King Kong

Well, I finally saw it. I finally got to see the movie that would possibly break Titanic's record at the box office. The movie that could blow away the Oscar competition. And.....

It sucked. No wait. It didn't suck. It had good parts. And its good parts were pretty good. But it had bad parts. And its bad parts were baaaaaaaddddd.

Seriously. Who saw this movie and said it was oscar worthy? First off, the special effects had serious problems. Bad looking blue screen work. The CGI was really sketchy. And to be honest, I think it was just plain edited badly.

It was too too long too. I tend to think that its ok for movies to be longer if they are good. A lot of my favorite movies are longer than two hours. But there is a reason why most movies don't get to be this long. The reason is, that most movies don't need to be this long. Really 99% of movies don't need to be this long. They just don't. In short, if you're going to be long, you better be right. This movie just doesn't need it. There are bunch of scenes that run a little too long, and a couple of scenes that run waaaay too long. Not to mention, a couple that just don't need to be there.

Mostly, its just not that good. I liked some of it. But its just too all over the place. Too many characters, too complicated, too many story lines and just too over-the-top in most places.

The reviews were pretty good though, so its not going to be the failure that I think Peter Jackson really deserves. Its a box office bomb though, and an Oscar joke. Its finishing up around 216 million, which would be nice for most movies. Not for one that cost 300 million to make and was expected to make close to 400 if not way above that. If they had just canned this project, they could have built a whole mile of Wilshire Blvd. Subway with that money and Steph and I could have seen Brokeback Mountain today.

Oh well, better movies to come this week.

-T