Fellini is so over rated

Titanic is a nice commercial film, that is, a product of mass consumption (like coke and hamburgers). La Dolce Vita is an artistic film, that is, a product for an art-educated audience. Showing art films to the masses is like giving daisies to the pigs.

Ognuno ha il concetto di classico che si merita.. translated everyone has the concept of "Classic" he deserves .

You know that you don't have to watch Fellini's films. Saying that Fellini is over rated is a lazy and petty argument. Infact your whole argument is as boring as you claim the film is.

Argument - Fellini is not a great film maker (Subjective). He's not even a good film maker(Technically anyone who makes films from the point of view of lighting, composition, character development, editing, story. Lets just say that his films are technical admired for many reasons, even on a purely objective level). To place him on the same level with the greats is an insult to the greats (people don't need to place him with the greats, they do that themselves. You reference the Godfather, Francis Ford was hugely influenced by Fellini. Watch the documentary A Decade Under the Influence and find out who is calling who great). He is completely self-indulgent (Self indulgence is something many great directors have, their personal expression is what makes them great, this is often why people enjoy their movies because they are self indulgent). His films are pretentious, smug, and worse of all boring(Subjective). He is not a visionary, but a phony(A phony, now this is the strangest statement you made- he had a vision, he realised that vision, you didn't like his vision, so he is a phony). This movie is just a clear example of that (could it be that you didn't understand this film, because thats not what I got from it, I actually quite enjoyed it).

Reasoning - La Dolce Vita has no plot and is exceedingly dull at a run time of 3 hours long (odd thing to say).

What you have to understand is that Italian films are very different from american or french films. They are often not wrapped up neatly in a tidy package like Goddards(not that I am not a fan) often are. As for Gone With the Wind, the Godfather, and Titanic these bear no comparison. Fellini, like Antonioni deals with complex emotional studies of people alienated by their environment. They require the viewer to break through the surface and find the truth. You are obviously interested in surface, to enjoy such films half of the entertainment needs to be filled in by you. Or you could watch Titanic which provides the full picture in breathtaking colour told with black and white sentimentality.

What we're missing here is the difference between "art" and "entertainment." They're not necessarily mutually exclusive. I hated Titanic but still, strangely enough, found it entertaining while I was watching it.

As far as La Dolce Vita is concerned, my biggest criticism is that it's dated. All the things that may have seemed so shocking in 1963 seem so tame today. If it were a more timeless statement on the same theme -- rather than being so early-sixties -- it may well have qualified as a classic in my book.

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In love with movies, huh? I don't buy it!

Sometimes...there's a man.

Wow! This thread has been going on for a long time!

I'm with you so much that I can't even bare to read the responses.

The only thing i take issue with is when you want to throw in a ben affleck marathon...that's f'ed up, man!

Over-rated describes it best.