Stuffy and old fashioned

Rating: 6/10 (25 June 2000)

What Makes A movie great? 1. How good the acting and technical merits of the film are? 2. How it does at the box office? 3. How it entertains and stirs up emotion?
Most would agree with #3. Citizen Kane is a very good film technically with good acting and Excellent script, but the overall film is dull and outdated. I don't care how many awards a film wins, or how important a film was for its time years ago.
I want to see an entertaining film NOW, not a history lesson. When I saw CK I thought there would be good drama and enjoy "the greatest film of all time". But CK fails. This is a film only AFI members and "Movie professors" will like. It didn't work for me.
4/10