[fishfreek]

I have the exact opposite view. I do agree it was to long. The origonal kong movie was something like 100min in duration where as this version was 180 min. It sounds alot like you have not seen the orgional Kong from 1933. I can see where alot would be lost to those whom have no knowlege or experence with the first film or the awful remake done in the mid 70's.

The new Kong holds to the orginoal storyline significantly but does add some hollywood liberties at time expanding the inital story or even adding components. There are areas where I think the speical effects crew went a bit overboard. Like the fight with three t-rex's vs the orginal movies fight with just one. And then the spider pit sequence was a bit to long and drawn out.

The movie is a classic beauty and the beast love story and Watts did a great job in portraying it. Clearly the beast first finds beauty with all the intentions of killing her and slowly you can see the beasts transition from wanting to kill her to beign her protector and the wise leading lady picks up on this and uses it to her favor, key in on the t-rex scene when she has a chance to run from both but choooses to hide under kong for protection.