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    Quote Originally Posted by BurnetRhoades View Post
    Except if Welles had been in his prime in the '70s they wouldn't have been the '70s as we know it because he wouldn't have been around to make Citizen Kane when everyone else was still making movies written like Vaudeville stage productions, acted like radio dramas and filmed as if the camera were an audience member in the first couple rows looking at the stage. The French New Wave may or may not have happened nearly a decade after his debut.

    He was simply too good. There's an inflection point where being good or even great at something can lead you to great success and then there are the sad stories of transcendent talents that not only never get their proper recognition and respect while they're alive they reach the end of their lives penniless, alone, and with all the outward hallmarks of a failure. He's the single most important film director to ever live and yet his last role was the voice of a planet eating robot in an animated film and known to many as a talking head in wine commercials.
    It's odd because this seems to be the hallmark of people who were unappreciated in their time, yet the fact that they existed and created altered the time line/tastes of the discerning public. It's really quite fascinating that they existed when they did and accomplished what they did and for whatever reasons.. at the time.. it just wasn't the right thing to accomplish/cement them at that moment as a prodigy in their own time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coker View Post
    It's odd because this seems to be the hallmark of people who were unappreciated in their time,
    He is also a case where sometimes someone is so good, so much better than everyone else and so much better than the status quo that powerful people in the status quo go out of their way to ruin and destroy that which they can never be. It happened to Welles, Tucker and Tesla, to name a few.

    That would make a good trio to start a real League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

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    Kingdom of Heaven 7/10- also helps out with the paper I'm writing on the Crusades

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    Like, so many people out there were trying to track this down. And it just...got delivered on a tweet. What the hell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Necromancer View Post
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    Beautiful film. Couldn't stick with it though. I found it even more dull than Ridley's film about Columbus.

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    Basically a Blair Witch theme going on here, but with UFOs
    Sounds awesome

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    Quote Originally Posted by WickedNik View Post
    Sounds awesome
    It's alright if you like found footage flicks - especially one pretty much cut right out of the Blair Witch mold. There were a few creepy, tense moments, but not nearly enough to sustain it for very long. The final quarter of the flick was where things really started to get sketchy, and left it with an ending that was ambiguous to say the least.

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    These Final Hours (2013) - this is the same concept as that Lars Von Trier film a few years back.. just less pretentious 5/10

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