Posted on 04/01/2014 at 03:46 AM
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I like The Godfather, but I would get along swimmingly with a film buff who hated it. That and Citizen Kane are two films where I go, "do you actually like this, or are you saying that because you know you are supposed to, like a bad high school student talking to a teacher about Shakespeare?" In fact, I watched Citizen Kane for a third time today in my Media Ethics class.
I buy that it's my professor's favorite movie ever. He's old and wise. But my opinion still stands that it's possibly the greatest film in terms of the evolution of modern cinema technique in the last half-century or so, and deserves all the praise it gets, but I still respect it more than I like it, because I am so vastly more interested in Hearst as a businessman than anything to do with his personal life. Of course, what my Intro to Film prof revealed to us my Freshman year about a certain Rosebud theory is quite entertaining. My current prof wouldn't let me repeat to the girls in my Master's course.
Oddly enough, though I own all three DS 'Vania games, I never have played Symphony of the Night.