Ricky_Bobby: I'll file it under 'entertaining CGI-spectacle', alongside
Jurassic Park (2015) and
San Andreas.
But hey, I love that stuff. Things don't have to be deep for me to enjoy them.
I mean, it's a movie about a giant ape ...
Besides, I've always considered the previous
King Kong movie from 2005 to be quite dark and well ... sad.
Firebrand9: Yeah, but Jurassic Park had a more thoughtful philosophical angle to it at least. It posed valid and important questions. I wouldn't put the rest of these movies in quite the same category.
I was thinking of the latest Jurassic Park movie from 2015, not the old classic.
And 'yes' I agree that the concept behind [the original] Jurassic Park is far more interesting, from an intellectual perspective, than that of King Kong. The core idea behind Jurassic Park still feels within the realm of possibilities, which makes it more interesting to talk about. In comparison the chances of finding a gigantic ape in some remote jungle island feels like pure fantasy, where you reach an intellectual dead-end.
However the focus of the 2015 Jurassic Park movie was on the visual wow-factor and the action aspect, rather than raising the kind of ethical questions posed by the very first Jurassic Park movie.