Pretentious films discussion :marseyprojection: :soyjakyell:

!kino we love to bash recent Hollywood slop. But what are the critically acclaimed films and directors you can't stand because of how up in their asses they are?

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There will be blood- a very surface level movie that pretends to be deeper than it really is. Can literally be summarized in one phrase- People are greedy :marseyscream:

Network- a film with an interesting premise that develops the said premise in the least interesting possible way. Similarly the presentation is extremely slow and boring, making it a complete snoozefest. Tries to make you care about a social issue everyone's heard of a million times already and does not provide any new perspective on it

Anything by Yorgos Lanthimos, again interesting ideas which he unfortunately sacrifices in favour of presentation, in essence telling a simple story in a complicated way, instead of the other way around

Since you want to dunk on some euroslop as well, I will mention Aniara- for the third time, an interesting idea for a film, but it gets human nature and interactions fundamentally wrong, and thus instead of exploring a realistic descent of a community into chaos we get some idealized interpretation of it through some modernist-feminist perspective. Nothing about how people act in that film makes sense. There is no feeling of chaos, there is no post-apocalypse, there is just some surface level, very coordinated and sterile interpretation of such an event

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