Ezen Baklattan Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Pretentious is often thrown around to describe tastes in film, too. I don't appreciate how some people automiatically assume that anyone who thinks The Master is amazing and The Avengers is boring is a pretentious film snob. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Pretty much can't mean anything else ^^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vc2002 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 For me, a pretentious film sometimes means that it tried to aim at a deep subject, but failed miserablly when delievering it. In this case I found this year's TDKR a bit pretentious. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acsc1312 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Pretentious is often thrown around to describe tastes in film, too. I don't appreciate how some people automiatically assume that anyone who thinks The Master is amazing and The Avengers is boring is a pretentious film snob. Stop describing me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 (edited) I dont call movie pretentious, but people who like to analyze movies to death and to find far-fetched deeper meanings from them.. Thats pretentious, especially when it seems they cant enjoy movies. You can pretty much summarize it like this: http://tvtropes.org/...esusInPurgatory Edited January 20, 2013 by C00k13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanboy Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Pretentious is someone who thinks they're cool for shitting on artsy movies because they're too dumb to understand them and too afraid to admit it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Soo, is The Artist a pretentious bore? Or a genius piece of film-making??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmav45 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 There are two kinds of people in this world......those who are pretentious as fuck, and those who wish they were, IMO. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil in the Blank Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I dont call movie pretentious, but people who like to analyze movies to death and to find far-fetched deeper meanings from them.. Thats pretentious, especially when it seems they cant enjoy movies. People find enjoyment in all kinds of different ways. Some people find enjoyment from big explosions, some people find enjoyment from movies that make them think. Some people can find enjoyment from both. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Some people think Nolan movies are the best and everything else sucks.Some think stuff like TF and Twilight is the best.Most can like to watch all kinds of films... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riczhang Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 For me, a pretentious film sometimes means that it tried to aim at a deep subject, but failed miserablly when delievering it. In this case I found this year's TDKR a bit pretentious.I'd disagree with that. I don't think pretentiousness is whether or not it succeeds in delivering the message. It's more of whether or not there was a message there to begin with. Some films hype themselves up to be this huge, big, deep and philosophical movie but really there's nothing there to get. I think that there's a difference between this and failing to tell the message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kvikk Lunsj Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Soo, is The Artist a pretentious bore? Or a genius piece of film-making???It just sucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riczhang Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 It just sucked.Bitch please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kvikk Lunsj Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 (edited) Bitch please. You know it is true. :PThe artist is a bitch, it is like the person who like never calls you back after they said they would. Edited January 23, 2013 by Dexter of Suburbia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noctis Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Pretentious is such a perfect word to describe The Artist, though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 And in what way is The Artist pretentious? It essentially amounts to nothing more than one filmmaking team's exercise in making a B&W silent film, their personal love letter to Old Hollywood. That's it. It doesn't aim to be profound, or philosophical, to have any deep message or to be a history lesson in disguise (looking at you, Hugo). It's not long, has a simple story, a linear structure and a happy ending. Genre- and tone-wise, there's plenty of comedy in it. It has simple ambitions and lives up to them. I could at least understand an opinion that all those film critics and Oscar voters are pretentious because this way, they can be all like "see how we love dem silent movies!" (even though I wouldn't agree with it), but what the hell is pretentious about the film itself? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 (edited) Yup. In no way is The Artist pretentious. It never pretended to be anything more than a giddy homage to silent movies. It never reached for undeserved merit. Edited January 23, 2013 by Gopher 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted January 23, 2013 Author Share Posted January 23, 2013 The Artist is not pretentious, because it never tries to be anything but cotton candy entertainment 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndustriousAngel Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 For me, "Sucker Punch" is a perfect embodiment of pretentious. It succeeds as a shooter/horror adventure mixup with scantily-clad girls, but tries to look like something intelligent or meaningful via Scott Glen's wrinkled face, an abuse story in the background and a twisted ending. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vc2002 Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 I'd disagree with that. I don't think pretentiousness is whether or not it succeeds in delivering the message. It's more of whether or not there was a message there to begin with. Some films hype themselves up to be this huge, big, deep and philosophical movie but really there's nothing there to get. I think that there's a difference between this and failing to tell the message. WelI, I don't see you really disagreeing with me there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
