CGIs go for video game epics
Exactly what you would expect from a video game created on the theme of "King Kong" and not from a FILM, let alone a film remaking a masterpiece! The animals (dinosaurs and giant ape) used to be the stars of this film. How come here they had to act so stupidly and unrealistically? Animals are SMART creatures; that's why, given the right conditions, whole chunks of them can survive millions of years! Can't anyone from those modern day script and CGI teams understand or TRY to understand how animals BEHAVE? How can someone accept for a second that a Tyrannosaurus in free fall, landing hundreds of feet in some lianas - let alone that it didn't get his back or neck broken by its huge mass in the process - would actually be preoccupied with snapping little appetizer-sized Ann Darrow swinging by back and forth, INSTEAD OF WITH ITS OWN STRESSFUL, DESPERATE POSITION?... That titanic Brontosaur stampede those little running human characters make it through?
I could go on and on
Like another reviewer rightly observed, the scale of Ann Darrow against Kong just keeps shifting
And why is it so hard for those CGI animation people to understand the basic principles of DYNAMICS VS. SCALE in those huge monster movies (
apparently EVERY SINGLE ONE of these)? (In two words, an ant will perfectly survive a fall off a 6 ft height, but an elephant probably will NOT survive a fall only ten times its own height.) I am not a very smart person, but it always seemed to me that a child would get that, even if just instinctively! THINGS ARE SCARIER WHEN MORE REALISTIC,thus generating BETTER BOX OFFICE REVENUE! Bah
Give me old cinema,when they TRIED to do something right!
Review of King Kong
