You Know The Name Of....
Dec. 29th, 2005 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomAnne's and my schedules finally meshed, and we saw Peter Jackson's King Kong.
Five thoughts, more than any others:
Naomi Watts should repel me. She's of the exact same physical type as Tara Reid and Tea Leoni. But then she moves, or smiles, or looks at something, or speaks, and the lights are on and she's great and that's why Tara and Tea will never be anything but in Naomi's shadow.
I don't think Peter Jackson has a bad shot in him.
I think George Lucas has been handily toppled from his "big-ass blockbuster king" status, if he hadn't been already.
I think that, rather than trying to do the original Kong over, this film makes me love the original even more. It's as if the original was the Cliff Notes version of a really great story that they just didn't have all the tools to tell yet, so compelling that it still works seventy-five years later. And now they've got the tools, and they told the whole story without invalidating the other in either content or form.
I think they should just fuckin' hand Andy Serkis the Best Actor Oscar.
Five thoughts, more than any others:
Naomi Watts should repel me. She's of the exact same physical type as Tara Reid and Tea Leoni. But then she moves, or smiles, or looks at something, or speaks, and the lights are on and she's great and that's why Tara and Tea will never be anything but in Naomi's shadow.
I don't think Peter Jackson has a bad shot in him.
I think George Lucas has been handily toppled from his "big-ass blockbuster king" status, if he hadn't been already.
I think that, rather than trying to do the original Kong over, this film makes me love the original even more. It's as if the original was the Cliff Notes version of a really great story that they just didn't have all the tools to tell yet, so compelling that it still works seventy-five years later. And now they've got the tools, and they told the whole story without invalidating the other in either content or form.
I think they should just fuckin' hand Andy Serkis the Best Actor Oscar.
