Sometimes I think commercials deliberately try to make movies look dumber than they are. I can enjoy dumb movies as well as the next person, if they're good dumb movies, but the commercials made it really look like one of those teenage boy, "virginity is only for dorks, but even dorky guys should be entitled to bang hot chicks, so lets laugh at the schmuck until he manages to nail someone" type films. If it was sweet and clever, I'm guessing that wasn't actually the case. Maybe I'll give it a try on DVD when I feel like something silly.
As for King Kong- I don't generally care for SF only movies either, but this really wasn't one. They don't even get to the island until an hour and a half into the film, and by then I felt like I knew enough about the characters that I cared what happened to them. And yes, I personally could happily have skipped the bit where King Kong fights the T-Rex, or where the guy gets eaten by giant worms, but mostly, it was about the people, and whether and how they were going to get through things. It was sort of like the Lord of the Ring films in that respect- there was lots of CGI stuff, and they had lots of fun with it, but it mostly came after the dialogue, not the other way round.
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Date: 2006-01-31 05:03 pm (UTC)As for King Kong- I don't generally care for SF only movies either, but this really wasn't one. They don't even get to the island until an hour and a half into the film, and by then I felt like I knew enough about the characters that I cared what happened to them. And yes, I personally could happily have skipped the bit where King Kong fights the T-Rex, or where the guy gets eaten by giant worms, but mostly, it was about the people, and whether and how they were going to get through things. It was sort of like the Lord of the Ring films in that respect- there was lots of CGI stuff, and they had lots of fun with it, but it mostly came after the dialogue, not the other way round.