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May 2, 2024
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Dryfire
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A pretentious movie about pretentious foodie culture.
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What's the most pretentious movie you have ever seen?
COUGND
May 2, 5:04pm
IDK, but for mainstream stuff, Joker 2 is coming in hot
Gustav
May 2, 5:06pm
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JimmyZ
May 2, 5:07pm
Help me understand how you think Avatar is pretentious.
jacobugath
May 2, 5:37pm
I would say that it attempts to impress by affecting greater importance than it
Ojiisan
May 2, 6:40pm
But you know it’s actually terrible right?
pink22
May 2, 6:52pm
How? Because it's derivative? Does that make The Lion King terrible? Or Monsters University? Or Cars?
jacobugath
May 2, 7:06pm
The writing. The acting. The ugly blue people. And the boring story.
pink22
May 2, 8:39pm
Avatar 2 definitely is.
Future_Tacos
May 2, 6:56pm
Most "Pretentious?" Meaning, thinking it's a great movie but really not?
DawgHaus
May 2, 5:08pm
Easy - Dunkirk
cougfanblue
May 2, 5:09pm
Say what???
BleedCougarBlue2
May 2, 5:26pm
The exact definition that the OP describes.
cougfanblue
May 2, 5:32pm
P.S. I loved Interstellar and Inception
cougfanblue
May 2, 5:36pm
C’mon thumbs downers. Debate me.
cougfanblue
May 2, 6:15pm
I don't know enough about the actual battle to debate. I thought the movie was fine.
jacobugath
May 2, 6:39pm
It’s enough to know there were hundreds of thousands on the beach. The movie shows maybe a couple hundred…
cougfanblue
May 2, 7:31pm
Bullet train is up there
DavisCoCoug
May 2, 5:09pm
I thought it was fun
4thand19
May 2, 5:19pm
Tenet hands down
homegrown
May 2, 5:11pm
This is a great answer. A lot of eye candy and tried too hard to be a mind
Duke Silver
May 2, 5:37pm
Very true. Tenet was the movie where Nolan finally got his head too far up his
XORCoug
May 2, 5:42pm
If you've watched it 4-5 times, he must be doing something right.
jacobugath
May 2, 5:43pm
It wasn’t for the entertainment value, it was solely to try and understand it.
XORCoug
May 2, 5:44pm
I literally finally saw this last Friday. I thought it was pretentious as heck.
grosven
May 2, 5:43pm
I wouldn't say it is the most pretentious.
bluesloth
May 2, 5:57pm
Tenet defenders will say "only those who don't understand Tenet hate on it." I
Windward_Coug
May 3, 8:47am
I don't hate but it certainly wasn't his best. And the sound was terrible.
Mikey
May 3, 9:35am
Yes, worst center channel/dialogue mix EVER. What was Nolan thinking?
Windward_Coug
May 3, 10:19am
Which way to the huntsman center
Longseason
May 2, 5:12pm
Sound like most Oscar-bait movies
Great38
May 2, 5:19pm
The Thomas Crown Affair. At least the '99 version. My wife loves that movie but my eyes never stopped rolling.
Chemish
May 2, 5:19pm
The Hottie and the Nottie. Paris Hilton actually thinks she can act
OU Cougar
May 2, 5:20pm
A Man Called Otto
kcca
May 2, 5:22pm
Or maybe La La Land
kcca
May 2, 5:30pm
Ding Ding ding
vagabonder
May 2, 6:48pm
The Godfather
SJS
May 2, 5:22pm
Spielberg’s “AI” …absolutely insufferable
Iman23
May 2, 5:24pm
The Tree of Life is the first one that comes to mind. Way to artsy fartsy so I didn’t last long.
KingDave
May 2, 5:25pm
I'm having a hard time picking just one Damien Chazelle movie.
Bandit
May 2, 5:26pm
“Happy Feet”. Child indoctrination. Never again.
BleedCougarBlue2
May 2, 5:27pm
Hugo or Captain Fantastic
Flyingdolphin
May 2, 5:33pm
Na, both of those are great
Ghost Pirate LeChuck
May 2, 9:14pm
Mother! was also horrible
Flyingdolphin
May 2, 5:34pm
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Dryfire
May 2, 5:37pm
So the movie mocking pretentiousness was too ... pretentious?
jacobugath
May 2, 5:39pm
Yep, they managed to pull it off.
Dryfire
May 2, 5:45pm
I thought it was very entertaining
jacobugath
May 2, 6:41pm
Anything from Disney since 2014
MaxxPower
May 2, 5:37pm
Pretentious? Avatar
BYU Grounds
May 2, 5:38pm
Juno
A_blue_car
May 2, 5:46pm
Good one!
Cougar Junkie
May 2, 5:59pm
Cider House Rules
Dryfire
May 2, 5:48pm
Maestro.
JohnnyComeLately
May 2, 5:49pm
The Day After Tomorrow
delux_247
May 2, 5:49pm
Dead Poets Society
Division Bell
May 2, 5:52pm
Crash
bubbastats
May 2, 5:53pm
I’ve got one: Manchester by the Sea
Ham
May 2, 5:57pm
That's an all time phenomenal film. Incredible acting.
jacobugath
May 2, 6:42pm
Forrest Gump. I couldn't get past that opening scene with him running
Cougar Junkie
May 2, 5:58pm
Barbie 🙂
aaronmania
May 2, 5:58pm
Inglorious Basterds
Odysseus
May 2, 6:03pm
The fountain
IceCreamButt
May 2, 6:13pm
I walked out of Asteroid City
CBaass
May 2, 6:19pm
I was gonna say - just about anything from Wes Anderson.
Breaded Hamster
May 3, 12:46am
Interstellar
IBC
May 2, 6:33pm
RE: Interstellar
vagabonder
May 2, 6:49pm
Correct director, wrong movie.
cougfanblue
May 3, 9:25am
Interstellar. Oppenheimer. AI. Oceans 12.
Future_Tacos
May 2, 6:49pm
Tree of Life. One of the worst movies I've watched
fattycoug
May 2, 7:36pm
The Fountain.
vegasnative
May 2, 11:29pm
Playback Time w Willem Dafoe
TheLoanArranger
May 3, 8:57am
The Shape of Water...
Adrielle
May 3, 9:34am
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