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It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This silent adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera is very boring. The music is hypnoyizing and the lack of dialogue makes it hard to get in to. The story is good, but because the film is silent makes it boring. I can't believe people used to pay to see silent movies; they are garbage.

The movie is good, although it's far from my favorite silent movies. In IMDB says that the film has 93 minutes, but I saw a version with 103 minutes. I would have preferred to have seen the one of 93, because the one I saw makes the film a bit "dragged" and too long. The film features some anthology scenes, no doubt but I think the character of the ghost should have been a more humanized. The year 1925 was, in my opinion, the best year of the silent film, had a series of fantastic films that went down in history. Lon Chaney is brilliant in this film, as always, though I consider the best performance of his career to be in Tod Browning's fabulous 1927 film The Unknown.

This is one of the scariest movies of all time. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also great special effects. This is a true horror classic. 7.7 is good rating. But this is mush a good movie it could be higher then 7.7. This is the very scary story of a warlock who kill any one who performs his music with out this permission. Very scary. If this movie does not scary you know movie will. This is a great movie. It is a must see. Based on the book by Gaston Leroux this one of the best horror stories very written. This a great movie. Great movie great movie great movie. Lon Chaney Sr was a great actor. Mary Philbin was a great actress.

The Phantom Of The Opera has long been a staple in the classic horror movie circles, and for good reason. The film is not short on any spectacle, the plot and pacing keep the viewer riveted to the screen for the entire duration, and as always Lon Chaney is on top form in his horrific role as The titular Phantom. The real interest to be derived from this film in the modern day and age where spectacle is certainly not lacking, however, comes from the many conundrums that it produces within the savvy film-goer.The film is by no means a masterpiece of art; it fits very squarely in the Hollywood tradition of narrative structure and shooting style built around the desire for easily digestible entertainment and profit. A ghostly phantom haunts the forgotten passages and torture chambers beneath the Paris opera house and abducts a beautiful young singer (Mary Philbin) to force his love upon her, leaving her to be saved by her one true love (Norman Kerry). You would be hard pressed to find a story which asks less mental activity from the viewer.But, while this holds true, the direction of the piece contains a mode of art which is not readily apparent with a surface viewing. Yes, Chaney's camp flailing adorned, as he is in mask and cape, is thrilling and more than a little humorous, but his eerily understated presence in the colour tinted masked-ball scene shows a much deeper understanding of the form. Likewise do the unexplained plot leaps and shocking make-up close-ups point to a schlock sensibility while at the same time the expressionist shadows creeping along the claustrophobic corridors of the Phantom's lair make a viewer think of the works of Murnau or Lang.The Phantom Of the Opera presents itself as the most intelligent of nonsense films or, contrariwise, as the stupidest of artistic visions simultaneously, and this, I believe, is one of the reasons that this movie remains so interesting today. I mean, plenty of silent horror films were made during this period (many of them, like Phantom, made by Universal Studios), but for some reason this is the one that has gone down through history and ingrained itself into the popular consciousness. The question mus be asked, "why is this? Why do I know this movie so well instead of others?" and it is the artistic flair mixed in with the highest camp of the horror genre that provides the answer.One instinctively rolls their metaphorical eyes at the ludicrousness of the japes and capers taking place before them, but their eyes cannot help but be drawn into the immense beauty and skill that has gone into each and every shot. It is aesthetically thrilling and intriguing as it is daft and hammy, and this is what makes the films as a whole so incredibly interesting.I suppose this may be a mere symptom of becoming too deeply entrenched in film studies and that my mind is just being drawn towards unnecessary dissection, but I would argue against this. Either way I would highly recommend seeing The Phantom Of The Opera in order to make up your own mind about its value artistic or otherwise.