History TheCinemaSnob / TropesQToZ

* WTHCastingAgency: [[invoked]] Some reviews have Snob run down the cast and crew of the film he's reviewing, and express amazement that they ended up in the kind of movies Snob reviews. Examples include how ''Ed'', a film about a baseball-playing chimpanzee, beside being the first film role of Matt [=LeBlanc=] after his StarMakingRole in ''Series/{{Friends}}'', is written by the same writer who wrote ''Film/TheSandlot'' and produced by the producer of Creator/SpikeLee's ''Film/{{Clockers}}'', and that in ''Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure'' most of the crew of the film also participated in ''Film/AnimalHouse''.[[note]]It was produced and co-written by Matty Simmons, who also produced ''Animal House'', was directed by Stephen Furst, who played Flounder in ''Animal House'', and John Vernon has a cameo that's basically a send-off of his Dean Wormer character.[[/note]]

* QuirkyWork: Many episodes deal with downright bizarre works, including actual Weird Japanese Thing ''Tampon Tango''. Weird American movies (made for theatrical release, at least) earn the descriptor "What the Fuck, Hollywood?!"

''(plays UB40's "Red Red Wine")''

* WidgetSeries: Many episodes deal with downright bizarre works, including actual Weird Japanese Thing ''Tampon Tango''. Weird American Things (made for theatrical release, at least) earn the descriptor "What the Fuck, Hollywood?!"

** Five minutes into ''Film/SleepawayCampIIUnhappyCampers'', Brad's soul leaves his body-- Only to re-enter it again and [[GroinKick kick him in the balls]]. (Brad also has an AsideGlance admitting that when he rewatched the movie for the episode, the ColdOpen was more than enough for him to have second thoughts)

* RedundantParody: Referenced in his review of ''The Bed Room'', a porno spoof of ''Film/TheRoom'', a movie just about anyone on the internet has spoofed already.

--->'''Snob:''' It's at this point that I realize the robots of ''Heartbeeps'' are speaking about something of more substance and relevancy than any of the characters from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}, ''Literature/TheHost2008'', Film/AttackOfTheClones'', or ''Temptation'' '''combined'''.

** He takes another jab when ''Film/TheOogielovesInTheBigBalloonAdventure'' (lowest opening in the box office, 2.7 on 10 by critics) get beaten by ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

** Snob's review of ''Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom'' is a critique both of the film and the arthouse critics who aggrandize it as an epic commentary on fascism. He does the review draped over a toilet, and each time he finishes explaining how much of a masterpiece of genius a scene is, he immediately vomits. Brad, out of character, has made clear that he completely rejects any of Creator/PierPaoloPasolini's excuses for making the film as a critique of fascism, stating that there are much better ways to make such a point without depicting fascism's cruelty in that almost celebrates it rather than mocks it.

* TheRemake: Though Brad has long considered the show's early episodes to be something of an OldShame, for many years he dismissed the possibility of remaking older reviews, believing the original reviews should stand as a reflection of what the show was at the time. He made a special exception for the ''Unerotic Fantasies'' DVD, however, for the film ''Bat Pussy'', reasoning that the constraints of an online review prevented him from showcasing the film for [[{{Squick}} what it truly was]]. Then, in 2020, after exhausting the rest of the franchise, he re-reviewed ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning'' to match the style of his reviews for the other installments.[[note]]He has also reviewed ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNight'', ''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'' and ''Film/RockItsYourDecision'' as ''Snob'' episodes after previously covering them on ''The Big Box'', ''WebVideo/EightiesDan'' and ''[[WebVideo/TVHeaven DVD-R Hell]]'', respectively.[[/note]]

** The entirety of the ''Film/NineteenFortyOne'' review is this.

* UpToEleven: At the end of the Anthropophagus review, Snob states that he's become numb to the horrors and atrocities he's witnessed since starting his show... and then threatens the audience with the stuff he's been ''holding back'' for the last 3 or 4 years. In other words, he has movies worse than ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'', and he's been ''deliberately ignoring them'' for being too awful. ...Well, until now. General consensus was that he ''kept that promise''.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent
** The Snob's review of ''Film/NineteenFortyOne'' is not only a completely sincere positive review, but it's also the first review since the Snob's early days that isn't a commentary-filled runthrough of the film's plot, instead being structured as a more traditional review focused on dissecting various elements such as characters, set design, cinematography and comedic writing. Even as unironic positive reviews from the Snob have become more common, the ''1941'' and "10 Awesome Things About ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''" episodes remain relatively unique for being the only reviews since the very early days of the Snob to not cover the film in a linear format.
** His review of ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears' Easter Surprise'' (an unironic children's cartoon) was such a departure from his usual fare that Brad later noted that several fans, just going by the episode's title, initially believed it would be another NightmareFuel-laden Wood Rocket porn parody. (Possibly to avoid similar confusion, later ''Berenstain'' reviews from Brad have come via the ''WebVideo/TVHeaven'' show instead of ''Cinema Snob''.)

