King Kong (2005)
| Rating: | ★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
My afterthought: Absolutely appalling film.
It may be my bias against Peter Jackson. His Lord of the Rings series is none the better, if I might add, and I wonder how there can be so many fans of his out there when one can make a purely objective assessment of his screenplay and come out with a worse than amateur grading for it.
Anyway, back to Kong. Biggest pain was in the plausibility of the physics involved in the action sequences, as well as the 'force-down-your-throat' approach in accepting that there can be such far-fetched fantasy in the now-known world, even though the setting of the movie was in the 30s. The movie culture today is overfed on visual spectacles to the point that Jackson just wishes to pander to those yearnings in whetting his audience' appetites.
More about the ridiculous physics effects, as well as an utter disregard for a basic understanding of established animal behaviour, are the scenes from the brontosaurus stampede that was triggered by the raptor attack. How is it that a handful of puny pack-hunters (and the pack was not even substantially large) can cause an entire herd of giants to go berserk at the first sign of them? Worse still, how is it remotely plausible that potshots from a tiny submachinegun can penetrate the thick hides of a brontosaurus, to cause a fatality ? Even sillier, how is it imaginable that huge lumbering giants like the brontosaurus can tumble over one another like a bunch of puppies ?
Still much more on physics - how can a 25-foot tall gorilla (estimated to weigh 4-5 tonnes) that can smash anything in its path, yet not crash through thin ice and sink (when the director intended it for a 'romantic' moment with the damsel - at an ice-skating rink) ? How presumptuous to think that the same gorilla can even pull down an entire opera house curtain, yet not demolish the facade of a skyscraper as it clambers upward via grabbing window sills as handholds (or paw-holds) ? Is Jackson supposing that Kong has mastered the Chinese martial art of 'qinggong' (skill of feather-weightedness at will) ? How is it fathomable when this gorilla, that can bash a T-Rex's lower jaw through into its cranial cavity, not completely crush a woman in its hand (again, or paw ?) during vigorous movements through rough terrain at high speed, while clenching her ?
So many unexplained, sad misrepresentations of plain, basic physics. Totally a turn-off of a movie. Don't watch it, for intelligence' sake. You will save a precious 3-hrs' worth of time to be doing your other favourite acitvity.
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