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Saturday, December 17, 2005

Wiping Away a Few Tears…

Posted by on December 17 at 18:20 PM

Let me just say that King Kong is everything I want a movie to be. The first hour has some problems, but they’re minor. The second hour is about as good as cinema gets (until you’ve seen a stampede of brontosauruses that ends in a masive reptile pile-up on a crumbling cliff, leading to a brawl between a 25-foot gorilla and THREE TYRANNOSAURUSES REX, you really haven’t seen anything worth seeing). The third hour makes you weep… unless you’re dead inside (you know who you are). And I won’t even talk about the fourth hour. JUST KIDDING!

I’m sure that certain of my erstwhile colleagues who have made a career out of disagreeing with/disparaging my movie reviews will do so now, too (that’ll be Savage’s cue to bring up this review—or, more to the point, to coerce Annie Wagner into bringing it up—to which I can only respond “yes, but this preview, and this job interview!”). But guess what: you’re wrong, and I’m right (and so is Andrew Wright). Kong is king! (And the noon matinee at the Neptune was surprisingly under-attended. I guess everyone must be getting their gay cowboy on this weekend.)


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No, sir, it was the exorbitant $6 matinee price. Movies cost far too much these days.

Also, holiday shopping and events probably will keep America from the theatres until after the Xmas holiday.

Goddamned freaking right I am. This is the farging movie that exceeds the reviews. If you don't feel spent when the godamned worms eat the goddamned dude, I don't want to know all y'all.

what! i'm wrong and i haven't even seen the damn moive yet? you bring these attacks upon yourself, mssr. nelson.

i actually totally approve of your post, for two reasons: 1) you refrain from using the word "monkey," and 2) you refuse to acknowledge that current scientific consensus has repudiatedthe word "brontosaurus."

hooray.

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