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'Collider' indeed
kitty hadron collider.
Where's the diversity??
We need more KITTIE power!!

Puppy POWER!!
The Power of the Dog wins 3 Golden Globe awards, including best motion picture drama and best director. West Side Story also wins 3, including best motion picture, musical.
I watched it once. That was enough. I'm vaguely remembering a musical number? I'm joking (sorta).

I imagine his motive as a love letter to Kong and its visual effects' influence on a young Jackson's imagination. Respectable, in and of itself. The actual result, however, felt bloated, self-indulgent, and void of awareness. IMO, of course.
Yeah, I mean, it’s a decent movie. The first half is solid storytelling, but the second half gets ham fisted with the CGI.
If so, I can understand that, the LOTR work was so massive and consuming, I'm sure, that looking past it probably didn't make any sense. So then you finish and take a break and...then what?
Yeah, in retrospect it was a lame thing for Jackson to do at that point in his career. He had all this cachet, I think he should've done something more audacious, and maybe smaller.

Maybe I'm wrong and maybe he'd always wanted to do his version of that story, but it almost feels like he didn't know what to do and felt he had to do something else "big" even though there really wasn't a ton to add there.
King Kong has not aged well. I remember when this movie released on HD-DVD.