13 Most Pretentious Movies Of All Time
10. Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas is based on a phenomenal, albeit complex, novel. The problem? This novel would never translate to the big screen. So when you do try and adapt a novel such as this you end up with a garbled, weird, film that's way too complicated.
That's what happened with Cloud Atlas. David Mitchell's novel is a beautifully structured work of fiction that is endlessly fun to unravel. That's why it's actually almost an achievement that the Wachowski's managed to turn that into the blandest, boring, most self-indulgent piece of tripe that's come out this century.
It's all the sadder that this was a genuine passion project for the Wachowski's. Now its legacy is as an indication that someone wants to bone down should they suggest watching it together. As Richard Hendricks said in Silicon Valley "No one can watch more than ten minutes of that movie anyway."