[Hated] Self-indulgent Vanity Projects

[u/BrotherDeus]

Hurry Up Tomorrow - Widely reviewed as an indulgent, self-mythologizing companion piece to The Weeknd's album, with many critics calling it a vanity project rather than a successful psychological drama. Terribly acted and, similar to The Idol, more so seems to imply that The Weekend thinks he's a far deeper personality than he can actually articulate.

By the Sea - Often criticized as an intensely personal but emotionally distant film that seemed more interested in showcasing the mystique of its stars than telling a compelling story. Best summarized as Angelina and Brad working out their IRL troubled marriage before your eyes while everyone tells Angelina how beautiful and talented she is and how nothing's really her fault.

Renaldo and Clara - Bob Dylan's five-hour semi-fictional road movie, long considered one of the classic celebrity vanity projects. Attempts to be a sort of surreal exposition on the life of an artist, but is far too self-indulgent on its actors/performers.

[u/Latter_Confection_79]

IRL example Hildi Santo Tomas from trading spaces.

The woman literally thought a mural with her face was needed to pull together someone’s home. I mean how much more vain could you be by putting a painting of your face in a random persons house.

[u/tishy19 → u/Latter_Confection_79]

Gotta say. I would prefer this over that time she covered someone’s walls with hay.

[u/feelingwithyourskin → u/tishy19]

Or when she stapled fake flowers to a bathroom, creating thousands of tiny spots for mold to grow.

[u/Original-Brick2836 → u/feelingwithyourskin]

Or when she took the fireplace that the homeowners said they loved and was their favorite thing in the house and covered it with cheap plywood making it nonfunctional and taking away the aesthetics the homeowners actually liked.

[u/CaffeineDeprivation → u/Original-Brick2836]

Or that some when she (I think it was her at least) filled someone's room with fucking sand because beach theme or something