Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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Summary: Must see movie.
Review: Some of the reviews here say it is boring. Must have short attention spans. I haven't met anyone who disliked this movie.

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Summary: bunch of ignorant fools panning a terrific filn
Review: This is one of the five best films ever made. It is sad to see so many brainless people disrespect this film. Just goes to show what our society is coming to. Intelligent people will love this film,MTV worshippers should stay away (and even if you MTV worshippers do see this film and hate it,DON'T COME ON AMAZON AND WRITE A NEGATIVE,IGNORANT REVIEW!).

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Summary: uh.... point please?
Review: Yes, this is a "great" movie. No, it does not deserve the tile of best movie ever. I guess Casablanca, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Godfather just don't crack up to all that. W H A T E V E R !!!!!!!!! Citizen Kane is monotonouse and boring. by the end of the movie, you don't even care what "Rosebud" means. I'll admit, there is great cinemetography, but it seems forced. like he knew he was breaking bounderies and was trying as hard as he could (self-conciously) to make them better. I am not an ignorant, I love films and appreciate them all. i'm totally open to new types, but, yes,I must agree, Citizen Kane is grossly overrated.

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Summary: Good B-Movie
Review: What is all this hype about--Citizen Kane the greatest movie ever made? I don't understand how any perceptive movie addict can say something so overblown like this unless you've had a chance to see ALL the movies from the l900s, the 20s, the 30s before Kane was made--to compare them with Kane. Before he died, Orson Welles was convinced that some of our greatest movies were some of the B's made by Universal. These usually played the second half of a double-feature, were seen for a week, given no publicity and then vanished. One of these, a glittering little gem, "Night Monster" made in l941, was a particular favorite of Welles. The ravishing photography, by Charles Van Engel, the terrific cast of supporting actors-Fay Helm, Doris Lloyd, Bela Lugosi, Irene Hervey, etc. were all cited by Welles as being "fabulous." Yet, if this magnificent little study in horror were ever listed on the "Best Movies of All Time" imagine the hilarity by our Ivory Tower critics. Welles also greatly praised a forgotten l920 Fred Niblo masterpiece, "Sex" starring the long-gone vamp, Louise Glaum (this movie can be found on video). I'm not in a position to say what the greatest movie is--until I've seen the tens of thousands locked away, wasted away, or still kept from the public by studios. Citizen Kane is an interesting B movie. Like the genius he was, Welles knew which of the master's to borrow from in making his masterpiece.

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Summary: Not very impressed with it
Review: After all the hype surrounding this film I decided that I had better watch what was supposed to be the best film of the century. Maybe I expected to much from it but I was not impressed at all. It wasn't at all engaging and wasn't a very interesting story. Pity! I expected more

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Summary: Hamlet and Citizen Kane
Review: When I read some of the 'bad' reviews of this movie, I can't help thinking of an anaecdote of a 19th century woman who went to see Hamlet and wrote in her diary, "I can't understand what all of the fuss is about - the play is filled with the most trite and commonplace cliches..." Of course, she didn't understand that those 'cliches' originated with Shakespeare's play. In the same way as Hamlet has shaped the way we perceive our world, Citizen Kane has defined what we expect from film. It's fair for someone not to like this film, everyone has and is entitled to their own taste. But to call it 'dull' or 'bad' betrays the same sort of simplicity and ignorance as the aforementioned female theatregoer. Citizen Kane is, in fact, an extremely accessible film to watch and interpret - so pay attention when you watch it. If you don't get what's so special about this movie - and why generations of filmmakers acknowledge it's preeminent place in the history of film - keep watching it until you do!

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Summary: Only One Angle Interested Me
Review: The only reason I wanted to see this film is because of the supposed William Randolph Hearst/Marion Davies connection to Charles Foster Kane and Susan Alexander. It was very interesting to me watching it from that point of view. I don't think its the greatest movie of all time, cinematography or not. I agree with another reviewer on here who said it is over-rated. Maybe it was revolutionary and mind-blowing in the 1940s, but, in my opinion, time has passed and some much better movies have been made.

