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we're looking at adjectives about movies, so advanced adjectives dealing with movies, okay
So let's go through them one by one.
Absorbing. Well, absorbing is something that you can really get into, you don't notice the time
going by, and you really, really enjoy it. A book, of course, can be absorbing when you get into it,
and you don't want to put the book down, that would be a good definition of absorbing.
And a movie that would I would find absorbing would be Lord of the Rings,
there were three particular parts, the characters were really well developed,
the scenery was beautiful, the location where they were shot. So everything about
that movie or those series or the three movies was absolutely absorbing. Okay.
Number two, captivating, so when something is captivating, it holds your attention,
you can really feel part of the characters and you really, really enjoy it. So for many,
many years, children of all ages and adults found the Harry Potter movies, captivating,
there are captivating because it was a young man with a magic wand and you watched him grow
up through the different years at school. So that was quite captivating. There were
numerous movies and spin offs from it so that you're able to watch it as he grew older,
and the characters developed. So the whole series of movies, I've lost count of how
many exactly but they were captivating. Very, very good, really interesting, captivating.
Convoluted, convoluted. Well, convoluted, means complicated, a little bit unusual, difficult to
understand, probably difficult script and cast, all sorts of things like that. So you know,
you weren't sure where the story was going to begin. And where exactly it would end. So yeah,
it was okay. It was interesting, but really convoluted, went off in all different directions.
Now, movies that I found really convoluted and couldn't really watch them at all with the Matrix
series. Okay, I haven't seen the most recent one, I think number four in the series. But
the first three are extremely convoluted for my easy little brain convoluted.
Next dreary, so something that is dreary, a little bit dull,
a little bit boring. So be careful of the pronunciation. As I said before, dreary,
so dull, and boring, mundane, something that you're you're not really so interested in,
you might think it's going to be a good movie, but turns out to be a little bit dreary. And
one movie that I found dreary and I was a little bit disappointed because I really
liked the books I liked the original movie was Murder on the Orient Express the remake,
and they'll be many remakes. But the most recent remake I just didn't enjoy. It wasn't really
what I was expecting. And I found it a little dreary, is a little slow and a little boring.
Gripping. Now gripping on the other hand is something that has you on the edge of your seat,
you literally grab the end of the seat or the the arms of the chair or the arm of the person sitting
beside you if you're if they're close enough to you so gripping something really really is very,
very tense. Now, I've seen a movie recently I mentioned this actress quite a few times. I really
enjoy her movies, Sandra Bullock, but the movie Unforgivable is really good. It's a interesting
story. It's you're not quite sure which way it's going to go. And I actually stopped it halfway
through thinking I'm not sure I want to watch the rest of this. It's going to have a sad ending,
but it was very, very gripping, the whole storyline. I won't spoil it, but I would
certainly recommend watching it. It was only released in 2021. So that will be gripping.
Number six, something that is overrated. Well,
we've all read books that are overrated. We've all seen movies that are completely overrated,
somebody or many people have told us we should go and watch it and then when you actually go
and see it, you're wondering what was all the fuss about? This movie is rubbish. This is not
really something that you you liked. So one movie a few years ago that I watched that I thought was
overrated was the unfortunately with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney was Gravity. Yeah,
I just but I got it. I understood little bit but I didn't see what was all the excitement
about it wasn't so much of interest for me. Okay, I suspect it was all took place in the the cockpit
of the rockets or suppose there wasn't much action from that point of view. And that way I considered
it to be overrated who might have a different view, if you understand me, please let me know.
Next, something predictable, well predictable means something that he gets the plot well
before the movie is over and one set of books and one set of movies that you can
always do that there's still, there's still somewhat enjoyable, predictable,
or Agatha Christie and the one that I find which was very predictable would be death on the Nile,
death on the Nile. So I watched it because the scenery was really wonderful along the Nile.
Lots of nice boat scenes. But unfortunately for me, the plot was somewhat predictable.
Next, number eight, riveting. Now riveting means it's really really
interesting as something that you you sit back and you can't move, you don't want to move,
you're not going to switch it off. And you're really reluctant even to go to the loo so you're
just really stuck there watching it waiting to see what happens a riveting movie really,
really good. And one movie that I would recommend for that. And it follows on from
really good books was The Girl with the Dragon to to The Girl with the Dragon to to I found
those movies and the books absolutely riveting. So the first three really, really riveting.
