Kong

Joe and I saw Peter Jackson's King Kong last night. It was an absolutely amazing movie! I didn't go into seeing the movie thinking it would be that great. The story, characters and effects were all spectacular. I can't believe how perfectly they did the gorilla too. As a person with an anthropology-zoology background and a love for studying animal behavior, I was very impressed. Andy Serkis (aka Gollum) studied Gorilla behavior in Rwanda in order to perfect the actual movements, actions, and body language of Kong. The gorilla and his social interactions with everyone in the film seemed pretty darn real to me. Parts are definitely not for the weak stomached (quintessential Peter Jackson style...if you've seen his earlier horror films), but an amazing epic story (like that of his Lord of the Rings films). There was even references to the "Sumatran Rat Monkey" from his 1992 Braindead movie. The length of the movie is long (3 hours 10 minutes). However, you can't complain when you're kept entertained the whole time.