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Summary: It was a confusing movie that had me bored!!!!!!
Review: What does rosebaud mean? Citizen Kane starts out with Charles Foster Kanb dieing at the bigining. Then is goes on with newsreels all about his life, like what he did. This movie is very confusing and hard to follow and understand.Charles Foster Kane does not know how to love, infact he gets married twice and does not love his wife he just wants somebody to love him. All he cares about is his newspaper buisness and nothing else. Kane dies a lonly and unmissed man. If i were to rate this movie it would be a 2! It is a very weird and confusing film!!!
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Summary: This movie was boring!
Review: We had to watch this movie for a writing on film class. I tried to watch it 3 times. However, I didn't see the entire movie. It was just too boring and dark. I fell asleep. I don't understand why it is called the greatest movie of all time.
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Summary: Why Are You Reading This Review?
Review: That may seem a bizarre opening, but not in this case. With all respect to amazon.com's reviewer, this is the greatest movie ever made by an American director. Surfing through the Welles search results ("F Is For Fake" is available in widescreen VHS and you can get "The Stranger" on DVD. Cool.), I popped in to see what one could say about this film. Quite a bit, evidently, which proves my point. I love the film, but you don't have to. What you have to do is deal with it or walk away from serious consideration, let alone understanding of modern cinema. Every movie made today owes a debt, direct or indirect, conscious or unconscious, to this sublime masterpiece. If you don't have the film in some form already, purchase it immediately and ask yourself whether you really like movies at all, having passed this one up. Just remember, the better transfer, the better the experience. Not only was Welles familiar with German expressionist techniques, but he brought out a luminesent quality in his cinemetographers which is almost unequalled. The black and white in a good transfer of this film is far more subtle and rich than the color in any film I've ever seen. So, get it, or, get another copy.
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Summary: Utterly disgusting! How dare they!!!!!!
Review: I have never seen such a blatant use of naked women for sheer shock effect. The dubbing from Serbo-Croat is pitiful, the constant use of animal cruelty to juxtapose the use of negative space, is amateurish, and a steal from "The Keystone Kops Do Dallas". Also Orson Welles stole my Monkey's candy, the sheet from my bed and my 1974 Ford Pinto with the Rad wheels. I can not complain strongly enough about this movie, and rest assured I will get my Pinto back, I used to call it Rosebud.
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Summary: The best movie ever made.
Review: Number 1 on AFI's top 100 movies is a great movie. Made in 1941 you try to figure out what rosebud is untill the end...
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Summary: The Greatest Film ever made
Review: If you look at the number one spot on the film instutes list of the top one hundred films of all time, Citizen Kane will be sitting there. and rightfully so. This film is brilliant, from it's beautiful camera angles to it's study of one man, viewing him from so many different angles, to it's gorgeous editing (The breakfast scene) welles at his best!
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Summary: All things to all people
Review: I think it is very interesting to read all of the reviews that have been submitted on this film. Even more bizzare is the lengthy repudiations of the films stature in a historical sense. The mere fact that this film can conjure up such sound and fury indeed marks it well in filmdoms pantheon. Consider a filmgoer in 1941 going in to a theater to see " Citizen Kane" Up till that point that person might have seen films such as "The Wizard of Oz" "Wuthering Heights" :" Gone With The Wind" and other simniliar fare. Food for Thought....Upon leaving the theater after viewing "Citizen Kane" what would you suppose would have been the reaction of the average 'citizen"? (of 1941) CP....to Ponder
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Summary: Outstanding! A masterpiece of filmmaking!!!
Review: Citizen Kane is truly the finest piece of work to ever come out of Hollwood. Orson Welles managed to create a character so real, so enduring that another character of equal impact will probably never be seen on the screen again. In 1941 the film was so far ahead of its' time and even today in 1999 it is ahead of its' time.
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Summary: citizen kane is film making at its most innovative
Review: Citizen Kane is a film which breaks the boundaries of cinema together with cinematographer Gregg Tolands cameraworks as well as the screenplay by Hermann Manciewicz it weaves a pattern of film compsition of maximum attention
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Summary: Unquestionably the most overrated film ever made.
Review: History has been far, far kinder to "Citizen Kane" than it has ever deserved. I cannot be convinced that the opinions of many of our online reviewers have not been influenced by that history. To begin with, I note that nearly every positive review opens with a mention of praise for the photography. Without debate, Gregg Toland is one of the visual masters in the cinema (i.e., "The Little Foxes", "The Grapes of Wrath", "Wuthering Heights", etc.), but here one must recognize the director's influence. Welles intended to overlay the film with a style and mood that would point up the action, characterization, and relationship. The placement of cameras, choice of lenses, use of motion, and deployment of lighting often achieve this brilliantly; but more often, the effect is misjudged and overdone, sometimes grossly--the lighting, particularly, is usually painted in SO sparingly, that the look becomes TOO dark and murky (darker than any film noir) as befits such a subtle medium as the cinema (indeed, it is far more suited to the theatre, Welles' old stomping grounds); not pointing up, but rather obscuring its objects. Welles achieved his heavy-handed approach to photographic style far more successfully in "The Magnificent Ambersons". Even though in "Citizen Kane", the combination of its photography, camerawork, art direction, editing, and special effects--all crafted with an artisan's care--achieve a technical near-masterpiece; popularized (if not invented) many revolutionary techniques; and proved to be the real object of the endless gushing, all such elements cannot obscure the two gaping holes in resonance. Its entertainment value is hurt by its sometimes lumpy narrative, and Welles' typical unsense of humor. Additionally hindering its entertainment value, and utterly fatal to its emotional force is the fact that you don't give a damn about the main character. Welles' cannot create audience sympathy for his performance of the classic tragic hero; simply because, Welles' has tremendous personal charisma--in his own mind. He weilds it like a sledgehammer, rather than a rapier; thus, he fails to connect with anything but sand. This further marrs the "detective story" facet of the film. Along the way, I found I had repeatedly forgotten there was any investigation for the enigmatic "Rosebud" at all; there again, if you don't care about the character, how can you care about his love? I award one extra star in my rating of "Citizen Kane" for its hand in advancing the art of cinema; its techniques were new; but not PERFECTED until used in such movies as "The Little Foxes", "The Devil and Daniel Webster", and "Oliver Twist." I honestly relate that, approached with a completely open mind, during my first viewing of "Citizen Kane", I found myself repeating throughout, "THIS is 'the greatest movie of all twenty minutes is unquestionably the best part of the movie. It's all downhill from there!
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