Christmas Kong

We have a well deserved rest this morning, and I have to say I sleep wonderfully well even though I have a bit of a duvet scrap with Phil in the night. I'm pretty sure that Phil is just dishing up a smidgen of revenge since I apparently elbowed him in the face the other night! Ooops! Anyway I think my good night's kip is partly attributed to the fact that I was knackered when I went to bed, and also due to the fact that yesterday I turned the mattress over yesterday meaning I wasn't sleeping on such a broken bit :)

After breakfast (scrambled eggs, yum!) it's close to lunch time already and we wonder what we can do to fill the time between now and present opening tomorrow, and so we decide to go see King Kong - after all it's Christmas eve, how may other people could possibly spend Christmas eve at the cinema?

When we arrive at the cinema, despite the car park being full the cinema itself is very quite indeed, hardly anyone around, and so we don't have to queue for popcorn and get some cushy seats too. It was just a shame that 10 mins into the film a whole gaggle of kids and adults arrive, one of which decides to sit next to me and then continue to talk to his brother for another 5 mins before he shuts up and watches the film that his parents had paid for him to come and see. Very annoying, only outdone by his smaller brother who was sat in front of me and for his own muddle reasoned had decided that standing throughout most of the film would be a fantastic idea! It's a good job he was relatively short or he would have been made several inches shorter by my fist hitting his head repeatedly until he was of a suitable height not to interfere with my vista.

The film was ok, but as with most Peter Jackson's epics just too long, they could have cut plenty out of the film and got much less of a bum acher and more of an action packed thrill seeker. I of course cried my eyes out at the sad bits whilst Phil fidgeted as he got bored. But, credit where credit is due, they did a fantastic job of Kong himself- I especially liked his crooked sticky out tooth :)

Posted by Abi on the December 24, 2005 10:28 PM