King Kong

[MadeInNewJersey]

Who's seen it?

 

[Ellestin]

*raises finger*

 

[Reign in Acai]

Great movie, wasn't bored for a second.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

I've heard it's beyond brilliant.

 

[Chromatose]

The film had a few flaws imo, but everything else was done so incredibly well that going to the trouble to point them out would amount to frivolous nitpicking. Critics tend to point how out how at their showings it moved grown men to tears, and I heard my fair share of weeping patrons when the credits rolled.

 

[lizard]

so does the big black guy die at the end??

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

I can't wait to see it. Not helped at all by the fact that since LOTR, Peter Jackson could direct a 2-hour seminar on watching paint dry that I'd probably buy on DVD.

JayK and I are going after Xmas.

 

[lizard]

hot date! It's over three hours long, so lots of snuggle time.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

hot date! It's over three hours long, so lots of snuggle time.

We're going to hold hands, too. His wife is coming along to chaperone.

 

[lizard]

sweet.

 

[General Zod]

Someone told me the NY Times actually called it "the greatest movie ever made". From people that have seen it, I've heard everything from it was amazing to it was quite average.

Zod

 

[lizard]

for 300 mil, it better give up teh sex and cook you dinner as well.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

$300 million? Is that what it cost? I thought it was under $150 million.

 

[lizard]

hmmm...the other day I heard a guy say $300...it was probably Rush Lamebaugh, he's wrong about everything.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

I just found something via Google that says $207 million (dated 12/19). I think what I originally read was that it cost $150 million MORE than the original did to make.

 

[lizard]

be careful in the theatre, guys...

Cops: Priest fondled kid during 'King Kong'

December 21, 2005

MARBLE FALLS, Texas -- A Roman Catholic priest accused of groping a 16-year-old boy at a movie theater during "King Kong'' has been charged with indecency with a child.

The Rev. Paul M. Clogan, 74, was arrested Friday, police said.

Clogan sat next to the teen in the theater, police said. The boy, who did not know Clogan, told investigators the priest groped him about an hour after the movie started.

AP

 

[Ellestin]

Someone told me the NY Times actually called it "the greatest movie ever made".

uh... this is rather indecent. . Some discrepance between incredible fx and not so good ones screaming half-baked CGI (the latter are still widely underweight). And it's a B-movie after all, meaning tons of irony and cheese. And Naomi Watts doesn't get a single proper line during the last two hours, just some near-tears staring-around.
It is a great entertainment movie, probably the biggest rollercoaster ride ever to come on screen. But greatest movie ever? Come on...

 

[lizard]

talk about hyperbole! "greatest ever" is a mantle best donned after some time to let it season.

 

[Nate The Great]

I tend to trust the reviewer in Rolling Stone, Pete Travers or something, and he said it was frickin awesome. He was right on with Sin City and about 1000 others.

Now . . . if only there was a movie theater showing it within less than 3 hours from where I live.

 

[lizard]

anyone here seen brokeback mountain??