King Kong (2005)
At the end of the first hour I was swearing to myself that I would never, ever see another Peter Jackson movie.There are no monsters in the first seventy minutes of the movie, just people getting to Skull Island. You don't need monsters to make a good movie, but apparently Peter Jackson does, because the script is woeful, the exposition is ham-handed, the dialogue is often wretched, and development of some of the characters (e.g., Jimmy) is completely pointless. Even the computer-generated special effects in this part of the movie aren't good, as when the video game ship is tossed on the rocks with little video game people hanging on to the deck.
The movie does take a turn for the better after Kong finally shows up. All the monster special effects look better, maybe because monsters are easier, or because the filmmakers put more effort into them. Action scenes that involve either Kong or other monsters from Skull Island are generally pretty good, but sometimes they violated my suspension of disbelief, e.g.:
- Apparently blonde starlets are tyrannosaur heroin, even small quantities are worth pursuing at all costs regardless of whatever else may be going on.
- A person with oversized insects crawling all over him can be safely hosed off with a machine gun, even by someone without prior experience with guns.
- A taxi driver is driving away from a giant ape. Someone gets in the back of the taxi and asks him to turn around and drive toward the ape. The driver's reaction is to give his taxi to the passenger.
posted by Richard Mason @ Wednesday, December 28, 2005
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