Kong is Here!
Erin, my fiancée, had the best reaction to this trailer — "Wow!"
Without any shred of doubt, I agree. Any doubts I had as to whether Peter Jackson could make us care about a huge gorilla vanished as I watched him blink in that first scene. Remarkably, the man who brought Tolkien's classic Gollum character to life to an extent that none had thought possible has done it again. It is absolutely astounding how much emotion they have been able to get out of Kong just in the shots in the trailer (which doesn't even really included much interaction with Naomi Watts). The scope seems just right, and they managed to convey the weight of the various creatures through camera, animation, and sound so we actually believe we are watching something that huge and heavy — and not just the wireframe animated skeleton that really exists behind the image onscreen.
Wow. Really.
