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Pretentious Movies

  • 28-03-2019 6:17pm
    #1
    redmgar
    Registered Users Posts: 680 ✭✭✭


    What is the most pretentious commercial movie that you have seen?
    I would go with the Kurt Cobain mimicking "Last days"


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  • #2
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    2001 obvs! :pac:


  • #3
    DaeryssaOne
    Registered Users Posts: 443 ✭✭DaeryssaOne


    Tree of Life


  • #4
    El Duda
    Registered Users Posts: 866 ✭✭✭El Duda


    Pretty much anything that Little White Lies gives 5 stars to.


  • #5
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    A Ghost Story.
    Casey Affleck in a white sheet and a really long scene involving a pie being eaten.


  • #6
    Autecher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭Autecher


    I ♥ Huckabees - I liked this when it came out but I think I would hate it now.
    Eyes Wide Shut - I thought this was crap but did like seeing Nicole Kidman in the nip.
    In fact most Kubrick movies I have seen.
    Also cheating a bit here as it's a tv show but The OA is very pretentious and I like it a lot.


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  • #7
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    The Fountain (that I've seen). Good and cohesive in spots but wacky and abstract in the extreme in others to a point well beyond absurdity.


  • #8
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Punch Drunk Love.

    My God I hated that movie.


  • #9
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Autecher wrote: »
    In fact most Kubrick movies I have seen.

    A good few of them yea.

    A Clockwork Orange :rolleyes: huh.


  • #10
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Moulin Rouge wasnt very good either. I do like a remix of one of the songs though.


  • #11
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,816 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    DaeryssaOne wrote: »
    Tree of Life
    Agreed but a lot of his recent films are even worse IMO
    -Knight of cups
    -Song to song
    Are even worse.

    I would add
    -Southland tales
    -Babel


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  • #12
    The Enbalmer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭The Enbalmer


    The Usual Suspects. It managed to fool people that the 'twist' ending was something other than a bad plot device that rendered the rest of the film meaningless


  • #13
    Captain Red Beard
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭Captain Red Beard


    The Enbalmer wrote: »
    The Usual Suspects. It managed to fool people that the 'twist' ending was something other than a bad plot device that rendered the rest of the film meaningless

    Ah no.


  • #14
    Frank O. Pinion
    Registered Users Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Frank O. Pinion


    You know a film has a very good chance of being a fantastic, challenging, intellectual film if someone uses the word "pretentious" to critique it. More so, if they also happen to be Star Wars, Marvel, or Fast & Furious fans. Some of my favourite films have been dubbed pretentious. I love the term "pretentious art films". I also enjoy when people use the term extremely incorrectly.

    Punch Drunk Love? Absolutely brilliant film.


  • #15
    Sorry about that
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Sorry about that


    Lost in Translation.


  • #16
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users Posts: 10,799 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    I really wanted to like Tree of Life... But it wasn't for me.

    Actually, really any Terence Mallick film.


  • #17
    y0ssar1an22
    Registered Users Posts: 15,913 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    those bull**** oscar grab movies. i'm looking at you eddie redmayne


  • #18
    Drumpot
    Registered Users Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Frank O. Pinion wrote: »

    Punch Drunk Love? Absolutely brilliant film.

    Loved that movie..

    And Magnolia .

    But I also like Star Wars !!!


  • #19
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    The Matrix.


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Some of the films mentioned I love! Opinions of them can be so subjective, leaving aside technical critique anyways.


  • #21
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Mulholland Drive.


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  • #22
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    Revolver.

    Guy Ritchie isn’t as clever as he thinks.

    Or I’m not as clever as Guy Ritchie thinks.

    Either way it was a bag of ****


  • #23
    Hobosan
    Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Hobosan


    Midnight in Paris


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Mary Queen of Scots took pretentiousness to new levels inserting the modern social ideas into a time where they didn't exist.


  • #25
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Are some people listing pretentious movies or crap movies?


  • #26
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,668 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    lawred2 wrote: »
    Are some people listing pretentious movies or crap movies?

    Neither, just movies they find overrated, which is what happens in all these kinds of threads.


  • #27
    The Enbalmer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭The Enbalmer


    Captain Red Beard wrote:
    Ah no.


    I guess you were one that fell for it.

    Ah well.


  • #28
    The White Wolf
    Registered Users Posts: 5,123 ✭✭✭The White Wolf


    Only Lovers Left Alive feels like a pretentious film but I loved it all the same.

    The late noughties/early this decade had quite a few of them and they seemed to involve the likes of Michael Cera and Jesse Eisenberg. Juno and Adventureland are such examples. Films if they were released now would be absolutely murdered for their lack of self awareness.


  • #29
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    2001 is my all time favourite. Lost in Translation is terrific.

    And I really like The Empire Strikes Back.


  • #30
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    There Will Be Blood. Did not like it, think it's overrated and pretentious. Though Daniel Day Lewis is one of my favorite actors.


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  • #31
    micks_address
    Registered Users Posts: 8,441 ✭✭✭micks_address


    Do people ever think they agree some pretentious movies are great just so they can say they are great? Its like oh i understand whats going on here and its amazing just so they can seem to be on a higher intellectual level.. some movies are just not great.. i would put the lobster in this category.. i thought it was daft


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