Kong is King

[indianaschwartz]

King Kong was FANTASTIC! Everyone knows the story of King Kong and everyone knows that there is a 1933 version of the film, but not many people have even seen that movie. Well, to get in the mood for seeing Peter Jackson's King Kong last night, Michael and I watched the original 30's movie in the day. We laughed at how dated a few parts were, but in general it was a pretty impressive movie. When I was finally in the theater watching the new King Kong, I decided, even before the movie was finished, that it's possibly one of the best re-makes EVER. It's EXACTLY what a re-make should be. A re-make shouldn't change the entire concept of a movie or throw out old storylines, and a re-make shouldn't completely re-do the old movie frame-for frame, either. What Peter Jackson has done with his film is simply re-make the 1930's movie and expanded on certain relationship aspects of the movie as well as make the old action sequences exciting for a modern audience. And let me tell you, this movie was EXCITING. Some of these sequences will literally knock your socks off...like literally I had to walk across the theater when the movie was over and pick my socks off the floor, they were knocked off that far. Initially I was worried about the CGI, and while you can totally tell it's CGI, you are so invested in the intensity of the CGI and the action and the character of Kong himself that by the end when he's on the Empire State Building, you're so completely blown away that you forget that it's CGI...hell, you even forget you're watching a movie, it's so engrossing. Apart from Kong, Jack Black is the second best character...there was some speculation as to whether or not Black would be right for a serious role, but let me tell you, he was absolutely perfect. He was just quirky and funny and, believe it or not, eerie enough to make the role completely his own and totally believeable. And on another filmmaking aspect, the music was great. I was wary about the music because it's from a...well, an overrated composer, to be honest...but he really delivered a score that was thematic, strong, beautiful and action packed.

Without giving away all the specifics, all I'm going to say is SEE T HIS MOVIE IN THEATERS. Don't let the hype get you down and don't let the length of the movie stop you from seeing it. It's well worth it...especially the last half.

On another note, I've created a fan club for myself. Don't ask why, I just want to see how many people I can get on it. Visit my MySpace for details.

Me and Marcela after creating the group:
DetachblePianist: ha ha ha! we're the only 2 members!
IndianaSchwartz: so far...
IndianaSchwartz: feel free to invite anyone...actually, invite people i don't know
IndianaSchwartz: i want a bunch of peopel i don't know to join
DetachblePianist: ha haha
DetachblePianist: right on
IndianaSchwartz: i'm in the middle of posting a bulletin on why kyle is so kool
IndianaSchwartz: oh shiz i got 3 members now
IndianaSchwartz: ok if you go back i have links
DetachblePianist: ok
DetachblePianist: 4 members
IndianaSchwartz: fuckin sweet
IndianaSchwartz: 4 members in like 5 minutes...that means in a couple hours i will have hundreds of members
DetachblePianist: ha ha ha
IndianaSchwartz: lol 6 members...
IndianaSchwartz: 9...i'm so awesome
DetachblePianist: ha haha

That convo literally was over the course of 15 minutes...i now have 16 over the course of about an hour....hmmm.....