Okay folks, I wanted to come up with something a little more creative for the next challenge. I decided it might be fun to highlight reviews that make clever use of popular phrases, expressions, and figures of speech. This would include well-known film quotes that have entered into the popular culture (i.e. "Show me the money!") and which can be cleverly applied to another film, but by no means should it be limited to that. Any common phrase, expression, or figure of speech is allowed, and we'll allow both reviews that use the exact expression, or reviews that are puns on common expressions.
I'll be back shortly with some examples of my own. I'm also going to delete my other posts in this thread that are from last week.
I thought Salopian was doing the challenge thingumujigs but whatever. As long as you kids have sorted it out between yourselves...
I'll be glad to start them, and have plenty of ideas, but am also happy for others to do so. Downtown had asked about starting this one and kindly waited till I had had chance to participate in the last one; I e-mailed him today to give him the go-ahead.
I would say that consecutive themes should vary as much as possible, so I wouldn't have chosen another play-on-words one yet, but I am still happy for this one to take place - the point is for them to be flexible and fun.
I do have an idea that I would particularly like to try next, but it can also wait if someone else has one that they are keen to use soon. Let's space them out, though - at least every two or three weeks or something.
I found this one interesting because it's a clever review, but I also completely disagree with it. He WASN'T like his father no matter how hard he tried...that's the point.
I thought Salopian was doing the challenge thingumujigs but whatever. As long as you kids have sorted it out between yourselves...
I'll be glad to start them, and have plenty of ideas, but am also happy for others to do so. Downtown had asked about starting this one and kindly waited till I had had chance to participate in the last one; I e-mailed him today to give him the go-ahead.
I think the vast majority of my reviews involve a turn of phrase in some way - so I was either considering posting a link to a page of my reviews or not taking part in this round....
But then I slapped myself and realised a chance for votes is a fine and beautiful thing! So here's a dozen from my top page, all twists on well known expressions...
FWFRers' Challenge #3.1: Turn a phrase
Posted - 05/18/2007 : 16:56:31
