So I took a chance and watched the "Extended" version. What a ripoff! A bunch of small scenes here and there and just one new "segment"
Same here. I loved the theatre cut of Jackson's Kong, and was pretty psyched when the director's/extended cut came out. But it turned out that it was just more CGI-showing off. It simply didn't add anything at all, only a few more panicky-slash-slapsticky survival scenes. But indeed, the overall movie is still pretty awesome and I keep wanting Kong to win at the end...
Last movie I saw:
Battle: Los AngelesI have to admit, I left the theatre liking this movie a lot more than I wanted to. I knew about all the bad press it got so I was kinda prepared for a
Transformers 2-like debacle but apart from a slow, cliché-ridden start it wasn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Okay, I could've done without the insecure, whiny marines at the beginning but once that first "OMG, we're trained killers but we're kinda nervous so we do dumb things" bit is over it finds its form.
Its form being a mash-up of
Independance Day and
Black Hawk Down, ie. a simple grunt-level take on an alien take-over. It respects it's genremovie roots by proudly wearing its warmovie clichés and not wasting time with any backstory. The viewer knows as much as the marines the movie follows. And for me that was what saved the movie: it didn't pretend to be a big scale vanilla summer movie that tries to please everybody, or a thinking man's blockbuster, it's just a trashy warmovie with a slightly above average budget. Sure, it hasn't got a thing on man-vs-alien movies like
Aliens,
Starship Troopers or
District 9, but it looks good, the action scenes are nicely done and I liked that whole steampunk alien design aspect.
So I can get why people would hate it, but the sci-fi nerd in me enjoyed it for what it was .
6/10