Films

'Pretentious' - certainly, ambitiously so, I have never understood what the problem people have with pretence ?

Because it is a false display .. in the terms of my complaint, the film is trying to be something it isn't and doing it badly.

I like Action Movies because they are Action Movies and don't pretend to be something else so I can enjoy them. I like Westerns because they are Westerns and don't pretend to be something else.

When I see a Tarrantino movie I see a Director who is trying to make a fairly simple story seems more complicated by just moving the pieces about for pretty much the sake of it. I find it boring, since I am one of those annoying fucks that can watch 2 episodes in a 13 part series and piece together the whole plot in around about 5 minutes, thus unless it is actually interesting i.e. The Wire, Generation Kill. Or each episode is resolved within the hour, I find myself just ignoring huge parts of each episode and skipping through them, because I can piece together what happened very quickly.

It is Pretentious, because it is trying to make itself to be complicated when in fact it is very simple and trying to disguise that fact.