Midnight Cine-a-rama Snap Judgements

Academy Award winner hubris struck Peter Jackson silly and by not subtracting anything from the 3 hour theatrical cut of King Kong he really sticks it to it himself. The film is beautiful. Naomi Watts is luminescent. Jack Black can really act, and Kong is awesome. After all of the dinosaur stuff in Kong- I can say that Hollywood should never do dinosaurs again, or monster movies too for that matter- Kong delivers those goods in spades. There is some truly awesome stuff in this movie, mind boggling stuff really... but by not cutting it down and giving the film some pace Jackson strangles the film and the audience so that any meaningful grace note (the Jackson touches that made LOTR so emotionally satisfying) comes across totally drawn out, almost ludicrus. King Kong is great, but way too frigging long, and that's all there is to it.