What is the most pretentious film ever?

What is the most pretentious film ever?

STALKER

Inception, The Dark Knight, Vanilla Sky

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Birdman

How is The Dark Knight pretentious? Agree with Vanilla Sky though... still like it

If you seriously like this then you're just as pretentious as the movie.

Nice visuals isn't the same as a great movie

Not at all

Delete your shit thread. Fuck.

Donnie "woa so deep" Darko.

End of Evangelion

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what a vapid pos movie

denying that it establishes an atmosphere that is both intriguing and terrifying makes you one of the pretentious peeple you hate

*The Dark Knight Rises

UC.

But I still liked how well the visuals and music went together.

It's like some artsy shit you can turn your mind off and enjoy while still feeling like a douche.

>le shots of grass and le soldier man talking le softly and plaintively
epic, he*lla f*uckin' epik

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This and all clipson's cinematography

the movie is pretentious.

100% Just look at the 3rd act. it's pure art house bullshit, to one of the most "realistic" try hard movies.

It is intriguing until you find out there's nothing. It's like an empty box with a question mark. the implications at the time about the future is one thing, but that's what pretentious is.

They made the book for the movie, like there was a shortage of sci-fi novels at the time.

pleb

The dialogue in this is pretty pretentious. Sample:
>Oh, my soul, let me be in you now. Look out through my eyes, look out at the things you've made. All things shining.

This is the correct answer.

As a hardcore sci-fi fan, I agree. I love kubricks other films a lot, but the fucking monkies in the start....

He could have used real chimps, but "mah OCD"

those two are definitely strong contenders

Hugo. Literally a movie about how important and magical movies are.

What he said
I didn't understand a single thing the first time I watched but I was mentally going holy shit the entire time.

Once I actually read the book and understood it, it easily became top favorites

drugs are bad, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmkay?

Was a legit good indie movie. The director's cut reveals a lot of stuff that wasn't suppose to be ambiguous but a lot of people actually appreciate that of it.

the movie was never overrated and lauded by critics, it's always just been a floundering movie, you'd be better off saying some YouTube video like PewDiePie is more pretentious...

it's impossible not to like this movie
entertaining af (if you think this is boring kys, because you will never not be a huge peasant)
GOAT fx, editing and camerawork
engaging story

> We. We together. One being. Flow together like water. Till I can't tell you from me. I drink you. Now. Now.

It's sad... i guess that's what you think pretentious means.

But like Tropic Thunder shows what pretentious means. It's not like the movie was based off something fake... dude died... by himself...

one of the best movies ever made

This is masturbatory crap. It's actual dialog from the film?

Stop shitposting, Panini

you know it to be true

anything by Tartkovsky, Malick's films from the Thin Red Line and on, Shane Carruth's films.

You called?

it doesn't really seem like most people in this thread know what "pretentious" means

I'd go with Birdman, Revenant, and Babel as the 3 biggest offenders.

The Revenant especially is one of the worst pieces of shit I've ever sat through.

001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film.

so no one understood it.

Let me say, the movie looks like crap in the start, does well in the middle, they never get to the moon they build the fear about, and it ends with a poorly made "trippy acid trip hippy" thing that frankly was "Trendy" at that point, and didn't really further the film.

It's not terrible, but knowing it's a Kubrick movie is what makes it pretentious. Everything shitty about that movie was MADE specifically to be that shitty.

This wasn't some "lucas" guy trying to make it.

This was Kubrick's big movie. Aside from a few iconic scenes meant to be memes, it's just a slowly paced movie about a guy fighting a robot, that has nothing else making sense with it.
The obelisk and the time-warp or whatever at the end, make no difference to the movie, but assholes still say"

"it's easily my top favorite movie"

>Watch more movies.

It's voice-over of the characters.
>What's this war in the heart of nature? Why does nature vie with itself? The land contend with the sea? Is there an avenging power in nature? Not one power, but two?

I used to think this was deep, desu.

That's Fincher's style, and everyone else that tries to copy it does crap at it, but he rides that line.

Like Burton's films... it's done well... and besides lesbian sex scenes and masturbation like they had is really uncalled of at that time ... I want to say pretentious, but ti does well.

you're aware that 2001 is one of the most acclaimed movies of all time, right?

what is going on in this post?

You do not understand the art of film. Read books instead.
Birdman isn't pretentious. It's exactly what it thinks it is.
Not pretentious, just outright bad.

what's that supposed to mean

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>Mullholland Drive
>Fincher

Birdman sets itself up as an antidote to the superhero trend in films. It banks on its audience being middle of the road moviewatchers who love Oscar bait and will sit in their seats sagely nodding along to Birdman's attacks against superhero movies. It's great because Birdman is just as empty and idiotic as the average superhero movie.

lynch does seem pretentious at first, but when you get to know his oeuvre you realize that he's one of the least pretentious directors ever

>dude died... by himself...

