I saw it last night at a screening in NY.

The first act is a slow build but once they get onto Skull Island it's EXCELLENT.

Two words of warning: SPIDER PIT. D00d, what happens ot one of the d00ds in there had me sheilding my eyes. I wont tell you but you'll know it when you see it.
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The spider pit....ayee....I hear you....that poor fellow. His head! What a way to go. That's all I'll say. I was there with a bunch of buddies and my fiance and we were all squirming through that part of the movie.

You can tell Peter Jackson hates bugs. I just remember sitting there watching those insects thinking of what remorseless, relentless, unthinking, eating machines they were.

I was actually surprised by how creepy a lot of the movie was. I'd never seen the original King Kong, and I think I was going in expecting something different. I loved it, gave it a 9 on 10, but it was more intense than I'd expected sitting down at the start of the movie.

I found it interesting right before everything started that the 1st mate or whatever he was commented to the kid reading "heart of darkness" that it wasn't an adventure story. I guess pretty good forshadowing.

Banshee

 

[Banshee16]

Klaus, you are a genius. Let's get a campaign for Jackson on The Call of Cthulu now! That would be sooooo awesome!

I think he has to finish HALO and The Hobbit, first....

Imagine what he could do with the spiders of the Mirkwood, and Smaug? Smaug....

Banshee

 

[Banshee16]

Yes, and we also destroy giant apes that rampage through major cities killing innocent bystanders and doing thousands (millions?) of dollars worth of property damage.

I figured the reference was less towards destroying the ape that was tearing up the city, than to capturing this wild, primal, majestic creature, ripping it out of its natural habitat, and then putting it on display and publicly humiliating it to make a buck..

I found that a really sad scene, when Kong is first revealed after being captured. He didn't understand, and the the fact that this lack of understanding helped contribute to his demise was just tragic.

Banshee

 

[Hand of Evil]

Perhaps a combination of Tube worms and hag fish...

The Auld Grump

I thought everything in 'the pit' were just gaint versions of what is normally found in the 'muck' of bat caves and such, can't remember the name of the worms/larva but this was what made it creepy for me, as everything there was from real life just blown up! Too much discovery channel.

Overall I gave it a 7, glad I saw it but thougth it started slow.

 

[Banshee16]

My wife said those worms looked like Tube Worms to her- she just finished a MircoBiology class and saw pictures of them. Personally I thought they were leechs, but as she pointed out they were the wrong color and their texture appearance was all wrong.

I wouldn't be surprised if worms just like that actually exist....but just on a much, much smaller scale. Most of the other bugs in that scene just seemed like larger than normal versions of real insects.

Reminded me of a parasite my dog caught once. It embedded itself in her leg, and you could see it poke its head out to breath. Very, very disturbing. And it was put there by a simple fly.

Ugh... I hate bugs.

Banshee

 

[Andre La Roche]

Just saw this movie. Gave it an 8. What it did well, it did really, really, really well--which was most of the film. The other times, it lagged or was really transparent (you could see what was going to happen with the 1st mate and Jimmy a mile away). There were also a few things that didn't make sense to me such as the issue of transporting Kong back to NY, or where all the natives suddenly went to after they had offered up Ann to Kong.

On a rather frustrating note though, two guys who were there kept loudly adding their own commentary inappropriate to the movie. I could hear them all the way across the theatre. And worse, the ushers never did anything despite frequently coming in and standing behind these guys to make their presence known. I walked up to them afterwards and said, "Do you ***holes enjoy ruining movies for other people or something?" One guy seemed completely out of it like he was on something, and the other sort of shrugged and sheepishly grinned as he lit up a cigarette.

Sorry to vent. :-/

 

[Maxwell's Demon]

I gave it 5 out of 10. OKay but not great though some of the individual scenes were wonderful. For me the movie ended up looking like a prequel to "Deep Rising." The swamp leech things were just the immature versions of the creature in that movie and it was obviously Skull Island that they landed on at the end. Plus three Rexs in such close priximity and all hating KOng but not minding each other? Maybe his next movie will lift him back to movie god for me.