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Summary: The fulfillment of cinema: i.e. the greatest film ever
Review: I've been reading Amazon.com customer reviews for years with interest, amusement, and gratitude. But I've never felt compelled to write one myself, until today. A review of comments regarding "Citizen Kane" demonstrates that a small number of very juvenile and unsophisticated people find this, the finest motion picture made (with perhaps some good arguments that Griffith's "Intolerance," Bergman's "Persona," and Bunuel's "Belle du Jour" are at least equal) to be "boring," etc. I could care less that they hold such opinions except that some sensitive young person, never having seen the film, might take these rubes' opinions in earnest. Some years ago, when she was still healthy enough to give interviews on televison, Pauline Kael warned that children in the seventies, with nothing to compare their observations, might well find "Star Wars" a Great Film. Apparently, that generation and the newest one after, have demonstrated her to be correct. "Citizen Kane" boring? It probably is indeed to a child whose angst is what to wear that school morning before (edited...... ). For the rest of us, regardless of our birthdays, race, or Daddy's dough, a film that fulfills every promise of cinema might well be considered great, even the greatest. Probably the kids who found the film boring would also find Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez boring too if they were able to experience these artists first-hand. But for anyone else who hasn't seen it, give it the chance it deserves: EVERYTHING you've watched since its production has either stolen from it or been influenced by it, which does suggest a certain importance beyond the contributions of old "The Monkees" reruns and "The Power Puff Girls" today.

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Review: overrated. bigtime. go buy RAN if you want to see a movie that outdoes this one by a loooooooongshot. and for you lug nuts,RAN in not a cheesy action movie, its a very very mature japanese honor flick that people who thought the matrix was a masterpiece would never in their entire lives understand. ok, this movie is pretty boring. its really, well, boring. but that doesent mean its not good. but, you must have this movie in your movie collection, or you will die.

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Summary: BE PATIENT WITH "KANE"(you don't have to like if you don't)
Review: This movie for me was like "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". TO be honest I didn't like more than but 1 song on the album. Being a fan of the Beatles I forced my self to listen to the album. Slowly I began to like it. It soon became one of my favorite albums. My point is that when there is something that is new or different, you can't appreciate it right away. I was 13 years old when I saw "Citizen Kane".I was courius to find out about the greatest movie ever made. The strange thing was that the first 5 minutes gave me goose bumps it was so new and powerful but the rest of the 100 minutes didn't interest me at all. I finnally saw 3 times and began to really enjoy this movie. I quickly saw it over 10 times that week, each time getting something new out of it, noticing the dialogue, the sets, the camerawork, and the music. Now that I am 19 and know a lot more about film, I see all the little ironies and hints at to what rosebud might be.If you notice the musical phrases, they will point to what rosebud could be.(F.Y.I.... There are at least 3 or 4 times that "Rosebud" hinted at, you even see the glass ball a few times.) That is just one of the many parts which make this movie good for countless repeat viewings. It is the fact that everyone that worked on the film were in themselves pioneers if not geniouses. This is the only released and completed film that Welles had total control over. Not that he did everything, he needed a lot of help. He only wanted to be a stage actor and director but got pulled in for the money.Greg Tolland and Bernard Herrman are the standouts that really made this film ahead of its time. And not to say that everything is innovative in this move. In fact most of it isn't. But it is used so perfectly and differently to their advantage that it stands out as something new and unusual. This is a multi-layered film and as important as anything Griffith, Murnau, or Eisenstein did for the development of world cinema. And to all those people who go on and on about the endless, tiny symbolism and metaphors in Kane, let me tell you a quote from Welles. When he was working on "The other side of the wind" he placed a stop sign in the middle of one of his scenes. When an actor asked him why the stop sign he simply said. "Years from now, critics will be arguing about the significance of the stop sign. And I'll know it meant absolutely nothing." Thanks for your eyes. wm.