13 Most Pretentious Movies Of All Time
3. I Heart Huckabees
Another one for the angsty teenagers we all used to be.
You will probably have noticed a running theme at this point: that the main gripe levelled at each of the movies on this list is that they're devoid of any actual meaning, but frustratingly unaware of how vacuous they are. That couldn't ring more true than with I Heart Huckabees.
I Heart Huckabees is so sure of its philosophical credentials and just oh so smug about them too when, in actuality, it just seems like David. O Russell (a multiple offender on this list) skimmed the Wikipedia entries for Nietzsche, Sartre and a few more of the big hitters in philosophy.
There are just so many cringe worthy and downright stupid moments in this film, that are so sure of their own profundity, that it's tough to know where to begin. Oh, Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin are existential detectives? How quirky! Also, not a thing. And Mark Wahlberg and jason Schwartzman are... hitting themselves in the face with a space hopper? To... achieve enlightenment?
Fine, sure, whatever?