King Kong go rooaar!!!

You'd have thought that most of the UK population have already gone to see Peter Jackson's King Kong by now, what with it having been out a week or two before Christmas.  But obviously not, as myself and the family trundled up to the local VUE cinema to watch the 3-hour remake of the black and white original, only to find the screen room chock-a-block with people already settled in the best seats.

We found some seats pretty close to the screen, the best of a bad bunch I suppose, and made ourselves comfortable.  I won't bore you with the details of the film as there's just too much to cover properly (at least, to do it justice), but whilst watching it I couldn't help thinking back to the 'Making of King Kong' et cetera TV programmes and realising that the backdrops weren't really there, post-production effects added, and other such things.  It's the first time that such a thing has really happened to me, and it was quite distracting and annoying, pulling me out of the world that Jackson strove hard to embrace us in.

Other than that, it was a pleasant story of deceit, love and understanding (and other things that I'd missed), how a big ape has feelings too, and learning that most of the audience were squeamish when large bugs came out of the tree trunk's cracks that the actress was hiding in (when being attacked by dinosaurs).

All's well that ends well, when the big lovable furry thing falls off the Empire State building and manages to keep all his innards inside of him. The End.