Mainstream movies you feel are pretentious bullshit

[Bosstone]

@Max Torque

I’ve been following this thread for a bit, and no one has yet named my choice for “most pretentious film of the last decade”: Waking Life. It’s hard to even call it a “film”, really; there’s no plot or anything, just a series of snooty and endlessly tedious monologues about “life the universe and everything.” The worst part is, you can tell that the movie thinks it’s really clever and interesting, but it’s like being at a party stuck listening to the dull guy who can’t stop talking about how you can tell everything about a person from the nickel content of their jewelry.

Oh, god. A friend insisted on showing that to me at 11 at night and it was all I could do to stay awake. I nearly didn’t. The payoff at the end is moderately entertaining, but it’s not worth sitting through what is effectively a 2 hour monologue.