Because he was a fucking pretentious asshole that didn't care about his parents even though they gave him the entire world, something that many people would ask for and will never get in their entire lives. He is literally the dumbest person that has existed.

you really hate inarritu

>Revenant

Gotta disagree with you there, m8. I went in expecting the most boring, pretentious artshit ever and got a pretty good, raw and brutal adventure movie with just a little pretentious shit thrown in (like the final shot).

How great is it to see an Iñarritu movie and being able to legitimately say "the final fight was my favorite part"?

Birdman was shit tho, i can agree with that.

The lobster

You're describing Chef, not Birdman. Keaton's character was the heart of the movie, about his struggle to be loved and remembered by everyone in a world that is moving too fast for one man to be noticed. Emma Stone's rant about 'nobody caring' has more substance and importance than the entire superhero genre.

Emma Stone's rant is laughably overwritten and ridiculous. So many scenes in Birdman are just characters monologuing and spewing out platitudes about life that sound so ridiculous and fake. And oh wow, it's a movie about a play so it is supposed to be theatrical. Give me a break. The movie is a piece of garbage.

That adds to it, it's not like it's a fantastic movie because it's a fantastic movie, but because the music was AMAZING. The film itself is dated, and shitty even by the standards then.

The movie starts off referencing a book that wasn't released, using poor designed costumes. The rest of the movie follows pretty good, if not slowly paced, and Alien goes slow paced, to contrast, whereas the contrast in 2001, is to an ending that makes no sense.

The conclusion is ambiguous, which AMBIGUOUS CONCLUSIONS ARE THE MOST PRETENTIOUS ENDINGS POSSIBLE.

There's a difference to ambiguous when it's adds to the content, like the ending of the first CUBE movie. It's a mystery in a mystery.


IF I HAVE TO READ A BOOK TO UNDERSTAND THAT ENDING,

THEN THAT IS THE MOST PRETENTIOUS MOVIE OF ALL TIME EVER MADE BY KUBRICK THE MOST PRETENTIOUS DIRECTOR EVER MADE, FULL STOP.

THE MOVIE DOESN'T EVER STOP BEING PRETENTIOUS WITHOUT HAVING ANY SUBSTANCE.


aside from having good cinematography, which took 200 takes each time, it's a bland movie about a robot, going "frankenstein"

The music is the only saving grace for the movie. The music, like most of Kubrick's movies.

The movie doesn't really do much except stand testimony to how shitty movies were in 1968. Well done music, good photography, but lacked in every thing else.

It was one of the only sci-fi films of the decade that came out, which is probably why it was so influential and everything else it's acclaimed for being.

as a sci-fi it's kinda shitty. That's pretentious. It's not GREATEST OF ALL TIME, it's just standard sci-fi with no real comparison, except Forbidden Planet 10 years earlier, and star wars 10 years later.

>except for planet of the apes that came out that same year.

Planet of the Apes is one of the best Sci-Fi's of all time, and has a great start middle and end that questions everything from relgion to evolution to human rights.

david lyncher sorry

david finch?

2001 was to New Hollywood what Citizen Kane was to Classic Hollywood.

you niggers need to go back to capesthi

all inarritu
all russell
almost all cuaron
almost all pta
almost all coens
valhalla rising-current refn
almost all tarkovsky
all dolan
almost all hooper
all aronofsky
almost all mendes
late von trier

i could keep going but im bored. pretentious isnt automatically bad, btw

I really hope that you haven't actually written all that
btw, you have awful taste, how can you even compare a children's movie like planet of the apes to one of the most acclaimed movies and certainly the most acclaimed scifi of all time

>Its the best movie ever the character of the movie passes through all type of ages

I've never seen so many shit opinions in one post

its too self aware to be pretenious

All the ones I don't like

But here, I'll list one that I honestly do believe is fucking pretentious as hell

I want those two hours of my life back

i liked it

Glad this was posted

How do you from that to this?

nah, "fans" are the pretentious one, like matrix fags

>almost all tarkovsky
Definitely The Mirror

Enter the Void is the most pretentious movie I have seen

Idk how you could say Stalker is pretentious or anything by Lynch

this to be honest, Noe is a known a hack while Tarkovsky's films feel very soulful

No that was Bonnie and Clyde.

Whichever your favorite is.