King Kong ...

... or, Will Naomi Watts Ever Stop Running Into Giant, Slobbering Things?

... or, "I Don't Care If You Could Stuff My Entire Body Into Your Nostril, I Love You Anyway!"

... or, Not the Island of Misfit Toys, But the Island of That Which Is Ugly and Mutated (Chernobyl Is Nearby, Perhaps?)

... or, Tis A Quite Stupid Idea to Tick Off A Huge Ape

... or, You Do Vaudeville For Me, I'll Stop Trying To Kill You And I'll Also Bodyslam Some T-Rexes On Your Behalf

So, Scott and I and a couple of guys from his lab went to see King Kong. I thought it was superb - I totally forgot for like, an hour aand a half that I had to pee. That's my movie rating system - I get something huge to drink, and if I don't notice that it is flattening out my bladder rugae about 30-45 minutes post-consumption, then it's a good movie.

Things I didn't like:

• The woman/ape love. C'mon, now. And the stupid girls in front of me that were crying over the woman/ape love - sheesh. I'm not alone on that, SarahK isn't sappy over interspecies pairings either. That had to be a huge blow to poor Adrien Brody's ego. I know I've said that his face makes me sad, but surely he's more appealing than an ape, you know?
• Giant insects that are so big that you have to punch them. I felt like they were all crawling all over me. Eeeeeeeeeeeaggghh.
• People getting their heads eaten.
• A movie version of Miami Vice??? Really???? I guess some things just aren't meant to be understood.

Everything else was good. Scott and the guys from his lab were talking something mathematical about the size of King Kong vs. the size of the dinosaurs and how it was off, but I mostly ignored them.

Oh, and there was a rather loud guy sitting a few rows behind us, but I didn't mind him being loud because he amused me. For instance, at the beginning of the aforementioned scene with the insects that required punching, Loud Guy misjudged the spindly leg as it came into view and said, "Awwwww, man! I KNEW there'd be a big-a** spider!" Heh.

Anyway, well-worth seeing.