King Kong (dir. Peter Jackson)

[SweetOblivion]

pistachioofliberty said:

Jack Black must have wet himself that he got to delivert that line, while simultaneously agonizing over how to do it".

LOL! I know. Can't you just picture him rehearsing that line in the mirror over and over, a la Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver

"TWAS beauty ...no, no ...Twas beauty KILLED the beast ...still not right ...dammit ..Twas beauty killed THE BEAST!!"

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I didn't mind the 3 hours length; I used the insect attack scene to take a little bathroom break.

Also, I didn't mind Jack Black's character. I thought he was funny, in an exaggerated, caricature (sp?) type of way.

(But yeah, I would've like to have seen more of the trip back with Adrien/Naomi interaction.)

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Thomas Kretschmann played the captain. He's a German actor, ironically probably best known to Americans for playing the Nazi who helps Adrien Brody's character at the end of The Pianist. He was amazing in that movie, and his scenes with Brody in that movie were stunning and the most moving I've ever seen on film (okay, I'm biased, that's my favorite film of all time).

I wonder if it was weird for them to see each other and work together after all this time and the difficult circumstances of shooting The Pianist.

Man, is Kyle Chandler trapped in the 1930's-40's era or what?

[huntergrayson]

But yeah, I would've like to have seen more of the trip back with Adrien/Naomi interaction.

But the movie was PG-13...ohh, that's my dirty mind? Sorry. ;D

Seriously, I just imagine it would've been a whole lot of awkward silences.

[jazz]

Jensational - that was funny. I am not planning to see KK but my reaction will probably be like yours.

Not an LOTR fan either. I saw the first one on Christmas Day because the family wanted to. After the fourth or fifth close up of Elijah's big big eyes I was ready to hit somebody. Two thirds thru the movie and my sister and I looked at each other and were frickin' ready to leave.

Never saw the second and the third.

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Besides the Thomas Kretschmann/Adrien Brody reunion did anyone in this thread mention the Colin Hanks/Jack Black reunion?

[lpatrice]

Colin Hanks/Jack Black reunion

Orange County baby, I love that movie. Speaking of Kyle Chandler, I think he was perfect in this movie. I really liked his character.

[pinkdog]

How many of y'all kept wondering the whole time how they were going to deal with getting him onboard ship? But then, suddenly, it's just darkness, and then: "Ladies and Gentleman! I give you the 8th Wonder of the Worrrrrrld!".

We laughed about this in the car on the way home. We'd all been wondering how they'd hoist that humongus gorilla onto that boat.

I loved it and hated it too, because it was (obviously) a tragedy. That is what kept me from wanting to see it. Maybe it's part of why the box office is low.

My friends and I loved the scene with the excessive dino-flipping. I don't think it's really a spoiler to say that. There's dinosaurs in the movie and some of them, well, fall down at one point.

Scenes like that one (and if you saw the movie, you know the scene I mean) made us love the first 2/3rds of the movie--before you had to face up to the fact that it was a tragedy. It seemed to us that there was a lot of...subtle?...comedy in it.

Verdict? Very good movie, but of course a tragedy, so that means I will never watch it again because movies like this one make me ashamed to be human. I felt exactly as Watts' character did and wondered why she didn't throw herself off the building at the end.

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pinkdog said:

I felt exactly as Watts' character did and wondered why she didn't throw herself off the building at the end.

I saw it again last night with my dad and my brother and they both said the same thing. Although since they were laughing when they said it I think they just wanted to bug me.

And my brother, being a biological anthropologist who studies primates, went on and on afterwards about how gorillas can't leap and Kong's thumbs were too big and so on and so forth. Really sucked some of the joy out of it.

[pistachioofliberty]

You should have told him, "But giant gorillas on islands that don't exist EITHER can".

I've been thinking that seeing the original might help people enjoy this. I mean, it seems that a lot of people who didn't like the movie generally [as opposed to finding fault with particular things] might not be getting that this one is supposed to be a bit campy, or to celebrate that old pre-ironic style. Or something.