Just watched it for the first time last night. Wasn't that impressed. It was okay but I don't see why it's consistently considered one of the best movies of all time and I really don't get the 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

It was great for its time. It doesn't seem great now because so many other movies have copied it that it seems boring. People at the time loved it

Modern day audiences won't appreciate it because it is kinda boring. I'm not even sure 1940 audiences appreciated it. It's considered the greatest, not because it's an amazing movie to watch, it's considered the greatest because of how it changed film making. It's pretty much the movie version of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

You can gain a better appreciation for the film if you watch documentary film The Battle Over Citizen Kane. Not sure where you might be able to find it now, it aired in the late '90s as part of PBS' American Experience series. Even so, I think it is vastly overrated.

umm, The Wizard of Oz and Gone With The Wind 2 years earlier are better films. How did citizen Kane change filmmaking?

Tried it. Could not finish it.

I just started Raging Bull. Meh, don't think I'll finish

It's definitely a garbage movie, OP. You are correct.

If Citizen Kane were made today it would be a movie about George Soros

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In fact, a Boston Globe writer dubbed it the "Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies."

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WTF are you saying OP?

watched it, didn't really enjoy it, and am not well informed enough to understand what was so special about it. I'm sure there's something, or many things.

(Maybe one of them is just "cool kids" adopting the attitudes/opinions of cool kids before them to fit in, though?)

Considering how most people's live were in 1940, I'd go watch us lose 77-0 to OU at the theater and call it a masterpiece.

A large percentage of professional film critics consider Citizen Kane #1 of all movies. But to each his own, I guess.

If you were to list one (1) and only one "greatest film" what would it be?

Can we rename this thread to "most overrated disaster of all time?"

Gone with the wind

I love movies from that era, but not CK. Just didn't do it for me. Some of my cinematography-geek friends explained how cool that stuff was, and I can appreciate that, but there's no way that should be the AFI #1 movie of the 20th century.

ETA: In answer to Hey Nav's question, I'd go with Casablanca.

People still put Rebel Without a Cause on a pedestal too...

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A large percentage of professional film critics consider Citizen Kane #1 of all movies. But to each his own, I guess.

If you were to list one (1) and only one "greatest film" what would it be?

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I wouldn't rank it #1 because I don't think it really registers with the general public. I would put Godfather #1 because it is universally loved while also being highly acclaimed with critics and film geeks. Citizen Kane is one of those movies that people watch, but never really want to watch again. If a movie has to be analyzed to see the greatness in it, It shouldn't be considered the greatest ever made.

A lot of my admiration for CITIZEN KANE is tied up with knowing how William Randolph Hearst did everything he could to keep it from ever being released because the main character is very clearly based on Hearst. I look at it as one of the greatest movies ever made, but wouldn't put it anywhere near the top of the list.

I know nothing about film making and I have a hard time with lists.

There are so many films that I think are great. And that's good enough for me.

That said, Hank Hill rented The Great Santini 23 times from the video store, and I respect that.

If I had to pick one favorite, it would be American Graffiti.

Citizen Kane is like a tech demo of "Here is how we could make amazing movies, and they'll be art," and it's so weird and unnatural (not in the charming Wes Anderson way) that it's constantly drawing your attention to its fun little tricks.

M*A*S*H is horrible. Do not watch.

Sine poena nulla lex.

Sine poena nulla lex.

That's a difficult question to answer because my taste in movies is all over the map. I think the best films are those that you can watch over again. Movies that I would watch anytime they're on are Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, The Big Lebowski, Inglourious Basterds, Whiplash, Tropic Thunder, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the Departed, etc. I think if pressed, I would say the movie that fits the bill of both classically good movie and one that I enjoy watching is Shawshank Redemption.

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A large percentage of professional film critics consider Citizen Kane #1 of all movies. But to each his own, I guess.

If you were to list one (1) and only one "greatest film" what would it be?

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To Kill a Mockingbird



My favorite movie of all time is The Philadelphia Story though.

If this thread is devolving into a discussion of what are the greatest movies ever made;

2001 A Space Odyssey

Needs to be mentioned

I loved it the first time I watched it. The main reason for that though was I watched it in HS and had a very intelligent English teacher who LOVED pointing out all the little uses of imagery and foreshadowing that most films at the time this was made never did.

So that really helped with my appreciation for it

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FIFY

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Gone With the Wind 2: Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore

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Modern day audiences won't appreciate it because it is kinda boring. I'm not even sure 1940 audiences appreciated it. It's considered the greatest, not because it's an amazing movie to watch, it's considered the greatest because of how it changed film making. It's pretty much the movie version of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the movie, was even better than CK.

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