Citizen Kane

[anon99989]

I just saw this movie and I have to say, that was the most boring fucking movie ever. This is supposed to be the best film ever?

I mean, he had all that money, he could have gone on a trip to the snow anytime. But he dies wishing he had gone sledding more. I mean, WTF???

Discuss.

[themessiahcomplex]

I mean, he had all that money, he could have gone on a trip to the snow anytime. But he dies wishing he had gone sledding more. I mean, WTF???



The point is that after everything he did and how important he became, he misses the simplicity and innocence of being a child playing in the snow.
This sounds like a troll thread though, I don't anyone could really think the point of that was just that he wanted to go sledding more.

[Yeah, I'm a leopard]

It was top of the line shit when it came out in 1814 or whenever the fuck it was filmed (compare it to other movies made around that time and you'll see), but by today standards its only the considered the #1 movie of all time (according to several sources) because jews control the entire media industry.

And this is why it's a good idea to stay the fuck away from movie discussion forums on the Internet.

[Fish]

I'll give you that it might not be the best movie of all time (personally, I like it), but the point is that it's one of the most important movies of all time. Orson Welles pretty much invented a cinematography style that didn't exist before he started making movies.

A lot of the techniques have been copied so often that to a modern-day viewer seeing the movie, there seems to be nothing special about the technical expertise. Angles, shadows, and mise-en-scene were all used to an effect previously unseen in movies. In many ways, it's a textbook of how to shoot a movie.

Like I said, it might not be the best movie ever, and it surely isn't the most exciting, but it was really significant for the time it came out, and it influenced a lot of the movies that came out after. Obviously, you aren't required to like it, but as someone who's spent a lot of time learning about film history and analysis, it's hard not to appreciate the film.

[pill popper]

The point is that after everything he did and how important he became, he misses the simplicity and innocence of being a child playing in the snow.
This sounds like a troll thread though, I don't anyone could really think the point of that was just that he wanted to go sledding more.

In other words this movie sucked

[Mister B]

I'll give you that it might not be the best movie of all time (personally, I like it), but the point is that it's one of the most important movies of all time. Orson Welles pretty much invented a cinematography style that didn't exist before he started making movies.

A lot of the techniques have been copied so often that to a modern-day viewer seeing the movie, there seems to be nothing special about the technical expertise. Angles, shadows, and mise-en-scene were all used to an effect previously unseen in movies. In many ways, it's a textbook of how to shoot a movie.

Like I said, it might not be the best movie ever, and it surely isn't the most exciting, but it was really significant for the time it came out, and it influenced a lot of the movies that came out after. Obviously, you aren't required to like it, but as someone who's spent a lot of time learning about film history and analysis, it's hard not to appreciate the film.

This.

I enjoyed watching Citizen Kane. I think it's a pretty good movie.

[hooloovoo]

So I come across this thread title thinking, 10-1 chances the OP is going to say something stupid and uneducated rather than make an insightful query or point about the film in question.

Then I read the thread to find that Orson Welles is apparently a Jew who made this movie in 1814, and Citizen Kane's big problem was that he didn't go sledding enough. Brilliant.

...anyhow, I agree with Fish.

[jailbaitjenkum]

Fish +1

[Rocko]

Was it an important movie? Yes.

Was it an entertaining movie? No.

[jailbaitjenkum]

movies aren't just for simplistic switch off entertainment man.

eg. audition - entertaining no - brilliant yes.

if you only watch movies for 2 hours of retardation or something "entertaining" then you'll run out of good flicks to watch fairly quickly. Best stick to the transporter and shit like that.

[anon99989]

The point is that after everything he did and how important he became, he misses the simplicity and innocence of being a child playing in the snow.
This sounds like a troll thread though, I don't anyone could really think the point of that was just that he wanted to go sledding more.

Dude, Rosebud = Sled!

Do you get it yet, mr genius Dr Einstein McHawkins???

[Yggdrasil]

movies aren't just for simplistic switch off entertainment man.

eg. audition - entertaining no - brilliant yes.

if you only watch movies for 2 hours of retardation or something "entertaining" then you'll run out of good flicks to watch fairly quickly. Best stick to the transporter and shit like that.

Get off your high-horsed pompous ass. A movie doesn't have to be "retarded" to be entertaining. The Monty Python films are absolutely brilliant and at the same time uproariously funny. That counts as entertainment, does it not? The Planet of the Apes (The original, mind you!) was a well written, well acted, and visually stunning film. Is that not entertainment?

Or do they not count as entertainment because I don't enjoy watching Citizen Kane and other such stiffs? Granted, the film is a momentous work, but it is not, by any stretch of your pompous imagination, an entertaining film.

[jailbaitjenkum]

Get off your high-horsed pompous ass. A movie doesn't have to be "retarded" to be entertaining. The Monty Python films are absolutely brilliant and at the same time uproariously funny. That counts as entertainment, does it not? The Planet of the Apes (The original, mind you!) was a well written, well acted, and visually stunning film. Is that not entertainment?

Or do they not count as entertainment because I don't enjoy watching Citizen Kane and other such stiffs? Granted, the film is a momentous work, but it is not, by any stretch of your pompous imagination, an entertaining film.

Look man, it's all a matter of personal perception. I wouldn't call Hestons' over acting in Planet of the Apes "well acted", but I enjoyed the flick all the same. Of course they count as entertainment even if you didn't like Citizen Kane, but just because you don't think of it as entertaining doesn't mean it's not. The direction, the way it's shot, the great acting, it's also quite visually stunning for the xanadu scenes (eespecially for the time) and the whole concept of the film making comment on celebrity society. I find the whole package entertaining. But, shit, that's just me and my big pompous imagination.

Each to their own I suppose.

[Yggdrasil]

Look man, it's all a matter of personal perception. I wouldn't call Hestons' over acting in Planet of the Apes "well acted", but I enjoyed the flick all the same. Of course they count as entertainment even if you didn't like Citizen Kane, but just because you don't think of it as entertaining doesn't mean it's not. The direction, the way it's shot, the great acting, it's also quite visually stunning for the xanadu scenes (eespecially for the time) and the whole concept of the film making comment on celebrity society. I find the whole package entertaining. But, shit, that's just me and my big pompous imagination.

Each to their own I suppose.

I feel a tad bad now. I guess you came off a bit worse than you did now. My apologies. I will grant that Citizen Kane was a trail-blazing work, but for me personally, it didn't captivate me. That's not to say it's not good, just that it didn't really appeal to me.