<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post113490757676452388..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113513085545912842</id><published>2005-12-20T21:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-20T21:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;now listed among the top 250 rated films of all t...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;now listed among the top 250 rated films of all time at the Internet Movie DataBase&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;Those IMDB statistics suffer from a sort of recency bias, where the highest scores come at times most proximal to initial release.  Maybe it&#39;s an enthusiast&#39;s bias, as in, the earlier someone goes to see a film, the more likely that person is already pointed in favor of enjoying the film.  IMDB does not </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113513085545912842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113513085545912842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html?showComment=1135130820000#c113513085545912842' title=''/><author><name>Lester</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04219479023387881600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113490757676452388' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113490757676452388' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1478288716"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113503277297012657</id><published>2005-12-19T17:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-19T17:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>There&#39;s much truth in what you say Patrick, and in...</title><summary type='text'>There&#39;s much truth in what you say Patrick, and in what Denby said; why &quot;for once&quot; by the way? He seems a pretty reliable reviewer to me, if not quite as witty as Anthony Lane. His piece on Gibson&#39;s The Passion of Christ was very well-written as I remember. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anyway, despite your points, much of KK worked for me, mainly because I found the ape himself convincing. Yeah, there was an over </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113503277297012657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113503277297012657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html?showComment=1135032720000#c113503277297012657' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11217856911720898729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113490757676452388' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113490757676452388' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876787782"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113502681052781115</id><published>2005-12-19T16:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-19T16:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Ron,I&#39;m sorry to see you lavish such praise o...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m sorry to see you lavish such praise on Kong, which struck me as a classic case of what happens when a director lets success go to his head -- elephantiasis of the imagination. I found it bloated with excess (three T-Rexs? Penises with teeth?) and except for the wonderland phantasmagoria of 1930s NYC singularly lacking in magic. Watts is quite good, though what good is in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113502681052781115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113502681052781115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html?showComment=1135026780000#c113502681052781115' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113490757676452388' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113490757676452388' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113500368485566388</id><published>2005-12-19T09:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-19T09:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It sounds promising. You&#39;re the first person I hea...</title><summary type='text'>It sounds promising. You&#39;re the first person I heard mention a kick@ss lead lady. Everyone else just said CGICGICGI. I&#39;ll have to check it out.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113500368485566388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113500368485566388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html?showComment=1135003680000#c113500368485566388' title=''/><author><name>Pearl</name><uri>http://www.pagehalffull.com/humanyms/</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113490757676452388' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113490757676452388' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113498476707519136</id><published>2005-12-19T04:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-19T04:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>a friend guided me to your blog after reading my r...</title><summary type='text'>a friend guided me to your blog after reading my review on king kong. truly inspiring film. &lt;BR/&gt;do drop by would love to hear what you think bout the review from a different side of the planet.&lt;BR/&gt;;-)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113498476707519136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113498476707519136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html?showComment=1134984720000#c113498476707519136' title=''/><author><name>balihai</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08787473564732829934</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113490757676452388' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113490757676452388' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1881305901"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113495035660181297</id><published>2005-12-18T18:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-18T18:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yep Nada, the cliff scene was special. Great stuff...</title><summary type='text'>Yep Nada, the cliff scene was special. Great stuff, a roller coaster ride to be sure, not to mention an ecological fabel. Monsters were nice n nasty too, and none slimier than ourselves of course.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113495035660181297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113495035660181297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html?showComment=1134950340000#c113495035660181297' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11217856911720898729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113490757676452388' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113490757676452388' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876787782"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 18, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113494150947156543</id><published>2005-12-18T16:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-18T16:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve been bumming mine from the monster... squande...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve been bumming mine from the monster... squandered my best Cuban on a mythical New Formalist&#39;s forehead.  That&#39;s Camera Lucida, right?  You don&#39;t need special effects if your country has real frogs and no Falwell. Always fun to read Kirk.  Saw the preview which was fun and the preferable running time.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113494150947156543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113494150947156543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html?showComment=1134941460000#c113494150947156543' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113490757676452388' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113490757676452388' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 18, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113493689167187184</id><published>2005-12-18T15:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-18T15:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Jack Black was Jackson&#39;s first choice for Frodo. H...</title><summary type='text'>Jack Black was Jackson&#39;s first choice for Frodo. His first choice for Kong, too. But the evil money wraiths at the studio wouldn&#39;t let him have his way. Meanwhile, on another part of the mysterious island, the mythic monster is running low on cigars. He turns to the camera: Ce n&#39;etait pas les effets speciaux qui a tue la bete...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113493689167187184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113493689167187184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html?showComment=1134936840000#c113493689167187184' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113490757676452388' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113490757676452388' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 18, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113491793036012055</id><published>2005-12-18T09:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-18T09:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh good. This sounds like a treat. And Watts, bles...</title><summary type='text'>Oh good. This sounds like a treat. And Watts, bless her, &quot;has to parody Kate Winslet from Titanic&quot;. Yummy. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The last review I read of KK was Denby&#39;s in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He seems to think Jackson&#39;s missed the boat by failing to realise KK&#39;s potential as a &quot;goofy fable&quot; (partly by ommiting any &quot;lewd&quot; jokes) and that the film is far too long </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113491793036012055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113491793036012055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html?showComment=1134917880000#c113491793036012055' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11217856911720898729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113490757676452388' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113490757676452388' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876787782"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 18, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113491766766311286</id><published>2005-12-18T09:54:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-18T09:54:00.001-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A quibble, but Marilyn Monroe was not a size 4!  W...</title><summary type='text'>A quibble, but Marilyn Monroe was not a size 4!  Watts was indeed amazing in this film, especially when juggling on the cliff.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113491766766311286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113491766766311286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html?showComment=1134917640001#c113491766766311286' title=''/><author><name>Nada</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01448534316756256503</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113490757676452388' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113490757676452388' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1564832188"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 18, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113491764629484964</id><published>2005-12-18T09:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-18T09:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I disagree.  While I was taken with Naomi Watts an...</title><summary type='text'>I disagree.  While I was taken with Naomi Watts and her range, I kept thinking of Nicole Kidman, for which I think Jackson is to blame as director.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I also found Jack black to twice revert to his more famous persona, which pulled me out of the film.  I felt he was at those times going to start talking about Ted Nugent, but of course, true toi Jack Black character, call him &quot;The Nuge.&quot;  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113491764629484964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113490757676452388/comments/default/113491764629484964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html?showComment=1134917640000#c113491764629484964' title=''/><author><name>Justin Evans</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12161484350184865575</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-film-that-is-basically-cinematic.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113490757676452388' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113490757676452388' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1408752233"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 18, 2005"/></entry></feed>