What's the Most Pretentious Movie You've Ever Seen?

" We all know what pretentious means. People can stop saying we don't. "

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Black and White for no reason
Speaks about love
Speaks about love but tries to be all indie about it
Tries to capture human emotion

" Definitely Watchmen. The monologues especially made me cringe inside. It didn't help that the movie was boring as fuck. "

" @PrivateIronTFU said:

" We all know what pretentious means. People can stop saying we don't. "

Are you sure? Either you don't know, or you're just idiots.

Passion of the Christ.

" @Dany said:

 and black Sean

Oh God I'm dying over here hahah. "

" Passion of the Christ. "

" @audiosnag:   OK I'll take this one.  Do you remember in the film how Batman gets all these amazing surveillance powers, and how he finally finds the Joker?  Morgan Freeman says this is too much power for any man to have, and he goes to resign.  But Batman is a righteous force for justice, who needs to have all these powers in order to find the bad guy, a terrorist named the Joker.  For me this was an uncomfortable parallel to the business in the US about the Patriot Act and so on.  Trying to make Batman cutting edge by weighing in with a kind of contemporary political commentary could be seen as pretentious.  This might seem like a stretch to some, but this part stood out in particular and rubbed me the wrong way, and I much prefer the original Tim Burton film for this and a few other reasons. "

 
pretentious /prɪˈtenʃəs/ 
▶ adjective attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed. 

Book of Eli, in recent memory anyway.

I really want to say Juno, but it's really not that pretentious, unless you count it imposing indieness and quirikiness then yeah it was pretty damn pretentious. 

I'm pretentious because I'm making a baseless value claim on my own pretentiousness.

I never thought about The Dark Knight being pretentious. Hmph. It is a movie about a drag queen beating up non-consenting potential partners (i.e.: "criminals") at night, but the filmmakers never try to pretend there's more to the film than mindless entertainment.

4 pages and this thread has already dissolved into nonsense.

" @audiosnag:   OK I'll take this one.  Do you remember in the film how Batman gets all these amazing surveillance powers, and how he finally finds the Joker?  Morgan Freeman says this is too much power for any man to have, and he goes to resign.  But Batman is a righteous force for justice, who needs to have all these powers in order to find the bad guy, a terrorist named the Joker.  For me this was an uncomfortable parallel to the business in the US about the Patriot Act and so on.  Trying to make Batman cutting edge by weighing in with a kind of contemporary political commentary could be seen as pretentious.  This might seem like a stretch to some, but this part stood out in particular and rubbed me the wrong way, and I much prefer the original Tim Burton film for this and a few other reasons. "

Avatar.
 
What.

" I'm gonna go with Antichrist. All the time it's just showing you these images but they have no meaning to me. "

" @audiosnag:   OK I'll take this one.  Do you remember in the film how Batman gets all these amazing surveillance powers, and how he finally finds the Joker?  Morgan Freeman says this is too much power for any man to have, and he goes to resign.  But Batman is a righteous force for justice, who needs to have all these powers in order to find the bad guy, a terrorist named the Joker.  For me this was an uncomfortable parallel to the business in the US about the Patriot Act and so on.  Trying to make Batman cutting edge by weighing in with a kind of contemporary political commentary could be seen as pretentious.  This might seem like a stretch to some, but this part stood out in particular and rubbed me the wrong way, and I much prefer the original Tim Burton film for this and a few other reasons. "

I also feel Inception tried really hard to be mind-bending but, in all honesty, it's just a heist movie with "layers of complexity." But, really, if you pay attention, it's a pretty simple plot line that literally wears thin after one viewing, rather than movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind were one could pick up much more about the story after one viewing. Plus, with the exception of Dicaprio's character, everyone is a one-dimensional cut-out, and even then all we really learn about Dicaprio is he inadvertently caused the death of his wife and he left his children, which oh guess what doesn't really matter since the only backstory we get for his wife is "She's his wife, he loves her, he causes her death." Sure, it's a redemption story and you have to have a tragedy occur, but at least give her some character. It's almost as bad as Marley and Me, where we're supposed to cry over the dog in the end. But really, why should we? The only reason that film gives us is beacuse Marley's a dog. The movie shows like 3 moments where there was some connection between the family and the dog and hundred's more of the dog acting poorly. Inception's the same, just with a woman.  
 
Boom 
 
/rant over

gummo.
 
don't watch it.

