King Kong and The Rangers Messiah #11

KING KONG
So a friend invited me to go see King Kong with him last night. I figure the movie started at 8:30, after the kiddies were tucked into bed, so why not go out for a change on Wednesday. I knew going in that this was a 3 hour movie, so I should not have gotten a medium (pretty darn big) soda, but I did anyways. What followed was 3 hours of complete crap.

This movie was almost as bad as Waterworld. It took almost 90 minutes before we actually see the big angry ape, as Jacob my 4-year old son says after the TV commercials. The green screen is terrible, and they have inserted this really world Jurasic Park/Lost World Dinosaur thing into the middle of the movie that adds nothing to the value of the picture. I assumed since Kong fought the dinos, he would be wounded, which would allow the men to capture him.

But that is not what happened. Kong escapes a battle with 4 T-Rex's, inspite of bites, scrapes and other contussions relatively unscathed and still with enough stamina to whisk a very hot looking Naomi Watts off to watch the sunrise/sunset on Skull Island. There was also this story about this kid on the boat, that had no relevance to the entire story and could have been dropped, which would have saved a good 10 minutes or so of the movie. What an incredible waste of time. If they had focused on the Kong and the girl this movie would have been much improved.

They apparently kept Kong sedated on chloroform from the South Pacific all the way to New York, got him into chains in a theatre and then they decided to let the monkey wake up. Surprise, he is pissed. There were a ton of continuity errors, too many to mention. By half way through the movie, we were cracking jokes at how back this was. As a follow up to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I would say Peter Jackson blew it big time. Don't waste your money on this piece of garbage.

The Messiah #11
Speaking of King Kong, the NY Rangers, will retire Mark Messier's #11 tonight before their match with the Edmonton Oilers. I agree that Messier is a big a New York sports hero as Joe Namath, Willis Reed, and Babe Ruth. He deserves this honor for what he was able to deliver to long suffering blue shirt fans. Now as he fades off into the sunset, and Brian Leetch's #2 to be raised to the rafters in the next few years, can we get over 1994?

The current team is beginning to show improvement and has a better than average chance of making the playoffs this year. Although it seems like we have the Czech National team playing here, especially now with the addition of Petr Sykora, they are winning and playing like a team more than ever since the year Stanley came to town. I doubt they will go far in the playoffs this year, the point is they are playing well under the new rules and are basically a young team who should be together for the coming years. So lets celebrate and remember The Captain tonight, but lets not speak of 1994 again, until #2 goes up to the top of Madison Sqaure Garden.