Well worth a watch, just to imagine you're a theatre-goer who has only ever seen black and white films, and then appreciate the way they introduce colour, so clever.
> Last time I watched a film out of a sense of duty it was Easy Rider and I felt very short changed.
I can't imagine you'd feel short-changed by any of those. On The Waterfront gave me the guiding principle for my teenage years: Question: What are you rebelling against? Answer: What've you got?
I thought Citizen Kane was a bit meh as a film. I'm told there are lots of amazing and groundbreaking techniques in it and that's great but if you're not marveling at them there isn't so much left to marvel at.
> I can't imagine you'd feel short-changed by any of those. On The Waterfront gave me the guiding principle for my teenage years: Question: What are you rebelling against? Answer: What've you got?
That quote is from The Wild One - On the Waterfront's famous quotable line is "I coulda been a contender"
It depends what you want out of a film I suppose. I'm no film nut but have seen all of those and thought perfectly watchable, if not as entertainment then as relics of their eras. Easy Rider is silly by todays standards, and probably was to many at the time, but when the other stuff at the cinema is Paint you Wagon, would have been a revolution for some. I think the scenes with the red necks still hold up.
Going into any film as some sort of duty seems unlikely to go well.
The Wizard of Oz always has that nice, fuzzy, warm nostalgia of Family Christmas when I was a kid. I think they must have put it on every year back then. We had a black and white TV so I never ever got the "transition to colour" sequence until years later
A few of the classic musicals. I generally am not a fan of musicals as a genre but some of the genuine classics do need to be seen. West Side Story is the main absentee for me, followed by The King and I. I own both on DVD and will soon get around to watching them. The King and I is more for the sake of my 2020 Deborah Kerr obsession, admittedly.
> I thought Citizen Kane was a bit meh as a film. I'm told there are lots of amazing and groundbreaking techniques in it and that's great but if you're not marveling at them there isn't so much left to marvel at.
Have to agree. I think the problem is that all the groundbreaking techniques were adopted by everyone else so, by the time you get to see it, the story is all you have left and I thought it was a merely OK story. I've watched it a few times now in the hope it will 'click' and it does get better but not much better.
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