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Okay, saw Kong today.
Pretty good movie, although I do have some quibbles about it.
For one, several of the fight scenes just seem to be there for the sake of being there. And the motivation of several of the dinosaurs is suspect. These things are carnivores, they kill to eat. Once they've taken down a big old dinosaur, they're not going to keep chasing after a piddly little human, its just not worth the calories they're going to expend in the chase. I mean, how many of you here would run an obstical course for a single chicken mcnugget? Or the scene with all these mutant vampire bats living in Kong's lair, who suddenly turn and attack him. Wha? Kong isn't a dumb animal, he's not going to live in a cave where he's the main course. Or if they had never attacked him before, why now?
Or another one that grabbed me. When Denham and company capture Kong, he goes on his little speech about how he's going to show the big guy off to the world. He specifically calls him Kong. How did he know that name? The only time the natives had really spoken it was when Ann was getting sacrificed. So how did he know what the ape's name was?
Although, I did like the little touches here and there. A shield and a pair of spears from the original movie were hanging on the ship walls as decorations, and one of the crates below deck had a sign mentioning an animal that Peter Jackson created for one of his previous movies.
All in all, a good movie, no doubt about it. It was just a little too drawn out, IMO, and there were definate moments when I sat back and went "Now wait a minute...", and there's nothing worse (IMO) than when a movie just totally kills the suspension of disbelief and reminds me that I'm sitting in a theater watching a movie. So yeah, overall good, but its got some rough spots.
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