<?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.post2180131043885996542..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/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.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>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2917505328640807796</id><published>2007-12-17T13:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-17T13:24:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s interesting to see that Pullman&#39;s trilogy rem...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s interesting to see that Pullman&#39;s trilogy remained almost unknown (apparently) in the US (and maybe everywhere else) until this film, when you will hardly find anyone in the UK with eyes to read who hasn&#39;t at least held the three books. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Unlike Ron, I found Dakota Blue Richards&#39; performance appalling. She is indeed cute, but she urgently needs some acting classes (or a better </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/2917505328640807796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/2917505328640807796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html?showComment=1197915840000#c2917505328640807796' title=''/><author><name>Ernesto</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03953877785664466289</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/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2180131043885996542' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2180131043885996542' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1208458607"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 17, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-664355803905890206</id><published>2007-12-12T17:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T17:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hmm, I passed asleep last night, halfway thru a bo...</title><summary type='text'>Hmm, I passed asleep last night, halfway thru a bootleg of this film.  So, you&#39;ve really hit the spot here for me . . .</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/664355803905890206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/664355803905890206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html?showComment=1197499920000#c664355803905890206' title=''/><author><name>J Crockett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15430253706561827669</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://listenlight.net/media/jess02.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2180131043885996542' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2180131043885996542' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1299334260"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8529026287985405154</id><published>2007-12-12T03:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T03:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Not having read the books, I enjoyed encountering ...</title><summary type='text'>Not having read the books, I enjoyed encountering the author&#39;s ideas in this form: as toned down as many say it was, it was still a nice little substantial surprise at the multiplex.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also, I wasn&#39;t able to place Ian McShane as the voice of Ragnar while watching the movie, but when I saw his name in the credits, I was disappointed that I didn&#39;t get to hear him call Iorek a cocksucker.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/8529026287985405154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/8529026287985405154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html?showComment=1197449520000#c8529026287985405154' title=''/><author><name>W. Australopithecus</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01493419010195823747</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f377/australopithecus1/blogopithecus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2180131043885996542' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2180131043885996542' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-801818652"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6473619770675050924</id><published>2007-12-11T21:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-11T21:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>From what I heard it was the author who asked the ...</title><summary type='text'>From what I heard it was the author who asked the director to tone down much of the message he puts in his books so to get children to read his anti Christian (though I disagree that these people represent the religion well) book. But making interesting books into bad movies seems to be the thing now a days (though to non Harry Potter fans I guess the movies are good... I guess)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/6473619770675050924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/6473619770675050924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html?showComment=1197425880000#c6473619770675050924' title=''/><author><name>M. Chase Whittemore</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09363425659578617275</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/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2180131043885996542' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2180131043885996542' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-993708633"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1819262863897176767</id><published>2007-12-11T13:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-11T13:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I saw this last Sunday, and when asked how it was,...</title><summary type='text'>I saw this last Sunday, and when asked how it was, I said it was, at least, a real movie, but that the LOTR and Harry Potter movies are better.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I also noticed the Star Wars thing, which I found odd but kind of cool because, really, when was the last time Star Wars influenced a fantasy movie?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;However, I have no idea how anybody can advocate this movie being 3 hours. I was </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/1819262863897176767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/1819262863897176767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html?showComment=1197396300000#c1819262863897176767' title=''/><author><name>Logan Ryan Smith</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03267444929810505425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1379/1351463229_14e53e3636.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2180131043885996542' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2180131043885996542' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-790052993"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8006898479093600850</id><published>2007-12-11T11:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-11T11:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i saw it this weekend too. having read the whole s...</title><summary type='text'>i saw it this weekend too. having read the whole series of the books, i think the mess is mostly the fault of the director and/or editor and/or screenwriter(s). egads. they tried to cram entirely too much into a scant 2 hours, when it could easily have been three, like you say. the intro of the kids playing and the drawn out scenes at the college could have been cut way down, for one. some of the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/8006898479093600850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/8006898479093600850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html?showComment=1197388980000#c8006898479093600850' title=''/><author><name>shanna</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.shannacompton.com/shanna_halloween.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2180131043885996542' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2180131043885996542' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8545298458685734730</id><published>2007-12-11T11:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-11T11:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Pullman&#39;s books (Golden Compass was the first of t...</title><summary type='text'>Pullman&#39;s books (&lt;I&gt;Golden Compass&lt;/I&gt; was the first of three) are some of the most original fantasy I&#39;ve read in a long, long time. For the moviemakers to have reduced it to a set of warmed-over cliches is both amazing and appalling.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/8545298458685734730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/8545298458685734730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html?showComment=1197388920000#c8545298458685734730' title=''/><author><name>Tiel Aisha Ansari</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03994169558252043919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_PrYnug9SYl0/RfAtQKUW8ZI/AAAAAAAAAAc/VOR-9ZYkAP0/s320/Picture+001.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2180131043885996542' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2180131043885996542' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-659844337"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3420327501406694332</id><published>2007-12-11T10:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-11T10:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>If you keep your files straight, Ron, you will hav...</title><summary type='text'>If you keep your files straight, Ron, you will have material enough, eventually, to publish separate volumes of criticism on film, dance, poetry, art, music, fashion, and maybe even philosophy.  I can&#39;t think of many poets, offhand, who would have that eclectic, and active, a range.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/3420327501406694332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2180131043885996542/comments/default/3420327501406694332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html?showComment=1197385260000#c3420327501406694332' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/12/this-way-to-hogwarts-not-having-read.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2180131043885996542' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2180131043885996542' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2007"/></entry></feed>