Can the "average" modern movie goer fairly evaluate Citizen Kane?
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lazlopanaflex — 10 years ago(August 29, 2015 02:44 AM)
All things are a question of taste-you don't like it that's your privilege. I personally hate Star Wars but acknowledge the influence it has on film. With Kane it's a writer/producer/actors first film there has not been anything since to surpass it in that category.
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amyghost — 10 years ago(September 25, 2015 04:08 AM)
So what? Your responses have had precious little to do with what the OP is asking, but that hasn't stopped you from posting them.
You're like a blowfly with a decomposed corpse on this boardyou can't stop buzzing around it. Which looks peculiar as hell, considering it's a film you claim to have no interest in.
People who constantly hang around boards which cover subjects they have no interest in, only to disparage the subject can often enough be spelled out in one word: T-R-O-L-L. Since you graduated from high school in 1994, I feel fairly confident you can identify that word. -
amyghost — 10 years ago(September 25, 2015 04:10 AM)
Don't feed the attention-craving troll. She simply wants someone to validate her intelligence, without having to be put to the inconvenience of having to display any.
Despite the fact that I've seen hundreds of classics
Drop by the CFB sometime, and watch her preface nearly every film-related comment she makes (out of the many OT ones) with "I couldn't get through ten minutes of that film" or "Great film, I don't remember anything about it". -
Boomer-Baby — 10 years ago(September 25, 2015 09:22 AM)
Drop by the CFB sometime, and watch her preface nearly every film-related comment she makes (out of the many OT ones) with
"I couldn't get through ten minutes of that film"
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"Great film, I don't remember anything about it".
People need to boycott posters that say those words. Watch the whole thing or keep your mouth shut. That should be between you & your cat only. -
Boomer-Baby — 10 years ago(September 25, 2015 01:00 PM)
You gave it a fair shot. Kudos to you.
It was a film of its time, with Hearst and his control of the media. And Orson Welles used very innovative camera shots. I got to see it in the massive Thalia Theater & it was an experience I'll never forget. We went out afterwards with theater people & discussed it at a coffee bar. Do I want to see it again? No, I've done the Citizen Kane experience. It was fab, & I enjoyed watching how the light played around on the huge screen, enjoyed the story of a man with too much power, his newspaper, the politics, the ending with "Rosebud", laughed at his choice of mistress, his castle, the art, enjoyed the swanky people in the coffee bar afterwards, but it is filed away under 'good experience but enough.' (I did watch it on TCM later, to catch Alan Ladd in the film. Yes, he's very obvious, but I never noticed him on the big screen, oddly.)
However I do respect its place in movie history. I've had friends who were studying film making at NYU, and who take this film quite seriously. There is a reason for its legend. However I do think a person needs to be well rested before seeing it, as it is very long, and quite involved. Same as with Gone with the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, etc.