" @birdflu777 said:

" I'm gonna go with Antichrist. All the time it's just showing you these images but they have no meaning to me. "

#Sigh#   For some reason I think that says more about you but whatever.  I'm probably also gonna go with The Dark Knight.  No your right punkxblaze Avatar is probably the most pretentious piece of shit I have seen in ages. "

I would also say Avatar because James Cameron was like "LOOK BITCHES THIS SHIT IS FLY AS HELL." Not quite.

Avatar with its blatant people are bad to nature and the white man did bad things to Indians message. It would be okay if it was just a bit subtle.

" Inception. "

" I'm going to say 8 1/2, by Fellini "

" @audiosnag:   OK I'll take this one.  Do you remember in the film how Batman gets all these amazing surveillance powers, and how he finally finds the Joker?  Morgan Freeman says this is too much power for any man to have, and he goes to resign.  But Batman is a righteous force for justice, who needs to have all these powers in order to find the bad guy, a terrorist named the Joker.  For me this was an uncomfortable parallel to the business in the US about the Patriot Act and so on.  Trying to make Batman cutting edge by weighing in with a kind of contemporary political commentary could be seen as pretentious.  This might seem like a stretch to some, but this part stood out in particular and rubbed me the wrong way, and I much prefer the original Tim Burton film for this and a few other reasons. "
Are you serious? "

First, I disagree. Antichrist and The Idiots aren't that pretentious at all. 
 
That being said, The Element of Crime is. Even Trier called it pretentious.

I watched about 5 minutes of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe" the other night. Taylor and Burton arrive home drunk to a dirty kitchen and walk around cussing about it. This flick was supposed to be 'all that' back in the day.....Pullease!

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
 
Idiocracy
 
That's all I got.  Sadly I won't watch that many movies.

Dark Knight is pretentious?
What?
 
Anyhoo- Into the Wild. Gah.
It wasn't BAD, mind you. The main character's just pretentious as all hell. 

I've had enough of this society, I'm better than all of you, I'm going to live with nature.
Dude. Get your head out of your asshole. And get away from those damn hippies!

" I'm starting to wonder if most of the people in this thread know what pretentious means. "

" @Colonel_Cool said:

" Definitely Watchmen. The monologues especially made me cringe inside. It didn't help that the movie was boring as fuck. "

Which is hillarioius to hear considering the monologues were straight from the graphic novels. 
 

Any Michael Moore film, but most assuredly Bowling for Columbine.

" Donnie Darko "

"Donnie Darko "

" @Sagalla said:

" @audiosnag:   OK I'll take this one.  Do you remember in the film how Batman gets all these amazing surveillance powers, and how he finally finds the Joker?  Morgan Freeman says this is too much power for any man to have, and he goes to resign.  But Batman is a righteous force for justice, who needs to have all these powers in order to find the bad guy, a terrorist named the Joker.  For me this was an uncomfortable parallel to the business in the US about the Patriot Act and so on.  Trying to make Batman cutting edge by weighing in with a kind of contemporary political commentary could be seen as pretentious.  This might seem like a stretch to some, but this part stood out in particular and rubbed me the wrong way, and I much prefer the original Tim Burton film for this and a few other reasons. "

Dude the political commentary is why people like it. "

Transformers 2, such pretentionous

Being pretentious is bad because.....???? Sigh , all I heard is "ALL movies must be shallow hollywood/american hero must kick evil brit bad guy ass" were everything must be explained upfront , because making us think is being pretentious .....
 
Ok today Im being very trollish I think :(

The Beach is serious bullshit.

Being a film student, I'm subjected to mandatory screenings for a lot of pretentious films. The worst offender recently was a short called 'Klipp Klopp' by Andrew Kotting. Basically its ten minutes of him pretending to be a horse, underlined with some juvenile attempts at poetry. One of the biggest sacks of shite I've ever seen.

" @Azteck said:

" I'm starting to wonder if most of the people in this thread know what pretentious means. "

I don't think any of them do. "

" Transformers 2, such pretentionous "

" @Dany said:

" Transformers 2, such pretentionous "

I don't know, man. It became a justifiably brilliant spiritual message when Shia LeBouf went to Robot Heaven. The spot-on social commentary of the racist twins also resonates with me. Truly a landmark in film making, what a masterpiece. "

The Book of Eli

Any Spike lee movie.

" Being a film student, I'm subjected to mandatory screenings for a lot of pretentious films. The worst offender recently was a short called 'Klipp Klopp' by Andrew Kotting. Basically its ten minutes of him pretending to be a horse, underlined with some juvenile attempts at poetry. One of the biggest sacks of shite I've ever seen. "

My god, nobody knows what pretentious means in here.

Orange County

" My god, nobody knows what pretentious means in here. "