Damn movie critics
SayUncle wrote a post about how the movie business isn’t doing very well. Today we see another reason for the sharp decline in movie theater attendance. Movie critics. There is only one movie I want to see. King Kong. But now I learn that “movie critics” have discovered troubling metaphors in the movie. Damn movie critics.
For once can’t a movie about a giant ape and his girl friend just be about a giant ape and his girl friend?
December 15th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
Yeah, because that’s such a mundane and everyday happenstance. Grin.
December 15th, 2005 at 2:44 pm
Uh…. I agree, sometimes a movie is just a movie.
December 15th, 2005 at 4:53 pm
I’ve found that the more “critics” rave about a movie – and the more advertisements I see for, the worse it sucks.
Examples:
* Master and Commander – *huge* promotional budget. Heck, I heard _radio_ ads for it.
* Road to Purdition – I listened to the “critics” and my brothers & I went to see that over “Bourne Identity” because RtP was “powerful” and “moving” while BI was opinined as “Not Like the Book” and “Simplified”.
Morons, one and all.
btw, Penny Arcade has a great comic relating to Kong:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/05
December 16th, 2005 at 10:58 am
Saw Kong last night. Definitely thrilling, but it’s got that famous Jacksonian bloat. He could have cut an hour out and had a better film IMNSHO. Then I might have paid to see it twice. Then again, it wouldn’t be a Peter Jackson film if it didn’t have that all-u-can-eat visual buffet quality.
Andy Serkis digital acting once again outshines all of the human performers.
Kong was the second scariest monster in the film.
The first was Adrian Brody’s nose.
They should call him the “Sultan of Schnozz.”