Re: How close is "Kong" to a real gorilla?

[Luis Rey <luisrey@ndirect.co.uk>]

I have just survived yet another King Kong... this time is the most  
over the top that has ever been made...I'm dizzy with such  
relentless, overwhelming action speed, the special effects, the  
creatures et al . I don't mind monsters as such but...agreeing mostly  
with some of Mike's  observations, shall I add that there IS such  
thing as the forces of gravity (even for monsters)?!
With the exception of the monstrous (even for a monster movie)  
brontosaur stampede (which truly seems about to break the bones of  
everybody involved including the spectator), the rest of the high  
speed acrobatic antics of  the colossal creatures show the design  
vices of the CG wizards that made them...  all of them seem virtually  
weightless so their realism becomes hollow!

On 15 Dec 2005, at 20:07, Michael Skrepnick wrote:

> I saw this epic yesterday ( I'm probably one of the few who was  
> never enamored with the original film ).  However, this version is  
> indeed an epic and although I have some reservations, is well worth  
> seeing.
>
> As you say, it's unlikely in life that such a gargantuan creature  
> would be capable of the physical feats it engages in ( trust me,  
> the trailers don't even begin to describe the "antics" displayed  
> through the entirety of the movie ).

As I said at the beginning... a multi multi ton ape dancing on air?

> Further, you will be left incredulous by the punishing "ride" the  
> heroine is expected to survive, even when not in the midst of  
> battles to the death with the other inhabitants of Skull Island.

That is probably one of the most shocking parts of the movie... the  
heroine should have had all her bones broken in a second of Kong's  
mad ride!
> However, it is a "movie" after all, and we are of course expected  
> to "suspend our disbelief" as usual, no matter how much the content  
> is in violation of our reason and sensibilities.  This is the only  
> manner in which one can accept the liberties taken in dinosaurian  
> anatomy in the film, as these are obviously outcast mutants from a  
> long lost era and as an inbred population might be expected to  
> suffer many "morphological" changes.

Which unfortunately doesn't include the obvious: inbreeding  
population evolving in an island (as is well documented) leads  
invariably to dwarfism.

Luis Rey

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