Movie Mania !!

I have watched 2 movies in 2 days!

Narnia:The Lion,The Witch and The Wardrobe,hereafter known as Narnia,on Monday and King Kong & Tuesday.

Narnia

Narnia was a good adventure movie.The acting of Georgie Henley who played the youngest of the Pevensies,Lucy was definitely a highlight.She was very delightful

Narnia's world was very mysterious and I felt the intrigue of the siblings as they discovered the magical world of Narnia and I was drawn into the aura of the Aslan,The Lion.Rather than looking into the parallels with Jesus that people made,I would rather believe that the sacrifice of Aslan would be somthing that anyone would hope to have the courage for if such a sacrifice was needed.

The kids' bravery in battle is commendable but it simply isn't believable.I tried to just lose myself into the battle scenes but they were just plain and nothing special.It major battle wasn't that great and aside from one or two acts of valiance,the kids did nothing too special(then again they are just kids)

I later went to see the Narnia book for the 1st time and was very surprised to find out how small the chapters were.3 chapters were squeezed into 600+ pages I think.Not mcuh material to work with.

I'll be kind and say 3 stars out of 5.Possibly even 21/2 stars...fi i'm not.


King Kong

The movie starts off slow but it isn't really that bad cos we get a peek into the Depression in America. But skipping ahead..

You know what I feel about Kong? He's just a dude.Just like any man,except that he weighs a ton and is 25 feet tall.Other than that he shows many traits of a man.He meets a girl he gets all confused over for she is nothing like he's ever seen before.He digs her and likes her loads and protects her from the dinosaurs that seen her as a meal.Even when he is at the city when he is shackled,he frees himself to look for her and is a little jealous of Jack Driscoll,(Adrien Brody) who plays Ann Darrow's(Naomi Watts) human love interest.Kong eventually,for some reason,kills himself by falling off the tallest building in New York,because of her.I think its cos he knows that there was no way that they could ever be together without endangering her and there was no way he could be free in the wild like before so he killed himself.Touching.

Ann Darrow was one of the most bravest characters I have ever seen on screen,not only to fight the dangers she sees but also to fight herself and to conquer her fears and to trust that she would not be harmed by the beast.

Jack Driscoll is also brilliant cos the dangers he faced must show that he really fancied and cared about Ann Darrow.Not many men would chase after a girl in the captivity of a beast.Commendable gallantry.Courage like his is what I wish for.

There were many good scenes but one that I liked was the one were the humans were running away from teh brontosauruses who themselves were running away from the raptors.What followed was a mad dash over crazy jungle terrain and dinosaurs running into each other and falling down and trodding on many a raptor.Its scary to see how many close calls the tumbling humans had to avoid being squashed by dinosaurs rolling downhill,though some did not escape the heavy beasts.Imagine running/falling down a hilly jungle while trying to avoid meat-eating raptord and super-big falling brontos.Phew,my fave scene.

Among many others.What about a slug that swallowed a man's head whole?Or a face-off between Kong and T-Rex(not just one)

What a movie...worth every cent.The emotion,the action,the story and the acting.Everything was sublime.Kudos to Peter Jackson.

5 stars out of 5.*****

=- That's the end of the movie reviews,will be back next time with the usual daily stuff.Till then,adieu mon amis...-=