I know that from my film class, so I guess it’s a movie I admire but just don’t like. I agree with the Angry Video Game Nerd that King Kong should be considered for best movie ever made when you see the sheer craft that went into that and how they were basically writing the book on special effects on the fly.
Kong has spectacular stop-motion effects. Fantastic.
It doesn’t have Humphrey Bogart trading dialogue fraught with meaning with Claude Rains or Peter Lorre.
There’s a big difference.