Sentences with phrase «pretentious movie»

Darren Aronofsky attended the Governors Awards too, hoping that his hilariously pretentious movie might still be acknowledged by the Academy.

Inherent Vice is a very pretentious movie that seemed like it tried so hard to be funny, but wasn't.

, which is the first sign of exactly how pretentious this movie will be.

She was magnetic, albeit in a mediocre and pretentious movie — but it was a throwback to the kind of girlish part that made her famous, rather than a leap into the kind of adult work that she keeps trying, and failing to quite pull off.

The movie begins with Jackman reciting The Lord's Prayer in voiceover while Keller teaches his teenaged son to shoot a deer, which makes you fear that a heavy - handed pretentious movie is ahead.

We Don't Live Here Anymore is such a pretentious movie about two couples who cheat on each other.

The Witch is one of those movies that makes pretentious movie critics **** their pants, but leaves everyone else confused as to why this is categorized as horror at all.

Time and time again, I will return from the video shop to the exclaim of «not another one of your pretentious movies».

Not exact matches

Hey, what's that movie about the sister who probably has borderline personality disorder and ruins her pretentious sisters rich person wedding and I think maybe Parker Posey was in it but I might be making that part up?

Scary, funny, magnificently risible, this could be the most pretentious B - movie ever — and I mean that as a compliment.

Even giving every benefit of the doubt to people that use this word, I honestly didn't see anything pretentious in this movie.

However, like most Wes Anderson movies, it is pretentious, self - indulgent, and tries to be a deep, profound statement, not realizing that it's merely just a

(Not to mention, I don't like real pretentious things either and this movie made me tear up in certain scenes because of the realism and the way it reminded me of my own memories) In what way was he pretending to be something he wasn't (pretentious)?

Probably the worst thing is that this movie is pretentious as hell.

That is until you get towards the end and it all falls apart, and what was once a cool action movie / game, becomes the most horrible, pretentious, ill - conceived movie ever made (the «game» part gets lost in there somewhere).

I thought you had to be a real pretentious intellectual to fully appreciate this movie.

However, like most Wes Anderson movies, it is pretentious, self - indulgent, and tries to be a deep, profound statement, not realizing that it's merely just a cute, quirky comedy.

Pretentious bit of navel gazing is slow moving but okay until Segal's character crosses a line from which the movie never recovers.

Or that, at their best, these movies offer an enjoyable antidote to the crushingly pretentious psychodrama of Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent and other cape - carrying members of the Martha Cinematic Universe.

It adds intrigue into this mysterious suicide circle and the individual stories, while the constant voice over monologues are probably the worst (as in self - indulgent and pretentious) part of the movie other than the length, at least seem to be hinting that they're all heading toward the same end.

Ryan Phillippe is routinely excellent (he has the ultimate «BS face», also seen in «Breach») and the film doesn't get too pretentious because it's evident it's just a fun little movie.

The first hour of the movie is virtually unwatchable, with Braff oddly sprinkling in fantasy sci - fi sequences that are supposed to convey the character's inner - life, but never really add anything to the film other than make it feel alternately goofy and pretentious.

Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun - Fat is so charismatic in his second Hollywood outing, The Corruptor, that he almost makes us forget that the movie itself is one of the more pretentious, muddled and incompetent action films to come along in some time.

Most directors who attempt real time movies without obvious cuts would make their works unbearably stilted and pretentious.

A pretentious and boring movie.

The battles plainly symbolize the movie — a giant, incoherent, pretentious mess.

The epitome of what a feel - good movie is supposed to be but rarely is, this one is beautiful to look at and life - affirming to think about, and it doesn't have a pretentious bone in its head.

, an «interview» with the hamsters» voice actors (Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, and Jesse McCartney), who are infallibly pretentious and need constant, sycophantic reassurance from the producers — the joke here being, I guess, that no one should be putting this much thought into this movie.

Everett has said his comically snobbish crook is a kind of homage to the late, beloved British comedian Terry - Thomas, whose plummy accents he recalls; he and Dunaway play the pretentious types that movie comedy has loved to deflate all the way back to Mack Sennett.

For much of the movie, it is possibly the most pretentious, snooty film I have ever seen.

These idiots are so blinded by their pretentious behavior that they fail to realize movies are about entertaining.

The former is very dry: Moland fixates on character motivation, which finds him taking the pretentious but no less easy route to narrating the movie.

I Origins, on the other hand, is a prissy, pretentious film by Mike Cahill, who impressed me with his last movie, Another Earth.

In a sense it is more pretentious than any three - hour long Russian movie could ever be.

The Captive combines the most pretentious aspects of an art movie with the dumbest aspects of a thriller, and is doomed to satisfy neither audience.

I think this movie is wayyyy overrated and I don't consider myself pretentious.

His previous two movies bombed at the box office — it isn't too difficult to see why though: they feature pretentious soft focus shots of deserted landings (like the one seen in French Lieutenant's Woman) set to Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei.

He blends the worlds of the hand held camera / found footage movies and super hero movies together without ever feeling too pretentious or serious about it.

It sounds pretentious of me to say that this movie works on a number of levels, but it does.

The movie is stolen by snake - hipped Russell Brand as pretentious rock star Aldous Snow, a font of half - baked wisdom.

Success vs. selling out debates follow, as do takedowns of corporate exploitation, billionaire bros, mass media, wage - slave labor, the celebrity co-opting of activists, racial strife, pretentious performance art, our viral age and anything else that wanders in to the movie's crosshairs.

Terrence Malick direction in this movie was pure brilliant, even when sometimes it dose get a little pretentious with some of the imagery, but all that aside, this is a beautiful film that's not going to be for everyone.

After rattling through some news, he begrudgingly looks ahead to the new Hercules movie then tears apart pretentious independent filmmaking with his take on American Blogger.

Thus, with little assistance from his cast mates, Murray is left to carry the movie by himself, but the weight of the pretentious and clearly unfunny script weigh far too much for him to do it.

The movie works best as a satire of pretentious documentaries made by filmmakers who aren't above pulling a few strings.

Ethan Hawke's character is so incredibly pretentious and annoying it's hard to imagine anyone ever thought he was sexy in this movie.

To this day I remain stunned that the Academy, the pretentious windbags who normally select whatever gassy «epic» appeared that year, chose a movie, not a «film», as the Best Picture of 1991.

The hands - off atmosphere is perpetuated by an increasingly familiar storyline that's riddled with less - than - engrossing elements (eg Ted's encounters with his pretentious colleagues), and it's clear, too, that Levine's meandering modus operandi remains problematic even through the movie's comparatively stellar second half - which effectively diminishes the impact of the movie's few standout sequences (eg Ted's frustrated speech to a faculty review board, etc).

Telling three very distinct stories, the movie is far more ambitious than you would imagine and leaves you wondering if you just saw something great or just pretentious.

The best part about The Spectacular Now is that, despite playing along with the normal self - absorbed trappings of sensitive teen movies, its sentiment never feels overly cloying or pretentious.