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* NeverTrustATrailer: Brad and Jake thought that the trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'' looked cool, but the actual movie turned out to be anything but. On the flip side, they were less than enthused by the trailers for ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' but ended up loving the movie.
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** Once in a while someone will point out a minor nitpick in a film, and Brad will sarcastically say "Boo! ''Zero'' stars!".
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* BadBoss: Brad acts as this to his friends. He essentially pays his friends to watch horrible ''horrible'' movies so he can record their pain and get views from it.

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* BadBoss: Brad acts as this to his friends. He essentially pays his friends to watch horrible ''horrible'' movies so he can record their pain and get views from it. Although he subjects the same thing to himself.
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* BadBoss: Brad acts as this to his friends. He essentially pays his friends to watch horrible ''horrible'' movies so he can record their pain and get views from it.
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* TheScrappy: [[invoked]] Yeah, they have quite a few characters they hate, like the slugs from ''{{Film/Epic}}''. Yet Jake and Brad found Olaf in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' was much better than [[NeverTrustATrailer the trailers led them to believe]] (which makes him a subversion of this trope).


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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When any one of them realize they have to go a film they really don't want to see. Usually their worries are justified, but sometimes the movies surprise them and are really good, like Disney's ''Frozen''.
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** Everyone ''loathes' Creator/AdamSandler.

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** Everyone ''loathes' ''loathes'' Creator/AdamSandler.
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** Everyone ''loathes' Creator/AdamSandler.
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* HeroicBSOD: Adam Sandler and his films causes this for the reviewers. Jake and Sarah got hit with ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'' while Irving and Brian had to watch ''Film/GrownUps'' 2.
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* OscarBait: Brad normally thinks the term is overused, but he found the trailer for the film of ''Literature/TheBookThief'' to be very much this.
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* MisBlamed: [[invoked]]When Dave blamed Creator/MichaelBay for the ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' movies, Brad pointed out it was as much the fault of the studio and ''especially'' the writers.

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* MisBlamed: [[invoked]]When Dave Irving blamed Creator/MichaelBay for the ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' movies, Brad pointed out it was as much the fault of the studio and ''especially'' the writers.
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* ShirtlessScene: When Jake, Brad, and Dave saw ''Smurfs 2'', Jake just took of his shirt that had the movie logo on it. Brad decided to take his shirt off, and insisted Dave join in.

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* ShirtlessScene: When Jake, Brad, and Dave Irving saw ''Smurfs 2'', Jake just took of his shirt that had the movie logo on it. Brad decided to take his shirt off, and insisted Dave Irving join in.

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* RunningGag: Slaver Brian, Jake shouting at puns, Jake shouting about the movie he just watched.

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* RunningGag: Slaver Brian, Jake shouting at puns, puns.
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Jake shouting about the movie he just watched.watched.
** Team Snob casually slamming ''Film/{{Priest}}'' during the Current Movie Reviews series. Ultimately results in Jake praising it as a cinematic masterpiece after having to sit through both ''Film/TheSmurfs'' and ''SpyKids 4''.


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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]], one of his many complaints about ''Eclipse'' is that the backstories of the minor characters, like the vampire who fought in the CivilWar, would be far more interesting than the actual story.
** When talking about The Asylum's ''Titanic II'', Brad starts talking about how a glacier melting was the catalyst for the ship sinking. At this point, he realises that was how ''MegaSharkVsGiantOctopus'' started, so the films could take place in the same universe. He immediately laments that they should have had the shark sink the Titanic II.


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* TranquilFury: There's no other way to describe Jake during the ''That's My Boy'' review. We've seen him over-the-top mad (''Smurfs'', ''Chipmunks''), but this was something beyond all of that.
-->"I hope you die of HERPES! You [[LameComeback can't even die]] from herpes, and I HOPE YOU DO!"


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* WildMassGuessing: {{In-universe}}, during the review for ''Mega Shark vs Crocosarus'' and making note of Jaleel White's similarities with Reginald Vel-Johnson nowadays, he very briefly toys with the idea that the real reason that [[FamilyMatters Urkel hung around the Winslow house]] was that [[LukeIAmYourFather Carl Winslow was really his father]].
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* FoodSlap: Jillian tries to review ''Twilight: Breaking Dawn'', but Brian and Brad keep pelting her with concession snacks (and later, [[PieInTheFace pies]]).
-->'''"APPLESAUSE, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BEEYAATCH!!]]"'''


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* HappyPlace: Singing the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' theme in his head ''used'' to work for Jake, but after he shared it in the ''Film/{{RIPD}}'' review, it no longer helped.
* HostileShowTakeover: In his review of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}: Eclipse''. It starts with Jillian giving a positive review, only for Brad to hijack the audio and give his thoughts.
** Jake threatens one, when they joke about booby-trapping his house to make him think it's haunted after watching ParanormalActivity.
-->'''Brad''' Wasn't us, man. It was a ghost.. I've got way too much porn to watch to be doing that shit.
-->'''Jake''' If my house becomes booby-trapped, do not be mad at me if I seek vengeance. I won't be all spooky, like the ghost. [[DisproportionateRetribution I'll shoot you in the fucking head.]] It's no longer the Cinema Snob, it's now the Cinema Jake website.. to Hell with you, I'm taking it over.


