King Kong: No spoilers
Dec. 16th, 2005 02:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneQuite liked it. Jack Black: in my opinion, so-so. I think he played the character well. Russ thought he was well-cast. The casting was quite good, the effects were great. The dinosaurs and other things on/re: the island were excellent. I've never been enamoured with dinosaurs, I was bored by Jurassic Park, but these were cool!
Peter Jackson put some very nice humor into the film and it had some touching scenes. Even though the film was three hours long, and even though I was conscious of the length (I survived without an intermission or having to run off to the restroom without problem or incident) it was sufficiently well-paced that, at least to me, it didn't lag. Russet thought it a bit long and that the island sequence could have been trimmed a bit, I didn't have a problem with it.
Anyway, well done, Mr. Jackson. I don't think it will get a nomination for Film of the Year, and honestly, the film doesn't really deserve that. Still, well done and recommended. I would like to see the original again to compare them a bit more realistically, a friend who saw the sneak in Phoenix prefers the original.
Peter Jackson put some very nice humor into the film and it had some touching scenes. Even though the film was three hours long, and even though I was conscious of the length (I survived without an intermission or having to run off to the restroom without problem or incident) it was sufficiently well-paced that, at least to me, it didn't lag. Russet thought it a bit long and that the island sequence could have been trimmed a bit, I didn't have a problem with it.
Anyway, well done, Mr. Jackson. I don't think it will get a nomination for Film of the Year, and honestly, the film doesn't really deserve that. Still, well done and recommended. I would like to see the original again to compare them a bit more realistically, a friend who saw the sneak in Phoenix prefers the original.
