The all-computer special effects of this version of "King Kong" are really something! I don't know but I think it is too much. The film looks more like a sort of serious cartoon (or something like that) instead of a story with real people; the movements and situarions are so artificial and unnatural.
The lady in distress,the hero and the important people go through everything (long falls, accidents, smashes) and they survive to go on again and again! (just like Tom and Jerry, remember?). The final sequence with the planes looks also unreal and "cartoon-like".
One more; I never forgot the fall of Kong from the top of the Empire States shot from a side and how he hits the building as he goes down in the first version of 1933. In this one the fall is taken from above all the time and inevitably loses impact.
I know; the 1933 version also looked unnatural in the movements of the huge gorilla and monsters; but, man!, it was 1933 and more than 70 years have passed of technological and resources improvement; if you consider that -and there's no way you can not- the old one was better.
It didn't work for me. Disappointing.
The lady in distress,the hero and the important people go through everything (long falls, accidents, smashes) and they survive to go on again and again! (just like Tom and Jerry, remember?). The final sequence with the planes looks also unreal and "cartoon-like".
One more; I never forgot the fall of Kong from the top of the Empire States shot from a side and how he hits the building as he goes down in the first version of 1933. In this one the fall is taken from above all the time and inevitably loses impact.
I know; the 1933 version also looked unnatural in the movements of the huge gorilla and monsters; but, man!, it was 1933 and more than 70 years have passed of technological and resources improvement; if you consider that -and there's no way you can not- the old one was better.
It didn't work for me. Disappointing.