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Chris Hu on 24 August 2016
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Slimebeast said:
LurkerJ said:

Can you honestly say all the 100 movies in the list are "pretentious" and not actually good? All 100 of them?

I haven't watched many of them, I haven't liked many of them, but it's a big list and it is impossible to end up hating all or loving all. 

No. Please don't misunderstand.

All the movies are certainly not pretentious. I said the list is pretentious, overall.

These movies are in my opinion very good:

No country for old men
Mad Max: Fury Road
Pan's Labyrinth (this movie is good despite being pretentious and very "cultural critic")
A history of violence
A.I.
Finding Nemo

Inception was okay, Inglorious basterds is okay or even good (but the worst Tarantino movie). 25th Hour had glimpses of good in it but Spike Lee is clearly among the pretentious directors.

I wouldn't say Spike Lee is a bad director but he is better in directing documentaries then life action stuff since this is pretty much his best work to date:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783612/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_25