My God, what an overlong, bloated, stupid and pointlessly loud movie. Most of it is just watching nameless sailors getting picked off by Weta Workshop's CGI monstrosities in overly elaborate action scenes (which brought to mind the worst parts of the Hobbit trilogy).

Also, Jack Black's character should've gotten his head torn off by Kong. The character was a massive piece of shit, all of the deaths were his fault but noo, we're supposed to think he's funny. He even gets to deliver the awful final solemn line the movie ends on.

Between this and the Hobbit movies it's a miracle his LOTR trilogy ended up being as good as it was. What a hack fraud

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 年前

    the problem with peter jackson is that someone told him it's OK to make 3 hour movies. this is because it is not OK to make 3 hour movies. a lot of level 99 half-elf dorks gave him a big pass because they would literally watch a 48 hour LOTR movie.

    so PJ makes a 3 hour king kong movie by keeping every bullshit zillion dollar setpiece brainstorming idea the writers room had in the movie. for this, he should have had his hands broken by someone slamming the sliding door of a 1989 Dodge Caravan on them.

    instead, he is allowed to freely roam the country side and goes back to the Tolkien lore to make another 12 hours of that bullshit, because those people will watch the Extended Hyperfighting edition where Fredo comes out and says "Hail" to the King Jaeldorb of the Gromkins in authentic High Klingon or whatever for 22 minutes.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      3 年前

      Yeah, but those Hobbit movies weren't even bloated because they were slavishly aping Tolkien, they deviated quite a bit from the source material, in fact

    • Duckduck [none/use name]
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      3 年前

      It's Quentin Tarantino's fault. Before Pulp Fiction, movies were an hour and a half. That's the thing I like best about older movies: you're in and out in 88 minutes, including credits. But he made Pulp Fiction which was two and a half hours, breaking all the rules, and it was a wild success. Hey, I don't blame him, when you've got a movie as good as that, the only thing better is more movie.

      But nobody else made movies as good as Pulp Fiction. They just made longer movies. I don't have that kind of time or commitment. I can't get invested in a 3 hour movie only to find out 90 minutes in that it's crap and not likely to get any better.

      Oh, and Quentin Tarantino was thick as thieves with Harvey Weinstein. He knew. All of them knew that women were being molested by high ranking Hollywood producers and none of them said a goddamn thing. In fact, they had no problem with it. Wood chipper. Feet first. For all of them.