Today was the office Christmas party. Well, not the true one. That one is happening at a restaurant in January. Today we had a catered lunch. I found it somewhat unsatisfying. There wasn’t a lot of food, and it didn’t taste that spectacular.
My biggest beef was when I was told that there was Coke in the fridge. I opened it up, and couldn’t find any. There was a box of something called “Coke Zero”, or “Zero Coke” which pretty much summed up my attitude about there being cola in the fridge. Why yes, I am petty.
After the lunch, things picked up and we went to see King Kong. I’m sure everyone knows the plot, unless they’ve “been on Mars for the last decade, in a cave, with my eyes shut and my fingers in my ears.” Which when you think about sums up the last four Peter Jackson movies. They are ones that have well known plots. Can he make an original movie anymore?
I went in with a good attitude. In my heart, I expected that I would eventually own the DVD. This is after all Peter Lord-of-the-Rings Jackson. Things were going well until the scene with the maggots. I literally could not watch. And now that I think about it, there was nothing compelling about it for me. The action scenes were great, but the emotional scenes drag on. Of course this is the same man that never seemed to get tired of the “Frodo with the furrowed brows” image.
Still, I would say that people should go see it. It is the Christmas holiday event movie. I believe I like it better than the Narnia movie.