KING KONG

SHORT AND SWEET, FOR THE MOST PART.
1. SEAN CONNERY IS THE ONE AND ONLY JAMES BOND --- JUST AS THERE IS NO KING KONG WHICH CAN TOP THE ORIGINAL KING KONG, CIRCA 1933.
2. THIS IS A FINE AND APPROPRIATE REMAKE - IT HAS ELEMENTS WHICH ARE DESIGNED TO APPEAL TO KIDS WHO GREW UP PLAYING VIDEO GAMES, WATCHING GROSS OUT SCIENCE FICTION FILMS, WITH CREATURES WHO ARE BASICALLY REPUGNANT , THE FEAR FACTOR TELEVISION INFLUENCE AT WORK.
YET, GIVEN THE AUDIENCE IT IS DESIGNED TO REACH, IT IS A WELL MADE FILM.
3. PEOPLE DON'T USE REVIEWS TO DETERMINE IF THEY WILL ATTEND CERTAIN PRODUCTIONS. CLINT EASTWOOD FANS WILL GO TO CLINT EASTWOOD MOVIES - WHILE I WAS WAITING FOR KONG TO START, THERE WAS A DENZEL WASHINGTON PREVIEW - I WILL SEE THAT FILM SANS ANY REVIEW, BY ANY CRITIC.
THOSE WHO WOULD SEE KONG, WILL SEE KONG, REVIEWS WILL HAVE LITTLE, IF ANY, INFLUENCE ON THE MASSES WITH A FILM OF THIS HISTORICAL LINEAGE.
4. EVERYONE HAS SEEN ONE OF THE KONGS AND SO, THERE IS AN INHERENT DRIVE / MOTIVATION TO SEE THE CURRENT ONE - THAT ALLOWS YOU TO PUT YOUR 2 CENTS IN ANY CONVERSATION -- FEW THINGS ARE AS DESPICABLE AS SOMEONE WAXING POETIC ABOUT A FILM AND FINALLY ADMITTING THEY HAVE NOT SEEN IT YET.
5. THE TECHNOLOGY OF THIS FILM IS REMARKABLE -- ON AT LEAST TWO OCCASIONS THEY LET IT GET OUT OF HAND - THE DINOSAUR STAMPEDE, BEING ONE AND THE ROOFTOP CHASE BEING THE OTHER.
AS ONE FRIEND POINTED OUT - THE TECHNOLOGY IS WORTH THE PRICE OF ADMISSION - ALMOST.
6. EVERY GENERATION SHOULD HAVE THEIR OWN VERSION OF KONG -- IT IS LIKE A FAMILY REUNION, RETURNING TO SKULL ISLAND EVERY FEW DECADES AND SEEING HOW THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD HAS CHANGED - FOR THE BETTER OR WORST.

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THE COMING ATTRACTION WAS KING KONG AND I REALIZED, EVERY TEN YEARS THIS MOVIE MUST BE REMADE - IT IS A RULE - IT IS A RITE OF PASSAGE AND IT IS NOT
ANYONE'S JOB TO TELL THE YOUNG FOLKS THAT NOTHING CAN TOP THE ORIGINAL -OOPS !