I Give You...KONG!

I saw King Kong today. Great movie. Warrants an entry. A few points:

1. Does it ever happen to you that you think about someone or something that you haven't come across in a long time and then a short while after you think about it that someone or something just shows up? For example, a few days ago, I was thinking about the old show "Early Edition" about that guy who gets the newspaper a day early and tries to stop the bad news from happening. It was an okay show, not particularly memorable, which made it funny that I should think about it, particularly the main actor. And then whoa! He's in King Kong! How strange!

2. Colin Hanks has matured well. I've only seen him previously in teen movies, so I was pleasantly surprised that he made a very believable mature person, unlike Leonardo diCaprio for instance, who looks forever 18.

3. I think God is trying to tell me something about the human race, like we're all a bunch of big bastards ruining it for every other race, such as giant apes in King Kong. I also read Out of the Silent Planet last week, and we gave some aliens a hard time there too. What a coincidence.

4. There was a funny scene in Kong; for those who have yet to see it, let me just say it's the cretaceous equivalent of a freeway pile-up. How's that for a dead giveaway?

5. Why must heathens always be in a frenzy whenever they perform sacrifices? Couldn't they be more pragmatic about it? Like, "Okay, Stan, put 'er in. Whoops, slow down 'ere wif th' crane, Jim, you know Kong likes 'is meat real alive like. Oh, look there goes Frank, rolling his eyeballs up again. He's so daft." And when it's all over, "Right, there she goes. What a shame, I thought she was quite cute. Well, I guess I'll go to bed now." Because if you're in a frenzy, how do you go home? Do you just stop suddenly once the sacrifice has been made, shrug, and go home? Or do you stay in a frenzy til you get home? A lot of movies show sacrifices with the frenzied revellers and such, but no one ever shows the end of these rites. I really wonder what they do when it's all over.

6. Ah, Naomi Watts....Naomi....Naomi...sigh