Movies that were the "Citizen Kane" of their genre

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Once Upon a Time in the Old West…

…both pretentious.

…both too long.

…both attempt to make a point about the wicked wealthy.

…both were director driven.

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Bumping this thread because of a review I read in the paper this morning for “Sharknado 2: The Second One”, in which the original “Sharknado” was described as “the Citizen Kane of schlock movies.”

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Just now seeing this thread. It has to be the Citizen Kane of semi-zombie threads less than a year old. Would that be a zombiette, a zombita, or a stillborn zombie. Maybe it’s a Citizen Connie?

We could use this thread as a collecting base for other threads in a similar vein. I remember one not much older that had “____ is the Kenny G of _____” and I’ll try to beat the timeout with a link if I can find it in time.

What are some others?

ETA: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=681159&highlight=kenny
So-and-so is the Kenny G of _______
02-03-2013, 10:02 AM

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Shakes the Clown.

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Citizen Kane can be boring - on TV. If you want to give it a fair shake, you have to see it in the theater. The film was composed and mixed to be seen on a huge screen in a movie theater, and in that environment it is amazing. The scene where Kane is in his huge, empty mansion with all these crates of art and antiquities from all over the world has little power on even the biggest TV set, but is emotionally devastating when seen on a big movie screen.

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I’d say that Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is the Citizen Kane of SciFi Future Society movies and Nosferatu is the Citizen Kane of vampire movies.

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Isn’t **Die Hard **the Citizen Kane of “regular guy gets into an action thriller” movies? Or of thrillers self-contained in a location?

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Spinal Tap, mockumentaries.