re: What is the most pretentious movie you&#39;ve ever seen?

Posted by Jay Are

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 5:45 pm to McChowder

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It was a cobbling of cliches with messaging that hits you over the head with the subtlety of a lead mallet.

So, it was the opposite of pretentious?

This thread would be more effective if people explained their responses. "like watching paint dry" and "couldn't get through it" describe boring and bad, respectfully. That's not pretention.

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 5:47 pm to jojothetireguy

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Crash

WINNER

Posted by MF Doom

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 5:48 pm to Jay Are

King movie snob has arrived

Posted by The Spleen

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 5:49 pm to whatkindanameiskirby

Boyhood comes to mind.

Posted by Rep520

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 5:54 pm to whatkindanameiskirby

I'll go with the choice of mine feel like would be most unpopular. Eyes Wide Shut.

Posted by Kafka

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 5:58 pm to Cdawg

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All of Woody Allen's movies are to me. I can't even get through them.

But Interiors is the significant one. It got rave, near-orgasmic reviews from people like Gene Shalit, permitting WA to move from romcoms to straight imitations of various Europeans artistes. It was really a tragic waste of talent -- Allen is a genius at writing gags, but he preferred to be a fourth-rate Ingmar Bergman.

Speaking of whom... Ol' Ingmar. Posters citing Hollywood blockbusters don't know what pretension is.

I'll just mention this one since I know no one else will.

Posted by bluestem75

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 6:00 pm to Kafka

Spotlight

Super hypocritical of Hollywood to award the Oscar, too.

Posted by Shiftyplus1

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 6:11 pm to whatkindanameiskirby

Garden State

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Posted by Michael T. Tiger

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 6:21 pm to whatkindanameiskirby

Every Michael Moore film

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 6:33 pm to whatkindanameiskirby

Birdman

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 6:40 pm to Shiftyplus1

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Garden State

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I fricking hated that movie.

Posted by jlovel7

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 6:49 pm to Pandy Fackler

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don't think he's ever made one movie that's worth a shite. It's as though he makes all his movies for New Yorkers and frick everyone else if they don't get it.

Midnight in Paris is incredible.

Posted by jg8623

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 6:51 pm to bluestem75

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Spotlight

I thought Spotlight was fantastic

Tree of Life, Mother!, Crash, Magnolia (one that I liked) are what comes to mind when I think “pretentious”

Posted by Jay Are

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 6:58 pm to Pandy Fackler

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King movie snob has arrived

I don't think knowing what pretentious means makes me a movie snob.

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Garden State

I agree with this. Braff presented a nothing narrative with the crutch manic pixie dream girl, and ultimately had nothing interesting to say. He sure thought he was making an emotionally resonant product, but he relied on a soundtrack to make the audience feel anything.

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 7:00 pm to whatkindanameiskirby

Posted by Modest

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 7:15 pm to tiggerthetooth

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Tree of Life

Hahaha can’t here to say this. Didn’t make it far before I found it.

Just a big yikes of a movie.

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 7:32 pm to VOR

bridges of madison county

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Posted on 2/6/20 at 7:41 pm to whatkindanameiskirby

The New York Times declared Black Panther, "a defining moment for black America." People were acting like a fricking comic book movie ranked somewhere between Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Emancipation Proclamation.