King Kong - My Review

As I mentioned in the last post; I decided to end the day with a movie. I chose to see Peter Jackson’s King Kong . I really enjoyed his Lord Of The Rings trilogy (who didn’t) and had high expectations for this movie. I had always wanted to see it in the movie theatres but just never got the chance. Oh well, watching it on my plasma TV wont be that bad.

So it was already 10pm by the time I decided on a movie; and I almost wasn’t sure that I wanted to see King Kong due to its length. It is a little longer than 3 hours. But I figured that it would be a pretty entertaining movie so the time would just fly by. Boy was I wrong. The first hour put me to sleep. What the hell was that! How can we not have a Kong sighting in the first hour when the whole movie is about him. I did not need to know about every single crew member on that ship. I could have cared less about that. Just get to the fricking island already and lets see some Kong action. As it turns out, I did not know what I was asking for.

Once they got on that ‘god forsaken Skull Island’; I was waiting for them to get off. The next 30 minutes were all Kong; and I had had enough of it. The whole dinosaur ‘running for their life’ scene was so overdone. I mean I could only do so much of: ‘Oh WOW COOL COMPUTAR EFFECTZ!!!!!!’. By the way, how dumb were those big dinosaurs as they were pushing each other out of the way to run for their lives. I mean could they have not picked a better ‘escape route’? I thought OK, Peter Jackson wanted to show off his CGI skills and we have had enough dinosaurs for now. Boy was I wrong. Then came a, what felt like an hour long, fight scene between Kong and 2 big . Oh man that scene was enough! I promptly turned off the TV and decided to go to sleep enough.

So maybe this is not a object movie review since I have only seen about 1 .5 hours of the movie. I don’t know when, or if, I will see the second half. It was a huge disappointment. I still keep hoping that when Kong gets to America, the movie will get better. But if the first hour and half is any indication; it explains how the movie barely managed to make its ‘budget’ from the US box office. I hate to say it; but the movie felt like that ‘Godzilla’ movie that came out in 1998. You know the one where Godzilla attacks New York. I mean sure the CGI was better; but movie sucked. Maybe I will watch the second half sometime and then I can officially say that it sucked. But I do hope to be wrong.