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[lizzybennet]

We went started the procedures for getting our passports today. It was craziness, trying to keep the kids calm and quiet for the whole process. It gave me a little taste of the horror that's awaits me during our 12 hour trip across the Pacific ocean. It cost $400 :( Chris already has a passport. I'm pretty excited, actually, to know that I will have my very own passport.

We tried to watch King Kong this afternoon/evening. We finally had to turn it off after trying to watch it for close to three hours, pausing it repeatedly to take care of the kids' needs. We stopped it at the attack of the bugs.

I've decided Snape is still on the good side. I'm convinced of it.

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[-bella-luna.livejournal.com]

Let me preface this by saying that I have never liked the Kong franchise. Not the original movie, not the remakes since. Its a movie about a giant animal and how he is misunderstood, torn away from his natural habitat and then he dies because humans were too selfish to leave him alone.

We rented Kong too. I could barely get through it. It was so...violent. Everything smashing and killing and wrecking. Even the scene with the natives stringing up Naomi Watts as an offering to Kong bothered me to no end.

Visually, it was an amazing movie. I liked how Peter Jackson used so many different camera angles to suggest this is what the characters were seeing. But after awhile, I need more than pretty pictures, and a whole heck of a lot less violence. By the time they got back to New York I was so sick and tired of all the smashing and wrecking that I pretty much left the room. I came back at the end when Kong is at the top of the Chrysler building and Naomi is there with him and he dies. I wish I hadn't. I just broke down.

I hate movies like this. They don't end well, and of course there is another animal dead because of our selfishness.

[mysteena.livejournal.com]

I decided I didn't like it either. It was incredibly violent, I completely agree with you. I kept squealing in gross-outedness. The native scene really bothered me and it scared the kids too. All those eyes rolling back in their heads and seizure-like movement--it was just to creepy. Over all, I'm glad we didn't waste our money to see it in the theater.

I'm glad we turned it off before the kids saw the bug scene. When that sucker worm ate the guys head, ewww!

[-bella-luna.livejournal.com]

I didn't even watch that part.

Hey, read my post will you - I so need some prayer right now.

[heidial.livejournal.com]

I, too, refuse to believe that Snape is bad. I keep hoping that we will finally understand all in the final book.