What are some pretentious movies people pretend to love to seem smart?
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What are some pretentious movies people pretend to love to seem smart?
your top 100 films
Stop making this thread.
NTA, but 2001 is boring, and everyone knows it, but we need to call it amazing because it’s got tenure.
You got filtered. It's that simple.
Okay, enjoy your pretentious bullshit.
>anon can't accept he's on the left side of the Bell curve
homie, there are 50% of people left of the centre and 50% right. It's inevitable someone had to be there. Don't feel too bad.
I accept that I’m there. I’m also correct.
2001 is one of the most suspenseful movies I can think of off the top of my head. The scene with Floyd talking to the Russians in the space station between his flights to the moon? It's incredibly tense. I love it.
>2001 is boring
if you're still watching films for excitement then you shouldn't be watching this kind of thing. Probably safe to ignore any 'best films' list for that matter.
Happy Watching!
>heh, me? I watch movies to be bored out of my fricking skull. I guess I just have superior taste! Enjoy Die Hard! I could never. Too gauche!
>t. adhd tiktok addict
You don't really get irony do you.
Exactly how braindead are zoomers that they can't appreciate cinematography?
>no explosions or quips or superheroes or mulattos
This confuses and enrages the redditeur.
Why do people keep acting like a movie HAS to be boring to be good? Gojia(1954) is kino and poignant while still being highly entertaining. There's no reason to pick one other the other unless its a bad movie.
Because they’re hipsters. If the general audience can enjoy it, it’s not worth their time.
confusedmatthew is that you?
Blade runner
Agree with
All 3 are what are considered "slow" movies. Which reminds me, I forgot what I was watching (maybe The Player) where a character says that young people just want MTV editing now. Fast cut. Fast cut.
Saw this in cinema a week ago and it’s an amazing movie. Or are you saying that people pretend to have watched it to seem more artful than they are?
The movie itself isn't pretentious but it seems like the cult fanbase is. Like the main reason a comedy movie is made is to be funny, and it's not that funny, but this is somehow high art or something which makes it superior to other comedies?
>Big Lebowski
>not that funny
Filtered
I am the walrus.
Zoomers have literally never heard of an overture. The zoomers equivalent is "TRAILER STARTS NOW" shit that seems to plague every recent trailer.
OP is insecure.
I remember watching harriet the spy as a kid and thinking "I think this is the worst movie I've ever seen".
It wasn't until 15 years later that I watched 2001 and I felt it topped that, and even worse it masquerades as a good movie.
2001 is an amazing film obviously. But I don’t think it should be controversial to call it “pretentious”, at least the subject matter. Just drugged up occult fascist sci-fi. We’re all going to ascend into space babies. Shits gay AF
It seems sad to watch something, not like it, and decide everyone who does is pretending. Pure narcissism. You don't have to like everything and everything you don't like isn't necessarily bad. Articulate an opinion beyond "it's pretentious" and maybe we can take you seriously.
>10 minutes of black at the start of the movie
>not pretentious
It's called an overture, you fricking idiot. It used to be common practice, it establishes atmosphere while giving people a chance to file into the theater and fill their seats. You going to call a theater production pretentious because it has an intermission too? You're an uncultured swine who has no idea what he's talking about.
Yet you're the one defending peasant trash fit for the gutter
>citing theater as an argument against something being pretentious
Come on man
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The funny thing is that it's inherently pretentious to call a film pretentious. What does the word 'pretentious' mean, after all? It means a person who is trying to rise above their station, i.e. aspire to a level of depth, profundity, whatever that they have not earned/do not deserve. But who are you to decide whether or not a filmmaker has "earned the right" to make a film about a particular subject or in a particular way? The only way you could claim to be an authority on such a thing, that you get to even have a say in whether or not a filmmaker deserves to make a film about something they're passionate about, is if you are pretentious yourself. You are asserting that you're an authority on the supposed credentials of art and that you are the one who gets to dole them out. Assuming a title that you have not earned in any way, shape or form.
I'm not even sure how you would go about achieving such a title, but I guarantee anyone calling a film pretentious on the internet hasn't. So, just say you don't like it. Have an opinion and leave it at that. Or hell, just admit you don't get it. There's dignity in that. But if you call it pretentious, you're being pretentious.
Why would you need special credentials to criticize something for being pretentious but not for for example having bad CGI? You are probably not an expert in 3D animation, why should you have an opinion? Detecting pretentiousness is not some advanced technical knowledge just as seeing that an animated cartoon teddy bear looks like shit doesn't require you to know a damn thing about animation.
>an epic drama of adventure and exploration
>there is no drama or adventure and they don't go anywhere
Totally pointless. The main characters just did a bunch of drugs and ran around avoiding Christina Ricci's character after taking advantage of her.
What do boomers get out of this movie? Do you need lead poisoning to understand it?
i'm amazed a zoomer isn't completely satisfied with essentially 2 hours of nearly random, aimless dopamine stimulation
the movie is fun, drugs are fun, freedom is fun, the audience is supposed to feel nostalgia for a time and place we'll never, ever see again.
even the rapidly-approaching psychedelic rennaissance 2.0 is going to be a cold, soulless commodified version of what happened in the 60s and 70s. available because the man said it was legal, not because youthful desire for freedom and peace was stronger than the man
Y’all just have poor media literacy
>3 hours building defenses and arguing about social class
>1 fight at the very end
I get movies were paced differently back when just going to the theatre was a treat, but you could have cut out 60% of the footage without changing anything.
2001: A Space Odyssey.
Scarface.
Blade Runner.
The unholy trinity of snoozefest pretentious garbage.
Honorable mentions: The Crow, Dark City.