I think now that the opposite is true. There are lots of young viewers who have little respect for old films. Now you often hear "I don't see what''s so great about Citizen Kane".
“Now you often hear “I don’t see what’s so great about Citizen Kane”.
And they’re right. That’s pretty much how I’ve always felt about that movie and I ain’t young. And I’m a movie buff and know a lot of other movie buffs, and they don’t believe that movie is the greatest film ever made either. Not even close.
It’s like the claim that Charlie Chaplin is a comedic genius. I never once laughed at anything he did. And again I know a lot of movie buffs that feel the same way. Chaplin was adulated by the left and that adulation was perpetuated by the leftist film schools. Most likely all this claptrap about Kane being the greatest movie ever made is just more film school BS of one kind or another.
Maybe Kane was great for it’s time. But that has worn off now. Sixty years later, Kane is merely an interesting and engaging film that was excellently made.