I grimace when I see some of the films above this in the top 250. 6 Christopher Nolan films including Interstellar and D
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TREATsize — 10 years ago(September 11, 2015 06:15 AM)
Great answer MrsElleryQueen. I have probably rated 100 Black and white movies 8 or higher. Citizen Kane was not one of them. It is not about Interstellar or The Joker or Batman or whatever the OP was referring to.
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 10 years ago(September 11, 2015 01:45 PM)
I don't know whether to laugh or to cry whenever I see a post on the boards which says something along the lines of "You didn't like
Citizen Kane
? Go and watch
Transformers
." Geez, to me that means that those people who make those comments have probably only seen two movies (
Citizen Kane
and
Transformers
), so they can't make any other comparisons.
I have a good reply for such folks: I just tell them that I'm not smart enough for either movie, that I'm still trying to understand the
Road Runner
episodes. Works each time. They get off my back.Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen -
amyghost — 10 years ago(September 12, 2015 08:00 AM)
Why do you keep returning to this board? You have zero interest in the film, you disparage those who do, and you just keep posting the same non-observations over and over again. Aren't they missing you over on some of the whodunnits boards, or the Ellery Queen and Jim Hutton threads?
I have no idea of what your actual intelligence quotient might be, but what you do here doesn't make you come off as appearing any too bright.
You weird obsession with this film as being some sort of yardstick people are using to measure your intelligence by says a lot more damaging about you than it does about Welles or this film. -
!!!deleted!!! (62253032) — 10 years ago(August 31, 2015 12:10 PM)
lazzlopanaflex
The problem with Citizen Kane to some people could be that it was perhaps more of a great movie for its time. To some people, this movie might not seem particularly entertaining on today's standards. Some people might think it is a slow burner. I have not seen this movie so I cannot say what I think. -
mussobrennon — 10 years ago(September 14, 2015 07:00 PM)
It should be number 1. I don't understand how people don't like the story or whatever. There could be zero technical innovations and narrative innovations in this movie and it would still be in the top ten based on story alone.
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SArts-Entertainment — 10 years ago(November 29, 2015 08:26 PM)
I agree completely. The story is, still, fascinating and the script was nothing shy of genius. On top of which, the film WAS innovative, on both the technically and narrative fronts. And now add to that the fact that it's flawlessregardless of what's on the "goofs" page, as all of those "errors" listed were intentional, or are inaccurate. Welles made the film that influenced every American director/writer, and inspired 90% of the other great films, that followed.
How this film isn't listed in the top five is mind boggling. Ten years ago on this website, "Citizen Kane" and "Casablanca" were both in the top ten, and "Kane" was often switching places at number one with "The Shawshank Redemption". Now, "Citizen Kane" is number 65 and "Casablanca" is 33. "Shawshank" hasn't movednor should it. But, why then, the sharp rating decrease for "Kane"? This drop is totally unfounded. This is obviously the product of a concerted movement by the film's detractors, including Gen-Y'ers and Hipsters who've never even seen it, to intentionally lower the film on IMDb's list.
Every single person that has allowed this drop to happen over the past ten years is at fault. More specifically and quite bluntly, everyone who intentionally down-voted "Citizen Kane" is an beep -
Abner_Kadabner — 9 years ago(February 06, 2017 09:13 AM)
As I write this it has moved down to the #69 position (right now somebody somewhere is giggling to himself). The thing about art is that no matter what the subject is, everybody's right and everybody's wrong. If I think that Jackson Pollack is great painter and someone else thinks he's dreadful, we're both right. And we're both wrong. I personally can't understand why anyone wouldn't think that Citizen Kane isn't a great film. But there are people who do. And it's their loss. Maybe someday they'll understand.
But the direct answer to your question is that it's the Millennials. They ruin everything.
Everyone may have an opinion but very few seem to have an informed one.