"absolute cinema" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From an image macro of American filmmaker (born 1942) Martin Scorsese captioned with the phrase. In 2022 and 2023, the image and phrase began to circulate around Twitter as an Internet meme. Etymology templates: {{person|Q41148}} American filmmaker (born 1942) Martin Scorsese Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} absolute cinema (uncountable)
  1. (Internet slang) Cinema that is personally considered to be outstanding. Tags: Internet, uncountable Related terms: absolutely cinematic, kino, ✋😐🤚
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  2. (Internet slang, figurative) Any event or work personally considered to be outstanding or amusing. Tags: Internet, figuratively, uncountable Translations (outstanding thing or event): großes Kino [neuter] (German), großes Tennis [neuter] (German), absolutt kino [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), absolutt kino [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk)
    Sense id: en-absolute_cinema-en-noun-efkTK-3x Disambiguation of 'outstanding thing or event': 35 65
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