I finally got around to watching Kong: Skull Island. It's a visual masterpiece, with populated with deliberate military morons and blatant anti-war and "Green" message.
Helicopter
gunships get in close to a being that can pluck them out of the air,
and has demonstrated the ability to throw rocks and trees at them, as
opposed to standing off and attacking from a distance, where they can't
get grabbed and have a better chance of dodging thrown rocks and/or
trees?
Check.
Military authority
figure's irrational blood-thirst leads to him going all "Captain Ahab"?
Check. Bonus points for being a colonel, which would be the same rank as
a sea-going captain. His only redeeming feature is that he actually brings Kong down. Too bad about the fact that he was a moron in every other way, deliberately so.
Anti-war
photographer heroine? Check. Bonus points for being hot, while not
actually ever saying anything of substance, other than the bleeding
obvious observation that Kong is a better choice than the Skullcrawlers.
Bonus points for looking reasonable compared to the irrational military
authority figure, thus destroying his credibility on all the actual
good points that he makes concerning anti-war media coverage.
Blatant ecosimp moralizing? Check.
If
it wasn't for the fact that the movie served up all the Giant Monster
fighting action that I could wish for, I'd have ended up regretting it. As it is? Worth the watch, but rent, don't buy.
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