Movies I thought Were Excellent , But I Didn't Really Like
Submitted by pherber on Wed, 09/15/2004 - 10:04
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- 1. Citizen Kane - Don't get me wrong, it's a masterpiece, but I found watching it to be more like looking at a painting, rather than being entertaining.
- 2. Chinatown - I liked the plot, the screenplay, and the acting, but the color scheme was very painful on my eyes (tan and blue color schemes are one of my pet peeves)
- 3. Saturday Night Fever - (Sorry Gene Siskel, but the movie just didn't reach me.)
For 'Citizen Kane' you are probably right.
For 'Chinatown': Yes and no. An excellent movie, but none of my Top 50 favourites.
I would have liked Chinatown a lot more if it had taken place in a more urban-jungle type atmosphere (like "Dirty Harry"), but then, if it had it probably wouldn't have been the same movie at all if it had....
hmmm, I never felt that way about Citizen Kane or Chinatown at all.
Different strokes for different folks....
100% agree on Citizen Kane.
I respect that it defined modern cinema and created movies as we know them today, bringing art back into film, but I guess everything in it is so overdone now (as all movies with an artistic side to them are direct descendants of Citizen Kane) that it sort of loses that effect of brilliance, and just ends up feeling like an above average drama.
The painting thing too.