re: Most pretentious movie ever - movies you used to love/but grew up and forsake

Well Tree of Life is up there.

But...you are being obtuse if you don't think my movie is up there.

Come on'...I know the damn definition as an English major.

I am so tired of these definition threads. Some guy logs on and wants to derail a thread because he thinks pretentious has to be overly artsy. It doesn't. It's about putting over-emphasis on things that are average real-life struggles.

If you don't think it is...fine...but pretentious applies to the movie I listed...and it's interpretation...You might think Reality Bites is real life...others don't.

That movie does everything and every mundane thing they do to make regular life of greater importance and everything they do...and their life and culture as the most important thing ever.

So...maybe you...don't get pretentious.

Because that's the definition.

Pretentious doesn't mean overly artsey.

You can have films that are really artsey and be profound and not pretentious. Your definition is quite banal.

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Tree of Life

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Haven't seen it but Thin Red Line would be a good candidate for this.

And Crash comes to mind.

And Magnolia.

And V for Vendetta.

Though to be honest none were movies I used to love, they are just movies that I thought were pretentious from the beginning and nothing has changed that thought.

And Sideways.