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King Kong (2005)
serious epic or childish parody?
So people here think this is one of the best movies of all time?
Those people should go see a good movie for a change.
Here some points why King Kong sucks big time:
- there are loads of scenes that will make you think this movie is not serious but an ironic slapstick comedy, making fun of the serious original story. for example: - brontosauriers are chased through a tiny ravine by raptors and look worse than the scenes in Jurassic Park. A mountain collapses under the brontos, obviously it was the first time in millions of years they took that way to escape. But what the hell, it looks great, doesn't it?
- Naomi Watts is tied to some wooden poles and cant escape. Kong comes and rips her off. This should leave her with two broken arms. But we will not care about this, because this is just the first scene of loads to come, which ignores physical damage. Apparently, Watts does not even have a scratch in her face, after being dragged through the jungle for ages. She should have broken her neck after one minute.
- Kong does not take away injuries, too. He is bitten by t-rexes several times - he does not care.
- in a scene the other guys are attacked by millions of bugs. But no problem, a few guys with guns come and shoot a few bullets - the bugs are gone. Even the one guy who cant handle an mp happens to shoot several bugs off another guy. But nevermind, it is funny slapstick, right? We are here to have fun, right? Unfortunately, it is not a funny story. It is depressing. Problem is, nobody wants to see a depressing blockbuster. Does not sell good. So put in some unrealistic but funny looking CGI scenes and the viewers will think it is a great movie to look at. And guess what - look at the ratings here and you see that it really works that way!
- did i mention the scene where two guys escape by hanging on to a giant bat? I guess the bat was thinking: "Hm, normally I would freak out and try to get rid of them, but whatever, they obviously think I am Batman, here to help them, and I don't want to spoil the picture..."
GREAT COMEDY, isn't it.
No it is not. The poor and lonely ape dies in the end.
Traffic (2000)
It's been a long time since a perfect movie like this
This movie is by far the best I have seen in a long time. It deals with the topic drugs in the most realistic way I can imagine. Each person acts totally believable. Camerawork was great, too. Each location was filmed differently. Michael Douglas' scenes were filmed in a cold blue tone, Mexico and San Diego scenes in a warm yellow tone. It was interesting when the different characters crossed their ways at some points, where you could feel that they were "out of their territory". Editing - perfect. You'll see how in the end the pace slows down, you actually feel the relief they feel when they finally did the right thing. Screenplay was perfect. How those different stories were combined in a masterful way - outstanding. Not easy to follow sometimes but hey, there are enough movies where you don't need to think.
I wasn't bored for one secong in these 150 minutes, this doesn't happen very often. Hey, I can't find anything bad about this movie, I think it is already one of the best movies of the decade. It is much much better than Gladiator and I can't understand why it didn't win the highly deserved Oscar for best picture.
This is nothing worse than a pure 10/10
Loser (2000)
A true Loser
I saw the preview and it looked funny and interesting. Well, most of those scenes were shown in the first 5 minutes of the movie.
The rest was incredibly boring and not funny at all. Mena Suvari's character is the most naive one in movie history. The way she is treated by the college teacher - ridiculous.
And the rest of the movie - well, I don't even remember it anymore.
2/10