And some of the human characters were terribly annoying. But overall the humans were way too involved in driving the action in that one. Using sign-language to connect with him in the modern world was a good idea.

I think Kong worked better as a character in Kong vs. The final battle was fine, but that's the only part I liked. All the human characters were forgettable. Most of the scenes with him seemed like pale imitations from other Kong movies. He didn't have the imposing movie monster qualities of the original and he didn't have the sensitive, human-like qualities of Peter Jackson's. The monsters and the kills were mostly unimpressive. The movie had a washed-out, sepia look that goes against the lush landscapes Kong movies always tried to portray. They turned the natives into a silly joke rather than someone who added to the threat of the island. So you're thinking about filmmaking and film history as you watch it, which helps you appreciate the movie on another level. Compare to the subtext in the other Kongs where it's about a man making a movie, and you get a movie-within-a-movie plot that underlines how they were trying to make Kong into one of the greatest movie spectacles of all time. If you get to go to Skull Island as a writer and all you can think about is Vietnam, you're the wrong person to make the movie. It shows a terrible lack of interest in the subject matter. There was no reason at all to set the movie in the '70s, considering we already had a Kong movie made in that era. It diminishes an imaginative fairy tale into a topical, dated plot. Not stuff any of us should be asked to think about while we're there to enjoy something that was always a pure fantasy story.

They very transparently turned the whole thing into an on-the-nose, preachy Vietnam allegory, setting it in the '70s and even showing a Nixon bobblehead. With Skull Island, they inserted a bunch of politics into the movie to its detriment. Well, I love the original Kong and Peter Jackson's 2005 one. You can check out the covers, after the jump.

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