Which one of these artsy fartsy directors work screams "I'm different" more. I purposefully left Herzog and Lynch out as Lynch was one of the first to do these foreign style movie and Herzog himself is just weird so obviously his movie are. But all make movies that are only like by either critiques or wanna be film school directors that'll think filming a piece of *beep* is art if the camera angle and lighting is just right.
shareDon't know if Malick should be here considering Malick's Badlands is from 1973, even predating Lynch's first feature length Eraserhead.
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You know, it's really easy to be judgemental and critical if you don't get what the director is going for. While you see artsy fartsy pretentious crap, others actually see a film with real style that a lot of work went into, to achieve something that is a true unique cinematic experience. I get what you're saying though, and a lot of wannabe directors see things from a similar perspective to yours, and they try to copy them because they think that will also gain them recognition, but when they do attempt to copy them they're missing so much of what their films were about. They just see it from a superficial shallow point of view. Malick's films are artistic and very anti-mainstream, but there is a point to it, and he does it well. It's not just done to scream out "hey look at me I'm so artsy fartsy, worship me!"
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