The necessity of the whole thing made it sadder for me.
Yeah, it was tragic because Kong was more sympathetic -- but again I kept losing the sympathy with the rampaging violence. A little less rampage and I might have been on board with the sympathy.
::shrugs:: I still enjoyed the movie, even if it was bloated and self-indulgent. And I could have lived the rest of my life without seeing the
penis dentata
scene, as one of my LJ friends phrased it. Ewww.
Most savage
urethra
ever! I could have done without a lot of the creature fight scenes, really. And as was noted elsewhere, a lot of the
character development of secondary characters
turned out to be wasted. I coulda made that movie under two and a half hours, easy.
Ew. And I haven't even seen it yet. Saw Brokeback last night. It does stay with a person, doesn't it? Random bits and pieces kept popping into my head all day.
Must for sleep now. I took a long nap late in the day. Bad, bad idea.
Definitely shoulda been 40 minutes shorter. They could have save about ten of that on the death scene alone...
Skipping and poking head to post that, according to the Buffista Calendar, today is shrift's birthday. Happy birthday, shrift! With lots of wishes for a great day and a wonderful year!
Happy Birthday Shrift!
Also, the only way I can stand Christmas cake is if it's drowned in brandy for a couple of months before it's iced. Mmm, moist. Most of the time I just peel off the icing, peel off the ckae, and eat the marzipan. But I don't like dried fuit, so there you go. When I'm making them I try and put more juicy dried fruits in -- leave out most of the currents, for example, and put more figs and apricots and stuff in.
Shrift! Birthday, happy! You should get onto that.