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Tori Kong! Tori Kong!! TORI KONG!!!!!!
Dec. 20th, 2005 12:15 amI'm feeling profoundly conflicted the more I think about Peter Jackson's 'King Kong' and I have to say, before I start, that I was blown away by it when I was actually in the cinema. I had my hand in my mouth during some of the action sequences; I chortled with delight at some of the sentimental scenes; and my eyes were appropriately moist.
But ( There is a serious problem with it )
And in spite of all of this, I do love the film, and that probably means it is very good indeed for me to get past these issues.
( How do I love Kong? Let me count the ways )
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Fannishly, I find myself reflecting on the back story and what comes next. Skull Island has vast cyclopean architecture - the ruined city where the tribe live and the wall that keeps their barren part of the island safe from dinosaurs and Kongs - and you wonder what it is for and why people live there. My own personal view is that the dinosaurs and Kongs are there as part of a prison for something quite incredibly vile - and the penile mollusc things are part of my feeling. Skull Island is R'yleh and under it lies sleeping Great Cthulhu, or Nyartholoep, or something else Lovecraftian.
I would, incidentally, pay good money to see a Jackson Lovecraft film.
I have also had a very very silly bunny which someone ought to have had lo! these many years before me. I am almost tempted to write ( You are going to hate me for this )
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Congratulations to all those who have entered into civil partnerships or are about to. Given everything I hate about Blair and Blairism, it is nice to be able to point to something positive they have done.
Oh, and can someone explain to me how badgers are supposed actually to communicate TB to cattle? If we are going to risk the extinction of a delightful creature, could someone actually spell out the science for me? I really want to know - do badgers spit on the grass or do something with a different consonant. or what?
But ( There is a serious problem with it )
And in spite of all of this, I do love the film, and that probably means it is very good indeed for me to get past these issues.
( How do I love Kong? Let me count the ways )
+++++++
Fannishly, I find myself reflecting on the back story and what comes next. Skull Island has vast cyclopean architecture - the ruined city where the tribe live and the wall that keeps their barren part of the island safe from dinosaurs and Kongs - and you wonder what it is for and why people live there. My own personal view is that the dinosaurs and Kongs are there as part of a prison for something quite incredibly vile - and the penile mollusc things are part of my feeling. Skull Island is R'yleh and under it lies sleeping Great Cthulhu, or Nyartholoep, or something else Lovecraftian.
I would, incidentally, pay good money to see a Jackson Lovecraft film.
I have also had a very very silly bunny which someone ought to have had lo! these many years before me. I am almost tempted to write ( You are going to hate me for this )
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Congratulations to all those who have entered into civil partnerships or are about to. Given everything I hate about Blair and Blairism, it is nice to be able to point to something positive they have done.
Oh, and can someone explain to me how badgers are supposed actually to communicate TB to cattle? If we are going to risk the extinction of a delightful creature, could someone actually spell out the science for me? I really want to know - do badgers spit on the grass or do something with a different consonant. or what?
