Are they movies or films?

I used to call them movies for the longest time, and then I took this Film Appreciation course about 10 years ago, and the teacher was a nice guy and all, but he insisted that they werent simply movies, that they were films. Actually if you said the word movie in his class, he'd stare at you as if you just committed a crime. So I started asking other people what they were, and most people said movies, some said they thought people in the film industry called them films, and some said good movies were films, while bad to okay movies were just "movies'.

So what do you call them?

I call them pictures. :P

I call them pictures. :P

Sky-

you're not helping =PAllicrombie

It's short for motion picture, you know? :)

I think some people also say "flicks."

I call it those new fangled moving pictures.

I say film if I am going to the theatre, or I am talking about a spectacular film :).

I will say movie if it is something terrible like "Epic Movie" or "Witless Protection" :|.

Edit: Oh yeah, almost forgot. I will say movies if I singing "Let me take you da the Movies shortay! I'm sure later on you'll be my baby!" :P.

ijust light to refer to movies/films as"cinematic delights"

I usually call them 'movies' though I don't know the specific terminology ...

I have always said movies. It feels weird saying "I went and seen a film yesterday."

I used to call them movies for the longest time, and then I took this Film Appreciation course about 10 years ago, and the teacher was a nice guy and all, but he insisted that they werent simply movies, that they were films. Actually if you said the word movie in his class, he'd stare at you as if you just committed a crime. So I started asking other people what they were, and most people said movies, some said they thought people in the film industry called them films, and some said good movies were films, while bad to okay movies were just "movies'.

So what do you call them?

Allicrombie

The hell with that jerk, he's a pretentious sack of ****.

Was it shot on film? If so, then it's a film. If not, it's not a film, since it wasn't shot on film. Meanwhile, in BOTH cases, it is a "movie". Because the pictures move.

Slap that dude in the face, because he sucks. Pretentious little uppity piece of **** saying "it's not a movie, it's a film" just because he thinks that "film" sounds more likely to get him laid by his students.

I hate that ****wad and I don't even know him. Yes, they're "movies". They're also "films", but ONLY if you shot the movie on film.

I call them films. Never really differentiated between the two words.

I think of the word Film as.. well... Film, like there's a film of whatnot on my banana apple-bread-cake-jack o' lantern.

And movie I think of.. That movie, yea that one... about banana-apple-bread-cake-jack o' lanterns... what was it's name... had Random Idiot playing the lead role, oh yea.. 'banana-apple-bread-cake-jack o' lantern' That was it's name.

Picture I think of.. Oh hey it's a picture of a banana-apple-bread-cake-jack o' lantern.

Motion Picture I think of as Movie.

oh and this "The hell with that jerk, he's a pretentious sack of ****."

I've always seen them as being interchangeable.

movie, film, show.....whatever strikes my mood and whatever I think of the quality of the work I saw.

some things I have seen in the theatre deserve being called pieces of **** but are considered Art films because they appeal to the "artiste" rather than the public.

well the public pays for their career so they should make their films based on the viewing preferences of their fans.

those that do not lose their public and there is always new blood ready to step up so it is no loss either way.

There is never a lack of poor quality movies......throughout history there are more bad films than good.

I've always seen them as being interchangeable.

RearNakedChoke

Pretty much this but since your teacher is just being an impetuous snob I would inform him that you much prefer the word "photoplay" as you think it adds an air of rustic charm to the medium.

Movies. "Films" sounds too snobby to me for whatever reason.SeraphimGoddess

I use both. Technically they're both motion pictures or the more commonly referred to term: movies.

I say 'films' most of the time, but I think the two are more-or-less interchangable.

Myself, I've always been partial to the term "Flicker Show."

Movies. Rarely do I say film, and being raised in Arkansas, I'll still occasionally say "Let's go to the picture show", which is what I heard everytime growing up :P.

Film is to movie as graphic novel is to comic. People just like to use the former so they can sound more refined.

I say movie.saying film makes it seem like I'm thinking too highly of myself and I should have a glass of wine and a monocle with me.

During English cIass they taught me americans say movie, and british people say film.
Reading this topic, it's completely different by now.

Movies. Rarely do I say film, and being raised in Arkansas, I'll still occasionally say "Let's go to the picture show", which is what I heard everytime growing up :P.

btaylor2404

Movies. :evil:

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Movies. Rarely do I say film, and being raised in Arkansas, I'll still occasionally say "Let's go to the picture show", which is what I heard everytime growing up :P.

MAILER_DAEMON

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I used to call them movies for the longest time, and then I took this Film Appreciation course about 10 years ago, and the teacher was a nice guy and all, but he insisted that they werent simply movies, that they were films. Actually if you said the word movie in his class, he'd stare at you as if you just committed a crime. So I started asking other people what they were, and most people said movies, some said they thought people in the film industry called them films, and some said good movies were films, while bad to okay movies were just "movies'.

So what do you call them?

MrGeezer

The hell with that jerk, he's a pretentious sack of ****.

Was it shot on film? If so, then it's a film. If not, it's not a film, since it wasn't shot on film. Meanwhile, in BOTH cases, it is a "movie". Because the pictures move.

Slap that dude in the face, because he sucks. Pretentious little uppity piece of **** saying "it's not a movie, it's a film" just because he thinks that "film" sounds more likely to get him laid by his students.

I hate that ****wad and I don't even know him. Yes, they're "movies". They're also "films", but ONLY if you shot the movie on film.

I second that emotion.

If regular people don't like it, it's a film.

Aren't the words like, synonyms?

I think film is a much cooler word.

I use the words interchangeably I don't really believe they represent separate concepts.

and when I'm talking to movie elitists.. I go out of my way to call them movies because then they become enraged.