Went to see King Fricken Kong today. Let me paraphrase the comic-book-store-guy and just say “Worst movie everrr!”. But maybe that’s an unfair exaggeration. I haven’t seen many movies lately, so I don’t have a lot to compare it to. But still. It was a steaming pile of crap. Let me ask a few questions of the producer, director, actors… whoever would like to claim responsibility for this atrocity:
1. What was the point in creating a back-story for the character of Jimmy, when it was never elaborated upon and was not continued later in the movie and did not even end up having any connection to any of the later events?
2. What happened to Jimmy after they took Kong back to New York? I don’t remember him dying beforehand… he was still alive when Jack rescued him after kong threw their boat against the wall of the cave, but we never saw him again.
3. Why didn’t Ann’s back or neck snap after the first time that Kong shook her? Mum thinks that the whiplash would have done her in. I don’t think she’d be dancing around and doing cartwheels after being thrown around by Kong on their trip through the jungle.
4. What was with the speech by Hayes? Did that have any connection to anything that happened in the movie? Did the book that Jimmy was reading have any relevance whatsoever? What about the question, “This isn’t an adventure movie, is it?” Wow that just had so much meaning that my brain almost exploded.
5. Did none of the people who made it back to New York actually speak to each other until the time that Kong escaped? Weren’t Jack & Ann supposed to be in love?
The violence was so gratiutous. Even though it was only CG, watching a giant silverback rip apart the jaw of a tyrannosaurus rex is not my idea of a good time. People in the cinema were laughing by the time Kong and Ann fell into those hanging ropes of vegetation, with the T-Rexs, because it was like “when does it end”? I kept thinking “I’m leaving. I’m leaving. I’m walking out. Just get up and go.” because I hated it so much. The graphic violence and just general horribleness was unrelenting. I hated everything I saw, right from when they first set foot on the island. Everything was so disgusting, so dirty, so DANGEROUS. AS IF you would go back there! AS IF! Even if some guy did die, how is it a tribute to his memory to get yourself and everyone else killed as well? Argh! And why was everyone so stupid as to just agree with Denham that this was a solid idea? Grrr. There were so many random comments made in the film that were trying to be passed off as meaningful and highly relevant. I am highly annoyed that I paid $10.50 to see that. Adrien Brody is still cute and was a redeeming factor (I loved his accent), though he was better in The Pianist.
Anyway. Work tomorrow. Four more days. I’ve started packing my suitcase. Mum said to me, “they say you should put everything in, then take it out and halve it.” ‘S’if I’m going to halve it! I’ve already put everything in my suitcase (save my jewellery and my toiletries bag, which will go in my hand luggage anyway so it doesn’t count) and it’s only half full. If I halve what I have in there, it will only be a quarter full. Why would I do that? I wonder if I will have enough time to do everything I need to do before we go. I should buy some new multi-vitamins, I think I only have four left in the bottle. I can’t wait to get my haircut on Friday. I will get some texturiser, plus shampoo & conditioner.
I was thinking of going to the gym in the morning before work tomorrow, but then I think maybe everyone will be back to work after the Christmas/New Year break, and therefore back to the gym, and therefore it will be super busy in the morning again (it was so dead last week!). So I should just start work early and go to the gym after work like usual. I like going in when it’s dead so that I don’t have to book the machines. Yeah. I’ll do that. I think there’s a morning tea on at work AGAIN tomorrow, for all the people who had their birthday around New Years. I wonder who will be in charge of that? I could volunteer but then I’d get even less work done than I have been, which is so incredibly dismal that it’s not worth thinking about. Also, I have my performance review on Wednesday, so I’ll have to do a write-up for that. Ugh! So many things to think about!
Ok. Things to remember:
1. Write-up for my perf. review
2. buying socks, jeans, gloves, pillow, toothpaste, thermals, knee-highs, singlets
3. asking about international roaming for my phone!
4. making photocopies of important documents
5. getting some currency converted before we leave
6. adaptor for UK electrical outlets
7. calculating money required to pre-pay bills for the next five weeks, plus how much I will need to leave in my account for direct debits
8. finishing off unfinished business at work
9. getting everyones email addresses for updates
10. giving everyone my new phone number (contract expired and I’m so not staying with optus. Vodafone all the way baby!)
There are more but I can’t remember them. This entry is dumb and wasted on king kong.
. I might have to rethink this once we get to Europe though.