Film or Movie - what ya call it?

gurramok

So, what do you say? "Did ya see that brill film last night" or is it "did ya see that brill movie last night?"

Curious, as without being biased *cough*, the term movie tends to be an Americanism

Novella

I say movie.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Film. I've also recently trained myself to say "film" rather than "filum", which I'm quite proud of, tbh!

Pantsface

Movie

Teyla Emmagan

Filllllllm

MagicMarker

Depends.

Micky Dolenz

I say movie, film is something a movie or old photograph is printed on.

OMARS_COMING_

I call it a cinematic experience,like a real man should.

If you call in film or movie then you are a poof.

B.A._Baracus

Watch the first 30 seconds ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrx2bv_LoG0

I couldnt agree more :pac:
On one hand you can have some well put together 'film' with a solid plot (Film) and on the other hand some over the top cgi action movie that makes no sense (movie)

"we're trying to make a movie here, not a film" :pac:

Pantsface

Its an English / American difference I think

I still say movie though, even though I'm notta yank

Chuck Stone

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I say movie, film is something a movie or old photograph is printed on.

But movie comes from 'moving pictures' (I think) so film would be more accurate would it not?

mikemac1

pictures, old skool :cool:

Sonics2k

Visual Entertainment spectacle.

Pantsface

Chuck Stone wrote: »

But movie comes from 'moving pictures' (I think) so film would be more accurate would it not?

Movie / movement - old school description, which I favour, more rosemantic wha

Pantsface

mikemac1 wrote: »

pictures, old skool :cool:

even better!

Micky Dolenz

Chuck Stone wrote: »

But movie comes from 'moving pictures' (I think) so film would be more accurate would it not?

Not to me it isn't. Me Da took my Ma to the pictures. I would never say picture or film.


I'm going to watch a movie, sounds right to me.

gurramok

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I'm going to watch a movie, sounds right to me.

One person voted movie, is that you?

Micky Dolenz

gurramok wrote: »

One person voted movie, is that you?

I usually never think to vote on polls. Why didn't you make it public?

gurramok

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I usually never think to vote on polls. Why didn't you make it public?

Should I have? Is a public poll important on such an issue?

carfiosaoorl

I say film but my kids say movie. I have tried fixing them but they refuse to change, damn you nickelodeon.

HalloweenJack

Film.

Movie is such a Yankee word, it just sounds wrong to me.

Micky Dolenz

gurramok wrote: »

Should I have? Is a public poll important on such an issue?

Not really, but you'd have known who the yankie lover was

Cee-Jay-Cee

It's a FILIM

Pantsface

gurramok wrote: »

One person voted movie, is that you?

u and micky should just get a room

Queen-Mise

I say movie because I can't say film - I end saying filum.... And it just doesn't sound right :o

starbelgrade

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I say movie, film is something a movie or old photograph is printed on.

The word "film" in reference to films came from the fact that they were originally shot on photographic film stock & although the first moving or motion pictures were made by an Englishman, the Americans were the only ones for years who called them "motion pictures" and then later, "movies".

With the influence of American TV, many people now call them "movies", but either term is correct, though historically, "film" is the original name.

I know all this because I readadid it.

gurramok

starbelgrade wrote: »

I know all this because I readadid it.

Wikipedia?

Where To

Talkie.

Wacker The Attacker

porn

Super Poppa Smurf

It depends

jonon9

Used to saying 'pictures' so I guess pictures should be added to the poll

Skylinehead

Flim.

http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/radioactive-man1.png?w=512&h=384

Sinfonia

Flick?

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You're all mongo's who don't go to the pictures

Washington Irving

jonon9 wrote: »

Used to saying 'pictures' so I guess pictures should be added to the poll

Isn't pictures used like cinema? ie. "I'm going to the pictures/ cinema", rather than like film. ie. "I'm watching a film" not "I'm watching a pictures"

Rothko

Film

jonon9

Saul-Goode9 wrote: »

Isn't pictures used like cinema? ie. "I'm going to the pictures/ cinema", rather than like film. ie. "I'm watching a film" not "I'm watching a pictures"

I think its the same, film, movie or pictures its all multiple still frames put together right or am I just ranting and raving?

Washington Irving

jonon9 wrote: »

I think its the same, film, movie or pictures its all multiple still frames put together right or am I just ranting and raving?

Yeah, but what I mean is 'pictures' is used instead of 'cinema', not instead of 'film' or 'movie'

Dude111

Usually I say Movie....

Ms.M

baz2009 wrote: »

Film. I've also recently trained myself to say "film" rather than "filum", which I'm quite proud of, tbh!

But that extra syllable is a feature of Hiberno-English. How could you? :mad: You avoided an Americanism and then went all out fancy pancy with your "proper" English. For shame!

They were filumin a filum up my way last week.

Matt_Trakker

CJC999 wrote: »

It's a FILIM

+1

paddyandy

Evil fun for the masses because it gives them evil thoughts to encourage them to do evil acts .When we can't understand that; then we are truly lost as a society

Jester252

Movie there nothing wrong in calling it what it is

Duggy747

I end up saying both but I suppose I say "film" more.

Never really mattered to me.

paddyandy wrote: »

Evil fun for the masses because it gives them evil thoughts to encourage them to do evil acts .When we can't understand that; then we are truly lost as a society

Gee, you sound like fun.

CodyJarrett

If you're eating popcorn during the best bits - it's a movie.

Fupping Grasshole

phlegm

stoneill

Fupping Grasshole wrote: »

phlegm

You go to the phlegm?

It's Pictures - all other references are Americana shíte influences.

Fupping Grasshole

If I saw a film last night I'd call it a film but pronounce it as phlegm and if I went to the cinema I'd say I'm going to the cinema, was at the cinema etc.

christmas2012

i call it filum

old hippy

Film or movie.

CL7

Sometimes I say movie, other times I say film.


Edit: Oh and I couldn't give a toss about whether a word or a phrase is an Americanism or not. WTF anyone cares about this stuff is beyond me.