I'm beginning to think there's more to this picture than Citizen Kane.

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Kray2013 — 12 years ago(January 14, 2014 03:03 AM)

I totally agree. CK is a vastly overhyped movie and I was bored out of my wits. I cant say if Third Man is the greatest movie ever made but it is certainly better than CK.

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wyanddeb — 11 years ago(August 07, 2014 05:55 PM)

I agree. The Third Man is my favorite film.

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Goranjake — 11 years ago(September 05, 2014 09:41 PM)

Third Man is more exciting, and the way it's filmed gets better every time I watch it.

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ABetterDay — 10 years ago(July 22, 2015 03:26 PM)

Citizen Kane is one of the Top 10 over-rated films in Hollywood history. Not a bad film, just not worth the lofty position it has been given.
The Third Man, by contrast, is (IMO) easily Welles' best work. It is indeed one that only gets better with each viewing. There are so many subtle nuances that Welles hid in the film that you don't grasp the first time. Or the second.
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PillowRock — 10 years ago(December 04, 2015 03:35 PM)

Welles didn't direct
The Third Man
. He acted in it, and wrote some additional dialog. But he wasn't who layered nuances into
The Third Man
; that would would be Carol Reed and Graham Green.
As for
Citizen Kane
, it's worth noting that the lists that have
Kane
at (or near) the top are usually ranking the "
greatest
movies", not the "best" or "most enjoyable". Those are different things. When you start talking about "greatness", you start having to give movies credit for such things as how innovative a movie is and how influential a movie was on all that came after it. The AFI's "100 Years, 100 Movies" ballot form and instructions are posted on their web site (or, at least, they used to be; I haven't gone looking for that in quite a while now). Those AFI instructions to their voters explicitly told them that those things mattered and were to be taken into account.
I, too, am far more prone to re-watching
The Third Man
than
Citizen Kane
. However, I have absolutely no problem with
Kane
being ranked at the top of "greatest movies" lists.

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bigbluecheese — 10 years ago(December 22, 2015 04:31 PM)

Im watching The Third Man right now and I was just thinking the same thing. For me, its in a class of its own.
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leadingrole344 — 9 years ago(June 01, 2016 02:58 AM)

For me, this is just about the greatest movie ever made, with "On the Waterfront" and "Citizen Kane" right alongside it.

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Strazdamonas — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 02:49 AM)

So basically what you are saying is that "Greatest" movies lists are irrelevant and one should look for most enjoyable ones instead.
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Musashi94 — 9 years ago(November 19, 2016 11:05 AM)

They're both great movies but the Third Man is definitely more entertaining and more re-watchable.

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Takeshi-K — 9 years ago(November 19, 2016 06:56 PM)

Ive never seen Citizen Kane, but it has to be better than this boring movie. The photography is great, but thats about it. Its a complicated mess of a film.