reviews: King Kong & Watchmen

[abigailbrady]

King Kong was good. It manages to also, almost as an afterthought, be a better Jurassic Park than Jursassic Park was. Although I'm not sure it really deserves to be 187 minutes. Only bit about it that felt wrong was the very ending - where was the massive crater?

Also, Superman trailer woo!

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Also located Watchmen and read it quite quickly. I'd been aware of this before obviously, but somehow the "as if superheroes were real but [bar Manhattan] didn't have superpowers" bit had somehow passed me by. This was good as it makes Rising Stars much less an unnecessary duplication of Watchmen. Caused me to think a lot about right and wrong and suchforth. I'll have to do some writing about this sometime, try to figure out what I really think.

Comments

[vjbseven.livejournal.com]

Where d'you get a hold of Watchmen?

PS The original King Kong does gloss over how they actually got Kong on the boat.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

It finally arrived from amazon. I did spot a copy in Forbidden Planet though.

[landvaettir.livejournal.com]

My Amazon copy took ages as well, so I cancelled it. I got it for Christmas. :)

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Checking my email, I appear to have ordered mine in late September - so three months! I ordered Ministry of Space at the same time - that only took a lightning fast two months.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Thinking about it, getting him on the boat isn't really so much of the problem as dealing with him waking up on the boat.