its amazing what brand name can do to the marketability of your product.attach a superb brand name with a mediocre product and watch it still sell like hot cakes.take the case of the movie ‘King Kong’ for example.
it’s at best a mediocre movie with the name of ‘The’ Peter Jackson to go with it and voila! it’s a runaway hit. people throng to the theatres like nails to magnet.seriously, i fail to understand what is so great about the movie. taken, that the original was a classic and jackson is a gifted director but the movie hasn’t come out to expectations…atleast mine.
for starters, it’s so slow paced that by the time the story actually begins to roll, i was waiting for it to get over soon. then, there is so much of focus on displaying the prowess of their technical supremacy that the emotions have been kind of taken a backseat.you come out of the hall and you talk about the special effects in place of acting et al…..but the worst part was the unnecessary bloodshed. what should have been a heart warming story of a beast falling for a beautiful damsel was reduced to a gory tale of a group’s adventure into a deadly island.they have put in every kind of barbarism imaginable from aboriginal tribals to dinosaurs to filthy creepy crawlies to huge ugly flying beasts.so while our damsel in distress is busy with the mighty ape, her friends are having quite a time battling with all kinds of dangers, many of them losing their lives in the process.
what i found lacking was the chmistry between the lady and King Kong.you may say how cute King Kong looked etc.,but that’s about it.he’s cute that’s it. they hardly spend any time together so it hardly seems convincing that the beast would go to such lengths for the girl he loves.the role of the heroine’s love interest was reduced to nothing more than an extra. we have wasted an actor of the calibre of adrein brody here.
in the end,what else can i say but …thank god i didn’t waste my money and time in watching the movie in a cinema hall. it was worth my PC screen only.
