I don't rep people and respond to them with a critique WITHOUT reading their damn review. I did read your review and I stand by my comment. I know what you said. I read those words that you strung together. I still don't get it. not due to my stupidity (although I am pretty dumb) but due to the oxymoron.
When I hear people talk about "GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME" I hear Citizen Kane, 2001, The Godfather. Rarely do I hear Shawshank Redemption. I always hear that yes, it's great, but never *THE GREATEST*.
To each their own though. It makes me love the film more when people don't see, or fail to acknowledge the greatness. (Which you apparently do acknowledge, but hold against it).
Bah, you still don't understand...
Talking about the absurd and wrongfully given title of being "the greatest movie ever made" and criticizing it for being too "safe", melodramatic and unexciting is two VERY different things.
I merely mention the former, but what I really talk about is the latter, so I don't know why you keep mentioning that freaking "greatest movie ever" when I'm clearly on YOUR side that it is NOT the greatest movie ever and that it WASN'T even acknowledged like that during release.
I may don't deliver my opinion fluently, but shouldn't it be pretty basic to understand that a movie that seems to try to be so perfect can easily fail to be just that to you personally, because it just moves from A to B without having me that excited about what's going on. There's objective perfection and subjective perfection.
It's not a paradox statement or whatever you think you want to call it, though it may come across like that. I'm not saying this movie is perfect, only not perfect, though it seems like that is what you get out of this... I'm saying this movie feels universally perfect but is not subjectively perfect, namely because it doesn't do much to me personally... I can't deny that I see the appeal and I understand it. I even gave it a solid rating, so I don't see why this needs to go any further, I'm not sh*tting on your favorite movie or anything...