| There's a conscious superficiallity to the film...George - looks like I dug the societal message of the film quite a bit more than you did. |
Well it also looks like I was put off by the superficiallity more than you. It's pretty clear that we have different criteria for films, you rank Johnny Guitar 4 stars, whereas I despise what I see as the campy overacting and completely cheesy story. I've said it before, but no amount of deep subtext (or 'societal message') is going to overcome a bad surface movie. If the movie works on the surface, and also has more depth (e.g., Vertigo and tons of other films), then great, but I'm never going to care enough to look past the surface of a film that's a bad film on the surface.