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King Kong (2005)
Save your money and your time
For the record, I loved the Lord of the Rings Series. I love long, heavy movies. The length of most movies doesn't bother me - as long as it is worth it. And King Kong is not worth it.
First of all, there were many plot holes that totally lacked explanation. How/when/where did Jack Black's character obtain that map? And why didn't he seem up set when he lost it? It was winter in New York City and Naomi Watt's character was walking around in an thin gown and we don't even see her breath? She doesn't so much as shiver as she stands on the top of the Empire State Building. And why didn't the pond that King Kong slid around on so much as creak? The army just "showed up" minutes after King Kong escapes? And then starts blasting apart the city? If King Kong had really fallen from that height there would have been bits-o-monkey everywhere. That or he would have smashed through the street and screw up the sewer system. How could they have kept King Kong sedated the entire trip back? The movie makes it seem like it took months to get there, but only a week end to get back.
Another thing that bothered me was that Naomi Watts and Adrien Brody had no, and I mean no, chemistry whatsoever. None. I didn't understand their supposed "attraction." The dialog between them was so phony and speaking of dialog what was with the part with Andy Serkis after they find the tracks in the jungle saying, "Only one creature could have made those tracks, the Abominable Snowman." Was that supposed to be funny or something? Or what about Jack Black's last line in the movie, "It was beauty that killed the beast." What was with that? Was it supposed to be clever or moving? Well, it wasn't. There's more but frankly, I don't even want to think about it anymore. Long story short, save your money and your time.
The Big Empty (2003)
They had no idea where they were going with this movie
Basically I got the impression that this movie wasn't fully realized. Not by anyone. Not the director who was also the writer, not by the producers, not by anyone. No seemed to know where this movie was going. Which is a real shame because it could have been great. But as I watched the movie I couldn't help thinking that where the writer/director wanted to go seemed to changed every time he sat down to write and by the end of writing the movie, he had worked himself into a corner.
I do have to say that the best part of the entire movie is the mysterious Cowboy (played by the handsome, talented, and underrated Sean Bean) and his best scene in the movie is when he makes his first appearance.
Honestly Bean was the only real reason why I remained interest in the movie because parts of the movie dragged, or just felt like it was trying too hard to be something it wasn't. Jon Favreau is good, Kelsey Grammar is wasted as I felt his character really didn't add anything to the story, and Daryl Hannah is good but again, feels wasted. I would say watch it for Sean Bean, but he really isn't in the movie enough, which is a real shame.