Good but it's age shows

Rating: Null/10 (28 August 2013)

I watched this movie because it is declared "the greatest American Movie of all time blah blah blah".
While not a bad movie, I can't agree it's a masterpiece in this day and age.
I thought the intro was compelling, but the longer the movie drags on and as his life starts to go down hill so does the entertainment value. It simply wasn't very interesting for me to see this rich economical juggernaut have these problems. Oh boo hoo he wasn't able to become a governor... not a very easy goal to relate to...
His problems to find true love were somewhat more personable but still just seemed like annoying ladies who weren't satisfied with his business oriented lifestyle.
For it's time period I would surely rate it at least an 8. But now a days I found this to be good, but in no way great. It was some what depressing and did not really have a solid enough message or good enough plot/entertainment value to make up for it's somber conclusion.
6/10 it's still a decent flick but it's age was apparent and it is somewhat hard to relate to the character or sympathize with him which I feel is necessary to give this a higher rating.
His problems were either too extreme to relate to or too common to base a movie off of...