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Kong: Skull Island
2017 · Film · 118 min
Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
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I loved how early Landsat imagery featured in the movie Kong: Skull Island about finding a mysterious lost island in the Pacific.
Seems also the few movies I bought are gone. But they still sell them? That's certainly an interesting way of doing business.
This is one of the movies I had bought. I could again "buy" it. Wonder who will fall for that for the second time... https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Kong_Skull_Island?id=qUD8xPGIbDQ
I am one of those people who can enjoy a video game inspired movie, but only if I've played the game. I believe that is because the movie reminds me of game play that I enjoyed so it gets that extra bonus feeling. If I haven't played the game the movie is definitely less engaging. This can be true for movies adapted from books like the Lord of the Rings, I enjoyed reading the books and the movie reminded me of that enjoyment.
But given that, it seems it can go the other way as well. I saw Ready Player One (and have read the book) and the differences between the book and the movie, while understandable, interfered with me enjoying the movie.
There are also fairly formulaic movies that unroll just like a video game. With early levels, a mini boss, more levels, another boss, a few more levels and then the big boss. Watching Kong skull island was like that.
One thing I noticed:
People are starting to forget what old computer screens looked like. It could be because there's a shortage of actual, functional CRT monitors. But these days when an old computer is called for you are likely to see perfectly smooth, green text in Consolas or similar composited onto a prop screen, rather than actual glowing pixels. It's jarring and saddening, and it's happened in two films that I've seen so far: John Wick Chapter 2 (wherein VIC-20s stood in for the old computer keyboards) and Kong: Skull Island.
This is an invented POI created by Google for an upcoming movie, Kong: Skull Island. I just thought it was interesting that they put it on gMaps.