Post by dirtypillows on Jan 17, 2021 17:48:33 GMT
Now, on the other hand, what you said about the 30s movies is nothing BUT opinion.
And how exactly are 30s movies pretentious? If anything, I'd say they are the opposite. There may be a kind of artifice to those older movies, but there is also an innocence and naivete to them. It is modern movies that are pretentious. Very pretentious. All that faux realism makes my stomach turn. I read that the first 30 minutes of the 2020 "Pieces of a Woman" we get to watch the main character go through extreme labor pains, only to miscarry. The rest of the movie, apparently, is her going around in a daze. This sounds like the epitome of boring and pretentious. I don't mind self-indulgence if I'm getting to see into the vision of an interesting, creative mind. But there is nothing interesting or creative or original about watching a woman struggle through labor pains for 30 minutes.
Almost all new movies have some of this kind of arrogance. "Three Billboards Outside..." is a perfect example of pretentious and self-important, perfectly reflected in that freak Frances McDormand's obnoxious Oscar speech. "Because I have something to say! Just say thank you and get off the stage quick because your chain link dress is too awful to bear. Uggghhh...
So, sophomore, what 30s movies have you seen, anyway?
Stick with it, brat, and you can be a sophomore for life!