That's a whole lotta ape.

[hafital]

I'm here, I'm here. I know I've been a bit silent lately (and I wonder if anyone's noticed), so I'm making myself post just to make sure you all know I'm still alive. *g*

You would think that the end of the semester would bring some peace and quiet. You would think that and you'd be wrong! Not that I'm terribly busy, but well, I think I am, actually. Mostly work and my ever increasing social obligations (read tifah is a social butterfly).

My yuletide story is coming along. Not fast enough for comfort, but it's there, growing steadily. So far, I'm okay with it, although I fear it's terribly boring. After a semester of writing in a totally different, very particular, style and tense, it was a little odd getting back into my regular headspace for fanfic. I was worried I wouldn't be able to find it again, but I think it's there.

I went with a friend today to see an early screening of King Kong, which I will admit I totally expected to hate.

And, although there were one or two things I didn't like about Peter Jackson's direction and about 20 minutes of action that could easily be cut, I of course rather liked it. *g* I have yet to see a movie with Adrian Brody where I didn't end up totally loving whatever character he's playing, and this movie was no exception. He was wonderful, imo, but then maybe I'm just a sucker for heroes (ya think? *g*). I also expected to not like Jack Black, but he was rather good, I thought. All the actors were great. Naomi was very good and I *adored* Colin Hanks.

The action sequences were too long. Some of the cgi was cgi-ish, although King Kong in particular was really spectacular. There were one or two things that pulled me out of the story, but it's such a far fetched story to begin with, it was easy to let them slide. The period costumes were nice, understated -- it's not really a clothing film. They wigged Naomi and it was a little obvious at times, at least for me, but maybe I'm the only one who could tell, but leaps and bounds better than 99% of all other wigs in film and tv.

King Kong is one of those movies were you leave the theatre exhausted. You feel like you've been working for 3 hours and totally need a break now. *g* Not sure I ever need to see it again, but I did enjoy a lot of it.

Comments

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the King Kong review! Much appreciated.

[hafital.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I should mention there are a lot of (large) ooky critters in this film, if you're sensitive to that sort of thing.

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

I should mention there are a lot of (large) ooky critters in this film.

hahahaha! Well, the name on the Director's Chair is Peter Jackson, after all. Large, ooky creatures are to be expected. :-D

I'm okay with creatures, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico showed me that I can tolerate a good bit of violence for the right film. But I'm not likely to make this the Family Movie Night choice to take my kids along! With a PG-13, that was highly unlikely anyway.

Again, though: THANK YOU. Better to know than to pay $10 for something one finds unpleasant. :-)

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

From the trailers, at least, this looks to be the first King Kong who really looks like an actual gorilla. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

I noticed! I was thinking about you a lot this weekend. Could you hear me thinking from over there? Got such a kick out of seeing your name in my mailbox this morning. You obviously got my psychic page. *g*

{{{{hugs you}}}}

[hafital.livejournal.com]

You know, I think I could hear you because I was thinking of you, too! *g* I thought of you and T'Jonesy, actually, because Layla was on my radio and I got all misty eyed thinking about us and shoreleave and ST and everything. It's, um, that time of the month. LOL. *g*

*smooches*