Pretentious!
Next the Magnolia this is the closest i've come to shooting myself in the face while watching a movie.
Hot damn, this was a smelly pile...
u should be a movie critic :>
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i think you're pretentious for using the word pretentious as your subject line ... or just using that word for that matter no matter where u put it....
shareWhat was pretentious about it?
When all of your wishes are granted....
Many of your dreams...will be destroyed
Why did you think this movie was pretentious?
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What was pretentious about it?
Well - It's sold on the fact that 'his mind is her prison', though clearly she is not trapped. Maybe deluded for 5-10 minutes or so of screen time until VV comes in and snaps her out of it (whilst simultaneously being disemboweled- ouch!). The rest is just psycho crime thriller. I think they could have given much more screen time to her actual imprisonment/delusion and removed the sub-plot of the little boy she's trying to 'awaken' from the film entirely. We get that she's compassionate from her relationship with the 'young' killer so no need to waste celluloid on lengthy scenes that don't relate to the main plot. The whole opening sequence could've been a time shifted fantasy of her trying to reach the killer's younger self. Would've made much more sense. I think audiences can handle non-linear plots these days. Or maybe that's too pretentious? :P
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Then you probably haven't seen 'The Royal Tenenbaums'
I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy.
Complety disagree. While I think there certainly are "pretentious" films, I found this film to be very creative and visually dramatic/beautiful!
I never felt the director was trying to achieve some ridiculous, over-the-top film for its own sake, but that it was a labor of love and creativity because there are still artists out there in the world. They don't make art so that people can gawk at it and have deep discussions about apparent meaning, but to celebrate life and beauty and the tools we have to create them.
Very nicely stated. I agree.
shareYes, I thought it was stunning and beautiful.
Thought D'Onofrio's performance/presence was spectacular
After the first time I viewed it, I described it as 'Eye Candy'.
Generosity, that was my first mistake
Well, my dreams never looked like this.
TBH, my dreams involve me in various stages of undress in public places. That's it. ;)
Yeh, this film was really kinda dumb
shareWell, my dreams never looked like this.So what you do or do not dream about sets the standard for everybody's psyche?
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my dreams involve me in various stages of undress in public placesMy dreams have involved a woman in various stages of undress in public! I don't know what time zone you're in, but maybe we're 'cross-dreaming' and maybe she's you. I'll try to focus better next time. Give a smile if it's you.
Maybe I'll see you in my (er, your) dreams... share
I movie starring JLO and Vince Vaughn and you're saying it's pretentious? Yea, okay. I'd hate to see what you'd say with an art house movie. Pretentious maybe only next to a Michael Bay movie.
shareI think Roger puts it succinctly when describing this movie;
"We live in a time when Hollywood shyly ejects weekly remakes of dependable plots, terrified to include anything that might confuse the dullest audience member. The new studio guidelines prefer PG-13 cuts from directors, so now we get movies like "Coyote Ugly" that start out with no brains and now don't have any sex, either. Into this wilderness comes a movie like "The Cell," which is challenging, wildly ambitious and technically superb, and I dunno: I guess it just overloads the circuits for some people."
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