I refuse to watch this on general principle. Yahoo describes the movie thusly:

An astronaut is forced to leave NASA to save his family farm, but he continues to dream of space travel and sets out to build a rocket inside his barn. Though his neighbors consider him an oddity, the media considers him a story, and the government considers him a threat, nothing can deter him from his dream to break through the atmosphere and orbit the earth.

What they don't tell you is that Billy-Bob's character is named "Farmer" in the hokiest Hollywood tradition of naming lead characters after their profession, or at least in relation to it, so the title can be a cute double-entendre. I can imagine the pitch meeting now -" See, J.B., he's an astronaut, who becomes a farmer, and his name is, get this, J.B. - Charles Farmer. Get it? Get it?"

Sorry, Hollywood, but that's not clever, and I refuse to take the bait. I don't care how damn good this movie is, I will never, ever see it. If it's showing on a flight, I'll gouge my eyes out and puncture my eardrums first.

Diane and I saw Kong last night - wow. I'm not going to recount the story here, for though it is well known, there are some new twists to the tale. So here are my impressions instead.

 

Overall, as a night out at the movies, a very impressive adventure -- but as director Peter Jackson tells us quite bluntly via First Mate Hayes (Evan Parke), "it's not an adventure story."

What kind of story it IS remains open to interpretation. Most people agree that, beyond the surface tale, King Kong is not about a giant gorilla, but to me, the 2005 remake it is about Carl Denham's desperate quest to both save and destroy himself.

But more on that in a bit.