After the early evening telly (a little red Corvette, which apparently isn't the same as the Unsafe at Any Speed car though the names are similar; some gold winners, some gold losers; and the antiques must have looped because he was buying an armchair off Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and I've seen him do that before), dining telly was 24 Hours in A&E though I think it must have been an old one despite its recent screening date, because it was at a non-recent hospital and nobody seemed to be aware of a pandemic 
Then the major motion picture premiere was King Kong (2005) being, as the date implies, the Peter Jackson version. I think the only other film I've seen by him is The Lovely Bones which I thought was very good, but in this one he definitely revealed his belief that one should make as much of a film as one can get away with, rather than just as much as is necessary to tell the story. It's basically exactly the same story as the original film; that was 1h 40m, this was 3h 7m. Even allowing for 9m credits, that's still a lot longer. I could see straight away how the first hour could have been done in twenty minutes, which would account for a lot of the overrun.
Anyway, all that aside, it's the classic tale of the Beauty and the Beast; though Naomi Watts (in the Fay Wray role) is very good-looking, so it's more a case of the Beauty and the Beauty. Kong is played by Andy Serkis, who did such a good job as Caesar in the most recent Planet of the Apes trilogy, and also narrated the first season of Monkey Life, and he does an excellent job here too. Overall, I'd say it's good during the important parts; but don't worry too much if you turn up late, and the bit with the brontosauruses is a good time to nip to the kitchen to microwave more popcorn
And then the final two parts of the ITV true crime thingy A Confession (TV Mini Series 2019). It's good viewing, though there's a lot of legal complexity behind the story so I have to reserve judgment on the question of whether it's right to take the side it does.
Goodnight all
Then the major motion picture premiere was King Kong (2005) being, as the date implies, the Peter Jackson version. I think the only other film I've seen by him is The Lovely Bones which I thought was very good, but in this one he definitely revealed his belief that one should make as much of a film as one can get away with, rather than just as much as is necessary to tell the story. It's basically exactly the same story as the original film; that was 1h 40m, this was 3h 7m. Even allowing for 9m credits, that's still a lot longer. I could see straight away how the first hour could have been done in twenty minutes, which would account for a lot of the overrun.
Anyway, all that aside, it's the classic tale of the Beauty and the Beast; though Naomi Watts (in the Fay Wray role) is very good-looking, so it's more a case of the Beauty and the Beauty. Kong is played by Andy Serkis, who did such a good job as Caesar in the most recent Planet of the Apes trilogy, and also narrated the first season of Monkey Life, and he does an excellent job here too. Overall, I'd say it's good during the important parts; but don't worry too much if you turn up late, and the bit with the brontosauruses is a good time to nip to the kitchen to microwave more popcorn
And then the final two parts of the ITV true crime thingy A Confession (TV Mini Series 2019). It's good viewing, though there's a lot of legal complexity behind the story so I have to reserve judgment on the question of whether it's right to take the side it does.
Goodnight all
. A two and a half ton "sports" car.
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