Why citizen kane is overrated

I could say that anyone who thinks Citizen Kane is the best movie is a smug snobby who wants to look more intelligent and sophisticated by liking something that is considered to be smart and sophisticated. Probably I would be right in many cases, but then there are people who are really connected to the movie and who are honestly affected by it so it would not be right for me to say that.

That was either intended as an ironic joke or you completely underminded your entire post with just one sentence. I can see how Citizen Kane is good. I understood all the metaphors and messages and stuff like that when I watched it. It was good, but not great, and certainly in my opinion not the best movie ever. Being a girl, I have to admit I never slept with a guy just because he could bullshit about a movie.

Most admiration for CK comes from people who learned to admire CK in film school where its wonder had to be shown to them by professors they held in high esteem anyway. It should be the greatest in the world! We can thank film schools for this honor. Now, think back a few years to when he created national panic over War of the Worlds on national radio.

People DIED during that fiasco and it took the nation some time afterward calming itself down and repairing the distrust and fear it created of the media and the government. How did this happen to a 24 year old nobody? Not only that, he marries a fabulously beautiful starlet and is the toast of the town as a genius everywhere he went.

How does that happen to this arrogant and disliked personally, little toad of a man? From a completely different direction consider this: In the s, Thule society and governments on both sides of the Atlantic were trying for some time to contact spirits and extraterrestials.

Even Tesla confessed at one point he got some of his ideas from other worldly communications and Edison swore he had invented a machine facilitating communication with the dead.

If you were the US govt aware of this presence, knowing it to be real, how would you tell a nation to prepare? The govt would lose face as crackpots. But you might want to do a trial run to test the waters. You give a nobody know-it-all something the green light to broadcast a fake invasion and wait to see what happens. Results not what we had hoped…. Maybe we tell them in smaller bits?

By then, people will have had time to adjust at their own pace, forming their own explanations as they go along. In the lull, we prepare as a govt as we can.

CK is a masterpiece because film schools say it is. And now, after class, they see clearly why they like it. But the average film go-er around the world knew it was just OK — not because they were too stupid to know any better — but because they knew an OK film when they saw it.

It is a dark, interesting film with weak ending that could not have been heralded as astonishing without big money and ivy league educational control to make it happen. You say that few people have sat through Citizen Kane and considered it phenomenal? I was still blown away by Citizen Kane. Both those movies I find the excellent example of style over substance. Man, if you find difficul, just give up now.

Teenagers the whole world over have had no problem following the story and enjoying the movie for close to fifty years. K: Nobody died because of War of the Worlds. Some people brought up solid insights yet, call me film snob, but its genuis is underestimated by those outside the film industry.

I show the film in a Intro to Film class and while I wholeheartedly agree, especially in first viewing, the story can be a bit underwhelming. Every level of film excelence is achieved. But here is the final point — its ability to achieve this excellence on every level gives it the well-earned masterpiece status. If not, then damn near so. And if not, then what? Birth of a Nation? The Great Dictator? Rear Window?

Lawerence of Arabia? The Godfather? Gone With the Wind? Wizard of Oz? Un Chien Andalou? Star Wars? I have tried and tried to sit through this boring bloody movie, but have never succeeded. This is only because they were forced to read it at school, and in some cases it is possibly the only novel which they have read in their entire lives. I think that almost everyone here especially Sean took this humorous and light-hearted review way, way too seriously.

Sean lapsed into a total nerd-rage and I have to say it was hilarious and much more entertaining than Citizen Kane! But as for that nerd-rage of his, get over it. People like you just want to look superior by bashing something that most people consider to be good. In all honesty, Kane was a really good movie.

Anyone who knows anything about Orson Welles knows he milked an entire career out of this film; he never once deflected praise for himself or this movie. In fact no one took more bows for himself and his work than Orson Welles. Now, how am I going to delete it from my memory? You are commenting using your WordPress.

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Moment joyrider, 21, led police on mph chase through streets of Manchester. Destiny 2 Xur location: Where is Xur today and what is he selling this week? Few of these techniques were invented by Welles and Toland on Citizen Kane ; their genius came in combining all these different ideas in order to tell a structurally complex story about the rise and fall of an American newspaper tycoon.

Just to cite a few:. Ironically, critics sometimes hold up these indelible frames as evidence that Citizen Kane is nothing more than a showcase of empty, emotionless techniques. Welles and co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz Mank! In his big campaign speech, he even calls for the prosecution of his political enemies.

Kane, he says But he never believed in anything except Charlie Kane. He never had a conviction except Charlie Kane in his life.