I loved the Empire State Bldg scene in Jackson's King Kong. It was wonderful.
But they were at King Kong Island a half hour too long and the ice skating scene with King Kong scooting around the ice on his a$s was too stupid for words. (I mean, he weighs how much?)

My only long standing complaint about Jackson's King Kong is just how horrible the dinosaur stuff on Skull Island was handled. I liked the stuff before the island and the stuff after the island. But most of the stuff on the island sucked.

Yeah, that would be where the scalpel would best serve. I liked the Kong stuff on the Island, but most of the dinosauer (and giant insect) stuff would have to go.

My one exception ... the mano-a-dino between Kong and the (last standing) tyrannosaur would stay. As CP and I discussed last night, that segment - - the one which essentially duplicated the T-Rex scene in the orignal - - was the best bit of dino action in Jackson's remake.

The dinosaurs were a bit heavy handed. I liked some of it, but a few things definitely triggered my gimmick alarm. Piles of brontosauri, t-rex swinging in vines. Just unnecessary. I like the idea of increasing the dino roles, he just went too over the top for my taste.

*pounds table* It was awesome, damnit!!!

I actually quite liked Kong. I remember being in the minority when it came out.

We're happy today! A good friend of Tom's took home the Cassavetes award (for best film with a budget under .5 million) at the Independent Spirit Awards last night! She produced Quinceanera, which I really enjoyed.

I'm watching Smokey and the Bandit...

I loved this movie when I saw it at the drive in, and I still love it today.

I will NOT be buying Bridge to Tarabitia when it comes out on dvd. I wish I had been properly warned ahead of time. It is a good movie, but I don't do well with situations like that. It was not my idea of a good time.

I assume this means you found it to be a good adaptation of a very sad story? I read the book some years ago, and on that basis, decided to skip the movie until such time as I'm in the mood for a good cry. The trailers don't appear to set audience expectations for the emotional mill, do they?

No, they didn't. I had never even heard of the book and went solely on the trailers. If I had know I could have been better prepared or not gone at all.