How often to you get accused of being pretentious?
never
on the contrary, actually.
I’m not highbrow enough.
I think you’re aware that the word “pretentious” is officially banned on The Auteurs… It obviously depends on with which kind of people you decide to hang out, I never get called “pretentious” by my friends, because some of them share my passion for film, and others at least understand it. Those who don’t have a passion for anything will have problems to comprehend the joy of exploring world cinema, but it’s their problem, and not ours.
“I think in these times being pretentious is sort of heroic.” –Frank Cottrell Boyce
I would have thought it would have been more common.
The word pretentious has fallen out of favor from non-pretentious folk.
Pretentious folk use the word pretentious all the time.
It’s like the word bourgeois. It’s a word only used by those who define it. You don’t see truly proletariat people ever talking about the bourgeois. They’re too busy working outside.
—PolarisDiB
He used that word quite a bit… :D
Shut up you pretentious bourgeois prole!
—DiB
pre⋅ten⋅tious
–adjective
1. full of pretense or pretension.
2. characterized by assumption of dignity or importance.
3. making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious.
I think that the minute a person starts seriously believing that their tastes are more justified than those of other movie watchers, they start down the road to pretention. When they start pontificating to others about about art and which movies are acceptable, then they have become pretentious.
People who use dictionaries to make their point… Pretentious.
“People who use dictionaries to make their point… Pretentious.”
Hey, the word actually has a definition. Too many people try to twist its meaning around.
Just bringing a little levity. Sometimes I think I’m funny.
fun ny
-adjective
1. causing laughter or amusement; humorous
2. difficult to explain or understand; strange
dic⋅tion⋅ar⋅y
–noun
1. a book containing a selection of the words of a language
2. a book giving information on particular subjects or on a particular class of words, names, or facts
facts
- noun
1. Whatever I say goes
Not too often…
Then I joined this network and everything went to hell:)
In here anyone who hates Quentin Tarantino is consider pretentious.
Quite a lot now that I’m on here
Never.
I don’t know about pretentious but I get called a snob often in the real world.
ha! Imagine that!
This is a DEEPLY anti-intellectual culture.
“This is a DEEPLY anti-intellectual culture”
Word.
LOL!!!!!!
I don’t think I’ve ever been called pretentious. Surprising, really. Now elitist & snob, on the other hand…>.
There is a pretense to most things in life, I have been called it.
Maybe for how I dress or for how I speak about Music or Cinema, but it comes out of being passionate for both.
I don’t mean to make other people feel anoyed, I’m just confident that what I have seen or heard is either good or bad.
I’m just a confident person, I am sorry they express themselves differently to me and are intolerant to how I do.
They might have a pretense about me by looking at me, like I might about seeing a Quentin Tarentino film. Both are fine, people judge and are judged its happened throughout history. People need to get on with life.
Occasionally, but usually in jest.
I’m what some call a “Film Taste Chauvinist.” It’s a title I hold dear.
On a daily basis, always by the same two friends, who chiefly enjoy hollywood sci-fi and teen comedies. They sometimes accept invitations to see my films, I see theirs, and trash talking each others picks is apparently one way that we relate.
If the world were truly just we would all wear hats on our feet.
OctoStalin
As movies are often a social experience between friends, you have probably exposed your taste to your friends at some point. I get accused of being pretentious quite a lot, and considering I am not nearly as highbrow or ‘extremist’ as many others. I wonder what it’s like for some of you?