Quick, Speedy Thoughts

Some quick thoughts on Kong during halftime of the PFL Bowl.

1. I never want to go to Skull Island -- everything there has ridiculously large teeth, including the giant evil bats from hell and the enormous Smeagol-sucking leeches. Yuck.

2. In the history of cinema, any character with the name "Jimmy" sucks. Period.

3. Any line addressed to any Jimmy that ends in comma Jimmy, such as, "It's not about being brave, Jimmy" and "You have to do what your heart tells you, Jimmy" sucks. Period.

4. The Empire State Building sequence is a testament to the effectiveness of not zooming the camera in and shaking it around during an action scene. The thrill of the sequence came from being able to see everything that was happening, and some of the long shots of the airplanes swooping down brought similar images to mind.


5. When Jack Black's conceited character concludes the movie by saying "it was beauty that killed the beast," he was talking about himself.