“Vanilla Sky”
“Primer. Tying your plot into a knot isn’t the same as making it deep.”
“Eat Pray Love”
“The Butterfly Effect
It spends 100 minutes on pseudo philosophical nonsense and 10 minutes of deux ex machina type fluff. I left the theatre hating it. Still mad 20 years later.”
“The secret.”
“According to Elaine Benes, The English Patient.”
“Law Abiding Citizen.
It presents itself as some kind of intelligent thriller, yet everything about the story and characters is preposterous. Even the idea that the protagonist is a good man pushed too far by an ineffectual justice system is idiotic and insulting. The movie is so asinine that it made me despise Gerard Butler, and realise what a sh#tty actor he is.”
“I’ll say it – Idiocracy.
It’s just a dumb comedy, not a brilliant prediction of the future, or even a brilliant satire. It’s an ok satire of some things, and some funny jokes, with a good performance by Luke Wilson, but nothing more.”
“As a 90’s kid, American Beauty. That used to be considered otherworldly insightful. Almost no one thinks of it this way anymore”
“Garden State. Everyone was obsessed with it in high school and college. I’ve seen it numerous time and have no idea what the plot is.”
“Us (Jordan Peele’s movie). Absolutely riddled with plot holes and dumb symbolism in an attempt to sound ‘deep.'”
“Synecdoche New York
It really isn’t that deep, its just incredibly boring and intentionally convoluted. It’s the movie that comes to my mind when someone says ‘pretentious.'”
“Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. Thought it was wildly over-hyped and a pretty surface level movie made for people who want to feel like they understand deep things.”
“Mulholland Drive.
Load of sh#t.
“You just don’t get it….‘”
“Into the Wild.”
“The Tree of Life. That movie was so far up its own @$$ but had absolutely nothing to say.”
“Donnie Darko.
I thought it was was amazing when I was 20-years-old. It was weird and made you think! Watching it 20 years later? This is some idiotic, teenager emo sh#t.”
“The Lobster. Just weird for the sake of being weird, I found it so incredibly pretentious and lame.”
“Mother. Get the sense that the writer thinks they are deep genius. It is generally obvious garbage with shock appeal.”
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#18 Another Excellent Social Commentary