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commercial surrealism 

A style of filmmaking that uses odd angles, zooms, pointless video effects, musical numbers, and sudden noises to try to keep an audience's attention, but ends up just drowning whatever information is intended with sheer noise. Common in the 1990s, for instructional videos and commercials. Best exemplified by Bill Nye.

Coined by the RedLetterMedia series "Best of the Worst"
"Ugh, I didn't learn a thing from that science video, all I got from it is a headache. It was too full of commercial surrealism to understand."

fahrealism 

The church of Fahrealism is about being real, fahreal.
THE FAHREALIST'S BIBLE

I. in Fahrealism, its all about keepin it real, Fahreal we don't drink the hateraide

II spreading your love for Fahrealism is as easy as muttering the word Fahreal, when there's no other interjection that seems as appropriate.

III The esteemed R Kelly can break it down for you if you watch trapped in the closet

IV even more-so if you watch the commentary

V though we don't drink the hater-aide, there are some things that are just unacceptable and will be excommunicated from the church, ie. bros.

VI bigfoot=Fahreal

VII if ever you are at a loss for your Fahrealist bible, its quite easy to come upon a suppliment called Vice Magazine that is in any Fahrealist's good grace

VIII having fun= Fahreal

IX working = not Fahreal (although getting paid is Fahreal)
fahrealism by Taylur September 14, 2007

Protestant surrealism 

Democracy as emergent from an aesthetic critique of Protestantism. Democracy as a Catholic critique of Protestantism.
Protestant surrealism assumes that democracy is Christianity criticizing itself.

surrealism

Really screwed up art that came out of Dadaism in WWI
surrealism by nate dawg March 4, 2005

surrealism

Dictionary: Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.

Encyclopedia: Surrealism. Philosophy. Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.
Salvador Dali was not a surrealist artist. He was kicked out of the movement because surrealism was radical and he refused to condemn fascism.
surrealism by Catty McGee June 14, 2018

funrealistic 

Unrealistic for the sake of fun.

Could be applied to, for example:
* The physics in arcade racing games
* The sound of explosions, etc in the vacuum of space
* The physical attributes of fictional female characters
1. "The handling of cars in Need for Speed: Most Wanted is highly funrealistic."

2. "Hmm, these physically accurate silent space scenes are actually pretty boring."
"Yeah, this movie could use some funrealism."
funrealistic by Jeffburton October 21, 2009