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But apart from Sheedy's melancholic portrayal of the doped-up photographer, the film is said to be "full of itself and its artistic pretension" (Jack Mathews, the Los Angeles Times ) and saddled with clichéd depictions of bohemianism.
The Star Wars Elvis was Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey , a movie that combined cult attraction with intellectual pretension.
"Contrary to conventional wisdom, pretension was introduced into mainstream pop not by the Beatles but by the Rolling Stones.
Indeed his self-deprecating I'm-just-a-dumb-jock routine inoculates him against charges of intellectual pretension.
Powell seemed to abhor pretension above practically anything.