Rate King Kong

[Hand of Evil]

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.

On-going dino debate: Rex may have been pride/pack animals, to bring down larger prey animals, working as a team. My problem there was the single mindless for the girl...but with a brain the size of a walnut, what can you expect from hand feeling...they always leap for the chicken.

 

[Insight]

One negative I took away from the movie, and this is really just nitpicking I guess. Kong is huge. Massive. I would say his mass is equal to an eighteen-wheeler with a trailer attached and a full load.

When something that big moves around, it causes a disturbance. Kong jumping around should have caused a LOT more collateral damage to his environment. The ground should shake noticeably. Trees and shrubs should go flying. Pieces of cliff facinng should be loosened and fall. Etc. This does happen sometimes, but in other scenes, there is no physical reaction to Kong jumping around.

And this brings me to a related point. SPOILER::

Spoiler

Any idea what would happen to the street at the end of the movie when Kong falls from the TOP OF THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING??? My guess is that he would not be laying there on the surface. The impact not only would have completely destroyed everything around - and the debris killing most if not all bystanders - but Kong's body would have gone right through the street, through the sewers below, and probably into the subway tunnels.

I still give it a solid 9. Aside from those minor technical nitpicks, it was still a great movie.

 

[Insight]

On-going dino debate: Rex may have been pride/pack animals, to bring down larger prey animals, working as a team. My problem there was the single mindless for the girl...but with a brain the size of a walnut, what can you expect from hand feeling...they always leap for the chicken.

Predators typically don't attack each other unless they are competing for prey. In this case, the T-Rexes probably realize they can't take Kong by themselves, so the other T-Rexes are hardly competition. Even if T-Rexes don't normally work together, they might if it's their only chance to get prey.

SPOILER::

Spoiler

If they had taken Kong down, perhaps then the T-Rexes would turn on each other.

 

[Banshee16]

Predators typically don't attack each other unless they are competing for prey. In this case, the T-Rexes probably realize they can't take Kong by themselves, so the other T-Rexes are hardly competition. Even if T-Rexes don't normally work together, they might if it's their only chance to get prey.

SPOILER::

Spoiler

If they had taken Kong down, perhaps then the T-Rexes would turn on each other.

In any case, some scientists believe that T-Rexes may have hunted larger prey in packs....if so, then the behaviour in the movie wouldn't be out of reason.

Banshee

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I gave it a 9. The things that brought it down from a 10 for me:

1: The repetitions. [sblock]The crew saves the people who went on the island twice, both times after saying that they were going to leave without them. I think there were...5? 7? times at the end when Kong and Ann were gazing soulfully into each other's eyes and interrupted by Kong getting shot at.[/sblock]
2: The little overdone things. [sblock]Jack Driscoll typing "S...K...U...L...L...Island, Ann's hesitation to board the ship, and I think one or two more things[/sblock]
3: Denham's line at the end. Felt like it would've fit in a black-and-white movie, but just seemed...a little forced to me.


I was wanting that little bastich to die, too.

And I gotta admit, [sblock]I was rooting for the planes in the end. I know they shouldn't have brought Kong to Ney York in the first place, but once he was smashing everything, he really had to die. There just weren't any other viable options, and it made me sad that the pilots and gunners had to die.[/sblock] Oh well...

 

[Insight]

Perhaps in the 1930s, the ending is an evitable conclusion. There was far less understanding of the greater world around us than in the modern era. Still, I think the problem isn't that he was destroying things, it was that people didn't understand his behavior and thus, he was a monster in their eyes.

If Kong had been brought to our culture today (and that would make an interesting movie), I think they would have found a more suitable environment for him.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Which is why making the movie retro was definately 100% the right idea, methinks.

Kong in a wild-life park would make a silly ending.

 

[Dimwhit]

If Kong had been brought to our culture today (and that would make an interesting movie), I think they would have found a more suitable environment for him.

Yeah, a lab for testing.

 

[trancejeremy]

More likely, Nintendo would have bought him to use as a real life mascot.

 

[demiurge1138]

Predators typically don't attack each other unless they are competing for prey. In this case, the T-Rexes probably realize they can't take Kong by themselves, so the other T-Rexes are hardly competition. Even if T-Rexes don't normally work together, they might if it's their only chance to get prey.

SPOILER::

Spoiler

If they had taken Kong down, perhaps then the T-Rexes would turn on each other.

Also, according to the book "The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island", which was written to show off the movie's concept art and to fill in faux-biological details, juvenile T-rexes hunted in sibling packs, parting each other's company when they matured.

Which means, yes, those were just juveniles. Too bad we didn't get to see one full grown

Demiurge out.