ZkinandBonez said:
It’s kind of hard to geek out over something like an Orson Welles film. SW has multiple films, books, comics, games, etc. Citizen Kane is just one classical movie. Hardly forum worthy.Bad argument. Even if there was just Star Wars (1977) we could still easily “geek out over” it. For example, Blade Runner is just a single film and it is easy to “geek out over” it. The way I see it, Citizen Kane just doesn’t have enough depth, width and appeal to provide the grounds for “geeking out over” it. It is just a boring snobbish film.
Yeah sure, but I’d still say that Blade Runner has more of an implied fictional world that is just begging to be explored. Although even that discussion will never reach SW proportions. Citizen Kane on the other takes place in the real world, so there’s not much to discuss other than plot and film-making techniques.
Either way, I like SW because it’s entertaining, fun, and has it’s fair share of clever moments, and I enjoy Citizen Kane because it’s thought provoking, intriguing, moving, not to mention one of the most visually impressive films of all time.
But I get that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea; it’s slow, very heavy on dialogue and implications, and it’s not what I’d call ‘entertaining’. And although I’m not part of the "it’s the best film ever, period!" crowd, I’d say its cultural status proves that it’s at least a damn good classical movie.