Re: (TV) Totally OT: King Kong review for Jay

[Ty Burr <tyburr@mindspring.com>]

On Dec 12, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Jay wrote:

> i note that other critics, maybe ones with ties to new
> york, have marveled at the amazing way in which
> jackson recreates depression era nyc

True enough -- it's pretty cool to see Times Square so architecturally 
uncrowded. There's also a beautiful shot of (I believe) 5th Avenue and 
34th street that feels like an old Warner Bros. movie colorized.

Hope you enjoy the movie; I seem to be in the minority in not loving it 
unconditionally.


> but i will note in passing that there are two movies
> which affected me most from my childhood, both of
> which were favorites of my father, sort of a monster
> in his own right: King Kong and The Incredible
> Shrinking Man.

As Freud would say: IN-teresting. My dad's favorite movie was the Marx 
brothers' Duck Soup, which started my own old-movie addiction when I 
discovered it as a teenager a few years after he passed away. I 
sometimes think the media we get passed down from our parents can be 
more influential -- and troubling -- than the stuff we stumble onto on 
our own.
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