--->'''Snob:''' It's at this point that I realize the robots of ''Heartbeeps'' are speaking about something of more substance and relevancy than any of the characters from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}, Literature/TheHost, Film/AttackOfTheClones'', or ''Temptation'' '''combined'''.

** Blasting Music/{{LMFAO}} songs as a mode of torture. (''Guinea Pig: The Devil's Experiment'')

* RhetoricalQuestionBlunter: In his review of ''Film/IfFootmenTireYouWhatWillHorsesDo'', the Snob responds to Reverend Pirkle's "Do these things seem far-fetched to you?" with an aggravated ''[[BluntYes "Yes!"]]''

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Crystal Pepsi. According to the ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' review, his house is piped with Crystal Pepsi instead of tap water.

** A pair of {{amazonian|Beauty}} Nazis entering Ilsa's office and saluting smartly. "HEIL HITLER!" (''Ilsa: She-Wolf of the S.S.'')
--->'''Snob:''' Worst strippergram ever!

** The warden in ''Sadomania'' is played by pornstar Ajita Wilson. Snob, abusolutely mesmerized by her, searches about her on the web, only to find out that (at least according to multiple sources) she's a trans woman. That being said, for Snob the reveal is less "unsettling" and more like "confusing", since apparently it does nothing to placate his attraction to her.
--->'''Snob:''' No, honey, listen -- we ''need'' to have sex ''RIGHT NOW''. I'm feeling very confused.

** The warden in ''Sadomania'' is a transsexual porn star.

* UnusualEuphemism:
** "[[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead Beavising her Butthead]]".
** "t[aking] a wicked star odyssey".

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Creator/JohnCarradine in ''Billy the Kid Versus Dracula'', as the Snob lampshaded InUniverse. Likewise, Creator/MichaelChiklis in ''Wired''.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: According to the ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' review, his house is piped with Crystal Pepsi instead of tap water.

** In 2018, weeks after a public spat involving ''Sex and the City'' actress Kim Cattrall made the possibilities of a third ''Sex and the City'' movie next to none, Snob uploaded a review of "Sex and the City 3". He claims at the beginning that he traveled to an AlternateUniverse to find a third movie, before revealing that it's just one of those porn parodies that he retitled becaue the actual title wasn't creative.

* At the start of ''Corona Zombies 2'', Snob despairs over Barbie and Kendra {{squee}}-ing over each other.
-->'''Snob:''' Mmh. This is going to be the longest 72 minutes of my life.

* TakeThat: Brad is a man of ''very'' strong likes and dislikes. Get comfortable, this could take a while.
** Favored targets: Creator/EliRoth, Creator/MNightShyamalan, Chuck Lorre, Creator/SethMacFarlane, Creator/RogerEbert, [[ImplacableMan Suzanne Nagy]], Uwe Boll, Creator/StephenieMeyer, ''Film/TheBoondockSaintsIIAllSaintsDay'', reality television, some Creator/MichaelBay films (he really likes a few others), ''Film/{{Ishtar}}'', horror remakes, and screening movies in 3-D.
** Ebert frequently gets raked over the coals for his more polarizing opinions, particularly his one-man crusade against ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'', aka [[WorstWhateverEver the worst movie ever]].
--->'''Snob:''' Even worse than [[LongList The Zookeeper, Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace, Home Alone 3, Cop and a Half, and the Garfield movies]]. ''(scoffs)'' And there's ''no way'' he liked those!

