tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6377835968930749498.post3358974056111627533..comments2024-01-26T03:07:42.680-08:00Comments on Miss Media Junkie: What Are Your Overrated Movie Classics?missmediajunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14074381883312650251noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6377835968930749498.post-66955613365938202842021-05-14T01:13:49.893-07:002021-05-14T01:13:49.893-07:00I agree with you on the two I have seen (both rece...I agree with you on the two I have seen (both recently) -- Rashomon and Shane. Rashomon is indeed important but feels clunky in many ways. The film should pack an emotional and intellectual wallop, and probably did in its day, but it is simply too trapped in the limits of what audiences expected and were willing to accept then to do so now.<br /><br />Shane is a simple and fine story well told, as all good Westerns are, but the dirty little secret of the problem with Shane is that Alan Ladd is woefully miscast as the lead. Ladd simply cannot carry the gravitas required for that role. Drop John Wayne into that role -- and many other fine Western actors as well -- and Shane might well be considered the finest Western ever made.LenFuegohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05020686038733798386noreply@blogger.com