Warbler said:

C3PX said:

Casablanca is overrated. And underrated. At the same time.

I'm not sure I understand you. Could you please elaborate?

I'd love to elaborate on it. Don't get me wrong, I really, really like Casablanca, if I had to write down a list of only ten movies that I'd be allowed to watch for the rest of my life, Casablanca would be on that list.

That said, I think the movie is overrated to a good degree. I think it just gets far more credit than any film deserves. It is elevated to the level that for someone to say they don't like it is almost blasphemous. To an extent, I think we are even at the point where proclaiming it one of the, if not the greatest film of all time is a prerequisite to being considered a true film geek. Sometime I wonder if half the people who "love it" don't do so simply because they feel they should, rather than because of their own honest objective viewing of the film. (Don't think I doubt that you genuinely like the movie, Warb. I've no doubt that you do).

On the opposite side of this, there are way too many people out there who have not seen this really great movie for no fair reason other than "Isn't that film like, really, really old?" which isn't a good enough reason in my book.

So, I think it is way overrated among certain circles; and unfortunately underrated (or, more accurately: unknown) to an unfortunate portion of the population.