Friendly advice on a giant gorilla

An astute friend of mine had some none-too-complimentary words about King Kong. I missed out on seeing it last night, but an email he wrote this morning adds to my earlier worries:

I'm not a movie critic ... but I could simply not wait for this to be over. The best thing I can say is this thing was MADE for Mystery Science Theatre 3000. If you watch it like that --high comedy. Otherwise -- my intestines were trying to wrap around my
brain stem.

Another friend suggested wisely that the "intestines killing their owner by brain stem suffocation" might actually make a pretty decent horror film. Better than Boa VS. Python anyway.