Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Ghoulish Delight]

We finally saw Peter Jackson's King Kong last night. I enjoyed it quite a bit and regret failing to get motivated to see it in the theater.

That said, it had no right to be 3 hours long. IMO, for a movie to be 3 hours long, it better have a damned good reason. This one didn't. I wouldn't say there was anything "wrong" with the first 50 minutes, before they reach the island. But he could have told the same story in half that time. Same goes for the next 90 minutes while they were on the island. I probably would have been less critical of the length/pace of the island segment if I hadn't just sat through the first act which was a half hour longer than it needed to be. But it still could have been tightened up some (dumping the pointless side plot with the kid and his mentor would have helped).

But despite all that, I still enjoyed it.

And now I can't get Tom Waits' "King Kong" out of my head. They thought he was a monster. But he was a king