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What do you call them?

  • 27-08-2006 10:51am
    #1
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭


    Judging by the name of forum I guess I'm already definetly in the minority but I've always called them "movies" not "films" and I was wondering if many others do as well?

    As an aside I do find it ironic that despite our love for cinema that the majority of us Irish people don't properly pronounce the word 'film'. Anyway thats neither here nor there..... :)

    What do you call them? 26 votes

    Movie
    0% 0 votes
    Film
    23% 6 votes
    Other
    76% 20 votes


Comments

  • #2
    Necronomicon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,589 ✭✭✭✭Necronomicon


    Not like it matters a whole lot, but I say movies too.


  • #3
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    I'd call 'em a chuzwazza.


  • #4
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Karl Hungus wrote:
    I'd call 'em a chuzwazza.
    Really? I just call them bullfrogs. ;)


  • #5
    Sean7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭Sean7


    Is there anything to be said for "flicks" ?


  • #6
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Pigman II wrote:
    Really? I just call them bullfrogs. ;)

    But you've just said you call them movies. :confused:


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  • #7
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Karl Hungus wrote:
    But you've just said you call them movies. :confused:
    Never mind. Just a ref to a simpsons ep I thought you had seen.


  • #8
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Sometimes move-ee, sometimes filim. Someone once said that we should call it filim, as thats what we all call film... :/


  • #9
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Pigman II wrote:
    Never mind. Just a ref to a simpsons ep I thought you had seen.

    Um, yeah, the one in Australia where Bart brings over the bullfrog. You thought right.


  • #10
    Rhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    I usually just say 'going to the cinema' rather than 'going to see a movie/film'.

    I say film slightly more often than movie though.


  • #11
    projectmayhem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,480 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    usually call 'em movies, but i do also use the phrase "..going to the cinema" rather then "..going to the movies"


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  • #12
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    What, nobody calls them motion pictures any more?


  • #13
    Goodshape
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    Talkies.


  • #14
    abetarrush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭abetarrush


    Movie is too Yanky for me


  • #15
    Zapp Brannigan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,326 ✭✭✭Zapp Brannigan


    don't use either.

    For me it's "I'm goin to the cinema" or "Wanna watch a DVD?"


  • #16
    Bodhidharma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭Bodhidharma


    Movies - low brow blockbuster things. Star Wars, Die Hard etc
    Films - high brow, intellectual things. Remains of the Day, Citizen Kane


  • #17
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Film.


  • #18
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,158 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    I would use the term film mostly.


  • #19
    cashback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭cashback


    abetarrush wrote:
    Movie is too Yanky for me

    Agreed. I just think the word sounds a bit weird coming out of an Irish person's mouth.
    'Fillum' is obviously preferable!


  • #20
    The Bollox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    more often I would say film, but do say movie a bit too


  • #21
    constitutionus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    im the same as slurms and projectmayhem. i'd say "im going to the cinema" rather than "im going to the movies" and if asked id say i saw a film not a movie. in a weird way "movies" is what i think films on telly are called:D

    its a bit like the way irish people in general mention the name of a shopping centre rather than refer to it as a mall i.e "im going to the square" or " im going to liffey valley" . people would probably think your a bit weird if ya said "im going to the mall"


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