What the - expletive deleted - was so good about this film?!?!

Rating: 2/10 (7 March 2000)

All my life I've heard how great this film is. All my life I've heard that this is *the* masterpiece of cinema. Finally I get a chance to watch it. I hated every second of it. I found *NO* redeeming qualities to it whatsoever.
From the opening "let's do painfully clumsy exposition in a really bad, really loud, really obnoxious faux newsreel" to the painfully obvious identity of Rosebud this film was a dog. The only thing that kept me from falling asleep while watching it was the annoyingly loud, nasal voice of (I think) Joseph Cotten. (It may have been Everett Sloane. I lost track through sheer ennui....)
It's possible that I'm just "not connected" to the era or style of Citizen Kane, but I pretty much have to rule that out. I like many movies contemporary to Citizen Kane. (Casablanca and Key Largo leap to mind immediately.) I've also enjoyed several movies made by and/or starring Orson Welles. (Touch of Evil leaps to mind in a big way here.) I just found this movie annoying and irritating.
This was probably the second-largest movie letdown of my entire life.