KING KONG

I don't quite understand what the obsession is over short films? I'm quite glad that in the last decade or so we are starting to see the return of the three-hour-long epic that used to be a tentpole of the cinema.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

In looking at the example of Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Rings theatrical and extended versions, I am anxiously waiting for a longer version of King Kong to see how the Jimmy and Hayes plotline changes.

I say this because I remember that when I saw the theatrical version of The Fellowship of the Rings, I absolutely hated the entire Lothlorien sequence. It just didn't seem to contribute anything particularly significant to the plot and was just boring. What I realized after watching the extended version was that the Lothlorien sequence probably might have worked better if they used the longer extended version since the added depth and length of the sequence gave the sequence a purpose to be there whereas the original did not.

As such, I wonder what might have been cut out with the Jimmy and Hayes plotline that might have justified their earlier scenes. Because for me, the film felt very well paced on the first watching. It was only during the second and subsequent watchings that scenes like these felt boring, not because the scenes were intrinsically boring, but because nothing ultimately came out of it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.