I saw it on a ginormous screen in a 70mm print when it first came out and thought it was just awful (though the effects were stunning at that scale and print quality). Around 5 years ago I thought I’d give it another try, this time on a much smaller screen, and I still thought it was awful. Peter MacNicol is not a very good actor at the best of times, but put him next to Ralph Richardson and the contrast shatters the fourth wall and makes it impossible to suspend belief (or at least did for me).
