December 19, 2005

• Awesome

  King Kong!
  (Spoilers present. You have been warned)

  
  

  Totally WOW.  What an awesome movie.  A VERY awesome movie.  I don't even know how to properly review such awesomness.  It's just awesome.  End of story.  And how dare anyone NOT see it by now?  To willingly pass on such awesomeness would be beyond my comprehension.  Go partake of the awesomeness that is Kong and I might just forgive you.  Everyone should share Kong's awesomness as soon as possible.  Do it, do it NOW!
  
  Good GAWSH.  Awesome.

  
  

  I partook of the awesomness at 6:05 p.m. Sunday evening.  My visiting cousin and her husband, my uncle, his son, mom, sisters, sisters' bfs, and friends of boyfriends were my companions to this awesome movie.  Well actually, my cousin and her husband went to see Syriana instead because they had viewed Kong already, but they still were in our car.  Normally I'd never go to a movie that early, since I generally like to go later in the evenings, but alas, I wanted to go with the big group so the awesomness can be better appreciated.  We originally were aiming for the 5 p.m. show, the last matinee of the day, and upon arriving there at about 4:30, we were told that the only seats left were located in the front row, and that we'd have no guarantee of being together.  So we swooped up the next option...the 6:05 p.m. show, in which he had to go join the line that was already forming for it.

  
  

  Now me, I'm quite accustomed to waiting an hour or more for movies on their opening weekend.  We weren't that far from the beginning of the line, which meant we'd definitely have access to the better seats, and yet, all my uncle was dwelling on was that he was waiting.  Oyyy it was kinda annoying not being able to properly comfort the poor "old" man haha.  He couldn't even appreciate the fact that we're gonna get great seats to a great...no, AWESOME movie.  No, all he was moaning and groaning about was that if we went to the more nearby theater to our town, then we'd be sitting down already and eating our popcorn awaiting for the lights to darken and the movie to start..."theoretically."  I personally think we would have been in the same boat.  Showing up a half hour before showtime, realizing that show's already full, and then having to wait in line for the next show.  You can't escape that expectation from ANY theater.  But alas, he eventually got over it somewhat, and we all just joked and talked and whatever else.  I thought the time went by super fast, but that's just me.

  
  

  They seated as at about 5:30, as I had predicted way earlier in the hour.  We were betting when the time would be, and it looks like I was correct, me being the expert on waiting in line for movies haha.  We sat alllll the way in the back willingly, so we wouldn't have to worry about our chairs being kicked or people throwing stuff.  Such an awesome movie should be viewed with NO outside interruptions.  That was when we all got up to finally get our popcorns, pretzels, and nachos.  My sister and her boyfriend were lucky enough to get the last two pretzels after spotting the yummy appearance of mine as I was returning with it.  Such copycats. It's quite astounding how much the two are alike.  I seriously hope she'll keep this one. It might actually be the first wedding I wouldn't mind attending.

  
  

  The Emotion...

  
  

  GAWSH what an awesome movie.  It's generally agreeable that the middle of the movie was the best of all, since it involved the interractions with Kong and all the rest of the giant creatures on Skull Island.  I appreciated the ENTIRE movie as a whole, even the hour-long beginning that led up to the main "meat" of the action.  I dared to realize that a movie like King Kong has to have more to it than a bunch of monsters fighting each other with no focus on story or plot. That's what Jurassic Park 3 did to me and I didn't want to have to go through it again!  No, a movie like King Kong has to make you believe that a "monster" can be "tamed."  You have to believe that the actors are worth fighting for.  You have to get an attachment to not just Kong, but the people, at least the main bunch of them.  Why recreate a grand epic like King Kong if you're not even gonna bother making the people and their feelings believable? Thank goodness for the awesomeness of Peter Jackson for choosing to direct this movie, and the awesomeness of Andy Serkis to bringing Kong to life ever so CONVINCINGLY. They gave him such awesome subtle emotions, that you can't mistake what he's feeling. It so made me want a pet gorilla.

  
  

  The Action...

  
  

  Though I DID appreciate the emotionalism, it doesn't mean that I wasn't fond of all that glorious ACTION.  I mean DAMN!  Oh my gosh there's just too much to think of.  What action! The entire audience was ALL into it.  You can't NOT be into it.  We all became expert commentators lol.  We groaned and moaned and gasped and screamed.  Oh it was freaking fun.  The effects were SPECTACULAR.  Cinematography was devine.  Very pretty island, that Skull Island (though the local natives were unbelievably CREEPY. Wouldn't want to wake up and see THAT standing next to my bed)  Me being the dinosaur freak that I am, I was TOTALLY waiting for those dinosaurs.  Woo freaking HOO!  I wasn't THAT crazy about the first to make their appearance, the apotosaurs (brontosaurs), but I eventually got over it.  The stampede scene that you'd see in the movie previews was of course their own glorious moment, as they and the people were fleeing the pursuing group of what appeared to be mega-sized raptors (I dunno what the actual filmmakers named them).  I did make myself get over the fact that there's no way a bunch of puny humans would avoid getting stepped on by the giant beasts.  And believe me, you would wonder how they avoided getting out as cleanly as they did.  It was pestersome at first, but then I thought, "Well, such giant dinosaurs can't really lift their feet THAT much anyway, so the only way a human will get stepped on is if they trip and fall and be in an easier position to be stepped on."  And yes, I was really thinking that way.  I'm SO into dinosaurs, people.  I want them to be as convincing as possible.  I was very pleasantly satisfied with the result. 

