Yeah, I saw it...and I have to admit I fall among the folks who LOVED it. I agree it was long, but it didn't feel that long to me -- every moment was jam-packed with either stunning action, or wonderful scenes. I thought Naomi Watts did an amazing job, conveying a startling range of emotions with little more than her face. And the beast was SO real -- even little things, like the way he would kind of blow out air, much the way my dog does when he's just settled down in his favorite spot and lets out a little air-blow. I don't know, maybe I'm just a Peter Jackson fan -- I adored all three LOTR movies, in fact I bought my son all the extended versions, mainly because *I* wanted them! (Of course, the fact that it gave me even more scenes with that lucious Viggo Mortensen didn't hurt...) <img border="0" alt="[naughty]" title="" src="graemlins/naughty.gif" />

The only part in KK I had a hard time with was all the bugs -- ICK! I HATE bugs, especially spiders but basically anything crawly. I was squirming in my seat during those scenes. And the scenes when they were up high, both on Skull Island and on top of the Empire State Building, gave me vertigo! It was so real -- I felt like I was up there, and I had that fear-of-falling thing going on. My heart was pounding.

I saw the movie with my 14-yr-old son, which may have influenced my opinion -- he absolutely LOVED it! He wants to be involved in making movies when he grows up, he loves everything to do with movies. If he keeps his grades up and doesn't misbehave, his reward every weekend is that I take him to a movie. So I'm getting to see a lot more movies in the theater than I have in years past, especially when the kids were young and we basically only rented (babysitters being so expensive).