Musings of an Idiot

Kong!!!

It took me a good 3 trips to the cinema theatre before I forced myself to buy a ticket to 'King Kong'. The TV spots or the trailers never did justice to the movie and to me they came across as a big budget hollywood crap pushed to the hilt by the marketing department but I am glad that I was wrong and did force myself to get past my initial reluctance.

The movie is fantastic - it is not perfect and is definitely indulgent at times but on the whole it has got such a big heart that you don't really care for anything else. The things which make the movie work are Naomi Watts and King Kong - it forms the soul of the movie and it is a love story which tugs you in different directions. The things which don't work are the romance between Jack Driscol and Ann Darrow {there is no weight to it}; some shoddy CGI work where you can clearly see that the actors are doing stuff seperately and the background stuff has been put on rather haphazardly.

But overall it is a bloody good movie and a great watch. I think Peter Jackson has just outdone all the 3 Lord of the Rings movie with King Kong. There were probably a couple of moments in 'Fellowship of the Ring' which attain some height of emotions achieved consistently throughout King Kong. I hope that Naomi Watts and Andy Serkis get recognition for their work on this movie - what they have done acting-wise is simply astounding. I could go on and on about why the movie is a must see but that would only drive you away from it. Kong is definitely King.

As a sign off here are some more pics from the trip to Coromandel. Enjoy.

posted by Amit @ 8:52 PM