History TheCinemaSnob / TropesIToP

* ItsAllAboutMe: Bob Revere from ''The Last Ounce of Courage'', to the point that Snob invokes the trope nearly word for word while calling out Bob for making his son's death all about him.

** HahahaNo (instead of no, something along the lines of "because he killed X people!")

* In the review of ''Wild Guitar'', Snob reveals that director Ray Dennis Steckler was also the director of ''Film/TheIncrediblyStrangeCreatures'', but Snob doesn't even bother saying the title, instead calling it "The Incredibly Strange ''Long-Ass Title''!".

** ''Water Power'': "[[Film/{{Batman}} THIS town needs an enema!]]"

* PeripheryHatedom: [[invoked]] Intentionally invoked, as Brad describes the Snob as largely a parody of critics who review (and trash) movies that are clearly not meant for them.

** The Snob goes out of his way to point out, yes, Crackers Phinn is the name credited.
** Fester Smellman, P. Floyd Piranha, and '''Zoofeet?'''

** Wrap your brain around ''this'', internet:'' [[spoiler:Turkish I Spit On Your Grave.]]''

* MotorMouth: Snob criticizes pastor Estus Pirkle of this in ''If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?''

* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: Minor example; he began to include post-1995 movies on his show starting with ''Film/SavingChristmas'' after pointing out that movies such as it, ''Film/GodsNotDead'', and ''War Room'' are providing him with a new form of exploitation to review. This likely stemmed from Brad uncovering such movies on ''WebVideo/MidnightScreenings'', as other particularly bad movies reviewed on that show have sometimes gotten the Snob treatment as well (such as ''The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure'' and ''Dancin': It's On!'').

%%* LeaveTheCameraRunning: ''Film/TheAstroZombies''.

--->'''Snob:''' What? This isn't shit. ''That's'' shit.

* NoPronounciationGuide: Refers to {{Creator/AKOM}} as "Ah-Cum" Productions in the ''My Little Pony: The Movie'' review and decides to [[SureLetsGoWithThat just go with that]].

* MoneyDearBoy: InUniverse -- when Diamanda Hagan asks why ''they'' were reviewing ''Film/MyraBreckinridge'' since the movie was doing a good job of reviewing itself, Snob responds "uh, Blip revenue?". Diamanda concedes the point.

* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: {{Inuniverse}}, His review of ''Pieces'' has the Snob figuring out the identity of the killer simply because he recognizes an actor from other movies.

* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: {{In-universe}}, His review of ''Pieces'' has the Snob figuring out the identity of the killer simply because he recognizes an actor from other movies.

** The Hot Pocket gag in ''Crazy Fat Ethel 2'' (one of the very first reviews) doesn't hold up five years later.

** Ilsa bursting in on an escapee followed by the Snob reluctantly going, "[[Series/HogansHeroes Hoooogaaaan!]]"

** On the mannequin in ''Maniac'': "The supporting cast in this movie is very wooden."
** On ''The Corpse Grinders'''s characters being ground into cat food: "I guess it only takes ''one'' life to make a perfect can of 9 Lives!"

-->'''Snob:''' ''[after seeing a Lloyd doppelgänger in ''The Corpse Grinders'']'' Really, Lloyd? Were you THAT hard up for fucking money in the early '70s? Did the ''That Darn Cat'' royalties not pay off nearly as much as you had hoped?

* OldShame: [[invoked]] Lloyd starred in a few 70s exploitation movies, including one in French.
-->'''Snob:''' REALLY, Lloyd? Were you THAT hard up for cash?

** "''[[{{Filth}} THE E.T. OF VAGINA]]: [[BlindIdiotTranslation ONE SETTLES OF THE OTHER WORLD Or]] [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad Specially Terrestrian]]: The extraterrestrial one''".

** Also, ''Film/TheBloodyVideoHorrorThatMadeMePukeOnMyAuntGertrude''.
--->'''Snob:''' [[NonIndicativeName There's isn't a whole lot of "bloody", or "horror", or "puke"]] but there sure is a lot of "video".

** In ''The Bloody Video Horror That Made Me Puke on My Aunt Gertrude'', he dismisses the ''Video Violence'' review as "some guy on Website/YouTube like seven years ago".

** Also, ''[[GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath The Bloody Video Horror That Made Me Puke on My Aunt Gertrude]]''.

* NonIndicativeTitle: ''I Spit On Your Grave'' features neither graves, nor people spitting on them. Also, ''The Bloody Video Horror That Made Me Puke On My Aunt Gertrude''.

** His CatchPhrase, thank you very much.

--->'''Snob:''' Of course, I'm too much of a snob to admit that I fucked up... I fucked up.

* InfantImmortality: Very, very, ''very'' subverted at the end of Beware! Children At Play.

* ItWillNeverCatchOn: In his review of ''Blood Sucking Freaks'', when the kidnapped art critic insists that a ballet dancer would never dance for the sadistic Sardu, Brad adds...

** The Snob is a Pierre Kirby fanboy, much like Spoony is one for Reb Brown and Lupa is a Cynthia Rothrock fangirl. Anything Kirby does will be badass to Snob, even ''crying''.