** Creator/SylvesterStallone got the treatment in his review of ''[[OldShame The Italian Stallion]]''. Ten years later, Brad revisited this particular thespian in ''42nd Street Forever Vol. 1''.
--->'''Stallone:''' When you're hungry, you do a lot of things you wouldn't ordinarily do.\\

** In the LostEpisode "Grizzly II: The Concert", he gives one to ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''[='s=] habit of having a character waste two minutes of every episode by repeatedly doing a mundane action.
--->'''Snob:''' ''(After spending two minutes trying and failing to pick up a cardboard box)'' ....THIS ISN'T FUNNY!

** ''Rape Squad:''

--->'''Snob:''' Phew. Don't scare me like that; I thought this was ''[[Film/ThePhantomMenace Episode One]]''. Thank god it's ''Film/NinjaTerminator''."
** "[''Film/{{Nukie}}''] is a lot shittier than ''Mac and Me'', so I'm guessing it was endorsed by Hardee's."
** Hardee's gets another jab in ''Violent Shit 2''.
** Given that Ebert gave ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'' zero stars and called it the worst movie ever made, we can only imagine what he gave ''The Last House on the Left''..."'''3½ stars'''?!"[[note]]The irony here is that Ebert's only complaint of ''The Last House on the Left'' '''was''' that the comic relief messed with the tone, whereas the unrelentingly dark ''I Spit on Your Grave'' was merely dismissed as a snuff movie.[[/note]]
--->'''Snob:''' I guess the addition of comic relief involving cake-making and camera-mugging, plus two bumbling cops falling off of a chicken truck and getting harassed by hippies, makes the 3½ star difference in your dark and sadistic rape revenge movie.

** The Argentine ''Simpsons'' porn spoof is very much like the show, "in that the first half is timeless and the second half is forgettable."

** In ''The Devil With Hitler'', UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's speeches are being monitored in Hell, "On the one day they aren't watching Creator/{{TLC}}."

---->'''Snob:''' Hey, they stole that line from a Music/RobZombie film! ..I'm guessing."

** While discussing ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'', upon seeing the shot of Sally entering a house, which [[MaleGaze focuses on her hotpants]], he says that [[BestKnownForTheFanservice that's the only thing the makers of the sequels/remakes ever remembered]].

** ''Ilsa: She-Wolf of the S.S.'' opened with Brad trying to persuade Film Brain to wear Nazi regalia for a comedy bit.

--->'''Snob:''' It's at this point that I realize the robots of ''Heartbeeps'' are speaking about something of more substance and relevancy than any of the characters from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}, Literature/TheHost, Film/AttackOfTheClones'', or ''Temptation'' '''combined'''."
** ''In Search of the Wow Wow Wibble Woggle Wazzie Woodle Woo'': Not long into the movie, Brad starts to wonder [[TransparentCloset which way]] Tim Noah swings.
--->'''Snob:''' Not even Kirk Cameron is in this much denial.
** Later in the same review: "Tim Noah pretending to be Creator/CharlieChaplin is like Creator/JimmyKimmel pretending to be a talk show host."
** A RunningGag in the review of ''The Legend of the Lone Ranger'' was Brad constantly bashing [[Film/TheLoneRanger the 2013 movie]].

---->'''Snob:''' ...well, [[OnSecondThought except Austin]]. You can't have that.
** From ''Jack the Ripper Goes West'': "It could've been worse. It could've ended with him faking his own death and [[Series/{{Dexter}} BECOMING A FUCKING LUMBERJACK]]."
** In ''Ninja Champion'', in regards of its abrupt ending: "At least they didn't condense what could have been a season's worth of rather dramatic and emotional material into its last 10 minutes, leaving it rather cold, glossed-over, and emotionless. Thanks, ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''."

** He makes it well-known he dislikes the UsefulNotes/{{Golden Raspberry Award}}s, including complaining during his review of ''Film/MommieDearest'' how the Razzies awarded it as worst film of its year.
** He takes another jab when ''Film/TheOogielovesInTheBigBalloonAdventure'' (lowest opening in the box office, 2.7 on 10 by critics) get beaten by ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' .

** His reviews of ''Series/TheStand2020'' and the remake of ''Film/TheStepfather'' contain digs at Creator/AmberHeard, warning characters not to Google and be careful about who they date.
** During his review of ''Film/RockItsYourDecision'',when Jeff breaks the rock record the Snob declared it still not as embarrassing as the Disco Demilition Night.

** While discussing the original ''[[Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974 Texas Chainsaw]]'', he notes that Caroline Williams' hotpants are [[BestKnownForTheFanservice the only thing the makers of the sequels/remakes ever remembered]].