Day 183

Another New Comic Book Day, another set of top-notch comics:

I also did a little shopping:

...and watched some more Castle episodes and Kong: Skull Island.

Like I thought Kong: Skull Island isn’t a great movie, but it is an entertaining movie. The film is set in 1973 and in a nutshell, a U.S. government backed company (Monarch) piggy backs onto a Landsat expedition to Skull Island. Monarch’s aim is to prove that monsters exist and to help/protect them have a military escort, helicopter squad that has just finished serving in Vietnam.  Things don’t go how Monarch thought they would, lots of the team get taken out by Kong and other monsters (like Monarch thought the Island is full of monsters), the survivors realise that Kong is on their side, defeat the bad monster and manage to escape the Island. 

It has elements from Vietnam films (choppers playing late sixties/early seventies music, gung-ho leaders who are leading their troops into death), island movies (exotic natives, “idiot”-outsiders, whose lack of knowledge/respect lead to their death) and escape movies (building a boat out of the wreckage of a couple of planes) that mash together into a fun knock-about film, although it touches on some serious issues – the nature of man, war, etc. – and it does sometime ignore reality, e.g. how do they fit all those helicopters onto one ship?!?, which take you out of the moment a little, but, all in all it’s a fun film.