'King Kong'

Leave it to a bunch of dumb Americans to see the first dinosaur in three million years only to automatically (without even talking about it!) blow it away and kill it.

That's what I don't undrestand about films where the characters are placed in a super unbelievable set of circumstances and there's never that moment of adjustment and contemplation as they grapple with ... well, seeing a fucking dinosaur.

Wouldn't that blow your mind? Or were people in the 1930s simply not that impressed with dinosaurs? Eh. I tend to believe they were.

The ironic note here is that the characters in King Kong were capable of being amazed. Before they start their journey, they discussed the myth of the Kong and they simply dismiss it as poppycock. Giant gorillas seemed out of the realm of reason. So, shouldn't stegosauruses also boggle the brain?

Later, the sailors and filmmakers come up upon the natives performing a sacrificial dance in front of the giant wall that protects them from dinosaurs, giant snakes and giant gorillas.

The visitors stand there in amazement of the whole thing.

But a dinosaur? Shit. Let's blow it out of the water.