*sniffle*

[andrewducker]

Just watched King Kong again, was thrilled in the same places, scared in the same places, delighted in the same places, and cried again at the end.

Having spent the last couple of days walking, scratching, cuddling and chasing a mammal of my own for the last few days (who also knows exactly what she wants and what she wants you to do, and can be demanding about it) I particularly enjoyed Kong's throwing of a temper tantrum when he's first told "No."

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[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Awww,
You are such a doggie!

[thishardenedarm.livejournal.com]

It just makes me think of Chadlers come back when he is derided for not crying at Bambi: "Yes, it was awfully sad when they _stopped drawing the deer_"

[andrewducker]

Have you considered getting help for dealing with this lack of empathy?

Does it not ruin films/plays for you, when people other people are getting all emotional and you're just thinking "He's only pretending to be dead. And I bet his real name isn't even Hamlet."?

[thishardenedarm.livejournal.com]

hey, I can cry like a girl with the best of them, and usually do(macho crying contests?), but I just couldn't buy Kong as a character. We talked about this before, its not the cartoonness per se, its the contrast - he just inhabits a different diegetic space from the rest of the characters in the movie. At a really gut level, hence lack o' wailing, this just breaks the cinematic proscenium for me. Maybe in 10 years time, through a combination of improved CGI and cognitive deterioration, I'll cry.

[andrewducker]

I was merely replying in kind to your somewhat snarky comment :->

And I know you were put off by the CGI, but having spent a couple of days watching Attenborough playing with apes and then watched Kong (all at my parent's place this week), I really couldn't spot any evidence of it. And I'm usually the first to spot blocky movement or light that was wrong. Everything just looked _right_ to me.

Maybe you jusat don't like monkeys...