Newsday ran some crap about the racist imagery in the movie yesterday. WTF is wrong with our society that they take a story about a giant ape and turn it into a race issue?
We have enough jackass WP and NOI fools in this country without getting people worked up over nothing. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 10:33 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: "King Kong": All that and a bag of chips > > My son (age 7) and I watched the 1933 version on TV a few > nights ago and then last night we went to see Peter Jackson's remake. > > It really was so very worth it. Jackson extended the > storyline tremendously, especially the relationship between > Kong and Ann. Healso added in several subtle, but completely > wonderful homages to the 1933 version (including some > cleverly redone scenes). > > This version is vastly more sympathetic to Kong and less > sympathetic to Carl Denim but I think it worked wonderfully. > > My only real problem was that although the theater was almost > completely empty (a 5pm show a on a Wednesday) there were two > families making HUGE amounts of noise. One wasn't talking > but rather passing around huge bags of Lays chips. I could > sort of forgive this... but the other had a teenager that > commented loudly and often on nearly every scene. > > I nearly got into a fight since halfway through the film I > asked him to "please shut the hell up". His father shouted > back "You watch your mouth!" > but they were all quite for the rest of the movie. ;^) > > At the end his father got and started coming over to me. I > stood up and looked at him and he turned back. It's actually > nice to know that in my mid-thirties I can still intimidate > people when I want to. ;^) > > Jim Davis > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:189360 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
