<div id="RTEContent">I have no intention of watching this movie. It is the most overdone movie and was only good to start with because of the special effects.<br> <br> -DJA<br><br><b><i>Chasuk <chasuk@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> This isn't Peter Jackson's best film, nor is it his worst (which of<br>his films qualify as "best" and "worst" I'll leave for others to<br>argue).<br><br>When you watch this movie, pretend that is a Steven Spielberg for<br>adults. By this, I mean Steven Spielberg with no maudlin<br>sentimentality, no blue-aura imbuing anything, no precociously cute<br>kids. Then notch the violence up several levels. I'm not talking<br>about Quentin Tarantino violence, but neither is it cartoon violence. <br>It is realistic, frequent, and sometimes (although this is arguable)<br>gratuitous. If you don't like creepy-crawlies, stay away from
this<br>movie, for they are legion.<br><br>King Kong is essentially a love story. Beauty conquers the beast. It<br>doesn't have a happy ending. It made me weep. King Kong emotes. His<br>range of facial expression, and the poignancy of his body language, is<br>amazing. Naomi Watts emotes pretty wonderfully as the heroine, and<br>Jack Black was perfectly cast as the cad. In fact, Black may have<br>been too perfectly cast There wasn't a moment in the film in which I<br>could sympathize with him.<br><br>This movie is over three hours long. Two and a half hours of it were<br>action adventure and world-building. We get to see tribal warriors so<br>spooky that Tarzan would have abandoned the jungle, except that this<br>jungle is on an uncharted island, so he would have had to swim. We<br>see dinosaurs wrought in predictably-amazing CGI. Two hours into the<br>film, all of this eye-candy was beginning to leave me a little bored. <br>Then we meet King Kong, and the beauty!
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beast storyline starts<br>to unfold, and my interest is restored.<br><br>Four stars out of five, for those who appreciate such reckoning. I'm<br>hoping that this picture bankrolls The Hobbit, which is the Peter<br>Jackson epic that I really want to see. Still, I rate it well worth<br>seeing.<br><br>_____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ<br></blockquote><br></div><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com