everyone an orson welles fan here at all?

This might answer that question :

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No way not to be. He made some amazingly memorable films.

While not among my favorites, I generally like his performances when i see him.

One of the best depictions of dream logic I've seen in film.

I like Orson Welles. He did the right thing in shocking and shaking up the bourgeoisie. I don't think he did it all that well a lot of the time, but he seemed to always have genius to spare (good for him), without knowing how best to handle the gifts he had. There was something incomplete, fragmented, almost aimless about him.

His radio work often doesn't do it for me. He was gimmicky in his early Boy Wonder years, and this inhibited his growth later on. It's like he had nothing to build on. Still, there's something heroic about Orson Welles. He was declared a genius too early for the kind of artist he was; and in the end it stunted him more than it helped him develop as an artist.

At the risk of sounding glib, I think he suffered from a weird kind of PTSD of having more talent than he could ever have learned to master, and that none of this was his fault. It was more the consequence of his upbringing, what it did to his ego, his ability to function in the real world. There's much more to Welles than I could ever sum in in a paragraph, or even several paragraphs.

He did seem to be trying awfully hard in his films, more so as a director than as an actor. When badly cast, he couldn't seem to get over it. He all but ruins the otherwise  modestly ambitious Compulsion, though the movie itself feels self-important to me.