Film reviews decoded : A Dictionary of Tweets (#FilmReviewsDecoded)
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29 December
Film reviews decoded : A Dictionary of Tweets (#FilmReviewsDecoded)
Develops badly
Develops badly : Uses the technical language of the dark-room, but, if true, *how* did the character develop badly ? #FilmReviewsDecoded
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 12, 2014Directorial debut
Coriolanus (2011) was what reviewers like, unable to resist alliteration and conformity, to call his 'directorial debut' = first film ?— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 30, 2015Eponymous
The eponymous hero[ine] : Sounds grand, establishing the superiority of the reviewer - 'the title-character' doesn't. #FilmReviewsDecoded
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 10, 2014Evocative
Evocative : Could tell that the director / actors intended some mood or effect - too lazy or undiscerning to identify. #FilmReviewsDecoded
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 10, 2014Evocative delve
An evocative delve into a beast-ravaged land : One's guess is as good as another's whether this denotes something... ! #FilmReviewsDecoded
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 16, 2014Insightful
Insightful : Again, a non-specific usage - we gather that there is an insight, but not what into (the world of XYZ ?) #FilmReviewsDecoded
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 11, 2014Offbeat
Offbeat comedy : Not actually funny at all, but - as with The Emperor's New Clothes - people laugh 'to get the joke'. #FilmReviewsDecoded
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 10, 2014Musical term, misapplied to something where not being rhythmically exact / stressing the down beat has nowt to do with it, usually.— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 29, 2015Powerful
Powerful : Unqualified, as in 'A powerful scene with Bob's father', we know that the scene works, but hardly why... #FilmReviewsDecoded
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 10, 2014Sororial
Sororial: She's someone's sister (thus sisterly) - pairs with 'fraternal', which is known, so can never be used. #FilmReviewsDecoded
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 10, 2014Teen movie
Vi är bäst ! (We are the Best !) (2013) concerns part of the so-called teenage years of its trio of Stockholm punks, but it's hard to say that it is, for that reason, 'a teen movie' - rather than a good film. pic.twitter.com/IaDhKcmuRI— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 22, 2018
Thriller
Tense thriller : Well, what thriller worth the name would not be... ? Is the reviewer tied to being persuasive here ? #FilmReviewsDecoded
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 10, 2014Total revelation
Someone's called ‘a total revelation’ (usu. a young actress) : Damn ! I've done no research on up and coming talent ! #FilmReviewsDecoded— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 18, 2015If you want to Tweet, Tweet away here
Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
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