Citizen Kane---The Most Overrated Movie I Can Think Of.

No, I'm not kidding.
You know what I never noticed the first 30 times I saw it?
How you don't care about anybody on the screen.
Yes, it was certainly a great technical achievement for it's time, with the low ceilings and all, but we've certainly come a long way since then.
And there are some great showy performances. But there has never been any emotional involvement in the story.
And it took my 36th viewing of it for me to notice it.
I was blinded by the ceilings.
And it has the most serious case of miscasting in the history of movies---Dorothy Comingore as
Susan Alexander Kane.  Her entire performance is actively annoying.
Maybe that's what Welles was going for, but it certainly doesn't wear well.
Not if it's supposed to be the greatest movie of all time.
There are some great scenes---Kane rewriting Jed Leland's review of Susan's opening night as an
"opera singer".  The "newsreel" at the beginning is terrific.
But too many don't stand out.
So give me "Casablanca" any day.

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