He has a very particular style of filmmaking, as you might have noticed, and since it is not necessarily one that even attempts to cater to the mass audience, those who don’t respond to it are likely to find it annoying and, yes, pretentious
I guess that, for me, pretentious connotes a striving after profundity that I don't really see in Wes Anderson.
I mean, to use another example, I get someone watching a 2010s Terrence Malick movie and finding the philosophically musing voiceovers pretentious. Wes Anderson's movies, on the other hand, are pretty much all comedies.
Agree with this, for the post part.
If you don't mind a tangential question, why do you think that Wes Anderson is so often labeled pretentious by people who don't like his movies?
He has a very particular style of filmmaking, as you might have noticed, and since it is not necessarily one that even attempts to cater to the mass audience, those who don’t respond to it are likely to find it annoying and, yes, pretentious
I guess that, for me, pretentious connotes a striving after profundity that I don't really see in Wes Anderson.
I mean, to use another example, I get someone watching a 2010s Terrence Malick movie and finding the philosophically musing voiceovers pretentious. Wes Anderson's movies, on the other hand, are pretty much all comedies.