* MultipleChoicePast: Is the Snob [[Film/TheCinemaSnobMovie an exploitation film-maker named Craig Golightly who is pretending to be a movie snob named Vincent Dawn]], [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee a small-time producer who is nearly corrupted by the Hollywood studio system]], or just Brad Jones playing a character? YOU DECIDE.
-->''[From the review of ''Film/ShockTreatment'']''

--->''Snob:''' I'm going to have to [[INeedAFreakingDrink wash away this image]] with a couple of Flaming Moes.

--->'''Snob:''' REALLY, Lloyd? Were you THAT hard up for cash?

* PeripheryHatedom: Intentionally invoked, as Brad describes the Snob as largely a parody of critics who review (and trash) movies that are clearly not meant for them. [[invoked]]
* PraisingShowsYouDontWatch: InUniverse example

** Brad had reason to suspect ''Zombi 7'' was added to IMDb as an alternate title specifically in the hope he'd review it.
** It doesn't help that he then [[TemptingFate sarcastingly claimed that months from then he would be reviewing]] ''Night of the Seagulls'' because someone would attach the title ''Zombi 8'' to it on IMDb. [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073461/releaseinfo#akas Which apparently someone did.]]

* ImplausibleDeniability: Lampshaded and then subverted when Snob says he used IMDB as an extensive source for minor Hong Kong action films.
--->'''Snob:''' Of course, I'm too much of a snob to admit that I fucked up... I fucked up."

* IHatePastMe: Upon seeing ''Video Violence 2'', Brad receives an angry phone call from 2007!Brad (pre-[[GrowingTheBeard beard]]), fresh from his original ''Video Violence'' review. Brad offers some much-needed advice to his past self - made funnier if you've seen all of Brad's reviews, and are familiar with his tumultuous life - all of which goes unheeded. "What an asshole!"
** The effect is so seamless, people are ''still'' unsure of whether Brad literally [[CrazyPrepared recorded himself in 2007]] in preparation for the sequel.
** Also, in ''Italian Batman'' he sees his other review of an Italian film without dubbing/subtitles (''Porno Holocaust''), and engages on some SelfDeprecation.
** The Hot Pocket gag in ''Crazy Fat Ethel 2'' doesn't hold up five years later. "Ha ha ha, it's funny because it's fattening. Joke's on you, asshole: You gained like 50 pounds that year."
** In ''The Bloody Video Horror That Made Me Puke on My Aunt Gertrude'', he dismisses the ''Video Violence'' review as "some guy on YouTube like seven years ago".

* IHaveManyNames: Brad had reason to suspect ''Zombi 7'' was added to IMDB as an alternate title specifically in the hope he'd review it.
** It doesn't help that he then [[TemptingFate sarcastingly claimed that months from then he would be reviewing]] ''Night Of The Seagulls'' because someone would attach the title ''Zombi 8'' to it on IMDB. [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073461/releaseinfo#akas Which apparently someone did.]]

-->'''Snob''': [[ItMakesSenseInContext If I wanted my foot to taste like ass, I would've just ordered an ass!]]

-->"Of course, I'm too much of a snob to admit that I fucked up... I fucked up."

--->"What? This isn't shit. ''That's'' shit."

* InsaneTrollLogic: His review of the remake of Mother's Day mentions all the ways that it is an improvement on the original before saying:
--> '''The Cinema Snob:''' Obviously the original was better. Why? Because a remake can never be better. Even when the remake is better, the original is still better. Plus the original was written by script master Charlie Kaufman. Yes it was a different Charlie Kaufman but ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'''s Charlie Kaufman is such a genius, that it instantly makes all other Charlie Kaufmans equally as genius. Therefore the original is clearly the superior film.
* InspiredBy\\BasedOnATrueStory: In the ''The Cinema Snob Movie'', Craig Golightly bases his fake snob persona on someone he saw at a Creator/GeorgeARomero Q&A who asked a patently ridiculous question about the [[FauxSymbolism deep symbolism in]] ''Monkeyshines'', which Romero just laughed off. In the commentary, Brad says this really did happen and really was part of the inspiration for the Snob (along with Roger Ebert's complaints about horror films).
* InsultToRocks: Brad says that comparing ''Violent Shit'' to an Uwe Boll movie is an insult to Uwe Boll.

* IronicEcho: Brad makes fun of a character's line delivery in ''The Mutilator'' when he exclaims, "I got a baaaaaaad feeling about this!" ("I don't understand what [[Film/StarWarsANewHope approaching the Death Star]] has to do with anything.") Once the slasher breaks out his fishhook for the [[GroinAttack signature kill]], Brad uneasily repeats the quote. Yeecch.

* IWishedYouWereDead: At the end of ''Beware: Children at play'' when the parents surround the kidnapped and brainwashed children the Snob shouts the kids are clearly evil and should be killed. When the parents proceed to do just that for the last 5 minutes of the movie, [[DelayedReaction the Snob goes to his computer, places an order on e-Bay, waits for it to arive, unpacks his new plastic bucket and pukes in it]].
-->"I WAS FUCKING KIDDING!"
* JawDrop: The Snob does this when he realizes the pun behind ''Chatterbox''.

