King Kong!
So I saw King Kong for a second time tonight, and I have to say that it was WAY better the second time. A lot of the time I see crazy 'visual effects' movies with a bunch of my peers, and I have to admit that because we are all a lot closer to the film industry than your average Joe, we feel that it gives us the power to be really hard on movies like King Kong. However I think we sometimes forget that all a movie is, is something to entertain us and maybe once in a while give us a moral or something to think about, that's it. There's no special movie that's going to whisk us away into the land of Never-never and change our lives forever. Granted there is a whole whack of crap movies out there to learn 'what not to do film-making' from, but King Kong definately isn't one of them.
The first time I saw it, I was in 'lets tear this appart' mode, because I knew there would be discussion afterwards with my friends, so I needed some ammo! You know like, wow that shot with the jumping guy onto the rocks looked like crap, or I felt the pacing here could have been better or they could have cut some out here. So I wasn't absorbing it as a movie, more watching it like a judge at the Olympics or something.
Well after seeing it with my girlfriend, away from visual effects and movie making judgement, my thoughts about King Kong are this; it's a great story that holds up all the way through. It's really long though and at points feels that way, but the action is great so who cares I definately got my moneys worth. Also, some say that Peter Jackson was wanking the visual effects all over the place, but come on, when I go to watch a movie, I want to be entertained, I want to see crazyness, and I did. It had awesome creatures, wicked scenes, and in the end I empathized with Kong and Ann and therefor, I was sold! I believed for the hour and a half that Kong was onscreen that he was a living breathing 25 foot gorilla, and that's all I needed.
I know now that you can make a wank off visual effects based movie with emotion and story in it. I did some quick calculations here on my computer to help directors obtain the level of emotion that is needed for todays audiences to buy into, these are the equations I came up with...
The first time I saw it, I was in 'lets tear this appart' mode, because I knew there would be discussion afterwards with my friends, so I needed some ammo! You know like, wow that shot with the jumping guy onto the rocks looked like crap, or I felt the pacing here could have been better or they could have cut some out here. So I wasn't absorbing it as a movie, more watching it like a judge at the Olympics or something.
Well after seeing it with my girlfriend, away from visual effects and movie making judgement, my thoughts about King Kong are this; it's a great story that holds up all the way through. It's really long though and at points feels that way, but the action is great so who cares I definately got my moneys worth. Also, some say that Peter Jackson was wanking the visual effects all over the place, but come on, when I go to watch a movie, I want to be entertained, I want to see crazyness, and I did. It had awesome creatures, wicked scenes, and in the end I empathized with Kong and Ann and therefor, I was sold! I believed for the hour and a half that Kong was onscreen that he was a living breathing 25 foot gorilla, and that's all I needed.
I know now that you can make a wank off visual effects based movie with emotion and story in it. I did some quick calculations here on my computer to help directors obtain the level of emotion that is needed for todays audiences to buy into, these are the equations I came up with...
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