One more word on Vin Diesel: FATE AND THE FURIOUS's box office take just passed the $1 Billion mark worldwide, so I guess Diesel may think he's on firm ground to do some trash talking. Also, it got 66% on Rotten Tomoatoes, so twice as many critics liked it as disliked it. I would think all those car chases would get old after awhile, but some critics have praised the chemistry among the cast as well; something Welles himself might have actually appreciated.
BTW, the 76th anniversary of Kane's New York premiere was yesterday, and the original 1941 review by the Hollywood Reporter was reprinted here:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review ... vie-998891
Citizen Kane is a great motion picture. Great in that it was produced by a man who had never had any motion picture experience; great because he cast it with people who had never faced a camera in a motion picture production before; great in the manner of its story-telling, in both the writing of that story and its unfolding before a camera; great in that its photographic accomplishments are the highlights of motion picture photography to date, and finally great, because technically, it is a few steps ahead of anything that has been made in pictures before.
From the point of entertainment, this reviewer chooses again to qualify it as great. An audience might not think so because they might not understand its technical perfections, or will be astonished, as we were, at the acting of a cast that had never been in a studio before. Nor will they credit the fact that this entertainment was really brought to the screen on a low budget — under $800,000 — and, in order to accomplish that, things had to be done that no brain or set of brains had ever before accomplished.