Don't even ask me how this movie is rated the #1 movie ever made. It's ahead of it's time but that in no way gives it the right to hold spot #1. I really admire Orsen Welles work but this movie was pretty boring. The technical aspects were amazing!

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Watch more movies...that is all.

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you have to take it in the context of the time period.

it was so revolutionary, and so ahead of its time, that even though we, almost sixty years later might find it boring, people at the time had never seen anything like it before.

"yesterday i got so old i thought that i would die"

I don't think that time period is of any relevance when you are discussing the best movies of all time. Just because it was groundbreaking at the time doesn't make it the best of all time.

Good movies transcend time. If it's good now it will be good sixty years from now. Could it be one of the most influential movies of all time? Sure.

I personally am not crazy about Citizen Kane. Touch of Evil was way better in my opinion.

What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger.

Cannibal probably just posted the most intelligent reply to Citizen Kane ever.

It makes total sense, easy to understand, doesn't defend the film, just states everything in clear English.


Its everything I've always wanted to say about it, but couldn't because I can't think very well.

NOTE: NO SARCASM

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"Kyle Johnson, definately my favortie of all. He is brilliant. Absolutely Brilliant!" - Kris Kimlin

I disagree- I think things (films, artworks, books, whatever) are very tied to their contexts. While some stories have lasting value (the Bible, for example), they require new interpretation in new contexts. I think people are starting to realize that Kane is out of its context, and also beginning to reinterpret it. I suppose the question is whether it will bear scrutiny in a modern context.

Granted, the fact that the Bible is still relevant (to varying degrees) attests to its value as a great work (quite apart from the religious value it has to some).

i think ppl r afraid. of what u say? well of being conformed. i dont blame em. i mean who doesnt want to be that first person to sya citizen kane is the greatest film ever, than have everyone follow along. it nice. so ppl may hate it or like it but because it is built up so much it distorts ur expectations and maybe in a wanting to be distinct, u dislike it. or maybe u wanna be accepted or feel u know the truth when u say its the greatest film ever.

HAHHA that movie sucked! I had to watch it in film class and slept half the time. It's boring. It may have been the best movie then but now it SUCKS big time. I agree with the last guy everyone follows along and says it's the best because of who said it to begin with. I think it sucked. Lord of the Rings ****s on this, Donnie Darko ****s on this, Braveheart ****s on this. A entire list of movies ****s on this.

What does Studentfilms.com mean to you?

if you slept through half of it, what right do you have to judge it?

i can see why many dont think its the best film of all time, i certainly dont. its not one of my favorites either, but i still apreciate it for what it meant. and if youre going to compare it to movies that s hit on it, then atleast pick films that came out in the same time frame. hell, fifty years from now brave heart may be shi tted on, donnie darko may be sh itted on (i doubt it, but damnit im trying to make a point!) and the flicks you listed are highly entertaining. ill be the first to admit, citizen kane is not a movie you watch to be entertained.

wait..am i starting to contradict myself here?

if youre looking for a witty signature, youre looking in the wrong place.

Yep

What does Studentfilms.com mean to you?

damn. allright, il tell you what. just ignore my last post and concentrate your efforts on this:

if you slept through half of it, what right do you have to judge it?

if youre looking for a witty signature, youre looking in the wrong place.

I never said I slept through half of it, I said I kept falling asleep. I have the same rights as you buddy that's because i'm an American.

What does Studentfilms.com mean to you?

I had to watch it in film class and slept half the time.

oh my bad. i thought you meant that you slept half the time. but then again, if youre watching a movie in a class, your obliged to fall asleep

if youre looking for a witty signature, youre looking in the wrong place.

I thought it was good. Well done film, good story, fantastic editing/cinematography. Plus there's a nice history behind it as well as the struggle for Orson Welles to have it shown. Should it be #1 on the movie list? Not in my opinion. Everyone's #1 movie is going to be different of course, so the list itself, to me, is pointless and idiotic. That aside, it's kinda silly to put a movie as #1 just because its revolutionary. We might as well count Edison's movies as #1 just for creating a movie when there were none.

Has anybody seen the Family Guy were Peter tapes over Citizen Kane?

Andrew H Paul

HAHA... dude I was just thinking that. [Spoiler]

[Peter]: "It's his sled it was his sled from when he was a kid. There I just saved you 2 long boobless hours."

Oh ya that! i remember that. haven't seen citizen kane, but its still funny.

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"Me? I'm dishonest. And you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones, you want to be afraid of."

If you know all that went into that movie then you would never bad mouth it. If you did, then almost every movie in history would have to suck too, because there is so so so so so so much effort, planning, ideas and on and on put into each and every shot of that movie.

"what does studentfilms mean to me"

Well it means a fairly large group of know it alls, *****ers and young ignorant wanna be film makers who are too busy talking sh*t to make any films of their own.

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Good descip of yerself Mind!

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