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Saw King Kong with two eleven-year-olds who were only using me as a beard to get around the PG13 rating. Was not prepared to love it – but I did! Can't wait to buy the DVD and play the dinosaur scenes backwards, I'm so sure I'll hear, "Fuck you, Stephen Spielberg!" in a menacing Mercedes McCambridge-like drone.
I love Jack Black but he's got that Jim Carrey thing going where you just want to reach up on the screen and tweak his eyelids shut half a milimeter or so. I desperately want him to become a better dramatic actor so they can cast him as Harry Lime in a remake of The Third Man (set in war-torn Bagdhad and directed by Brett Ratner.) Naomi Watts was terrific – she can juggle! – and so moving that I actually forgot to worry about her freezing to death in that negligee she was wearing on top of the Empire State Building. Death by nematode is the creepiest thing I've ever seen on a screen. Loved the demon Maori child who'd rather eat Jack Black than Nestle's chocolate. Doesn't say much for the product placement though.
I love Jack Black but he's got that Jim Carrey thing going where you just want to reach up on the screen and tweak his eyelids shut half a milimeter or so. I desperately want him to become a better dramatic actor so they can cast him as Harry Lime in a remake of The Third Man (set in war-torn Bagdhad and directed by Brett Ratner.) Naomi Watts was terrific – she can juggle! – and so moving that I actually forgot to worry about her freezing to death in that negligee she was wearing on top of the Empire State Building. Death by nematode is the creepiest thing I've ever seen on a screen. Loved the demon Maori child who'd rather eat Jack Black than Nestle's chocolate. Doesn't say much for the product placement though.
