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Film or Movie - what ya call it?

  • 21-07-2012 12:26AM
    #1
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭


    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 :)

    Film or movie - what you call it? 103 votes

    Film
    0% 0 votes
    Movie
    75% 78 votes
    Haven't the foggiest - feck i'm confused with all these titles
    21% 22 votes
    atari jaguarism
    2% 3 votes


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Comments

  • #2
    Novella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    I say movie. :o


  • #3
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


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


  • #4
    Pantsface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Pantsface


    Movie :o


  • #5
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Filllllllm


  • #6
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Depends.


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  • #7
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


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


  • #8
    OMARS_COMING_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭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.


  • #9
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #10
    Pantsface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Pantsface


    Its an English / American difference I think

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


  • #11
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭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?


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  • #12
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    pictures, old skool :cool:


  • #13
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,037 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Visual Entertainment spectacle.


  • #14
    Pantsface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭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 :p


  • #15
    Pantsface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Pantsface


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    pictures, old skool :cool:

    even better!


  • #16
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    I'm going to watch a movie, sounds right to me.

    One person voted movie, is that you? :)


  • #18
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #19
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭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? :)


  • #20
    carfiosaoorl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭carfiosaoorl


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


  • #21
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,574 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Film.

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


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  • #22
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭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 :p


  • #23
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    It's a FILIM


  • #24
    Pantsface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Pantsface


    gurramok wrote: »
    One person voted movie, is that you? :)

    u and micky should just get a room


  • #25
    Queen-Mise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


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


  • #26
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #27
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    I know all this because I readadid it.

    Wikipedia?


  • #28
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Talkie.


  • #29
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    porn


  • #30
    Super Poppa Smurf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭Super Poppa Smurf


    It depends


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  • #31
    jonon9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭jonon9


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


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