  
  

  The Beasts...

  
  

  Gosh giant EVERYTHING.  Gorilla, dinosaurs, iguanas, centipedes, grasshoppers, bats, spiders, mosquitos,...OYY! So much freaking FUN people.  FUN!!  THERE'S JUST TOO MUCH EXCITEMENT AS I SIT HERE PONDERING THE EXPERIENCE! You need to go see that awesome movie and force yourself to GET OVER the supposed slow scenes for that awesome action, if such a case applies to you.  Nobody ever got a break in that movie.  There's always some kind of giant beastly thing around there that wants to eat them.  And there's always more than one! THAT'S what I appreciated.  All along I'm thinking Kong's gonna fight just one V-Rex.  No such thing.  He fights freaking THREE of them all at ONCE. And they didn't even put up a crappy fight! They actually put  up and excellent fight.  GEEZE!  All along he's fighting those things with ONE HAND while holding the fair maiden in his other hand.  And just when you think it's over, when all of them go spilling over the edge of the cliff getting tangled in very tough vines, you get more.  Those V-Rexes never STOPPED trying to eat that girl lol.  Even when they're hanging helplessly in the vines, they'd see her and swing to eat her like she's some worm on a hook.  I was thinking "How determined can you be to eat something so incredibly small? She's like a chicken wing!"  But they definitely were determined. Even after one of them killed the giant iguana (a clever trick to make you think it was Kong that saved her), he refused to drop it when he started chasing her down.  Those things loved to eat and would eat ANYTHING and wouldn't let ANYTHING get away.  They didn't even let Kong kill them too easily.  Thank goodness.  Kong had to try NUMEROUS times to kill the last one.  But dear goodness gracious that was the BEST fight.  Not that the other fights were nothing...with all his kicking and punching and biting and whatever else.  But this one was definitely the most graphic.  He freaking held his jaw open just to bite his tongue to rip it off.  But even then that V-Rex didn't give up, and proceeded to keep his jaws clenched so Kong couldn't rip them apart like he had done to one of the other three.  After several failed attempts, with the V-Rex's legs kicking and thrashing, Kong finally pulled it off and ripped open the things jaw.  Oh but he wasn't done yet.  As "punishment" for giving him a hard time, Kong then twisted his freaking skull sideways, breaking probably everything in that poor dino's neck lol.  And afterward, he "tested" it out to make sure the thing was dead.  AWESOME.

  
  

  Have I mentioned how freaking AWESOME this movie is????  There's just too much to even talk about, more than what I already mentioned!  I forgot to even mention the guy Kong grabbed just to have his head chewed off.  Go see this awesome movie.  I got VERY close to crying at the end, but since I already knew Kong's fate from the older movies, I didn't give in.  It was still sad though.  The music was a good contributor to the emotion the characters were feeling.  Poor Kong just wanted to keep the girl and protect her from harm no matter what the cost, even his life.  Even some HUMAN males don't know how to pull that off.  It was rather sweet.  It always was.  I might just force myself to see the old movie.  I say "force" because...well...it's an old movie, and the visual effects (though most definitely fascinating in their day) are very tough to watch lol.   

  
  

  After the adventure came to an end, we all asked each other how we liked it.  My mom and uncle (the oldest people in our group) seemed kinda "iffy" about it.  My uncle loved the action and fights, but was bored out of his mind with the "slow" scenes.  *shrug* I'm sure many a male will agree with him.  I'm not even male and I agree that the action was a big part of that movie, but I still don't toss away the non-actions scenes as useless.  That movie needed MORE than action!  After the seeming lack of enthusiasm displayed by my mom and her brother (my uncle) I was like, "Well screw you guys then, I thought it was AWESOME!"  They then laughed hehe.  All the rest of us younger people of course thought it simply RULED. 

  
  

  We went out to eat after the movie, just catching the nearby "fast-food" italian restaurant a half hour before closing time.  Yummy. In fact, I want to go finish the breadsticks I brought home.  I'll do that when I'm done here, which I almost am.  We dropped off my family at his house and then proceeded home.  'Twas snuggle time for my one sister and her boyfriend and sleep-time for me, since I had only gotten 2 hours of sleep Sunday.  I came up to crash almost instantaneously after changing into my pajams.  I turned on my soothing lava lamps, answered a late-night phone call from Lexi, and then slept the entire night.  So now here I am, finishing up this King Kong blog, ready to go eat some food.

  
  

  I am SO seeing King Kong again.  Niether my dad nor DJ has seen it yet, so hey, I could have 2 more viewings of this awesome 3 hour movie!  Maybe I'll go see it today again.  WooHOO.

  
  

  And ta-ta.

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