From the title of this post you might conclude that I didn’t like the new King Kong movie, but you’d be incorrect. The movie WAS enjoyable. My only complaint is that usually when watching a 3 hour movie, your butt is what starts to hurt. In Kong’s case, it’s your EYES. While there are several great CGI action sequences in the movie, the constant bombardment on your optic nerves with super fast CG camera moves, motion bluring, and overly complicated environments starts to get..well…annoying. <\/p>\n
I would venture a guess that about 50% of the movie has no dialog or character development. Half of the movie is nothing but visual stimulation by CGI environments and characters. This movie actually would have been better if several sequences were cut from the film. There simply wasn’t enough plot to support a 3 hour motion picture.<\/p>\n
Let me iterate again however, that in the end I still consider King Kong to be an entertaining movie. King Kong was an excellent CG character. His facial expressions were top-notch. Jack Black did a good job portraying the obsessed film maker, and Naomi Watts did a great job expressing her character’s love of Kong. <\/p>\n
The problem with King Kong is that the story gets a little lost with all the long action sequences. If the movie was shorter, and focused more on the characters instead of the computer created effects, I think it would have flowed better.<\/p>\n
I give it a 3 out of 5 stars. * * *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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