absolute cinema en · NOUN
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.
Meanings
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(Internet, uncountable) Cinema that is personally considered to be outstanding.
That movie was absolute cinema! I'm dying for a sequel.
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).
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, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2025:
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(Internet, figuratively, uncountable) Any event or work personally considered to be outstanding or amusing.
It was absolute cinema to watch those fools fighting each other.
Relateds
absolutely cinematic · kino · ✋😐🤚
Translations (8)
nb absolutt kino (outstanding thing or event) · pl absolutne kino (outstanding thing or event) · pt cinema absoluto (outstanding thing or event) · cmn 絕對電影 /绝对电影 (outstanding thing or event) · hu abszolút filmszínház (outstanding thing or event) · de großes Tennis (outstanding thing or event) · de großes Kino (outstanding thing or event) · nn absolutt kino (outstanding thing or event)