13 Most Pretentious Movies Of All Time

13. Mother!

Darren Aronofsky brought us Requiem for a Dream, Pi, The Wrestler and Black Swan - each one a certified classic. Those are actually perfect examples of what was discussed in the intro, in fact.

Are these movies perhaps a little "up themselves"? Sure they are, but they at least have a clear cut plot, for the most part, and a message to boot. The Wrestler in particular is his most straight forward film and, man, it is heartbreaking.

So what happened with mother!?

mother! falls into a lot of the usual pitfalls that many arthouse films tend to. The plot, for one thing, is entirely incoherent - this is very much down to the audience getting the sense that Aronofsky is biting of more than he can chew, what with trying to cram all of existence into a single film. It's also not helped by the dialogue in any way, which is clunky as hell.

Advice to writers: just because your dialogue is confusing and doesn't sound like anything a human being would say does not mean it's profound. On top of all this, the violence in this film is gratuitous and unnecessary and lends precisely nothing to the plot.

This movie is such an absolute mess that not even Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem can save it.