10 Movies That Made Things Complicated To Hide Their Flaws

7. Mother!

While it has great performances and it's enjoyable for its strangeness, Mother! has pulled off something that Darren Aronofsky has done with his films elsewhere as well, dressing up nonsensical philosophical wandering as profound messages. The reality is that Mother! is nowhere near as clever as it thinks it is or Aronofsky and its fans seem so insistent that it is.

Sure, it does have some ideas in there about religion, but the film more pertinently uses the pretence of allegory to cover up the fact that what it actually wants is to be an exploitation film dealing solely in the currency of outrage. Want to see a CGI baby pissing terrified into the sky as it's carried off by the mob to be ripped apart and eaten? Say it's a complex reimagining of the story of Christ.

The film is not wholly irredeemable, but like Fight Club being held up as some sort of profound Tao of existence, Mother! seeks high-intellect to mask the fact that it's otherwise not very good.