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-I've recently been deleting some negative comments regarding the film that have been inserted at the bottom of the "Response" section.  The only reason I've removed them is because the comments are unsourced  and, therefore, simply sound like the opinion of the editor who made the additions. It should be pretty easy to find citations for the claim that most people feel the film is "vastly inferior" to the original, or that it allegedly received "mostly hostile" reviews at the time of its initial release. I think both of these views are already addressed in the article, but from a more reality-based perspective, in the line indicating "While the film received mostly mixed responses from critics, especially from fans of the original ''King Kong'', it did receive extremely positive reviews from several prominent mainstream critics."  This clearly shows that the film was judged unfavorably by some critics in comparison to the original.  Also, I don't believe the film received any "hostile" reviews outside of the small fantasy film fan magazines (such as ''[[Cinefantastique]]''); most of the major reviewers had genuinely mixed reactions to the film.  Note [[Vincent Canby]]'s review in the ''[[New York Times]]''[http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?_r=1&title1=&title2=King%20Kong%20%28Movie%29&reviewer=VINCENT%20CANBY&pdate=19761218&v_id=27392&oref=slogin] that found much to praise and pan in the movie. I think that particular review was very typical of most of the critical responses to the movie.[[User:Hal Raglan|Hal Raglan]] 20:40, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
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-:Yes of course however despite some of its success, its worth noting that this film wasn't a "grand hit" as the section implies since multiple review sites and users at IMDB aren't as forgiving. The term mixed is good enough. [[User:Stabby Joe|Stabby Joe]] 19:38, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
-::I disagree. Since many of the obscure, amateur "critics" on the "multiple review sites" you mention erroneously believe the film's initial critical reaction was overwhelmingly negative, I believe its important to mention in the article that the major, notable reviewers at the time either actually gave the film a mixed review, or, as noted in the article, responded favorably.-[[User:Hal Raglan|Hal Raglan]] 14:41, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
-:::Do know that we are talking about it for its time and the the section is presented implies great success even tough if anything its regarded inferior to the original and 2005 remake and that the reviews enjoyed the film but didn't take it seriously, word like "joke" and "comic". [[User:Stabby Joe|Stabby Joe]] 22:47, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
-I removed the portion of the response section which claimed that this movie helped launch the career of Jeff Bridges.  He had already earned two Academy Award nominations prior to appearing in King Kong, and had been acting since he was a youth (along with his brother, Beau) in television as well as movies.  The portion about Jessica Lange's career being launched by the film was left intact. [[User:ChargersFan|ChargersFan]] ([[User talk:ChargersFan|talk]]) 16:07, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
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-== Explanation of recent revert ==
-A frequent editor of this article reverted some changes I made and I have restored them. The explanation is as follows.
-*After Dwan tells them her name, she goes on to explain her real name is Dawn and that she rearranged the letters to make it more showy. It may not be but I feel mention of this is relevant.
-*There is no evidence Dwan is an actress. She says she was hoping to get into movies by going on the yacht so "wannabe" is probably a more accurate adjective.
-*It was not specifically a "rich mans" yacht. Dwan says it was the "directors" yacht. Obviously he was rich but that was not her stated interest.
-*The oil was found after finding the wall so my edit simply put it in the correct order of discovery.
-*I replaced "babbling" with "rambling". Babbling means ''meaningless incoherent babylike sounds'' while rambling means ''continuous talk lacking regularity or purpose''. Dwan was rambling not babbling.<br />I don't want to step on anyones toes so if you feel any of these are a problem I'm willing to listen. [[User:WLRoss|Wayne]] ([[User talk:WLRoss|talk]]) 07:52, 8 May 2009 (UTC)