Learn Japanese: Criticizing a Bad Movie

This episode exposes you to phrases, repeated in English and Japanese, to improve your Japanese vocabulary and help you to express yourself in Japanese.

These episodes are meant to accompany and accelerate your existing Japanese language studies, whether you're using an app like DuoLingo, or you're enrolled in a more formal Japanese class. The more you expose your brain to Japanese audio, the faster you'll learn.

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View the full list of English and Japanese phrases in this episode.

Phrases in this episode:

• When symbolism drowns the plot.
• Archetypes gone rogue.
• Dialogues from a philosophy undergrad’s diary.
• It’s a narrative Möbius strip; endlessly confusing.
• What dimension did this plot come from?
• Flashbacks? I can barely follow the present!
• A kaleidoscope of tropes and clichés.
• So many bullets, so little logic.
• Ah, explosions as character development!
• Why are they whispering? They just blew up a building!
• Where's this guy finding all these helicopters?
• They punched logic right in the face!
• So we're ignoring physics now?
• So we're friends with aliens now?
• So we're just ending it there?