> I like Battleship Potemptkin and Citizen Kane as much as the next person, but that's not all of what was popular.

Funnily enough, those happen to be two movies I didn't enjoy beyond their historic relevance.

I'm not saying that spectacle and one-liners are bad - movies like that are included in my list for 1984. It is when you substitute good writing with funny lines and have spectacle instead of a compelling narrative that I see a problem.