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* {{Malaproper}}: In her midnight review of '"Crazy, Stupid Love'', Jillian calls it a "romantical comedy" and says that "[[HilarityEnsues hilarity pursues]]."


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* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: When describing ''Film/TheExpendables'':
-->'''Brad:''' A movie that contains the legendary action heroes of our youth, along with the best action heroes of current cinema. And [[StoneColdSteveAustin Steve Austin]].
* NeverLiveItDown: An in-universe but RealLife example with Jake. He will always be "The Madagascar guy" at their local movie theater.
* NoodleIncident: Jake missed out on reviewing {{Zookeeper}} because he [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome had to go beat up someone who was threatening a child.]]


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* OneSteveLimit: Brad has two friends named Brian in "Team Snob", so one of them is referred to by his last name, Irving.
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The real fun from the show comes from their reactions, especially if they think it's a bad movie. Not only will some of them just act in absolute rage at what they saw, those with them--who saw another movie--will just laugh at their pain.

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The real fun from the show comes from their reactions, especially if they think it's a bad movie. Not only will some of them just act in absolute rage at what they saw, those with them--who saw another movie--will just laugh at their pain.
pain (even if they also saw a bad movie).
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* CausticCritic: Angry Jake is [[Franchise/{{Alien}} xenomorph-blood]] levels of caustic.
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* AnythingButThat: A running gag is comparing which movie one of them would rather watch. Jake says that as shitty as ''The Smurfs 2'' is to him, he'd watch a 48 hour loop of the film before watching ''That's My Boy'' again.
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* AccentuateTheNegative: Especially if it's done with RuleOfFunny, and implying that SuckinessIsPainful.
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-->"Come on, you're making us look gay!"

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-->"Come on, Dude, you're making us look gay!"gay, Bro!"
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* OhCrap: During the review of ''The Internship'', Dave mentions the audience's reaction to show just how terrible the movie was:
--> '''Dave''': And not one of them made a fucking ''noise!'' It was so quiet in there, that halfway through the movie they brought the fucking house lights up.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Jake was absolutely serious about his rage after seeing ''That's My Boy''.
** Brian and Irving told almost no jokes when discussing ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave''.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Jake shouts this about ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' (because he was still that pissed about ''The Smurfs''). Just shoot the monkeys already.
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* RunninGag: Slaver Brian, Jake shouting at puns, Jake shouting about the movie he just watched.

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* RunninGag: Slaver Brian, Jake shouting at puns, Jake shouting about the movie he just watched.
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''Midnight Screenings'' is a short-of spinoff of ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob''. It's basically v-log reviews of movies Brad and his friends (dubbed "Team Snob") have just seen, usually filmed at home or in their cars. The latter was often done after seeing midnight premieres of major films, hence the series name.

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''Midnight Screenings'' is a short-of sort-of spinoff of ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob''. It's basically a collection of v-log reviews of movies Brad and his friends (dubbed "Team Snob") have just seen, usually filmed at home or in their cars. The latter was often done after seeing midnight premieres of major films, hence the series name.
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* MisBlamed: [[invoked]]When Dave blamed Creator/MichaelBay for the ''{{Film/Transformers}}'', Brad pointed out it was as much the fault of the studio and the writers.

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* MisBlamed: [[invoked]]When Dave blamed Creator/MichaelBay for the ''{{Film/Transformers}}'', ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' movies, Brad pointed out it was as much the fault of the studio and ''especially'' the writers.
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* DudeNotFunny: Jake was not amused by the pedophilia jokes made in the opening scene of ''Film/ThatsMyBoy''.

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* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse, Jake was not amused by pretty pissed at the pedophilia jokes made in the opening scene of ''Film/ThatsMyBoy''.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Yeah, sometimes they [[CigaretteOfAnxiety need a freaking smoke]] when doing this.]]
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* EnforcedMethodActing: The video on ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn Part 1]]'' with Jillian getting plastered with all kinds of messy things. She revealed she knew what the items were, but didn't know when she'd get hit with them.
* ExiledToTheCouch: Brad opening his mouth to give Jillian his impression of ''Twilight'' -- SmashCut to Brad getting kicked out of the house. This happens twice.
** The third time, Brad pushes his luck [[BullyingADragon a bit too far.]]
--->'''Brad:''' Heh! What are you gonna do? [[TemptingFate Make me sleep at Jerrid's again?]]\\
'''Jillian:''' ..... [[spoiler:[shoots him in the head] ]]


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* FanHater:[[invoked]] Generally not, but he referred to the other people in his showing of ''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' as "some of the dumbest motherfuckers in this town" specifically because they enjoyed the movie.
* FauxSymbolism:[[invoked]] He complains about this in his review of ''A Serbian Film''.
-->If you want to make a movie complaining about a government, do it. Don't film [[ShockSite two Brazilian girls eating shit]] and say it's an analogy to the apartheid.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: When Brad re-reviewed Film/{{Prometheus}}, he was shocked and insulted when he noticed that one of the cast spoke one of her lines like a question rather than a statement.


