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What is the difference between a 'movie' and a 'film'?
Posted on 2/12/20 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 2/12/20 at 3:42 pm
Do people use these words interchangeably? Do they have qualities that differentiate 'movies' from 'films'? Is it a way to assert intellect towards the movie/film industry? Never bothered me very much until I started reading this board. What do you say? Movie or film? Why?
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In terms of actual usage, here's movie premiere and film premiere over the last century, showing movie only became the more common form a decade or so ago.
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Zooming in on the last 50 years of American usage...
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...still shows that recent shift, whereas the same period of British usage...
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...suggests Brits aren't really behind this usage yet. But we'll get there, I've no doubt.
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This post was edited on 2/12/20 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 2/12/20 at 3:49 pm to hubertcumberdale
Ive seen better film on teeth.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 3:49 pm to hubertcumberdale
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What is the difference between a 'movie' and a 'film'?
Vin Diesel.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 3:51 pm to hubertcumberdale
I prefer the term "talkie".
Posted on 2/12/20 at 4:03 pm to hubertcumberdale
Posted on 2/12/20 at 4:07 pm to hubertcumberdale
The posters here who enjoy watching the oscars frown upon using the word "movie".
Their favorite adjective is "fantastic" and they love saying a good actor has "chops".
Also, they tend to be douchebags.
Their favorite adjective is "fantastic" and they love saying a good actor has "chops".
Also, they tend to be douchebags.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 4:12 pm to hubertcumberdale
Here's the difference.
One sounds snotty and pretentious and the other doesn't.
The only thing slightly worse than seeing a film is using the word cinema.
If you really want to get some street cred though. Use the phrase picture show. That's my favorite.
One sounds snotty and pretentious and the other doesn't.
The only thing slightly worse than seeing a film is using the word cinema.
If you really want to get some street cred though. Use the phrase picture show. That's my favorite.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 4:13 pm to Master of Sinanju
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I prefer the term "talkie".
You deserve that upvote.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 4:18 pm to hubertcumberdale
If filmers film with film, do movers move with movies?
Posted on 2/12/20 at 4:24 pm to hubertcumberdale
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What is the difference between a 'movie' and a 'film'?
CGI
Posted on 2/12/20 at 4:25 pm to hubertcumberdale
Marvel is a movie. DC is a film.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 4:38 pm to hubertcumberdale
Movies = fun
Films = art
Films = art
Posted on 2/12/20 at 4:39 pm to hubertcumberdale
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What is the difference between a 'movie' and a 'film'?
Posted on 2/12/20 at 4:45 pm to hubertcumberdale
Movie fans call it Star Wars, and know it is the first movie. Film aficionados say "The Force Awakens" and think it's the fourth one.
This post was edited on 2/12/20 at 4:48 pm
Posted on 2/12/20 at 5:26 pm to hubertcumberdale
I use the terms interchangeably. Usually just so I don't repeat the same word over and over.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 5:50 pm to hubertcumberdale
Steven Soderbergh says movies and cinema are not the same and I think it applies for movies vs. film as well:
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Soderbergh: "A movie is something you see and cinema is something that's made. Cinema is a specificity, a vision, it's an approach where everything matters. It's the polar opposite of generic or arbitrary and the result is as unique as a signature or fingerprint and it isn't made by a committee and it isn't made by a company and it isn't made by the audience. It means that if this filmmaker didn't do it, it either wouldn't exist at all or it wouldn't exist in anything like this form. So that means you can take a perfectly solid, successful, acclaimed movie and it may not qualify as cinema. It also means that you can take a piece of cinema and it may not qualify as a movie and it may actually be an unwatchable piece of shite. But as long as you have filmmakers out there who have that specific point of view than cinema is never going to disappear completely because it's not about money. It's about good ideas followed up by a well-developed aesthetic.
The problem is that cinema as I define it and as something that inspired me is under assault by the studios and from what I can tell with the full support of the audience. The reasons for this in my opinion are more economic than philosophical but when you add an ample amount of fear and a lack of vision and a lack of leadership, you got a trajectory that I think is pretty difficult to reverse. The idea of cinema as I'm defining it is not on the radar of the studios. This is not a conversation that anybody is having. This is not a word you would ever want to use in a meeting. And speaking of meetings, the meetings have gotten pretty weird. There are fewer and fewer executives who are in the business because they love movies. There are fewer and fewer executives that know movies so it can become a very strange situation. I know how to drive a car but I wouldn't presume to sit in a meeting with an engineer and tell him how to build one and that's kind of what you feel like when you're in these meetings. You've got people who don't know movies and don't watch movies for pleasure deciding what movie you're going to be allowed to make. And that's one reason why studio movies aren't better than they are and that's one reason why cinema as I am defining it is shrinking."
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Posted on 2/12/20 at 6:04 pm to hubertcumberdale
People who say “film” are just annoying and trying to sound smart. I listen to the Unspooled podcast and Paul Scheer constantly does this. It’s very clear he does this in an attempt to show that he is smart enough to review classic movies.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 6:22 pm to hubertcumberdale
A movie was made by a young director. A film was made by an old director.
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