King Kong movie 2005

I just arrived home after seeing the King Kong movie that is in the theatres right now. This is the most amazing movie, in the sense that I could not tell where the computer graphics began and ended. It's so well created, the blending and post-production is just amazing, in every scene. The physics of the giant monkey was really realistic and correct; far better than, say, Jar Jar Binks in the newish Star Wars movies.

I am so glad they chose to reproduce the time era of the original movie, circa 1920's. It would probably have been so much easier to do a "what if King Kong existed today!" movie, with lots of clips of today's Times Square in New York, cars driving, buildings, people in modern clothes, etc. But they didn't. They made a 1920's New York, down to every detail I could think of. They did such a good job.

I would say this movie is worth seeing, even if you aren't a great fan of these kinds of movies, just to admire how it was done.

King Kong, as a story, is one of the greatest stories ever told, I'm realizing now. You take something over-the-top (a giant monkey), place him in something familiar to us but foreign to him (New York City), and let him loose. What would he do? Where would he go? What would he learn? How would he react? It's fascinating, from a writing point of view, to think like that - take a character and put him in a situation or a place totally foreign to him, and think up what he would do. Good writers say "the story writes itself," but it takes a lot of practice to get to that point. It's very good exercise for your creative imagination.

Anyway - I liked the movie, and I didn't think I would.

It's one of those edge-of-your-seat, almost a thriller, style of movie. Very well acted, and well done all around. It should win an oscar or something.