as an afterthought: we need a movie with tilda swindon AND adrian brody

[foxtongue]

King Kong didn't have enough Adrien Brody, dinosaur punching or kicking ass for the lord to excuse the length, let alone the blatant racism.

It started out with a Al "blackface" Jolson singing I'm On Top Of The World, then moved onto an island, populated only by the darkest natives that special effects money could possibly buy, where all the ethnic characters conveniently died in less then ten minutes. I was amazed. Also, could she possibly scream a little more? I don't think there was quite enough. Please, take yourself more seriously, because audiences don't like 100 million dollars movies about giant apes that aren't burdened with poignant scenes of ice-skating with toy women.

Comments

[daki.livejournal.com]

I still like what Uncle Warren said about this movie:

For $200 Million, you can make a real giant ape!

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Was it really TWO hundred million?

Oi. Isn't that more than we could put people on the moon for?

[daki.livejournal.com]

Yep, $200M.

I think any country outside of the US could put someone on the moon for $200M. Here? We spend $30M to build a pen that works in zero-G instead of using a pencil.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

That's it. I gotta find out how to be a pen designer.

[daki.livejournal.com]

Bomb a small country that makes pens. Set up shop and accept government contracts to "rebuild". Then turn those contracts into the official NASA Pen Designer contract. Make millions.

[michel-lacombe.livejournal.com]

Germany, for example.

[arrogant-gamer.livejournal.com]

Hi

Also, that ape was unrealisticaly large. Hey, why didn`t they use the world trade center in this remake? I thought that added a really modrn feel to the last remake. Oh, and why did they remake this again? Oh, and what are you doing in a hollywood movie screening expecting naught but the mainstream anyway?

z.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Ach on you. Even going in knowing it's going to be mainstream, I expected maybe a bit more imaginatoin, you know? There were momenets of utter promise, like the swinging on vines bit, that was gold.

[arrogant-gamer.livejournal.com]

Hi

Yeah, hollywood films are full of great momenets. That`s because the easiest way to cheat someone into thinking they saw a great movie is to fill it with great momenets: take The Matrix. Great movie (hint: I love bad).

z.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Also, could she possibly scream a little more?

Wasn't that her job?

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

My mother used to tell me that I shoudl be an actress because I would make a great Fay Wray.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

FAYE FAYEEEE!!!

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Last night I was supposed to finish that series, and I ended up sleeping through the very last episode. *hangs head in shame*

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

YOU HAVE BROUGHT DISGRACE UPON THIS HOUSE

*ahem*

Be sure to check out the movie, too. Higher production values, some excellent fights. It takes place just before the last episodes of the series so everyone's still there.

[arrogant-gamer.livejournal.com]

Hi

Damnit woman! If you finish that series, then I`ll probably have to watch it from the beginning again some day.

z.

[naekkae.livejournal.com]

tilda swinton is my hero.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

That woman, I swear, she's not flesh and bone as much as she is art.

[hundun.livejournal.com]

I would reccomend using a trained gorilla and a stuffed gorilla puppet together with miniatures and a little CG to modify expression and so on but... ... hire me? I make your movie better.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

My movie would be unlikely to have a giant gorilla, though I'll keep it in mind. Really.

One more reason

[(Anonymous)]

As if you need one, here's one more reason not to go see King Kong
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5491683,00.html

[givemesodapop.livejournal.com]

I went and saw it. It wasn't that bad.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

You haven't seen the previous two.

[banjomensch.livejournal.com]

much worse re: the racism in the film was kong himself: an enormous, black subhuman with violent tendencies, an obsession with blondes, but deepdown! a heart of gold (awwww). I mean, it isn't birth of a nation, but holycrap the condescension!

I found this entry via a google search for ed from cowboy bebop.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

That describes the original Kong as well though. We can't help that gorillas are black, right? There's only so much we can complain about when we knew we were walking into a movie about a giant woman-stealing ape.

[banjomensch.livejournal.com]

this is true, I'm probably just hypersensitized. it just felt like kong epitomized so much of what middle america sees as terrifying in black men.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I am continually glad that I live in Canada. Also, that I don't tend to see many Hollywood films. I was tired of the cliche's before I went to L.A. Now I'm tired of the people who live them.

[banjomensch.livejournal.com]

I am continually sad I don't. mmm socialized health care, gay rights and awesome webcomic cartoonists.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

*grins* Hey, if you need a couch...

[banjomensch.livejournal.com]

I'll remember that next time an election here goes badly

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

It's occured to me that perhaps we should be glad that the current administration screwed up with Katrina so badly, because this way there will BE another election.

[banjomensch.livejournal.com]

:sigh: c'est vrais, c'est vrais

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

So what do you do?

[banjomensch.livejournal.com]

I want to be a teacher. unsure of grade level/subject as of yet.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

That's admirable. Going to reverse the current decline? It's looking terrifying from up here, and I think OUR system's crap.

[banjomensch.livejournal.com]

the system itself here is a large part of the problem. so many well intentioned teachers just end up becoming cogs, churning out more, well, americans.

option 2: buy a boat. find some groovy people. go west until we're in international waters. declare ourselves a traveling autonomous zone.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how the system there works. I'm baffled by anything that could let evolution slide.

Re: option II. I've got access to a boat. Berths only 8 though, so I'm not sure how well it would work for defragmenting children.

[banjomensch.livejournal.com]

8 is enough to comandeer a larger oceangoing craft. we could defrag all the childers in there, when the need arises.

alternatively, we could use one of BC's many small uninhabited islands to set up a port for ourselves.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

True, though it's a wee bit chilly here. Wouldn't it be much more exciting to set up in the Phillipines?

[banjomensch.livejournal.com]

ooo! I like the way you pirate!

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I have been promised that when my friends get their evil island HQ, I get to be in charge of human resources. I will have a clipboard and a cat-suit.

[banjomensch.livejournal.com]

that's basically the awesomest thing I've ever heard.

sigh. because of this conversation, my gmail is now given me context ads about defragging software and the new pirates movie..

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I remember when Gmail came out and suddenly everyone decided it was Teh Bestest Thang Ever, Dude! and I pointed out how annoying it would be to have spiders crawling through correspondances all the time and no one believed me.

[banjomensch.livejournal.com]

indeed. At one point, I was really confused, because whenever my then-partner emailed me, the ads would be for rene magritte prints, my favorite painter. later, I figured out it was because her signature line was "ceci n'est pas un pipe." I was basically spooked.

[banjomensch.livejournal.com]

fyi, I'm driving up to the bay area now, plausibly the best thing about america. as such, I won't be able to fire back the mega-quick response for which I am famous.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I haven't been to the Bay Area in many years and I was only there briefly. I rather regret that I havent' managed ot find my way there again. It seemed so beautiful.