C3PX said:
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.
blasphemer!! just kidding. I wouldn't serious call it blasphemous to like Casablanca, would just disagree with person much in the same way that I disagreed with Vaderisnothayden on the Godfather films. The only reason I would accuse someone of blasphemy for not liking Casablanca would if they said they didn't like it because it was in b&w. That is no reason for not liking a movie. Those kinds of people should be drawn, hung and quartered(along with those that want to colorize b&w movies). As for why I like Casablanca, I just think all the parts of the it(set, music, story, directing, actors and their characters, timing of the release) just all blend together in it unlike another other movie before or since. I'll be honest, when I first saw it as a kid, I didn't think to much of it. But then as I got older I watched again and the older I got, the more I enjoyed it until it got to the point where I thought it was the best movie ever made.