King Kong

Went to watch King Kong yesterday. Not that I really wish to watch it but then it's x'mas and when your boyfriend has been dying to watch the oversized ape for no apparent reason and nobody's interested, you obliged. The director of King Kong, he keeps repeating, is Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings so it had to be good. I was skeptical. After all what can one expect of a movie about an oversized ape in "love" - I filched at the word - with a blonde from where else but US of A? I recalled in the once upon a time when I was still a kid, scenes of a huge mass of black ball climbing a skyscraper, battling helicopters. That was all I knew of it. Spoilers ahead. Skip it completely if you still wanna watch it. I went in without much anticipation. In fact I was debating over watching Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and chose the monkey instead coz it's 3 long hours of computer graphics AND human and of coz Peter Jackson - and 2 hours too long. Hey! A movie ticket costs a big bomb alright? I'll watch the Were-Rabbits on TV next time. Since it's a Peter Jackson film - notice that I kept mentioning his name? - I felt that it should have been a trilogy instead of the 3 hour long movie that King Kong was. I dislike 3 hour long movies and in my personal opinion, directors like Peter Jackson have simply no respect for the bladder - I missed the last part of Return of the King, sitting in the middle of Lido with no burgers in hand at 3am waiting for the crowd to finish it coz I had to visit the loo and this time round, in the middle of King Kong though I didn't miss much. The Trilogy Chronicles of King Kong, The Lady, The Fat Guy and The Escape, partly directed by James Cameron of the Titanic fame, would have been the first of the three. The first part of the movie focuses only on the human and how they finally embark on this terrible journey that would bring about the death of this huge monkey in a distanced land. The second would have been called, The Island - erm...name already taken? - partly directed by Steven Spielberg would bring the dinos of Jurassic Park back to life again. Complete with gigantic roaches that'll give baygone a run for their money. The final installment in the trilogy, Episode III, The Revenge of the Ape, would be partly directed by George Lucas who is helping Jackson - Peter, not Michael - planning on prequels for this trilogy, which would tell the love story of the ape's parents and his prophesized birth - or was that his dad? Finally, Naomi Watts got my award for the heroine with the most camera time and the least number of lines in a 3 hour blockbuster movie. Unless of coz ah...eh...oh...no...arg...are considered the lines she needed to memorized. Of coz, not all is lost. Watch it for the non stop action, the not so realistic background that is a 100 times less obvious than Narnia, for X'Mas and if you've got money to spare. Lastly, Merry X'Mas to all.