King Kong or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ape
(but not the movie)
King Kong was souless and often pointless spectacle. Ultimately, it was far less than the sum of its parts (of which there were some great ones).
Y'know that 'Droid Factory Chase' at the end of Attack of the Clones? Y'know how you sat there going 'wow, this sequence is like watching someone else play a computer game cause it has like zero emotional impact on the story or me!'? Yeah? Well King Kong has at least three sequences like that.
I'm trying to write more, but I can't because there's nothing really more to say. Its just a vapid film. Not bad but not great either - it possibly just scrapes 'good' (because of the good moments).
King Kong himself was the achievement, not the movie.
-- Smart Critique Man has spoken. Quake in his wake.
I'll leave you a quote from Rosenbaum:
King Kong was souless and often pointless spectacle. Ultimately, it was far less than the sum of its parts (of which there were some great ones).
Y'know that 'Droid Factory Chase' at the end of Attack of the Clones? Y'know how you sat there going 'wow, this sequence is like watching someone else play a computer game cause it has like zero emotional impact on the story or me!'? Yeah? Well King Kong has at least three sequences like that.
I'm trying to write more, but I can't because there's nothing really more to say. Its just a vapid film. Not bad but not great either - it possibly just scrapes 'good' (because of the good moments).
King Kong himself was the achievement, not the movie.
-- Smart Critique Man has spoken. Quake in his wake.
I'll leave you a quote from Rosenbaum:
The film rethinks the characters, turning the original's stark Jungian fantasy into a soulless but skillful set of kinetic and emotional effects.
posted by stu willis at
3:48 pm
1 Comments:
You took the words right out of my mouth. I tried to write a lengthy response to David's praise of the movie but just couldn't do it. My problem isn't that the film is soulless. It's that it's sexless. Glossed up, shiny, devoid of the original's messy, sticky, pop surrealist imagery, and completely and utterly ossified. Kill the things you love, indeed.
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