King Kong

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Everything Cranefly said about Kong is True except for the part where he doesn't know his hat from a hole in the ground.

Yes, the film was overly self indulgent. But who can say to the man who made three films that grossed over two billion dollars? At times I was amazed that some scenes ran too long, ie the aforementioned Brontosaurus scene. And we were in the spider pit for weeks. But wasn't Andy Serkis's death great?

When I read the reviews and found out I wasn't going to see Kong for almost forty minutes into the film, I thought those scenes were going to drag. But I was swept up. I loved the movie within the movie stuff. I loved where the put the writer. I loved the male lead looking at the posters in his state room. He took his part and gave it some dimension.

My only regret was Kong left the island. I was screaming that he shouldn't go after that woman. I knew where this was headed and it wasn't going to be good. As soon as we got to the let's trap Kong sequence, I became depressed because I knew the let's kill Kong sequence wasn't far behind.