EMPOWER YOUR ENGLISH | 15 ADVANCED Movie Adjectives You Need to Know! 🎥 🎬🍿

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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.