Awesome shtuff there Sam. Wich I had shtuff like that to say. It was a lot more gradual than that for me.
My only bone to pick is that I think you're totally wrong on King Kong. It's a mess of a film, but there is so much in it that I absolutely love that I'm willing to overlook it being too long and overstuffed and filled with some pointless and shoddy effects. Fact is, I still cry every time that monkey falls off the Empire State Building. And I don't care, anyone who tells me that the original movie is better in every way, it's not. The original is better for what it is, a silly B movie with a giant ape chasing screaming people. It most certainly does not earn that sad ending. At least Jackson's Kong develops the Anne Darrow character and her relationship with the monkey.
But that's not important anyway. Main thing is, you wrote an awesomesauce article there. Good work.