Here's looking at you, Kane

[LostSoul]

So: Citizen Kane or Casablanca.

They had both on TV here on Saturday night. Great movies.

 

[Crothian]

Casablanca is the movie that I can watch more often. Citizen Kane, while a great movie, is not one that can really be watched over and over and over again.

 

[LostSoul]

I really wonder what it would have been like to have watched Kane without knowing what Rosebud was. Even with that knowledge, though, it's still a stirring scene when we discover the truth.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

I really wonder what it would have been like to have watched Kane without knowing what Rosebud was. Even with that knowledge, though, it's still a stirring scene when we discover the truth.

Huh. I always thought it was kinda cheap, like something a studio made him do. I'm suer that wasn't the case, but it felt like a way to sentimentalize a very cynical story.

As for me? Kane's a better movie, but I'd rather watch Casablanca. It's just more fun.

 

[Steve Jung]

Casablanca for me. I tried watching Citizen Kane one afternoon and fell asleep.

 

[Crothian]

I really wonder what it would have been like to have watched Kane without knowing what Rosebud was. Even with that knowledge, though, it's still a stirring scene when we discover the truth.

For me the movie was not ruined before I saw it so that scene and the power was there when I forst saw it. It does seem a little odd by todays standards, but the movie was made in a very different era.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Citizen Kane for me as a person but with the old lady around, Cassablanca.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Cassablanca - it has Nazis (got to hate those guys)

 

[diaglo]

Rosebud...

 

[d4]

Casablanca is one of my favorite movies of all time.

cinema doesn't get any better than that.