Reply #11: The first time I saw it, it bored me silly for two hours.

[Jeebo]

The second time I saw it, it bored me silly for two hours.

The third time I saw it, I think I had grown somewhat in film-appreciation sophistication, and I actually enjoyed it a little. But only a little.

I guess it's a pretty good movie, but I never have understood what all the fuss is about. Some years ago I watched Siskel and Ebert raving about "Citizen Kane." They went on and on about THIS reason why the movie was so great, and THAT reason why the movie was so great, and with every point they made, I wanted to ask them, "So effing WHAT? WHY does that make the movie so great?" They were describing individual trees in a forest, but when I watch that movie I see the whole forest.

Maybe that movie is just way over my head. Or maybe it's just that it's not where my film tastes lie.

To give you some sense of my film tastes, if you're interested, here's a list of my top ten all-time favorite films:

1. Ben Hur
2. Schindler's List
3. A Tale of Two Cities (the 1935 version with Ronald Colman)
4. National Velvet
5. Forbidden Planet
6. The Graduate
7. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
8. Dr. Strangelove
9. Spartacus
10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the 1956 version)

Ron