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The movie coasted along at a fast pace and the ending, although predictable, had the charm and sentimentality of so many other popular movies, without being overly
pretentious.
The movie, about a young woman's quest to make her mark in the music world, captures the times perfectly, from the overt sexism, rough economic times, social upheaval, to the shift in pop culture from rough-and-tumble punk to terribly fey and
pretentious
Futurism/New Romanticism.
There were so many twists and turns but it fit with the whole tone of the movie instead of coming off as
pretentious.
It's a refreshing antidote to some of the
pretentious
garbage being ground out by the studios.
A lot of the stuff people take issue with about this show is on the money: pretentious; forced; overwrought; desperate for attention; self-satisfied; annoying ever-present narration.
Its funny seeing them as
pretentious
snobs.
Only a pretentious, humorless moron would not enjoy this wonderful film.
This movie is a lot of fun in many ways, and it manages to deliver a message without being annoying or
pretentious.
This films makes no
pretentious
efforts to hide its true genre -- a campy B movie.
The individual band members go their separate ways and uncomfortably settle into lackluster middle age in the dull and uneventful 90's: morose keyboardist Stephen Rea winds up penniless and down on his luck, vain, neurotic,
pretentious
lead singer Bill Nighy tries (and fails) to pursue a floundering solo career, paranoid drummer Timothy Spall resides in obscurity on a remote farm so he can avoid paying a hefty back taxes debt, and surly bass player Jimmy Nail installs roofs for a living.
And at a time when the stereotype about artists is that they are mostly bitter, pretentious, often mentally unstable people who live in decrepit urban settings, Goldsworthy seems to be the opposite: a stable, unpretentious, family oriented person who loves nature and lives in a small village in Scotland (of course, I'm sure those are the same reasons why he's shunned by some people on the art world who found his works fluffy or superficial).
What surprised me more is how this bizarre movie managed to completely dodge being a
pretentious
mess.
A simple in noway
pretentious
low budget industrial splatter flick packed with great make up effects and gore.
This film is moving without being sentimental - meaningful without being
pretentious.
I did not like the
pretentious
and overrated Apocalypse Now.
A handsome but fake actor (Andre Telefair) shows her the ropes of how to be the typical
pretentious
Hollywood star.
The filmmaker creates a few surreal dream sequences that are borderline
pretentious
but it is fun to see how hard he tries to put this film above your average chicks-in-chains flick.
In a year of
pretentious
muck like "Synecdoche, New York" a film born out of Charlie Kaufman's own self-indulgence, comes a film that is similarly hard to watch but about three times as important.
If this was a film made by a group of high school students I would applaud them, but for a professional film this is just a
pretentious
waste of time.
Part two is quite boring,
pretentious
and outstays its welcome with a running time of nearly 105 minutes.
Made and seems to be only for the
pretentious
and unbearable Art-house crowd.
The film is a bit pretentious; it's characters speak lines in a manner that no one would really say in our real world.
From the opening shot with some unknown woman writing in her journal about a mysterious man who ruined the planet or somesuch, into the overly
pretentious
11 minute opening credits....... OK, I digress.. but seriously, who cares about the radio stations still working and the 2 fat guys who drive around for a while mumbling.
JUBILEE was the first film to come from the true British punk rock scene, and has a fascinating cast, but unfortunately this is one of the most boring, pretentious, and ultimately pointless movies I've ever seen.
But pic's originality is in the end let down by the final shoot out in a dilapidated warehouse, which is both shop-worn and
pretentious.
Don't let the
pretentious
fans of Jacquot sway you.
And yet, I found this film to be the worst, most
pretentious
piece of crap I've ever seen in my life.
A
pretentious
eccentricity: a virtually unrecognizable modernization of the Joan Of Arc tale (with the heroine now a drug addict-turned-nurse-turned-whorish miracle maker!) which, of all things, is also an opera sung in Hungarian!
Of course some Madonna detractors would find it pedant and pretentious, but the artist gives us a lot of beautiful and meaningful messages with this documentary and every one has seen it, has the impression that if we want we can make a better world.
Having said all that I feel I must record that I found it to be pretentious, derivative and self - indulgent......a typical Richard Lester film in fact.
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