pretentious movies and movies you grew up with

https://twitter.com/LongMacVampyr/status/1765350504593543230

is it pretentious to say you liked the good the bad and the ugly as a kid? like its a violent western with tons of shooting and the cool AH ahhhAHH AHHH morricone music and iconic mexican standoff that kids would have probably known about through cultural osmosis. it is actually a pretentious movie? or are you pretentious for saying you like old/foreign/drama movies?

https://twitter.com/hitfactorypod/status/1765423318595994078?s=46&t=jhPPkj4kPsriuHg6QWGDBA

and then i saw this tweet which i think nails it. i grew up on cable (forrest gump, saving private ryan, shawshank redemption) or whatever my dad showed me (terminator 2, goodfellas, reservoir dogs, jim carrey stuff) or random shit at blockbuster that i heard was good (sixth sense, city of god, annie hall). had seen all of this stuff before i got to high school. what were you watching as a kid?

are zoomers and gen alpha just set up to fail and be anti-intellectuals who think anything old or off the beaten path is boring/pretentious since cable is gone, video stores are dead, and they just get fed algorithms of content paste?

discuss.

primetime bump

cant believe no one wants to talk about this super interesting stuff

Zithers posted...

is it pretentious to say you liked the good the bad and the ugly as a kid?

not at all. it's not a 'deep' or 'artsy' movie and was wildly popular.

What's that movie that had the title that sounded amazing but then it was actually just about trains but then there weren't actually any trains at all and they just had business meetings about nothing?

I watched like 45 minutes of that one and I just couldn't stand it anymore.

fuck darren aronofsky and anything hes ever made
and also fuck donnie darko

I did also like Transformers the Movie but Aliens has been my favorite movie since I saw it when I was like 8 or 9 years old. My brothers and I used to watch to watch so much stuff on VHS that my dad and his friend would rent and bring over to our house and then we had Prism and HBO and saw even more stuff on that. Just because you're a kid doesn't mean you only watch "kids" movies.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

What's that movie that had the title that sounded amazing but then it was actually just about trains but then there weren't actually any trains at all and they just had business meetings about nothing?

I watched like 45 minutes of that one and I just couldn't stand it anymore.

no clue

PeteyParker posted...

I did also like Transformers the Movie but Aliens has been my favorite movie since I saw it when I was like 8 or 9 years old. My brothers and I used to watch to watch so much stuff on VHS that my dad and his friend would rent and bring over to our house and then we had Prism and HBO and saw even more stuff on that. Just because you're a kid doesn't mean you only watch "kids" movies.

yeah i think like that tweet says tho, people younger than us having streaming services curating algorithms solely centered on kids stuff. meanwhile we'd just see shit we were 'too young for' pop up on cable and be like whoa this rules.

Zithers posted...

no clue

I found it. It's Atlas Shrugged.

Not watching those vids but thats a shame if the tiktok generation really thinks that obscure/not universally agreed upon good(aka NEW) is pretentious.

Getting real sick of the "its popular so it has to be good and if not EVERYONE likes it then no one likes it" mindset.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

I found it. It's Atlas Shrugged.

I was scratching my head trying to figure it out and I was like maybe AS but lol that description was a great way to put it

alfred_ashford posted...

Not watching those vids but thats a shame if the tiktok generation really thinks that obscure/not universally agreed upon good(aka NEW) is pretentious.

Getting real sick of the "its popular so it has to be good and if not EVERYONE likes it then no one likes it" mindset.

Good, Bad, and the Ugly is not even obscure, and is universally agreed to be good. It's one of the stereotypical "big famous Western" movies. Honestly it's the guy on TikTok who comes off as being pretentious here: pretending to know what he's talking about. Which is usually the case whenever someone calls something "pretentious." That's turning into a red-flag word for me.

TheOnionKnight posted...

Good, Bad, and the Ugly is not even obscure, and is universally agreed to be good. It's one of the stereotypical "big famous Western" movies. Honestly it's the guy on TikTok who comes off as being pretentious here: pretending to know what he's talking about. Which is usually the case whenever someone calls something "pretentious." That's turning into a red-flag word for me.

I thought it was kinda overrated tbh. I still liked it and all but its own predecessor was way better.

And actually, while I'm thinking about it, my favorite Clint Eastwood Western is actually Hang Em High.