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King Kong (2005)
Wow
I wasn't holding a great deal of hope for this film. I am a huge fan of the 1933 original and I didn't think a 2005 remake could capture the same feelings the original created. By blimey, it was fantastic! So exciting and interesting with good characters. Some strange choices from the director include how easily Anne Darrow is taken in by the beast and how she stays captivated by it regardless of the fact that it mercelessly kills hundreds and possibly thousands of people.
Jack Black started off good in the film and I was plesantly surprised by his performance but as it goes on he seems to start acting less and less and just pulls the same dumb face from about half way in until the very end.
Also, I am not a fan of CGI, and quite a few times the actors seem to be looking a different way or don't react properly when the effects are put in later. One example of this is near the end in New York when Kong picks Anne up in her hand and roars in her face. Not only does she not flinch but assumedly she would get a face full of Kong saliva and breath, but the noise would probably be enough to burst her eardrum. Also only four people die when the entire crew get caught up in an Brachiosaurus and Velociraptor stampede but these are the negatives of an otherwise positive film. The CGI is pretty good but, as said, more time should have been taken when putting computer and human together.
Interesting in-jokes and deviations from the original to find, my favourite is when a scene from the original film is added as an acted scene between Anne and the man playing the Captain, and a reference to Fay Wray right at the start when looking for suitable actresses. Hugely enjoyable though very long, its a film you'd want to see again.
28 Days Later... (2002)
Really AWFUL film
This is a truly terrible film, and completely unwatchable and unenjoyable.
The first half of the film is a bad re-hash of every idea used in much better zombie films that came before it (such as the Living Dead trilogy)without any original ones of its own, and the second half of the film when they enter the army barracks is just weird and tiresome.
The film constantly defies its own given circumstances, and some of the acting is truly atrocious, especially from Megan Burns and Noah Huntley.
This is a badly written review but a bad film like this deserves no more of my time. I would rather sit in a hive of wasps than watch this tripe again in my life. Awful. So awful. And so disappointing from Boyle and Ecclestone, two of my favourite film makers.
Ghostboat (2006)
Silly thriller
David Jason, a 'family favourite' plays a character in the exact same style as he does in A Touch Of Frost, in this ridiculous and predictable thriller.
In this 2-parter, David Jason plays the character of a old WWII seaman who is called in by the Navy when his submarine re-emerges after disappearing in the war. Only David Jason's 'Jack Hardy' survives from the original crew but he suffers from memory loss, and has to piece together his movements from a series of flashbacks when taken back inside the ship.
The story then becomes laughable when the Navy decide, for some reason, to re-enact the last voyage of the Submarine by piecing together the movements from the Captain's Log. After accidentally sinking a Russian Submarine they come under attack from German WWII aircraft and Jack Hardy realises that someone is filling in the incomplete Captain's Log...
Good for a one-off if you don't want to do much thinking but easily forgotten.