Most pretentious movie?

[Wegra]

So I just got done watching This and made me realize there's a lot of movies just so.full.of.shit. So what would you say qualifies?

[someaveragechap]

I thought The Life of David Gale was pretty goddamn pretentious.

[Sevkat]

BBC's World At War.

[dinopirate23]

At 12/15/14 10:18 PM, SubliminalVirus wrote: Subliminal Cruelty... still loved it tho

twilight and scarface

[DryDesertAir]

The Science of Sleep

[The-Great-One]

American Beauty.

[Natick]

revolver
southland tales
branded

At 12/15/14 11:07 PM, The-Great-One wrote: American Beauty.

hasn't aged well, i'll give it that

[Natick]

oh yeah and inb4 phobotech goes on a rant about the tree of life

[CorpseGrinderClock]

At 12/15/14 11:07 PM, The-Great-One wrote: American Beauty.

This guy gets the thread.

Pearl Harbor - Michael Bay trying to act like his movie is about love and sacrifice and not about explosions.
Crash - yeeesh where to begin.

[Chocomilk]

At 12/15/14 10:22 PM, Monster-64 wrote:

At 12/15/14 10:16 PM, Sekhem wrote:

they know exactly what they are and aren't making claim to (undeserved) importance

Oh, ok. So I mixed up "poor marketing" and pretension.

Pretentious films though are more known as student art-like films that attempt to be really deep and introspective and edgy but are in all actuality absolute shit and just take themselves way too seriously. While technically yeah the star wars movies and some horror movies are pretentious in the sense that they take themselves a little too seriously and don't realize how over-the-top they are, that's kind of using the dictionary definition. Generally when you talk about a pretentious film it's more along the lines of The Seventh Seal or whatever

[Natick]

At 12/16/14 01:33 AM, Chocomilk wrote: Generally when you talk about a pretentious film it's more along the lines of The Seventh Seal or whatever

this is trolling, right?

[Wegra]

At 12/15/14 11:07 PM, The-Great-One wrote: American Beauty.

All I see is just some old guy bored with life trying to hit on his daughters friend who's in highschool....That's kinda fucked up if you ask me.

[Kwing]

Idiocracy is pretty bad. It tries to be politically relevant but has absolutely no subtlety and does not capture the underlying causes of the problems which it is protesting - in a few decades it will be dated and irrelevant, to be forgotten indefinitely.

[The-Great-One]

At 12/16/14 01:32 AM, CorpseGrinderClock wrote:

At 12/15/14 11:07 PM, The-Great-One wrote: American Beauty.

This guy gets the thread.

I thank you.

Pearl Harbor - Michael Bay trying to act like his movie is about love and sacrifice and not about explosions.

I fucking hated Pearl Harbor when it came out and I am still very against it. However the scenes with FDR and the Japanese planning their attacks are done very well. I think the only thing with Michael Bay is that he needs a filter. He can work well with another person.

Crash - yeeesh where to begin.

I will honestly say that I thought Crash was actually a really damn good movie and it only really got heavy criticism when it won the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards. People wouldn't stop complaining about this movie and I don't understand why. It is a bit preachy I'll give it that, but certainly not pretentious, I've seen worse race-relation movies and I'll even admit I've seen better, one being American History X.

[Void]

The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D
Spy Kids
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

Get out

[Cyberdevil]

The old Left Behind trilogy. :/

[YenMuffin]

At 12/15/14 09:50 PM, Wegra wrote: So I just got done watching This and made me realize there's a lot of movies just so.full.of.shit. So what would you say qualifies?

One of the greatest films I have ever watched.
11/10

[xXSp1cyN1njaXx]

At 12/16/14 02:00 AM, 24901miles wrote:

I don't think pretentious means what you think it means dude. how the hell is machete1/2, spy kids, mortal kombat, office space, chainsaw massacare motherfucking 2, and the other 40% of your list pretentious?

here's my list anyways

frozen
Nolan's dark knight trilogy (second one's good)
inception
subUrbia
Michael bay in general
mortal kombat legacy
lady in the water
the host(stephenie meyer version)
the amazing spider man 1 and 2 (first one's good...sorta)
Donnie darko
any movie that uses shitty camera angles, has a soundtrack mainly consisting indie hipster bullshit, and think it's deep.
dragon ball z battle of the gods
adventure time(I know its not a movie)
anything by david cage

[CorpseGrinderClock]

At 12/16/14 03:23 AM, The-Great-One wrote: I will honestly say that I thought Crash was actually a really damn good movie

I'm not saying it wasn't, but like Pink Floyd, it's possible to be good and pretentious.

It is a bit preachy I'll give it that, but certainly not pretentious

I suppose this is more a matter of semantic understanding, then, because when I think of the difference between something being 'preachy' vs. merely informative, the difference tends to be the pretense of greater authority, import, or weight than the actual message carries.

[ThePulp]

- Michael Bay films
- Reefer Madness
- God's Not Dead
- Project X

[Troisnyx]

The BBC's adaptation of "Millions" is the most pretentious film I've ever seen.

1) The depictions of saints in that film could have been expanded more.
2) The music was generic.
3) Some characters were annoying and were probably shoehorned in.
4) I can understand the whole notion behind some of us giving to less fortunate people in the Third World, but the way the film went on about it was pretentious.

Now mind you, they've done better films and shows than that -- Doctor Who, etc., etc. And also, they did one of my favourite, most heart-wrenching films of all time -- Shooting Dogs, which was about the Rwandan genocide. But Millions really fell far short.

[Ro-May-O]

Trash Humpers. When I saw it in the TV guide I was excited because it sounded like a comedy about some elderly rascals, but it ended up just being really weird and boring. Couldn't fully watch it, every scene made me cringe.

[Bled-Red21]

End of Evangelion.

Come at me.

[someaveragechap]

At 12/16/14 11:28 AM, Bled-Red21 wrote: End of Evangelion.

Come at me.

I won't, but I felt it was more of a 'fuck you' letter to the fans. Though in my mind, they missed the mark, Shinji should have jacked off to Rei instead.

[poopmcfarts]

At 12/15/14 09:55 PM, Monster-64 wrote: Star Wars Prequels - I'm saying it to get it out of the way
Ever horror movie from 2013 - 2014

Mostly I and II, I actually kind of liked Star Wars III...

Please don't hurt me.

[Slint]

I cannot put into words how much I

[Sense-Offender]

At 12/16/14 04:22 AM, xXSp1cyN1njaXx wrote:

At 12/16/14 02:00 AM, 24901miles wrote:

I don't think pretentious means what you think it means dude.

You say that, but then...

mortal kombat
spider man
dragon ball z
adventure time

hmmm...

[dinopirate23]

ninja turtles

[KevinButtchin]

At 12/16/14 12:43 AM, supergandhi64 wrote: i don't think it's fair to call any movie pretentious. some people might see something in a movie which you don't. different audiencebe respectful about other people's opinions as well. i dedicate this post to the victims of the hurricane katrina

--supergandhi64

i agree and i also think hipsters are cool. i dont know why everyone is going after them and being rude

[orangebomb]

At 12/16/14 11:28 AM, Bled-Red21 wrote: End of Evangelion.

Come at me.

Actually, you may have a point here. The ironic thing is Evangelion in general was supposed to a criticism of the otaku lifestyle, yet in many otaku circles, characters like Rei and Asuka are essentially sex symbols and character archetypes that are pretty commonplace today. Whether it was out of spite or otherwise is still up for debate, but I'm sure that Anno didn't know that he was opening Pandora's box when he made Evangelion, considering that the Rebulid series seems to acknowledge this fact.