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>>>>>>>People flip over Citizen Kane, some even saying it's the best film ever. I've never watched it. I couldn't get through the first 10 mins without dying of boredom.
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>>>>>>"Some even saying"? It is almost ALWAYS ranked #1 in best movie polls. Maybe if the people who keep voting that way had only seen 10 minutes of it they might have a dimmer view ;-)
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>>>>>It's hard to tell from that comment wheter you're agreeing with me or criticising my lack of patience/taste :-)
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>>>>>Thing is: if I were given several films to see, to judge the best ever, and one failed to grab me within, say, 10-15 mins, I'd be tempted to skip over that and go on to the next (just like a job boss skimming a multitude of CVs - resumes). But a film that grabs you by the cahonies in the first minute, then runs with them - that's a different matter.
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>>>>>Call me a pleb but one of my favourite films is "Predator" ;-)
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>>>>I wasn't criticizing your taste, even if movies aimed at the cojones don't happen to be my cup of tea. Was just surprised that you damned "Citizen Kane" with such faint praise, especially not having seen it (other than the first few minutes).
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>>>Well, I have seen the odd clips from it over the years, esp in programmes about the best films of all time, et al, and my general impression has been that it's a load of cajones (thanks for the spelling :-). Mind you, I've never been too keen on ANY of Awful Wells's films, for that matter.
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>>Why thank me for the spelling if you're going to continue misspelling it?
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>Oh :-) I hear a definite "Ka" sound when I've heard it said so I didn't even notice the initail "o". Even after you wrote that I still couldn't see where I'd gone wrong for a while. Selective blindness I guess. :-)
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>>As far as Orson Welles, you've convinced me. Not only is "Citizen Kane" a lousy movie, so are all the rest of his movies. Thanks for setting me straight!
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>No need to get sarky! I just said I've never been keen on his films and did not try to convince you of this; it's just a matter of taste. What was that film with the r-e-a-l-l-y l-o-n-g one-camera opening scene (at a border crossing or summat)? Was that CK? That was impressive but the following film failed to grab me.


"Touch of Evil". It wasn't one of my favorites, either. Any movie that wants you to accept Charlton Heston as a Mexican starts out at a disadvantage IMO <g>.