Philistines! Citizen Kane...

[matgb]

Right, yesterday I posted that top 100 films of the first 100 years of filmaking meme. It appears that many of you have yet to see the film at #1. It was bad enough that grrliz hadn't seen it, she posts more about films than she does about Harry Potter and web design, but you lot? You're supposed to be cultured people damnit!

Look, here's the deal. Citizen Kane. When the BFI's Sight and Sound calls it the best film ever every decade for four decades in a row, that ought to tell you something, right? Even the Americans finally got the right idea eventually. Gah!

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I dunno, I thought a few of you might possible have seen it...

In other news, my plans to rehost the journal elsewhere proceed apace, the more I use Wordpress the more impressed I am, and the lj2wordpress project has given a number of useful plugins (especially LivePress). For now though, it'll be somewhere to host the CV et al. Need to style it, but the upload crapped out on me a bit too often for me to be in the mood today. Car's in the shop as well, hopefully might be back on the road tomorrow...

Comments

[rho]

I saw it as part of a general studies class in 6th form (aka, "random teachers get to take up our time with whatever random crap they were interested in" class). This meant that not only did I see it in two sittings a week apart, but they were also last thing on a Tuesday, after a tiring day when I just wanted to bugger off and go home, in a classroom full of annoying 18 year olds, and on a crappy TV, that I was viewing from an awkward angle.

I found it an entirely uninspiring and unremarkable film. Not bad, per se, but nothing that would particularly hold my attention. Of course, I'm well aware that the viewing conditions were far from ideal, and I quite possibly ought to try to see it again under better conditions, but the initial exposure prejudiced my views, so I can't seem to bring myself to do so.

[matgb]

Yeah, the Set Text syndrome strikes again. I only ever enjoy the stuff they made you do at school after it's no longer part of a course. For example, Shakespeare is actually funny (I thought the teacher was lying).

If you like films, try to give it another viewing, just because it's worth it just to play spot the influence, so many films rip it off in one way or another watching the source is worth the effort. Bit like Python, not as funny as when they started, but mostly because we've seen it all in a more modern approach.