I went to see a couple blockbuster movies recently: King Kong and Chronic-WHAT?-cles of Narnia. I enjoyed both of them very much.
I was amazed at the technical mastery of King Kong. They have broken through the realism barrier. Everything looked so real. The climatic sequence on top of the Empire State building made me feel a little uneasy, because it just looked so high up. It was moments like that, where I realized how realistic everything looked. Peter Jackson has quite a company, and skilled artists, to be able to accomplish this kind of work.
Jack Black did a really great job. I think this role will open up some other avenues for him. He did have a couple moments of "Jack Black-ness", but it fit the character well. Of course it was a little hard to take him seriously with that final line of the movie "Twas beauty that killed the beast." I mean it sounds like something right out of a Tenacious D song.
Naomi Watts barely had a line in the whole movie. Well, unless you count screaming I guess. She let her face do most of the acting. A lot of people are saying that the relationship between she and King Kong was like a owner and pet relationship. It seemed to me to be a little more intimate than that. She was in love with this ape. I mean really in love. I thought she was going to go down with the King at the end. Wouldn't that have been a twist?!
It is definitely a movie worth seeing on the big screen. So don't wait till it comes out on DVD...unless your house looks like this guy's.
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I read somewhere that PJ wanted Fay Wray to do the beauty/beast line, but she died before the movie got off the ground.
Well Fay Wray would've been awesome. Too bad.
And Mom, why won't anyone go? Betsy didn't want to see King Kong die at the end. Is that it?
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