Good and Bad Reviews

When we talk about movies with friends We’re really recommending whether or not a friend should see a movie that we’ve seen and they have not.

Right.

We’re giving reviews.

That’s what we’re doing actually.

So you need to know how to even if you’re not a professional movie reviewer.

You need to know how to review a movie because again that’s how you recommend movies.

You say what you like.

You say what you didn’t like.

And sometimes it’s more bad stuff than good stuff.

Sometimes it’s more good stuff than bad stuff more positive or more negative.

More prose or more cons it’s the same thing.

We can say often pros and cons very common.

OK so let’s talk about some different phrases we can use when we’re talking about movies we like or things about movies we like things about movies we don’t like.

Notice that this is all mixed up.

The thing I liked about the movie is my favorite part is the most memorable thing is can we say was Yeah we can look at look at this one was terrible didn’t make sense it was stupid.

I mixed these up because often when people talk about movies they can use either the present tense or the past tense.

So in the story the main character is very very selfish very very greedy.

He is that way or if you wanted to say it you could say he was really greedy in the movie.

Actually more often people will use is they’ll use the present tense.

And then when they’re talking about their memory of it whether or not it was good or bad they’ll use the past tense.

So you can kind of mix it up.

It’s all kind of okay.

But usually when you’re when you’re talking about the story you kind of have to pick one and stay with it.

So you should be consistent but it usually doesn’t matter which one you choose.

And often again often when we describe the story the plot basically what happened.

We use the present tense.

Very common.

OK.

The thing I liked about the movie is the action so realistic so fast paced so cool whatever you want to say.

The thing I liked about the movie is maybe how real it felt.

That means it feels like real life.

The thing I liked about the movie is how real it felt or how real it feels.

My favorite part is my favorite part is probably the acting the acting or we could say the performances the performances.

You could say acting or performances.

That means the actors or actresses did a very good job playing their characters or my favorite part is maybe a specific person.

Let’s let’s use Kate Winslet Kate Winslet s height Kate Winslet s performance.

My favorite part is Kate Winslet s performance.

You can choose a specific person if you want to.

OK maybe my favorite part is or my favorite part was the music.

The soundtrack is amazing or was amazing.

The soundtrack is amazing.

This is the music that plays over it.

Probably the most memorable thing memorable means the thing you remember most.

So this isn’t always a positive thing but usually if something is memorable we’re using it to describe a thing that we think is is good is positive.

The most memorable thing is maybe the dialogue to see you could read that or write it up here D I A L O G you e which is what people are saying.

People talking in the story the dialogue is probably the most memorable thing in this movie or was probably the most memorable thing in this movie.

Whatever it was about the dialogue very well written it stuck in your brain.

It’s memorable.

Let’s look at some negative things.

OK.

I thought the acting was terrible.

So we use acting here.

I thought the performances were terrible.

Now if you use performances because it s e s then we have to say were terrible.

I thought the performances were terrible really not good.

Very all the characters were very two dimensional two dimensional characters two dimensional.

That means not realistic.

So if we said oh so real so realistic.

OK but if it’s not very realistic then it’s very two dimensional.

D I M E N S I O and l the story didn’t make sense.

The story didn’t or doesn’t make sense.

That means if something doesn’t make sense you can’t really understand everything that happened because all the pieces don’t really fit.

Gather.

Wait a minute.

The main character was at the school but at the same time there was another scene when he was at the shopping center.

I don’t understand.

It doesn’t make sense if something confuses you like that because either you don’t understand it or maybe the writing was bad.

Then you can say it doesn’t make sense.

If I’m speaking to you and what I’m saying is difficult to understand either because I’m not saying it clearly or because maybe you’re very sleepy and you’re not really paying attention.

Wake up.

You can say it doesn’t make sense does it make sense.

This is hard to understand.

It doesn’t make sense.

The ending was stupid.

I don’t think I really need to explain this one but you can talk about different parts of the movie the middle the ending the part where so we can use the part where the part where and then describes something that happened the part where they went to the planet and saved the children was stupid.

That part was stupid.

The rest of the movie I liked.

It was a good movie but the part where they where they.

And then say the action describe it a little bit.

The part where they went to the planet to save the children.

That was kind of stupid.

So you can talk about specific parts or you can talk about something like the end.

You could say it was a stupid movie.

The whole thing was stupid.

That’s OK too.

That’s OK too.

It wasn’t realistic it wasn’t realistic.

It’s a realistic is similar to real real is actually usually used as a noun.

Sometimes not.

You can say the source so real so real it’s like real.

So sometimes we use it that way but we often use this one instead which means like real realistic maps wasn’t realistic.

Stupid bad movie.

So these are some common ways we can express things we like don’t like about movies and you can use these for TV series.

In fact you can use these for books that you read as well.

You can use these for a lot of different things when you’re explaining them to your friends to help them understand why they should or shouldn’t watch that or read that or whatever.