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* ShirtlessScene: When Jake, Brad, and Dave saw ''Smurfs 2'', Jake just took of his shirt that had the movie logo on it. Brad decided to take his shirt off, and insisted Dave join in.
-->"Come on, you're making us look gay!"
* TopTenList: Often ends the year with a list of best and worst films. Cinema Snob occasionally pops up to complain about certain films Brad likes.
-->"It's a remake? ''Zero stars.''"
** Jake did a list of worst films of 2012, but since he basically saw 10 films that year, ''Brave'' was on the list by default, even though he only felt the film's major flaw was "first world problems".

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
** Brad's reaction to Film/PainAndGain, which he absolutely loved. Its a complete 180 from his [[ClusterFBomb reaction to]] Michael Bay's [[Film/{{Transformers}} last movie]].
** When talking about ''Film/TheInternship'', Jake points out a grand total of two moments in the movie that he laughed at, and he stresses that they were actually genuinely funny moments. The rest of the movie, however...



* ComicalOverreacting: Most of the gang is prone to this, but Jake really plays it up for the videos.

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** The writing style of Ehren Kruger. Brad ''really'' hates his writing going as far to blasting Transformers: Dark of The Moon in a giant ClusterFBomb rant during that segment.
* BiTheWay: Jillian, according to the ''Film/SilentHillRevelation3D'' vlog.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain's]] "Symbolism!" is borrowed for ''{{Film/Gravity}}''.
* BreakoutCharacter: Angry Jake. Heck, when Jake was considering no longer doing videos after seeing ''That's My Boy'', fans begged him to see ''{{WesternAnimation/Brave}}'' just so he'd see a good movie and stay.
* ButtMonkey: Jerrid.
** Jake can also count, with the number of atrocious movies that Brad sends him to watch all for the sake of the site.
* ComicalOverreacting: Most of the gang is prone to this, but in [[http://blip.tv/the-cinema-snob/midnight-screening-that-s-my-boy-6205981 this video]], Jake really admits that he plays it up the "Angry Jake" mood for laughs. Although the videos.movie in question left him so actually angry, he spent the first half of the video in TranquilFury mode until he calmed enough to play up the angry again.
* ClusterFBomb: Brad and Jake are most prone to these.


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* DudeNotFunny: Jake was not amused by the pedophilia jokes made in the opening scene of ''Film/ThatsMyBoy''.
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->"At this point, you having me go to that fucking movie, is a ''personal fucking insult''!"
-->'''Jake'''

''Midnight Screenings'' is a short-of spinoff of ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob''. It's basically v-log reviews of movies Brad and his friends (dubbed "Team Snob") have just seen, usually filmed at home or in their cars. The latter was often done after seeing midnight premieres of major films, hence the series name.

The gang mainly consists of Brad, Jake, Jillian, Sarah, Brian, Irvin, Jerrid, and Dave. The show is mainly just them talking about the movie, or other subjects that come up, with a bit of improvisation.

'''*light goes out in the car, opens and shuts door to reset timer*'''

The real fun from the show comes from their reactions, especially if they think it's a bad movie. Not only will some of them just act in absolute rage at what they saw, those with them--who saw another movie--will just laugh at their pain.

Videos can be found [[http://thecinemasnob.com/categories/263/midnight-screenings.aspx here]].
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!!So, should we talk about the tropes on this show?
* BerserkButton: Angry Jake just hates bad puns.
* ComicalOverreacting: Most of the gang is prone to this, but Jake really plays it up for the videos.
* DrinkingGame: Jillian suggested that during ''Film/TheSmurfs'', they could take a shot every time {{Smurfing}} was done, but Irving said they would die of alcohol poisoning by the first five minutes.
* {{Fangirl}}: Jillian improvs a girl who is a total fan of ''{{Literature/Twilight}}''. Reviewing ''Breaking Dawn Part 2'' even teamed that character with Angry Jake.
* FunTShirt: Fans now send Jake shirts with stupid puns on them.
* InternetBacklash: When fans complain that the gang liked or disliked a movie they shouldn't have, Brad sometimes makes a video mocking the fans for their OpinionMyopia.
* LamePunReaction: Angry Jake practically flies into a rage when given too many puns (real Jake just takes puns with some signing and eye rolling).
* MisBlamed: [[invoked]]When Dave blamed Creator/MichaelBay for the ''{{Film/Transformers}}'', Brad pointed out it was as much the fault of the studio and the writers.
* SoBadItsHorrible: InUniverse, they have found plenty of movies they hate.
* SoCoolItsAwesome / GushingAboutShowsYouLike: InUniverse, when they like a movie, they will definitely let us know (although they find if they like a movie, they often have less to say than if they dislike it).
** Brad liked ''Film/PainAndGain'' so much, he said it was the first time in years that he saw a movie twice in the theater.
* SoOkayItsAverage: InUniverse, Brad and co. often find movies that are just "meh".
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