I repeat, King Kong sucked so badly that I walked out. I don’t walk out. My temporary suspension of disbelief could not hold out past hour 2.
How could humans, the fastest of whom can run 10.2 m/s, keep up with stampeding brontosauri (even an elephant can run 11 m/s) for such a sustained amount of time.
In addition, can a woman, Ann Darrow, be thrown around from hand-to-hand like a ragdoll without bruising, disclocating limbs, or breaking a neck? Does Ann Darrow have the upper-body strength to keep on hanging on?
There is no way. For me, its not even fun to watch because after allowing for an island with dinosaurs, giant gorillas, and racist-interpretations of indigenous peoples, I cannot add the complete unwillingness of the director, Peter Jackson, to pay any mind to human physiology.
And the worst — how can Ann Darrow, played by pretty-but-not-hot Naomi Watts, keep all of her clothes on during the entire movie. Not one broken spaghetti strap. That is totally unacceptable. All that and not even a sexy Jessica Lange to look at.
Give me the King Kong from 1976! Give me Jessica Lange, who is pretty-and-hot and scantily-clad.
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I find it so ironic that all you Kong-haters rant on and on about how unbelievable it is that the human’s keep up with the dinosaurs and that Ann Darow doesn’t get bruised, without ever questioning the premise of dinosaurs and humans coexisting, not to mention the presence of a 3 story gorilla. If you’re not not going to suspend disbelief, why even bother? And if you are going to suspend disbelief, then don’t bitch about the details. Sit back and enjoy the ride. By walking out, you missed all the rampaging in New York, and didn’t give yourself the chance to form an emotional bond with a CGI gorilla, which I think is the greatest special effect in movies to date. My theory why you didn’t like Kong, Chris? Envy. Kong is the baddest badass we’ve seen grace the screen in sometime; don’t you just wish that by galavanting naked and kicking the living shit out of pansies that you too could get Naomi Watts? Of course. So please, don’t player-hate.
I addressed it — I suspended disbelief until my suspension ran out… beasties are one thing but physics and physiology — an entire different thing altogether!
personally, my theory is that the great ape and chris both have the same amounts of hair on their backs, yet it’s the gorilla that gets the girl. this upsets him.
It IS very true that a movie can only succeed in challenging very specific areas for suspension of disbelief. You ACCEPT that Kong exists within this universe and that the dinosaurs do, but other than that the universe is supposed to be (from how it’s built) identical to ours, which means that the complaints about human speed and the frailty of the human body are NOT unreasonable.
I had this same issue. You ACCEPT that these creatues exist but NOT that that girl wouldn’t have had some aneurisms and bones broken and a neck snapped from being thrown around like that and that her clothes wouldhave remained perfectly intact and her without bruises.
Certain movies are only allowed to make you suspend disbelief about certain topics, and you generally know about those going in; weird physics works within the Matrix (and MAYBE Crouching Tiger) but just about nowhere else are they believable.