{"id":1094,"date":"2005-12-23T17:44:55","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T17:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2020-08-22T17:48:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T17:48:28","slug":"king-kong-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2005\/12\/23\/king-kong-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"King Kong (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wow.&nbsp;<em>King Kong<\/em>&nbsp;is a misfire of Lucasian proportions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CGI animation of Kong is wonderous to watch, and Andy Serkis should get an Oscar for his role as Lumpy the Cook because he won&#8217;t get one for being Kong. For sure, Kong the CGI character wouldn&#8217;t have been believable without Serkis and his 132 facial sensors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, PJ, just because you were remaking a film originally shot in 1933, and setting it in 1933, doesn&#8217;t mean you should infuse it with 1933 sensibilities!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it is way too long. I think someone other than PJ should have edited the film. Assuming anyone actually edited it. Kong is at least 1 hour too long. It didn&#8217;t need so many dinos, or bugs, or action sequences, or vestigial characters. (What&#8217;s up with Jimmy, for example?) Was PJ showing off, and justifying it by calling it a &#8220;tribute&#8221;? That&#8217;s what it felt like, in places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>L said that she felt that the film made it clear that mentally Kong is not an adult, and as such, the entire movie is an ongoing documentary of abuse of a 2-year old child. I see what she means. (After all, where is Kong&#8217;s &#8220;wedding tackle&#8221;? Clearly he&#8217;s pre-pubescent.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This film just wasn&#8217;t *enjoyable* to watch. And that&#8217;s why King Kong (2005) is a tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.&nbsp;King Kong&nbsp;is a misfire of Lucasian proportions. The CGI animation of Kong is wonderous to watch, and Andy Serkis should get an Oscar for his role as Lumpy the Cook because he won&#8217;t get one for being Kong. For sure, Kong the CGI character wouldn&#8217;t have been believable without Serkis and his 132 facial sensors. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}