King Kong - brilliant or just too damned long?

[gunnamatta bay]

Kongs understudy frequents Cronulla Beach or he used to.

 

[pantherz9103]

While I enjoyed it for the action scenes on the island. I also am a bit of a sucker for the sad stories when an animal and human bond as friends or a kind of love, but noone understands their bond. The gorilla did have alot of personality. Pretty good performance from a graphic. Naomi Watts was quite impressive and quite beautiful in this movie too. More so than I realised before.

Its too long because of the unnecessarily long drawn out scenes on the boat and before they even get on the boat and then the brontosaurus rampage and the worms and bugs.

But I thought the fight between King Kong and the Tyrannosaurus was spectacular. An epic battle of the titans. Particuarly when he beats his chest after killing the dinosaur.

 

[Valiant_Raider]

I seen it today and tought Naomi Watts' performance was spectacular apart from that though it was probably 20 minutes too long but a good film nonetheless 4.5/5

 

[JoeD]

brilliant or just too damned long?

both, I liked it but it could have been 1/2 hr shorter. self indulgent is the phrase that springs to mind

 

[drake]

Brilliant film.
I have no problems with a diminished attention span.

Ritalin anyone?

 

[Eskimo Sharkie]

But I thought the fight between King Kong and the Tyrannosaurus was spectacular. An epic battle of the titans. Particuarly when he beats his chest after killing the dinosaur.

He kills the dinosaur? Oh bugger, you've gone and spoiled it for me. Next thing you'll tell me that some planes shoot him down off a tall building.

 

[cainen]

Well I thought this movie was bloody awful. Sure, it looked good but that's about it. I was bored from the outset. I was thinking it would pick up once we actually got to see King Kong (which took close to an hour and a half - an entire movie in itself) but it didn't happen. All I saw was a bunch of long and predictable fights and the occasional unfunny one liner.

The entire plot can be explained in about 2 or 3 sentences yet he somehow managed to extend it to over 3 hours. I don't think my heartrate changed at all throughout the movie. Jurassic Park was way more intense.

I would have enjoyed it much more if it went for 1.5 - 2hours. Either that or he should have made it in to two parts; the first being about finding him on the island and the sequal about bringing him back to the city. Although if he had done this I probably wouldn't go to see the sequal. Instead I found myself constantly looking at my watch counting down the hours as they passed by. This probably made it seem even longer.

Give me $200mil and I could have done just as good (or bad) a job in making this film.

Positives: -Special FX
-Naomi Watts

Negatives: -Everything else.

 

[hrundi99]

Give me $200mil and I could have done just as good (or bad) a job in making this film.

Sure...

I thought it was very good but yes, a little over long. As mentioned, the cabin boy plot should have been removed, and the brontosaurus stampede was just silly.

Apart from that it was great, and it reminded me of why I like going to the cinema.

 

[JoeD]

the cabin boy plot should have been removed

exactly, that plot went exactly nowhere and didn't further the storyline at all.

 

[mr_sharks]

I liked the movie, maybe a touch too long, but i can't figure out exactly where I would've taken minutes out.
Did anyone get the feeling the movie was going down the path of bestiality?

 

[brendothejet]

King Kong sucked.

If you are going to do a remake of a film you have to really have something to add to it. Whether this be a recontextualisation, an alternate perspective on the story or a directorial vision that tells the story differently you have to have the "it" factor.

This film was added to allright, but only in duration and budget.

i have to say the special effects were pretty poor overall. The only scene in which the effects convinced me where the P.O.V shots from the aeroplanes. Dizzying! aside from that Kong was ok, but nothing special and many scenes involving dinosaurs or arial shots of the island had that computer game look.

The entire first hour of the film was pointless. We learnt about JAck Blacks character but learnt almost nothing of our heroine. Sure we saw her a bit down on her luck after the playhouse closed, but if you are going to back story your cast for an hour you should probably do it with the main protaganist instead of the bloke who dissapears at the climax of the film. We then get left with Kong and the Girl thinking "so why did i watch all that crap about some fat filmmaker"

Quite simply if i hadn't seen The Cave last year king kong would have been the worst film of the year.

Taking an old movie, maing it longer and trying to pretty it up with special effects does NOT equal good.

I'm sorry peter but it has all been downhill since the Fellowship of The Ring