-->"...''That's a dick.''"

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Jillian gets fed up at Brad narrating what's happening onscreen. She also can't figure out how Brad is dubbing ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' music into the film just by watching it. (''Rape Squad'')
-->'''Brad:''' As long as you just ''think'' about the reference, it'll magically happen in the movie.

* LongTitle: "''[[{{Filth}} THE E.T. OF VAGINA]]: [[BlindIdiotTranslation ONE SETTLES OF THE OTHER WORLD Or]] [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad Specially Terrestrian]]: The extraterrestrial one''".
-->'''Snob:''' That's even too fucking long for a '''Tagline'''!

--> ''"[[NonIndicativeName There's isn't a whole lot of "bloody", or "horror", or "puke"]] but there sure is a lot of "video".''
* MadLibsCatchphrase: "If I want to see a [thing, mostly genre X movie], I'll stick with ''real'' [things/genre X movies] -- like [better-known but still obscure example], thank you very much."

** Besides participating in WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}, the 100th episode review of ''Caligula'' was filled with cameos.
*** Also counts as a BatFamilyCrossover as his review has guest segments from all of his shows at the time, including WebVideo/BradTries, Softly From Cable and the Big Box, all of the members of Team Snob and an EarlyBirdCameo from WebVideo/EightiesDan.

* MemeticBadass: [[invoked]] The Snob is a Pierre Kirby fanboy, much like Spoony is one for Reb Brown and Lupa is a Cynthia Rothrock fangirl.

* MsFanservice: His (ex-)wife Jillian, as shown in ''The Big Box'' and especially ''Softly from Cable''.

* NameMcAdjective: He called an actor in ''Weasels Rip My Flesh'' "Steve [=McSeventies=]".

* {{Narm}}: [[invoked]]Referenced.
-->"This is the funniest scene in the movie. It's not ''supposed'' to be."

* NauseaFuel: The very ''concept'' of ''Turkish [[Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom Salo]]'' [[{{In-universe}} to the Snob]].
** The ending of Beware! Children At Play literally caused [[InUniverse the Snob to become nauseous and vomit.]]

-->[to Lupa] "Oh great. You created a time paradox with your [[ViewersAreGeniuses stupid fucking reference!]]"

--->'''Brad:''' ''(beat)'' '''[[BigWhat What!?]]'''

* ObligatoryJoke: On Creator/{{Troma}}'s ''Mother's Day'': "THIS movie is a mother'''fucker'''!"

--->"''Really?!'' I didn't know [[InnocentBigot THAT was going to be the movie!]]"

--->"I almost feel lazy for adding it."

--->'''Snob''': Betcha Can't Splice Away to Just ''One'' Sleepaway Camp Movie™!

--->"I'm going to have to [[INeedAFreakingDrink wash away this image]] with a couple of Flaming Moes."

--->"Uhh, [[Creator/AlanRickman something something, Alexander, something, no more worlds to conquer.]]"

###^ "Funny, I just thought that was the name of the director."
###"JAG Films"?? Well, I guess [[{{Series/JAG}} old people will like it]]."

--->"Tomlin's washing her feet. She must have a [[Creator/QuentinTarantino Tarantino]] audition later that day, too!"

--->"Wish it were 'Snow Day Films'. Then I could ''skip'' it."
** ''Water power'': "[[{{Film/Batman}} THIS town needs an enema!]]"

--->"Now that I think about it, of all the ''Hogan's Heroes'' episodes, you'd think that this would be the one would be the one Bob Crane ''definitely'' would've been in!"

* OldShame:[[invoked]] Lloyd starred in a few 70s exploitation movies, including one in French.
--->"REALLY, Lloyd? Were you THAT hard up for cash?"

* OverlyLongGag: Parodied the WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy style of this during ''Grizzly II''. He goes out to his porch, tries to pick up a box that keeps slipping out of his hands, and then just grabs it and throws it off porch yelling at the camera '''This isn't funny!'''

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: ''Elves'', "the world's only Christmas-Elf-Incest-Nazi-Occult film."
** ''Abraham Lincoln Vs Zombies'' is the best Zombie-Confederates movie.

* [[PraisingShowsYouDontWatch Praising Films You Haven't Seen]]: InUniverse example

** Snob begins his review of ''The Adventures of Dickman and Throbbin''' by praising [[Film/TheDarkKnightRises the third Nolan Batman film]] as one of the most perfect films of all time, right before admitting he hasn't seen it yet. ([[HilariousInHindsight ironically, by the time it got uploaded Brad had seen TDKR ''and not liked it'']])

-->''[From the review of ''ShockTreatment'']''

* NightmareFace: JohnCarradine in ''Billy the Kid Versus Dracula''.

** ''Hitler: Dead or Alive:'' "You wanna know my name? It's '''[[LukeNounverber Frankie Überchop!]]'''"

** ''Hack-O-Lantern'':