"Rose Bud" is a "Rose Dud"

Rating: 3/10 (1 January 2016)

To call Citizen Kane " A Great Cinematic Achievement" ranked #1 on many so called "experts" list simply means too many people watch movies drunk, stoned and half asleep... I did notice the cinematography. There some really nice camera angles show depth of field and the use of shade and light that were novel for that period, but nothing to call this movie, exceptional? The story line was beneficial in moral and exploration of the human condition, but you had to "hunt" for it and want to find it. Movies like "Forrest Gump" accomplish the same thing with more imagination and identifies with "everyman" not just privileged men who "gag on the sliver spoon"... To truly call something "great" in my opinion, is to have lost out if one is to never have had the opportunity to experience it... There are probably a hundred movies I would recommend seeing and calling #1 or at least worth watching and this movie shouldn't even be in the conversation... "Rose Bud" is a "Rose Dud" and doesn't mean anything to anyone except one person... an insider insult from Orson Wells to William Randolph Hurst! Why should we care?﻿
This movie at least in part, is about the manipulation of citizens by the press... I think friends of the makers of this movie called it number 1 and reduced it's availability so people would simply PAY to see it and something that should be collecting minimal revenue is still VERY viable to it's producers and or beneficiaries ... which ironically is part of the plot of the movie itself... now in that way it might be worth ranking NUMBER ONE... cause we are gullible and fell for it! LOL﻿