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The direction and "mise-en-scene" is basic (even Ron Howard does better!); the script is bad and
pretentious
(a really bad Tarantino); the cast is covered in TV stars, models and reality show stars that don't no nothing about acting.
It's pretentious, trying to get the audience to feel bad for the people involved, but I couldn't care less.
I've always found the dilettante Man Ray and his artistic efforts to be deeply pretentious, and I've never understood why his work attracts so much attention.
Check out the minuscule crew credits on Camp Blood, there is none of the usual thanking everyone down to the pizza joint they ate in, its Brad and his buddies and thats it, no
pretentious
rubbish.
AKA is almost as bad as his recent (horrible, self-serving) remake of Dorian Gray - absurd, contorted dialogue among the 'upper class' characters, at once idiotic and pretentious, amateurish, stilted to its core.
Back in the dark days of 1990, the hoped-for Heir to the Spielberg Throne (after the failure of supposed whiz-kid Phil Joanou) was mistakenly believed to be
pretentious
Spielberg wannabe David Mickey Evans.
True, some
pretentious
folks will scoff because it's a Hollywood film, and doesn't show "the gritty reality of war" like this "wonderful foreign film" does, but it has better flow and is all around just more fun to watch.
Still, this version is much better than the
pretentious
and hopelessly muddled "Dahmer" that got released in 2002.
For a start it is pretentious, striving to be "significant" and failing miserably.
This is the most
pretentious
film I've seen for a long time.
The executive producer puts his own image in the film... Its just
pretentious.
I find this kind of literature and film awfully
pretentious.
I recommend this film only to those who are impressed by
pretentious
film-making.
The script and direction are
pretentious
(once I found out John Milius was responsible, it all became clear).
We get to see a bit of each teenager's lifestyle, but the entire project just came off as
pretentious
to me, whether it be the constant low angle shots of tree branches in the wind, or the black and white "interviews" with the students, there was nothing new or original showcased in this movie, and nothing I needed to see.
This is the single most
pretentious
film made anywhere in the world, I am convinced.
I can't figure out what Jon Voight could POSSIBLY have been thinking when he got involved in this tenth-rate, incoherent, pretentious, mind-numbing slop.
The film (I can't call it a "movie" because it barely moves at all) is rambling, embarrassingly
pretentious
drivel--sort of like a really bad Oprah Winfrey show, but worse.
I got that scene and Catherine Deneuve's (briefly shown) breasts, but the rest of the film is just the usual long
pretentious
European art films with lines like "Did I have a mother or father, I don't know" (paraphrased).
Well, the first 10 minutes were OK, but then it disintegrates into a rather
pretentious
journey of a young man looking for the essence of life.
Pretentious
claptrap, updating Herman Melville (!), about a young man's vaguely incestuous relationship with his aristocratic mother getting transferred to his long-lost sister who has been raised by gypsies.
It was not merely self-indulgent or pretentious, it was a vacuum.
This
pretentious
fusion of witless whimsy and bathetic sociopolitical "commentary" actually does seem to be formed along the lines of "Plan 9," with badly-staged scenes of down-on-their-luck actors on cheap sets interspersed with what appears to be footage of battle and crowd scenes cribbed from higher-budget epics.
Utter
pretentious
nonsense from beginning to end with both O'Toole and York overacting wildly.
This is very
pretentious
film.
but after looking on rotten tomatoes and seeing that this film has something like a 76% approval rating, it seems that maybe folks have just been duped again into mistaking
pretentious
crap for profundity.
IMDb really must institute a "0" or even a minus scale to embrace works of this appallingly
pretentious
awfulness.
The humor (pretty generous even calling it that) was so
pretentious
and campy, I couldn't see how anyone with half a mind could even find it funny.
This is the most boring, pretentious, and stupid film I have seen in a long time.
Even worse are the critics who gave this
pretentious
blimp good reviews.
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