Pretentious movies, what are the ones in your list?

[linkgx1]

I'll admit, I got it from Family Guy when Peter said The God Father "emphasizes upon itself".

I hate movies like that. The Da Vinici code comes to mind. You know, the movies that overly exert a certain thing or throw certain scene in just to get an oscar. Crash tried to do this a lot.


I'm sorry if I this is confusing, but every frickin' World War II movie is just like this.

[Col. Zombie]

It's not confusing, not at all. All I will say in response is, "You've got spunk, kid."




























































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[anomynous]

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[js666]

Originally Posted by linkgx1

Crash tried to do this a lot.

Couldn't agree with you more. I FRACKIN' hate that movie.

[Pondosinatra]

Curious Case of Benjamin Button...

"This movie is about a baby who is born old and as he grows 'older' he paradoxically grows younger. That boy's name is Forrest, Forrest Gump. Huh? Oh, I'm sorry I got confused. While watching this epically long film I kept thinking of Gump. Considering both stories were written by the same person I guess it's not really surprising. Still, maybe try going in a different direction or something instead of pandering to our intelligence that this is nothing but a blatant attempt at being the 'it' movie come Oscar time. Thankfully much better fare won their nominations instead - with the exception of Best Makeup, which admittedly was well deserved. To director Fincher's credit he doesn't resort to typical gimmicks to tell us how we're supposed to feel during any given scene, no swelling music to be found here. But you'd think that with such a long run time he'd have spent more time on exploring the dilemma of loving someone who grows younger as you grow older instead of wasting time on unnecessary scenes which did nothing but attempt to ram it into the audience's head as to how amazingly, hugely, important this movie is supposed to be. Sorry, but it isn't."

[Marcus Wright]

Originally Posted by linkgx1

I'll admit, I got it from Family Guy when Peter said The God Father "emphasizes upon itself".

I hate movies like that. The Da Vinici code comes to mind. You know, the movies that overly exert a certain thing or throw certain scene in just to get an oscar. Crash tried to do this a lot.


I'm sorry if I this is confusing, but every frickin' World War II movie is just like this.

I would agree with you on WW2 movies, especially the likes of Saving Private Ryan and Band Of Brothers.

Some scenes there where so pretentious that I wanted to throw out.

[Lepidopterous]

I remember Hugh Jackman bashing The Reader for this.

[GunRanger]

"The Godfather insists upon itself" is the real quote.

[dallywhitty]

The Fountain springs to mind. Normally I avoid calling films pretentious because I don't think there's anything wrong with a film trying to be intelligent, but I think this one really did try too hard. I still enjoyed it, mind you, I just feel Aronofsky went overboard.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Donnie Darko is my biggest pet peeve when it comes to pretentious film making. Everybody that brings up the film tries to exptrapolate FAR MORE than what the film deals with thematically. And, it's because of the film being presented as a much more intricate philosophical study than it could ever actually support.

[X12Celtics3]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

The Fountain springs to mind. Normally I avoid calling films pretentious because I don't think there's anything wrong with a film trying to be intelligent, but I think this one really did try too hard. I still enjoyed it, mind you, I just feel Aronofsky went overboard.

I agree with this, too. I enjoyed the movie, and I do like Aronofsky (LOVED Black Swan), but throughout the whole movie I was waiting for there to be a moment where the film 'came together' and I realized the thematic relevance to be as major and important as I thought it would be, but it never really came.

Mind you, I've only seen the film once and in all honesty my inability to see how it really came together could very well just be me not understanding the movie. Still enjoyed it, though.

[Mahatma]

Originally Posted by Marcus Wright

I would agree with you on WW2 movies, especially the likes of Saving Private Ryan and Band Of Brothers.

Some scenes there where so pretentious that I wanted to throw out.

I wholeheartedly agree on SPR,but thought BoB was really well made,and steered clear of the worst that SPR didn't avoid.Mind,I don't like BoB-although in my collection-but I do respect it's intent and excecution.Thought some of the acting was abit bad,but not all over.Thought that Friends dude was excellent.I know I should have headed over to IMDB to get his name,but those who have seen BoB know who I'm talking about.Just not my cup of tea WW2 is.Best WW2 movie to me has to be Kelly's heroes

To add to this thread:I think Mike Leigh's movies are stupendously pretentious

[Variable_Star]

Oh yeah, yeah for me it was Masters of the Universe. I hated the way the script was so killer, every line of dialog crackled with intensity, as if the screenwriter was just begging for accolades. Then they assembled this A-list cast including Dolph Lundgren and the future Tom Paris - obvious oscar bait. Next up are the elaborate, beautifully designed costumes by master of fashion Julie Weiss. Seriously, there was absolutely no reason to have He-Man look that cool. When the bar is set so high there's no room for competition!

Of course, it's also based on a totally and completely true story, and those oscar voters just love true stories! I just hated the way the plot wasn't spelled out for me and I had to read between the lines and think sometimes. Note to filmmakers - this is entertainment, this is when I shut down my brain! As if all that wasn't just awful enough, every scene in the movie was crafted to be, like, all good an' stuff.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by linkgx1

I'll admit, I got it from Family Guy when Peter said The God Father "emphasizes upon itself".

I hate movies like that. The Da Vinici code comes to mind. You know, the movies that overly exert a certain thing or throw certain scene in just to get an oscar. Crash tried to do this a lot.


I'm sorry if I this is confusing, but every frickin' World War II movie is just like this.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

The Fountain springs to mind. Normally I avoid calling films pretentious because I don't think there's anything wrong with a film trying to be intelligent, but I think this one really did try too hard. I still enjoyed it, mind you, I just feel Aronofsky went overboard.

Boooooo.

[notops]

Inception

When virtually every line of dialog is exposition, you really only have a house of cards, Mr. Nolan.

What a waste of time.

[anomaly7]

Mulholland Drive. People use the excuse "It's not suppose to make sense, you're not suppose to understand it." Yeah, ok, whatever. I'm still pissed I wasted 2 hours.

Syndoche (sp?) New York. To borrow a phrase from Larry David, that film was "pretentiousness masquarading as art".

[X12Celtics3]

Originally Posted by anomaly7

Mulholland Drive. People use the excuse "It's not suppose to make sense, you're not suppose to understand it." Yeah, ok, whatever. I'm still pissed I wasted 2 hours.

Syndoche (sp?) New York. To borrow a phrase from Larry David, that film was "pretentiousness masquarading as art".

I love this movie

I also liked Inception, but not nearly as much as some of Nolan's other movies (Memento and The Prestige come to mind).

[Steel Panther]

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[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by anomaly7

Mulholland Drive. People use the excuse "It's not suppose to make sense, you're not suppose to understand it." Yeah, ok, whatever. I'm still pissed I wasted 2 hours.

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But, it does.