Dec. 18th, 2005

gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Me - Drama)
Which would explain a lot...


The Movie Of Your Life Is An Indie Flick

You do things your own way - and it's made for colorful times.
Your life hasn't turned out how anyone expected, thank goodness!

Your best movie matches: Clerks, Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite

Wow.

Dec. 18th, 2005 08:04 pm
gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Eye of Horus)
Go see King Kong.

Really. Go now. This film is incredible. Masterfully directed, well-acted (did you ever think to hear "Jack Black" and "Oscar worthy" in the same sentence?) and with stunning settings and special effects, King Kong manages to be about seven different films in one. A ripping adventure tale straight out of the pulps, two love stories, a story of obsession and greed, and an examination of man's inhumanity.

All with a few choice laughs.

Peter Jackson got the essential feel right for this movie. Everything screamed period. Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) had the look of a Hollywood starlet of the early talkies era. Even the "secondary" cast members were real people, given enough personality and background to become important to us.

But the real star is Andy Serkis, who dons the motion capture suit to give the title character life. Just we believed in Gollum, we believe in Kong. He may be the first person to win an Academy Award nomination for a role in which he doesn't speak and isn't actually on screen! [livejournal.com profile] kshandra pointed out the story was improved by including our knowledge of apes today.. little details like Kong being a silverback and the like.

Warning: If you have a problem with creepie-crawlies, some portions of this movie will simply freak you out. One sequence got me to scream, so beware!

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