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I enjoyed this film for it's excellent visuals and giant monster fight scenes. They were really great, and let's face it, that's what I've loved about giant monster movies since I was a kid, and the reason that I've gone to them over the years. I agree that Sam Jackson tends to take me out of the moment when he's on screen, but John Goodman's acting was plain lousy in this film. I felt like he struggled to get through every one of his lines and was difficult to watch. Kong however was very cool! I thought the differences in this Kong from the Peter Jackson Kong were interesting, aside from the fact that this Kong was twice as big as the one in the Peter Jackson film. The Jackson Kong was a silver back gorilla. Built like one, moved like one, etc. This Kong stood upright the whole movie and moved more like a Sasquatch, or a man as opposed to a Gorilla. His torso and legs were more man like, as were his movements. I thought that was interesting. They also said that he's still growing, so it will be interesting to see how big he gets. He's 100 feet tall in this film, but he will need to grow 3.5 times bigger to be as big as Godzilla. I'm really looking forward to the match up, but Kong will need to become fire retardant. Come to think of it, he kind of showed that he was in this film in a way...I guess we'll see.
So, this was a fun monster romp and that's all I was looking for when I went in the theatre.
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