Reply #16: Not my experience ... [View All]

I disagree with this review in almost all its aspects. Pardon the parody, but this review is another tedious example of a critic in love with stroking his own ego monkey because he can. The review isn't very coherent; it is mostly a series of insults all built on the ball licking theme, which is rather obnoxious, but which the author seems to think is incredibly witty.

One criticism I find particularly irritating is that the movie is long. Yes, it's long. Not too long ago, the tirade coming from the Critic Circle Jerk Forum was that Hollywood had fallen in love with the "always less than two hours" formula. Filmmakers actually responded to this and started producing films longer than two hours, films that in fact needed to be longer than two hours to give the story a legitimate treatment, and almost universally they have been tossed about in the mud by at least one critic like this. LotR was also lambasted by certain critics because of how long it was, which, in my view, is the most illigitimate criticism of that series I have yet encountered.

I don't know if King Kong is great art, but it's damn entertaining.