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beccaelizabethI am watching King Kong. It says it started an hour ago, but there is no big monkey. I already turned it off twice but I also already finished the book from the UEA about greek plays and why they're still important so I'm a bit bored.
My TV is a bit rubbish. And my recorder box. And if I regularly watched more than one thing a week I'd probably have done something about that long since.
Big monkey soon?
PS: WTF? Okay, now there's a large ape... drumming to Total Eclipse of the Heart, apparently to advertise Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate. Now granted that's a good bit of timing, providing ape when I'm just starting to sulk about it, but the connection is???
... it was quite amusing for the first few seconds though.
... now they're racing luggage vehicles to 'Livin on a Prayer'. I... am wondering if I should watch advertising more often... cause that's just trippy.
ETA2: ... and I thought the Pirates films imported too much racist junk. That was just... uncomfortable.
There is, finally, a really big ape though. Looks pretty good.
ETA3: The awesome of dinosaur stampede is exceeded only by the awesome of dinosaur pile up.
ETA4: Urgh. So on the good guy team there's one black guy and one asian guy, and in one incident they just got killed. Is it really so hard to let one person survive a movie who isn't white?
Of course things aren't looking good for the white guys right now either, but still.
ETA5: Okay, bored now. And if someone had said I could get bored by big monkey fights dinosaurs I would have really disagreed. But it's just her screaming and some obvious-from-here CGI and some more dinosaurs falling down and a big monkey. I'm really bored with her screaming and falling and running away. The dinosaurs are still pretty cool.
PS I know it is an ape not a monkey but monkey is an inherently amusing word.
No I don't know why.
oooh, dinosaur swings! Okay, this is cool again. Sorta.
ETA6: Giant monkeys = good. Giant creepy crawly things of mostly legs NOT GOOD. Just sayin.
Arrgh!! Giant wormy mouthy things! Eew and arrgh! Okay, I'm not watching this bit. I'll look when there's words instead of screamings.
Final ETA: Okay, watched the rest of it. They captured the big ape, put it on show, killed it, and she was screaming and crying throughout.
So... okay, at the risk of sounding like a big philistine... why was that ending sad? I mean, yeah, the big ape died, but it was a big ape of smashing and killing and smashing some more. Why are we sad the big breaky things thing got dead? Because it was slightly nicer to her? Yeah, picked her up, threw her around, was marginally less violent to her than everything else in his world. But still, big nasty violent thing. Why was she following it around? Why oh why was she climbing up on the roof with it at the end? I don't get it. It smashes and stomps and kills, what's she trying to do? And then, only once the big ape smashing stomping violent brutal thing is dead, she decides the writer is cool after all. I mean, it's not like making a choice there. What's it say about women? They'll go for the strong guy until you kill him? You got to kill the monkeys to get the girl? Big blah.
She was stupid and the ape needed killing.
Only after it was captured, granted. It wasn't a great plan to grab it. It wasn't a great plan to go into that corner of the world with the preparation they had.
Would have made a great natural history film.
Clearly the moral of the story is: Bring stronger cameras and more film and leave stuff where you found it.
My TV is a bit rubbish. And my recorder box. And if I regularly watched more than one thing a week I'd probably have done something about that long since.
Big monkey soon?
PS: WTF? Okay, now there's a large ape... drumming to Total Eclipse of the Heart, apparently to advertise Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate. Now granted that's a good bit of timing, providing ape when I'm just starting to sulk about it, but the connection is???
... it was quite amusing for the first few seconds though.
... now they're racing luggage vehicles to 'Livin on a Prayer'. I... am wondering if I should watch advertising more often... cause that's just trippy.
ETA2: ... and I thought the Pirates films imported too much racist junk. That was just... uncomfortable.
There is, finally, a really big ape though. Looks pretty good.
ETA3: The awesome of dinosaur stampede is exceeded only by the awesome of dinosaur pile up.
ETA4: Urgh. So on the good guy team there's one black guy and one asian guy, and in one incident they just got killed. Is it really so hard to let one person survive a movie who isn't white?
Of course things aren't looking good for the white guys right now either, but still.
ETA5: Okay, bored now. And if someone had said I could get bored by big monkey fights dinosaurs I would have really disagreed. But it's just her screaming and some obvious-from-here CGI and some more dinosaurs falling down and a big monkey. I'm really bored with her screaming and falling and running away. The dinosaurs are still pretty cool.
PS I know it is an ape not a monkey but monkey is an inherently amusing word.
No I don't know why.
oooh, dinosaur swings! Okay, this is cool again. Sorta.
ETA6: Giant monkeys = good. Giant creepy crawly things of mostly legs NOT GOOD. Just sayin.
Arrgh!! Giant wormy mouthy things! Eew and arrgh! Okay, I'm not watching this bit. I'll look when there's words instead of screamings.
Final ETA: Okay, watched the rest of it. They captured the big ape, put it on show, killed it, and she was screaming and crying throughout.
So... okay, at the risk of sounding like a big philistine... why was that ending sad? I mean, yeah, the big ape died, but it was a big ape of smashing and killing and smashing some more. Why are we sad the big breaky things thing got dead? Because it was slightly nicer to her? Yeah, picked her up, threw her around, was marginally less violent to her than everything else in his world. But still, big nasty violent thing. Why was she following it around? Why oh why was she climbing up on the roof with it at the end? I don't get it. It smashes and stomps and kills, what's she trying to do? And then, only once the big ape smashing stomping violent brutal thing is dead, she decides the writer is cool after all. I mean, it's not like making a choice there. What's it say about women? They'll go for the strong guy until you kill him? You got to kill the monkeys to get the girl? Big blah.
She was stupid and the ape needed killing.
Only after it was captured, granted. It wasn't a great plan to grab it. It wasn't a great plan to go into that corner of the world with the preparation they had.
Would have made a great natural history film.
Clearly the moral of the story is: Bring stronger cameras and more film and leave stuff where you found it.
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