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This film is overblown, predictable, pretentious, and hollow to its core.
Gorgeous bodies, gorgeous colors and camera work,
pretentious
dialog, banal plot.
The filming locations were also attractive but the hopeless,
pretentious
and forced dialogues pulled the whole thing down to sub zero level.
"I Am Curious: Yellow" is a risible and
pretentious
steaming pile.
And those
pretentious
indie movies like The Brown Bunny, in which we're treated to the site of Vincent Gallo's throbbing johnson, but not a trace of pink visible on Chloe Sevigny.
Alexandre's affected and
pretentious
monologues have a kind of amusement value, of course, but the amusement wears thin as one comes more and more clearly to realize that Jean-Pierre Léaud is most likely not even acting and that, with absurd remarks like "un homme beau comme un film de Nicholas Ray", he really was just reproducing word-for-word opinions that were accepted as authentic and profound by the milieu in which he, along with the director Eustache, had been living for about ten years by the time of the making of the film.
I am in no mood to spill more words on this useless
pretentious
piece, just perhaps that you can see Salma Hayek in here, but sitting 90 minutes in front of your screen for just that?
I watched it despite the fact that I don't like the
pretentious
kind of stuff that Alan Hollinghurst writes (sorry to his fans but I think we have a case of the emperor's new clothes with this author's work).
The drama is so stiffly scripted and
pretentious
that it can only really work as self-parody.
This being a Greenaway film, there is lots of
pretentious
and uninteresting blabbering and of course there is unnecessary male nudity.
it's so hip to play a retard these days it has become
pretentious
and frankly despicable.
A real product of the 80's, the novel gimmick of a puzzle TOY (thats right, TOY not the absurd,
pretentious
and child alienating "collectors action figurine"), sold on the back of a poor cartoon and other paraphernalia, only matters to those who bought the TOY when they were "actual" children in the period of '84' to '87'.
So you can expect convoluted actions that mean nothing, unjustified behavior, and at least one truly
pretentious
plot element that will leave you utterly unsatisfied.
Jean-Luc Godard is one of the most overrated and
pretentious
directors of the cinema industry and this pointless crap is among his most hermetic films.
Annoying little pseudo-avant-garde gestures are sprinkled throughout the film- like out of focus superimpositions of red spheres over many of the concert and interview shots, shaky blurred camera work, use of digital delay on some of Leonard Cohen's comments (making it harder to hear what's being said) and a spooky,
pretentious
low drone under a lot of the interview segments (an attempt at added gravitas?).
There are a lot of
pretentious
people out there who will pretend that this is endowed with some kind of beautiful meaning, and that ignorant fools like me don't 'get' it.
Ewa is of course pretty but no it is not enough, and in the end we have seen far too much of her popping up all over the place, long after we have completely lost interest in this mindless and
pretentious
twaddle.
I kept hoping the episode would improve as I kept watching but it just got more
pretentious
and preposterous.
What bothers me the most about this show, aside from the obvious, base sense of "humor", and general smuttiness, is the
pretentious
way the episodes are titled.
Although the actors were good, specially Fritzi Haberland as the blind Lilly, the film script is obsessively
pretentious
and completely arbitrary.
Still pondering the first, but my vote for the latter goes to the meandering storyline, ahead of the wordy sometimes
pretentious
script, the uncertain tone, the lack of consistent and well-developed characterization, and the lack of rapport between the characters.
If you like bizarre, pretentious, pseudo-intellectual films, don't miss this.
Hours of pretentious, self-obsessed heroin-addicted basket cases lounging around whining about their problems.
These are true masters of Chinese cinema, not
pretentious
con men!
The only insight we get at this point is the extent to which the director succeeded in illustrating a
pretentious
sense of adolescent decadence within the characters.
We produce
pretentious
second rate piffle.
There are a few funny lines and a few incredibly
pretentious
movie references (The 400 Blows--for this character?
I can't believe all the hype that has been lavished on this pretentious, amateurish excuse for a real movie!!
(And, as someone else noted, get cancer) It was boring, rambling and
pretentious.
Overall - dreary, incoherent,
pretentious
- and downright annoying for wasting so much of the viewer's time.
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