absolute cinema

English

Etymology

From an image macro of American filmmaker (born 1942) Martin Scorsese captioned with the phrase. In 2022 and 2023, the image and phrase began to circulate around Twitter as an Internet meme.

Noun

absolute cinema (uncountable)

  1. (Internet slang) Cinema that is personally considered to be outstanding.
    That movie was absolute cinema! I'm dying for a sequel.
    • 2025 April 17, Stuart Heritage, “‘I was being a sassy Karen’: Florence Pugh’s skyscraper stunt positions her as the new Tom Cruise”, in The Guardian‎[1], archived from the original on 18 April 2025:
      Then came the weird trailer last month where the movie tried to rebrand itself as an A24 film, declaring itself to be “absolute cinema” because it hired the production designer from Hereditary and the editor of Minari (and, in Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the star of You Hurt My Feelings).
  2. (Internet slang, figurative) Any event or work personally considered to be outstanding or amusing.
    It was absolute cinema to watch those fools fighting each other.

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