Wednesday, December 21, 2005

The Monkey Movie




Darren said...

Pardon moi for being a smartarse, but King Kong (if he were real) would be an ape, not a monkey.

The Potter movie was good, although I did feel a bit like they were just trying to get through it to continue the series rather than make the best movie possible. I guess that's the problem with a two and a bit hour movie from a 700 page book - they were always gonna have to skip large chunks. Not including Dobby and Winky was a major downer.

They'll have a different kind of problem with 'Order of the Phoenix', a book where essentially nothing happens until the last few pages.

Mr Ports said...

True - but on the list of funny words Monkey is very high up whilst the more accurate ape is very low. And as you will know if you have ever seen me present, I always favour funny over accurate. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story etc.

Darren said...

That's true enough. Someone told me today that King Kong had a sad ending, to which I replied "why, did they run out of bananas?" which was a lot funnier than him falling to his death from the Empire State Building. Ah, poor old giant simian.

Hands up who thought the 1976 version starring Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges was the best of the lot...? No, me neither. It was shite. Even though I was only 11, I was old enough to recognise a turkey when I saw one.