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Originally posted by bltzkriegmcanon
Forrest Gump. It's good, but it's nothing earth-shattering.
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dreadful boring movie I sat/grimaced through once in the theatre; would have been better if the village idiot that Hanks plays had fallen through a portal and drowned with Leo in the 'freezing' warm mexican water in Titanic. (ok, just a bit of sarcasm - seeing the idiot die onscreen or implied offscreen by other means would have worked as well).
And Kill Bill vol. 1 wasn't worth the $3.48 I spent for the DVD rental but I have seen worse films; the camera work and the beautiful sword Uma carries
barely made that watchable. Very little desire to see Vol. 2 after suffering through the first one that almost put me to sleep more than once.
Titantic, Gladiator, and basically any Van Damme film after Timecop or most any Steven Segeal film after the early-90's spring to my mind for the "even worse" category. Just thought of
Underworld as well; that put me to sleep twice before I finally watched the majority of it and felt it was a bigger waste of time than the average presidential campaign speech.
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the main reason that Citizen Kane is 'classic' is that Orson, much like D.W. Griffith before him, used new techniques and styles (e.g. wonderful transitions, going through the skylight to a tight shot, etc.) that were unheard before. The compelling storyline/very thinly veiled William Randolph Hearst autobiography do give it a timeless feel that rank it with Charlie Chaplin films, Bogart
film noir, and others.