I just got back from my annual Christmas Day tradition of seeing a sci-fi or fantasy movie. In this case, King Kong. Am I right in assuming that Peter Jackson didn't intend me to leave with the impression that:
• Ann Darrow was suffering the worst case of Stockholm Syndrome in the history of mankind
• Bruce Baxter was the only sane character in the whole friggin' movie
• Skull Island must be the source of the Rage virus from 28 Days Later, as proven by all the insanely murderous red-eyed natives and the fact that every damn animal on the island attacked every other damn animal on the island on sight at enhanced speed
• Either Kong survived all this time without any actual survival skills or the giant mutated killer bats (at least I guess that's what they were... they looked more like the Jerry Dandridge bat form from Fright Night than any actual animal I've ever seen... which would also go a long way toward explaining why they'd attack a much larger animal than themselves and how one could magically fly carrying at least three times its own body weight) sprang up in that cave since the last time he tried to sleep there?
I liked
The Producers,
but it's not any good as a movie--it's good as a record of two great Broadway performances. Amd I LOVE thew original movie (except the horrible LSD character, so cringe-worthy). If you don't like musicals or you didn't like the original show, you'll hate it, though.
Matt, I suspect that the rat-monkeys featured in
Dead Alive
also originated on Skull Island. It would explain so much....
Matt, I suspect that the rat-monkeys featured in Dead Alive also originated on Skull Island.
If you look carefully at the empty crates in the bottom of the ship when Adrien Brody is getting the tour, one is labeled "Sumatran Rat Monkey." I was quite pleased.
it's good as a record of two great Broadway performances.
Maybe great on stage. In close-up, I couldn't shake the feeling that Broderick was playing Bloom as mildly retarded, and it was, as I said, painfully uncomfortable.
except the horrible LSD character, so cringe-worthy
More cringe-worthy than replacing him with a string of embarrassingly dated gay jokes?
Yes, because all the gay people I know dig the gay jokes, so they work in the same way Bialystock does--he's a broad comedic exaggeration of a Jewish guy of a certain era and De Bris is a broad exaggeration of a Gay man of a certain era. When watching the original movie it feel so much like an older guy trying to write a satire on the craxy hippy young people and instead creating a character which has nothing to do with any human being living or dead that it isn't funny. Dick Shawn does what he can, but it's a lost cause.
Plus, the
Chrysler Building
dress was fabulous!
all the gay people I know dig the gay jokes, so they work
This isn't an argument I understand. My parents, who were craxy young hippies, think LSD is hysterical. Should you retroactively find him funny just because I know people who relate to the character type and do?
I may not have been clear. I just wanted to say the gay jokes are not embarassing or offensive any more than Bialystock is anti-Semitic. I can see why you didn't like the movie--as I said, I think it's not much of a movie.
Anyone interested in the sequel to Underworld? It's coming out in a month and this is the first I've heard of it.
I didn't invest a lot in the first picture, though it was fun enough. I like the idea of there being more low(er)-budget action-adventure-type films being put out there to balance the ridiculously huge-budget blockbusters. I can't help but think the genre will stagnate if it keeps up the latter route.
Oh, and who can say it enough: Kate Beckinsdale back in the leather catsuit.
DH actually bought me the Underworld DVD for Christmas--but I think that might be totally related to a comment I made about KB skewing my Kinsey scale. I am, however, looking forward to the sequel if only because it's principals are very pretty and I will withstand any amount of cheese to see Kate in leather and latex again.
I just wanted to say the gay jokes are not embarassing or offensive
I was embarrassed watching them. I never said they were offensive, and I don't think the two are equivalent.
