The Ruminative Reviewer

It’s telling that the latest wolverine movie is called Logan. It has almost all the characteristics of a classic superhero movie, but it’s so much more. When I sat down to watch the movie, I was ready for action, drama and superhero awesomeness. I was not prepared for depth, maturity and eloquence. It’s a shock to see Logan looking old and weary, it’s painful to see Professor X so incapacitated. It’s difficult to shake off the image of their prior strength, grandeur and invincibility. They hurt in this movie, they feel too tired and old to fight, and yet they do. In this movie, their power comes, not from their mutation, but from their strength of character. In this movie, you see how the superhero suffers and struggles with himself. No matter how powerful they are, how much they have done for humanity and how many bad guys they have put down, life is no bed of roses for them. They hurt, they bleed, they grow weak, but they don’t stop fighting. They do the best they can and liv...

What makes Kong 2017 so good, is the superb action scenes, great visual effects and, more importantly, a departure from the earlier King Kong renditions. When I watched King Kong, 2005, I thought it was just a good adventure movie with enhanced visual effects; more so than the earlier ones. I went to watch Kong Skull Island because I love action-adventure and the trailer promised that. I did not expect to like it so much. The one thing that really put me off about the earlier stories was the ape’s obsession with the heroine of the movies. One may argue that it wasn’t love but a simple attachment like that of a human with a puppy; just to be clear, Naomi Watts (2005) is the puppy here. The truth is that no matter how broad-minded you are, the ape’s feelings towards the female human are clearly creepy. Kong of Skull Island, 2017, however is a much more impressive, kingly and frankly, well-adjusted ape without the kinky attraction to a female outside its species. I loved that about...