Top 10 Movies that Try Way Too Hard to Take Themselves Seriously

If this film doesn't prove how much of a pretentious hack Zack Snyder is, I don't know what does.

Even without mentioning that its R-rated version being more violent than the regular one automatically makes it more "mature," it's literally just a giant, stupidly over-glorified slamming-together of his Batman and Superman action figures. It comes complete with blatant Wonder Woman action figure product placement just for the sake of it. Yet, it somehow still manages to unironically treat itself as one of the most intellectually stimulating and beautifully nuanced cinematic works of its century. Seriously, film, give me a break.

A film that unironically features nearly every outdated stereotype from blaxploitation films, despite being made nearly fifty years after their original heyday. It has an insultingly blatant Kanye West clone (not to mention a main protagonist clone) as its main villain, and uses ridiculously over-the-top CGI effects that often make the ones in Infinity War look subtle by comparison.

The main character is almost as ridiculously overpowered as the MCU version of Captain Marvel, to the point where his powers frequently have to be taken away to prevent him from spending the entire film completely invincible. The film has the most pretentious and condescending anti-racism message ever. Did we mention that killing every white person on the planet might be a bad idea, audience?

It even goes as far as to reference the infamous "WHAT ARE THOSE" meme while treating itself as one of the classiest and most revolutionary works of art to ever come out in theaters. Enough said.

This barely even works as an unintentional comedy film, let alone an intentional horror one.

Personally, I still think that Ralph The Movie Maker easily said it best.

It was based on a book written at a blatantly fourth-grade level yet still had the nerve to blatantly pander to emo teenagers in pretty much every way possible. That's pretty much all you need to know about it. Also, that baseball scene. Dear God, that baseball scene.

More like The Lifeless Mockery of the Original Film (low-hanging fruit, I know, but still).

For God's sake, Michael Bay, the film's main selling point is that it features Optimus Prime riding a giant mechanical T-Rex just so the film can have something cool-looking to put in its trailer. Stop trying to show off how "mature" you are for making a film about something so stereotypically masculine.

Snyder, why don't you try actually admitting how much of a hopelessly outdated and bland character Superman himself clearly is before you start "Snyde-ly" insulting Marvel's characters for also being overrated and shallow?

I actually really like this one. It is my favorite of the prequels, but I agree that Anakin Skywalker was not that convincing a character.

Its portrayal of Anakin Skywalker - enough said.

George Lucas should have never given Star Wars to Disney.

Despite technically being released a year before Infinity War, this absolute joke of a film somehow still manages to come across as a bad rip-off of it. It has stereotypically "edgy" character portrayals with basically no personality whatsoever, a villain who is just CGI Thanos without the charm, and an over-dramatic plot with absolutely no depth.

"Hey guys, what if we took the only non-completely-soulless thing about The Dark Knight (Joker and Two-Face, AKA actually interesting villains) out of it and replaced it with a stereotypical big buff brute who talks in a ludicrously over-exaggerated British gentleman accent to show off how smart he is despite his extremely muscular build?"

"Hmm, good idea, but it still needs something else. Ooh, I know! Why don't we make Batman himself barely appear in the film at all, despite being prominently featured on its cover? I mean, after all, who doesn't love spending literal hours watching Bruce Wayne repeatedly attempt to climb out of a giant hole in the ground?"

Say it with me: there are no sequels.