Matinee Rider The King Kong Edition

Forecast for today, 100% chance of snow and 100% chance of entertainment. Nor wind, nor rain, nor three inches of snow stopped me from making the twenty mile drive to school and the extra fifteen across town to the movie theater showing Peter Jackson’s King Kong and let me tell you it was well worth it.

The effects were dazzling, the story was genuine, and the action was breathtaking. You should be well aware of the story by now as there have been a few renditions already. Like the 1933 and 1976 versions Carl Denham sets out to make a movie taking his crew to the uncharted Skull Island. When his hopes of finishing his movie are dashed he captures the giant ape, King Kong to bring him back to New York and make millions. Of course it wouldn’t be a movie without a love story with both Jack Driscoll and King Kong Falling in love with Ann Darrow, the leading lady of both fictional movies, the one inside the other.

This is Jackson’s imagination at its best. You would think that the Lord of the Rings would be a hard act to follow, but not for Jackson, especially since he has wanted to make this film from age eight. From the Tyrannosaurus and Kong trapeze act to Kong batting airplanes out of the air like flies this film was not stop action from the point the crew reaches Skull Island.

I knew this movie is three hours and seven minutes long when I went into it so I tried to keep some record of time. The first time I check my clock was when they first encountered Kong, this was an hour into the film. All I could think was, really, that did not seam like and hour. An hour and twenty minutes later they were back in New York. That gives you an hour to build up the premise, meet the characters, then another hour and twenty to visit Skull Island, and forty minutes to terrorize New York City.

So if you haven’t figured it out I highly recommend this flick. You won’t be disappointed.