Re: P.S. to: Kong 2005 - A Big......Disappointment....why?...le t me count the ways...

[Vlad Petnicki <bucketfoot-al@justice.com>]

The scenes you refer to are only "classic" in the sense
that they are "classic" examples of gross
directorial/screenwriting incompetence, as well as of
"classic" unintended hilarity that helps to destroy
what small hope there was that this film might be even
- remotely - believable.....in the sense that the first
film was.

The first film had a sense of foreboding, dread, and
real fear about it.  This film becomes a jazzed-up live
action version of one of the old Warner Brothers Loony
Tunes cartoons once we get to Skull Island. 

Cutting it down to about 2 and 1/2 hours might have
saved it, and Lord knows there was (at least) 40
minutes that could have been cut without anyone
noticing.....

I like Jack Black as a comic, but his attempts to
parrot the lines of the original Carl Denham in the
first Kong movie (particularly) in the finale (you know
 "It was beauty that killed the beast") are so wooden,
so awkward, so without emotion, that - even though this
film is in color - they pale by comparison to the
original... 

I guess I've figured out why Jackson wanted Black for
the lead male role - he was making a cartoon, so he
naturally wanted an actor who's made a career of
playing over-the-top cartoonish characters....

unfortunately, Kong was the wrong vehicle for that...


On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:00:47 -0500, "Patrick Norton"
wrote:

> 
> Bucketfoot wrote:
> 
> > Forgive me folks.  My earlier review of this
flick...>
> 
> Which was full of;  well, whatever...opinion, I guess.
> 
> > omitted two classic scenes without discussing which
I
> > know that you will walk away disappointed....
> 
> You are wrong in stating that you know I walked away
> disappointed. I did 
> not.  And none of the (more than two, by the way)
> scenes you mention are 
> "classic" in any sense of that term. Those scenes that
> you mention are not 
> classic, but are new to the 2005 version of KK.
> 
> It's a movie, for crying out loud. Look beyond the
> special effects to the 
> story.
> 
> PTN 
> 

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