reviews: King Kong & Watchmen

[morwen]

King Kong was good. It manages to also, almost as an afterthought, be a better Jurassic Park than Jursassic Park was. Although I'm not sure it really deserves to be 187 minutes. Only bit about it that felt wrong was the very ending - where was the massive crater?

Also, Superman trailer woo!

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Also located Watchmen and read it quite quickly. I'd been aware of this before obviously, but somehow the "as if superheroes were real but [bar Manhattan] didn't have superpowers" bit had somehow passed me by. This was good as it makes Rising Stars much less an unnecessary duplication of Watchmen. Caused me to think a lot about right and wrong and suchforth. I'll have to do some writing about this sometime, try to figure out what I really think.

Comments

[landvaettir.livejournal.com]

It was a long enough film I could see why they glossed, you know? And while I am not all about the physics, I suspect it would be one part crater, two parts ape-splash.

I just re-read Watchmen. It always leaves me not quite sure what I think, too.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that too. I wonder what the terminal velocity of a giant gorilla is.

Think I'm going to read some Miller stuff next.