My God, what an overlong, bloated, stupid and pointlessly loud movie. Most of it is just watching nameless sailors getting picked off by Weta Workshop's CGI monstrosities in overly elaborate action scenes (which brought to mind the worst parts of the Hobbit trilogy).
Also, Jack Black's character should've gotten his head torn off by Kong. The character was a massive piece of shit, all of the deaths were his fault but noo, we're supposed to think he's funny. He even gets to deliver the awful final solemn line the movie ends on.
Between this and the Hobbit movies it's a miracle his LOTR trilogy ended up being as good as it was. What a hack fraud
In addition to the stampede scene being stupid, the composition was also painfully bad. I don't want to rag on the effects too much, as they looked pretty good, but that scene was like something out of a Youtube meme video where they insert movie characters into Morrowind or something
Not only are they escaping stampeding brontosauruses, they're ALSO being hunted by small theropod things. Every action scene just has way too much going on, the worst being Kong's fight against three T-Rexes, who all want nothing more than to munch on Naomi Watts and will stop at no lenghts to try to snap their jaws at her