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"Tiny Human Ferret" |
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14 Dec 2005 07:13:10 PM |
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[REVIEW] Peter Jackson is Insufficiently Wealthy |
Peter Jackson is insufficiently wealthy.
Where practicable, you must immediately get in line to see his latest
movie, "Kong Kong". If at all possible, pay even more money to see it at
the largest screen in the best venue in town.
This movie is _very_ long but it sure doesn't seem like it, except
perhaps in the first 40 minutes or so, in which it has a bit less action
than, but maintains the pace of, the first few minutes of "Indiana
Jones". Once the action starts coming, there's a slight slackening of
pace to allow a little bit of awe and suspense to set in, and thereafter
for the next hour or so you will find event piled on top of event laid
out in perfectly sensible order but with the intensity and hurry of
every known train wreck happening all around you all at once.
People that you really really hate should be given very large amounts of
stimulants and be made to sit still through the whole movie; they'll
stroke out at around minute 90 and then you could have the satisfaction
of watching their body cool for the next 90 minutes or so. But that's
not what you'll be watching, trust me on this.
Given what Mr Jackson and his team of render-farmers accomplished in
bringing the Tolkein classics of Middle Earth to the screen, you expect
nothing but the best in believable scene and character generation. Even
my very expert eye could detect only the slightest of discontinuities
and as regards the animation, everything moves in accordance with the
laws of physics and there is no reason for anyone to disbelieve for a
moment that a gorilla the size of a city bus is cavorting across the
screen in between intermittent bouts of dino-bashing, at which said
gorilla definitely excels. He's also a fine actor and very emotive.
The cast is entirely believable and the casting was very well done in my
humble opinion, and quiet amazingly all of the character development is
pretty full-fledged. Even Jack Black carries of a perfect depiction of a
self-centered and half-baked cheese, Carl Denham, whose dreams of riches
are the cause of so much catastrophe. Adrien Brody perfectly carries
Jack Driscoll, a screenplay writer who falls in love with a struggling
vaudevillian would-be actress, Ann Darrow, portrayed by the radiant
Naomi Watts. Essentially kidnapped via bamboozlement, they and the
intrepid crew of the tramp steamer _Venture_ confront the unknown at the
mysterious uncharted Skull Island, and the rest of the story I shall not
detail.
A note of caution: despite this film's complete lack of foul language or
anything more sexual than a kiss, the full-battle pace of this film
might cause trauma in children under the age of about 10 or so, even if
half of that fast-paced action didn't consist of all manner of things
being rather messily thrown around, chased, eaten, or stomped into the
mud and then thrown around and eaten. This is one of those films
guaranteed to have a profound effect on any human being who watches it,
and I expect that even the apes at the zoo would get the message.
I can't sufficiently recommend this. After all, Mr Peter Jackson is
insufficiently wealthy and I strongly suggest that everyone run right
out and do their best to remedy that unfortunate situation. He needs to
money to make another movie.
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nam primi in omnibus proeliis oculi vincuntur.
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| Title: Re: Peter Jackson is Insufficiently Wealthy |
15 Dec 2005 05:16:48 AM |
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Tiny Human Ferret wrote:
Given what Mr Jackson and his team of render-farmers accomplished in
bringing the Tolkein classics of Middle Earth to the screen, you expect
nothing but the best in believable scene and character generation. Even
my very expert eye could detect only the slightest of discontinuities
and as regards the animation, everything moves in accordance with the
laws of physics and there is no reason for anyone to disbelieve for a
moment that a gorilla the size of a city bus is cavorting across the
screen in between intermittent bouts of dino-bashing, at which said
gorilla definitely excels. He's also a fine actor and very emotive.
I'd like to see this if I could turn off the sound.
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