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The compliment was meant simply to applaud your honesty.
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I like lots of westerns. However, there's THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, then all the rest.
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"I like lots of westerns. However, there's THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, then all the rest."
PhiladelphiaSon, I love westerns as well, but I haven't seen enough of the ones that are considered to be the truly greatest to make the statement that you just did.
But...until I see the rest, I agree with you!
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Here's Our REEL Non-Kosmic Kuestion, Horatio Department:
Eric's above response has triggered this follow-up query ... what are the factors that've precluded seeing the films either universally extolled or individually thus exclaimed?
Wuzzit tyme, situation, circumstance, lack-of-interest (or access), the cast, director, subject matter, time frame, if it's shot in black and white rather than purple - Wot?!?
[ Occasionally, one concedes, it can simply be profoundly subjective in the sense of an enbedded professionally-personal or personally-professional abhorence of the entity so that no matter how 'acclaimed' their output is, it remains entrenched anathma in the extremis (the "Reservoir Dogs" carbon-unit where we're concerned; no matter how many  Best Screenplay accolades he collects, we'll NEVER see anything with his name onnit). ]
So what's yer story? Inquiring 5,000 year-young Immortals wanna know ...
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May 26, 2013 - 11:55 AM
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dan the man
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What is a classic? Is there a person wise enough who can say a classic is written in stone and is undisputable a classic? Is a classic a film which is seem by the masses for reasons that are questionable, [finance, influence , luck, opportunity] etc etc? I remember years ago when a friend said, WHY DID THE EXORCIST gross more money and was seen by millions of more people then NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD?Well like many answers, it may seen more complex but it can be broken down into a logical simple line or paragraph. It got booked in thousands of more theatres worldwide. even if DEAD, in every theatre it was playing in was shown to pack houses and loads of people banging on the doors to get in from the outside it would loose the game of exposure to the EXORCIST.Is a classic a film which has been liking by so called important people in the media[mainstream critics] and those powerbrokers of the media who words are exposed through all the major media channels?. Maybe though, a classic is like so many things in life really is just an opinion and can and should never be put in books of facts.One person sees STAR WARS A HUNDRED TIMES and treat it like GOD'S GIFT, another falls asleep on first viewing. One person thinks GONE WITH THE WIND is a great film, another thinks it is a overblown bore, Who is to say? WHO IS TO SAY?
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nobody = and Who said otherwise?
We clearly prefaced our question with the subjective caveat "universally extolled as such' - which means the collective consensus believes such and such is this and not that - or from an Individual perspective (which merely substitutes the personal from the group).
Since this is a viewpoint usually brought forth from you, Dan, we'd counter your hand, raise it and ask this:
WHAT IS AN 'OPINION'!?!
That's why we've ne'er subscribed and been profoundly bemused - tho we still endeavor our best to abide by the imposed regulations Ally oversees - to 'politics' being solely connected with elected officials, groups, rules, regulations or philosophical ideologies.
[ Any and Everything personal is always political. ]
So when the quest is specifically aimed at Why some films are richly regarded, to us the criteria is pure simplicity:
It's stood the test of TIME as to its quality, values, artistic achievement, elevated entertainment quotient and a universal connection which crosses each and every limited label possible yet still triumphs by spotlighting, accentuating, rewarding, transcending and connecting all that makes EVERYONE Human.
 
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I once belonged to a "classic" film internet board, and left because of the outrage at my not believing neither CITIZEN KANE nor SINGIN' IN THE RAIN to be all that. People were, incensed! Nutty.
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