Next second-rate, well, second rate means something that it's not first class,
it's not going to win. Any Oscars it's not going to be nominated for anything near the acting
is poor. The script is poor, the scenery, whatever, it's just a second rate movie.
They used to complain that the former president of the United
States, he is long dead now. He was an actor who took part in in lots of films,
but they were B rated movies or second-rate movies, and they really really weren't
enjoyable at all. So we can talk about things like second-rate, or B rate movies.
So the Lost City again is a movie I've seen recently, again, unfortunately,
with Sandra Bullock, and Daniel Radcliffe is in this an older Daniel Radcliffe from the Harry
Potter movies. But he is in this movie called Lost City. I think it was released in 2021 or early
2022. Absolute rubbish as far as is concerned, and that's for sure why they made it I just didn't get
the movie at all. And I would call that as a second rate movie, second rate movie. Okay.
And then we have something slow-moving. So slow-moving can be a good movie, but it's drags
on a little bit. And you're really waiting for the movie to come to an end. I like movies about the
Second World War and one movie A few years ago was Dunkirk, but it's very slow. There's lots
of build up for it is a very, very slow process and you really need to be patient to watch it.
The next is number one. Are we on to number 11? I think yeah, number 11 Is something spine-tingling,
spine-tingling, spine-tingling. And the next one also spooky. We could take those two
together because they're really something that gets your nerves jangling when you're
watching horror movies. I don't watch them at all. I just don't like them. It's not a genre
that attracts me. So anything spine-tingling or spooky. I probably haven't seen but any
movies by made from Stephen King books, they will certainly be spine-tingling,
and spooky. And you can watch all of those your death on the murder on Elm Street or
whatever those movies are called or and people get their heads cut off and all sorts of spooky
things happen. They're not for me, but they will be spine-tingling. And certainly spooky.
Number 13 means is thought provoking, thought-provoking. Be careful with pronunciation.
So when something is thought-provoking, it gets you thinking, yeah, it provokes thoughts in your
mind. You start thinking about the characters, you start thinking about the situation, you
start thinking about the theme of that particular movie. And one that I really really enjoyed was
a very, very sad situation was called Spotlight. It was a few years ago based on the child sex
problems within the Catholic Church, particularly in America. And about all the journalists who
investigated that really, really good, very, very thought-provoking but really, really interesting.
And then we have underrated the opposite to overrated underrated. So, not so many movies that
I can think of that will be underrated one I've seen recently use a third of mu... of three movies
called the King's Man. The first one I really enjoyed the second one I didn't enjoy at all. The
third one, I thought it was really good I thought a little bit underrated some really, really good
acting some good scenes and in some ways quite quite amusing. So the Kingsman kings one, three.
And then finally the word uplifting. So something that raises your spirits. Now,
lots of movies can fall into this category depending on your how low your mood is when you
go to watch them. But the sort of movies that I like to watch when that that are uplifting
are the James Bond movies. They're somewhat superficial in the sense that you know they're
not re reality are removed from reality in some ways with the cars and the guns and all of that,
but I really enjoyed the music. And I usually enjoy the characters and the scripts and the
storylines. And I watch most of them time and time again. So I do I find them uplifting.
Okay, so let me give them to you one more time. So we've got absorbing,
captivating, convoluted, dreary, gripping, overrated, predictable, riveting, second-rate,
slow-moving, spine-tingling, spooky, thought-provoking, underrated, and uplifting.
Okay, so good adjectives, advanced adjectives that you can use to describe any movie that you want
to watch and you can categorise them. The good thing about this is your opinion can differ from
everybody else's, but the words mean exactly how I've explained them. And you can identify
other films or indeed books that are associated with those particular adjectives. So there's a
lot of them in the list, there are 50. And so you probably won't remember them all. But try
a few of them and see, can you use them it'll, it's going to increase your vocabulary. And when
you get to use these particular adjectives, is going to improve your vocabulary and improve the
way that you can describe things that without using words like amazing and interesting all of
the time. Awesome. So try them, practice them any problems. Come back to me. I'll happily give you
some more examples. And as always, I appreciate you watching and viewing and join me again soon.