Emery's First Law of Film Editing

I know that I need to write a post on King Kong, which is excellent, btw. I mean, it's an excellent entertainment, with the best CGI special effects ever. There are shots in this movie that are simply believable. I mean that. Skull Island looks real. It's all on a hard drive somewhere, but it looks like a real place. But the problem here is that this movie is about . . . a giant ape. Even if he's a giant ape who loves Naomi Watts, etc., he's a giant ape. So it's entertaining, but not very deep.

But that's not what I'm posting on. I'm posting on Emery's First Law of Film Editing. That law is: Never place your protagonist(s) in more CGI-generated jeopardy than necessary.

Violation no. 1: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the opening scene. Do Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi have to battle hundreds of battle droids? Why so many?

Violation no. 2: King Kong, the scene where the rescue team falls into the muddy bog filled with giant, killer crickets, the worms with teeth, spiders, scorpions, and on and on. Any one of these creatures would have been enough. I know that you can create endless swarms of creatures--or battle droids--with CGI, but . . . why? It certainly doesn't serve the ends of the story.