I am back from seeing KING KONG.
I am posting this as a spoiler, although I don't think this post will reveal much if you are even remotely familiar with the story...here goes...
Right now I HATE myself for even going to this movie...it was the most rancid waste of cellulloid I have ever sat through...and I have sat through some real stinkers in my time.
Now, keep in mind I was very much looking forward to seeing this movie...I figured it would be quite entertaining...but it was 3 hours of pure torture for me. It was one of those "lets see how many action scenes with special effects we can throw into this movie and then when we get to the kitchen sink we will through that in as well...several times over...and over...and over!"
Now, I never thought Fay Wray was all that particularly great in the original...she was ok, but not great...as an actress she had her limitations...as Ann Darrow her character screamed way too much and she didn't seem to have a lot of personality...but at least she reacted to the situation that she was in as any normal human being would...she was terrified of this huge, hairy beast...in the remake the herione is appropriately horrified at first, but by the end of the movie she seems to have fallen in love with the creature...despite the fact that he has killed, on purpose, several hundred people...not including those that he accidently killed. There is just no way this gal would do the things she does in this movie...the brontosaurus stampede was the silliest and most unrealistic thing I have ever come across. GODZILLA VS THE SMOG MONSTER was more believable! Here you have a dozen dinosaurs running for the hills along with another dozen tiny human beings, some of whom are overweight, elderly, and out of shape...and yet the humans are running just as fast, if not faster, then the stampeding dinos!
People fall thousands of feet into a ravine....and live! Only to be attacked by tswarms of giant, killer, flesh eating bugs...which they use their machine guns to get rid off. Uhg, it was awful!
And then there were all of these extra characters who really had no purpose in the film.
And the "great wall" that the natives had built hundreds of years ago to keep Kong out of the village...well, the way Kong could climb and jump around he could easily have climbed right over that wall without hesitation!
And there was so much more that was wrong with this movie....I can't even begin to tally them all.
I had not problem with them remaking KING KONG, I thought it was a wonderful idea...I loved the original, even with its many faults... but this new one was just too putrid...and that is the kindest thing I can think to say about it.
My buddy Ron hated it just as much as I did...and we are both very, very sorry that we went to see it. We were both ready to walk out of the theater half way through the film.
Just my opinion of course...you mileage may vary.