12-20-2005, 09:04 PM
Interesting. I had the same reaction. As the "capture Kong" scene loomed, I actually looked away from the screen, off into the darkness, thinking, "I'd like to get up and walk out right now."
Because from that point onward it's a downer. I knew it would be, and it was worse than I anticipated -- much worse than in the original, because this version yanked the emotion button a lot harder (that is NOT a mixed metaphor!). Yeah, I have no interest in seeing it again, because it leaves you feeling ill.
I've read reports that people don't want to see it again because it burned them out with all the special effects. I think that statement represents a lack of communication ability in a lot of people. Because it wasn't special effects that killed Kong. It was beauty.
What the hell am I saying? What I meant to say is that the culprit was overlong repetitious scenes where the imagination went bankrupt. The bugs and stuff were great. You don't burn out from scenes like those.
Though when the millipedes made their advances on the woman, my arm took such a beating from Lady Cranefly (she began to whine in a horrific way, rising in pitch, pounding my flesh ever harder). And the Andy Serkis death scene evoked a similar reaction.
My arm is slowly healing.
--cranefly
Because from that point onward it's a downer. I knew it would be, and it was worse than I anticipated -- much worse than in the original, because this version yanked the emotion button a lot harder (that is NOT a mixed metaphor!). Yeah, I have no interest in seeing it again, because it leaves you feeling ill.
I've read reports that people don't want to see it again because it burned them out with all the special effects. I think that statement represents a lack of communication ability in a lot of people. Because it wasn't special effects that killed Kong. It was beauty.
What the hell am I saying? What I meant to say is that the culprit was overlong repetitious scenes where the imagination went bankrupt. The bugs and stuff were great. You don't burn out from scenes like those.
Though when the millipedes made their advances on the woman, my arm took such a beating from Lady Cranefly (she began to whine in a horrific way, rising in pitch, pounding my flesh ever harder). And the Andy Serkis death scene evoked a similar reaction.
My arm is slowly healing.
--cranefly
I'm nobody's pony.