I hated King Kong, more to come

I saw King Kong tonight and I hated it. I've been trying to write about the movie, but I'm struggling to express myself.

I started out writing a story about a lovable jackass (me) that hated a movie, but as I was writing what amounted to a stream-of-consciousness rant I started to stumble onto some pretty good points. Then I started trying to put those points together into an actual reasonably thought-out review.

That left the whole blog entry a mess because in trying to pull off both the entertaining story and the intellectual critique, I failed miserably at both. The challenge is that in order to adequately explain why I hated a movie that got such great reviews, I have to codify what I want to get out of a movie, a task which is actually very intellectually challenging. And its even harder to write about that in a way that would be interesting to anyone but myself.

So for now I'm giving up, but I'll try again tomorrow.