No it's not pretentious at all. What I find pretentious is when you love the slower stuff but hate all the popular stuff and dismiss pacing as even a relevant

No it's not pretentious at all. What I find pretentious is when you love the slower stuff but hate all the popular stuff and dismiss pacing as even a relevant factor. Many many people have this attitude and they actually dismiss MCU stuff as raw garbage, too base level for their intellectual tastes. I repeat. Your post is not pretentious to me at all. It's what I come here for. Thank you. I agree with you there are movies that require a huge slow as hell build up in order to deliver a huge pay off. I agree and I like those movies despite the slow pacing. But those movies imo would benefit from better pacing regardless. I've seen people quit watching before the payoff and forever have their opinion of that movie forever tainted.