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And I thought, well, that's got a pretentious name, especially since the whole system ran on his computer in his office.
But then there was another wonderfully pretentious article that came out in The New Republic, so pretentious, by Liel Leibovitz, and it said, "MoMA has mistaken video games for art."
And I know this sounds like the most pretentious TED Talk statement ever.
A bit of a pretentious term, it's a little tongue-in-cheek, but it's something I've thought about for a long time, and I'd like to share what I think I've figured out.
In his essay, "Politics and the English Language," he described techniques like using pretentious words to project authority, or making atrocities sound acceptable by burying them in euphemisms and convoluted sentence structures.
But when someone strives for greatness and poetry, but delivers a muddled (and often ridiculous) story, a bunch of disparate scenes, pretentious dialogue... Then you get the worst kind of a movie that some other reviewer very accurately defined as "pretentious crap".
The degree to which this latest, "The Book of Revelation" is both derivative , pretentious and utterly unoriginal ( except for Tristan Milani's fine cinematography) seems to bear this out. .
Another pretentious film from Vicente Aranda.
"Ashes of Time" was an audacious project but ended up being a pretentious movie.
The movie was dull, boring, completely incoherent from beginning to end, pretentious, and devoid of any conceivable plot.
this is by far one of the most pretentious films i have ever seen.
The dialogue was awkward and pretentious, the interaction between the live actors and the CGI horrifying.
The movie is pretentious garbage.
Very pretentious.
Unlike the legions of thick-black-framed-glasses-wearing types and pretentious movie critics who praise his name, I just don't see how this guy keeps getting paid to make such tripe.
Every scene was accompanied with this pretentious background music that was telling you the mood, quite pathetically, I might add.
Fear and Desire is of interest mainly to Kubrick obsessives, who can plumb this pretentious clap trap for signs of his still-to-come greatness.
There is nothing I hate more in a movie than pretentiousness, and this is one of the most pretentious films ever made.
Oz is a dreadful, pretentious, voyeuristic series.
The unnecessary use of surrealism only manages to make this some what boring example in pseudo porn even more pretentious (what are they trying to prove with depicting a piano floating in water?).
Indeed it is an absurd boring pretentious dumb pointless disconnected crap about the conflict in the Middle East, and together with "Soultangler", they certainly are the worst movies I have tried to see.
Perhaps it is the thing missing in this pretentious exercise of cinema about cinema.
Pretentious horror film that looks like a soap opera gone goth about a drug that send you to a fantasy world where strange creatures lurk.
It is disguised as a "thinker's film" in the likes of Memento and other jewels like that, but at the end, and even after a few minutes, you come to realize that this is nothing but utter pretentious cr4p.
This is about as pretentious a movie as a shallow director like Joel Schumacher could make, I suppose.
Lost is the exciting and unpredictable storyline, and instead, in its place, is bland predictability with the obvious attempts at audience manipulation by a superficial pretentious production and distribution team.
I don't mean to sound pretentious here, but to call this the next cult classic is yet another example of the lowering standards filmmakers have for themselves.
Halfway through the film, I decided that given its failure to measure up to what it pretends to accomplish, the title is pretentious.
If some pretentious community theater attempted a sci-fi version of a Ingmar Bergman film, it might come off like this.
Slow moving and terribly pretentious, this umpteenth silver screen version of the classic play is the personification of wrong-headed.
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