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1 posted on 05/04/2011 8:41:49 AM PDT by Borges
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To: DollyCali

Ping


2 posted on 05/04/2011 8:46:42 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
One of the worst movies of all time.

Sure, some innovative film techniques, but this movie is unwatchable.

I cannot understand how this keeps showing up at the top of the "best" lists

3 posted on 05/04/2011 8:52:09 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Borges

Quite possibly the most overblown, overrated film in history.


4 posted on 05/04/2011 8:57:05 AM PDT by Spirochete (Sic transit gloria mundi)
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To: Perdogg; Impy; GOPsterinMA

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5 posted on 05/04/2011 8:57:17 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: Borges
Welles once described his Hollywood career as, " . . . starting at the top and working my way down."

Love it or hate it, Citizen Kane was a major advancement in the way films were written, acted, directed and produced. And it really is a great story.

9 posted on 05/04/2011 9:10:46 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment (Is this field required?)
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To: Borges

It may be one of the greatest movies of all times but I can’t sit through the whole thing... bores me to tears.


10 posted on 05/04/2011 9:12:51 AM PDT by hattend (Obama is better than OJ... He found a killer while on the golf course.)
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To: Borges

Well, it did lead to Glenn Beck’s fantasy of being the next Orson Welles. I’m not sure that’s good or bad, though.


11 posted on 05/04/2011 9:13:06 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Borges
Orson Welles was, in some ways, the Andrew Breitbart of his era tweaking the noses and exposing the enemedia fatcats as the tools and empty suits which they really were.

I've gotta love Welles for that reason alone.

12 posted on 05/04/2011 9:14:32 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Borges

Just watched “ The Magnificent Ambersons” on TCM last weekend. An excellent movie though not on par with Citizen Kane IMHO.


22 posted on 05/04/2011 9:38:36 AM PDT by Cyman
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To: Borges

Almost all of the Japanese Godzilla movies are just ripoffs of Citizen Kane.


24 posted on 05/04/2011 9:41:55 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Borges

how to improve Citizen Kane:

make Kane not just a publisher but a recently back from the dead flesh-eating publisher, and use the title “Night of the Living Citizen Kane”. Now that’s a movie.


26 posted on 05/04/2011 9:58:24 AM PDT by isom35
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To: Borges

The saddest thing with this movie is that so many people don’t listen close enough to the dialogue. He was asking the maid for a beer, “Rose...a Bud.” He could care less about some old sled. He was just thirsty.


30 posted on 05/04/2011 11:28:42 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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