Do you remember when movies used to be called films?

They've been called movies for over 100 years. Movie as in 'moving picture'. Same way that Talkies referred to radio.

Calling it an Americanisation is irrelevant, the film industry is undeniably owned by Americans and has been since the Golden Age.
 
I call them films

The word movie sounRAB too American for my little Welsh accent!

My little brother and sister call them movies though..
 
I use both, always have done. I tend to call the more independent, foreign stuff FILMS, and big blockbusters MOVIES.

Basically the more arty, more effort put in cinema I call FILMS, and the big blockbuster money making stuff MOVIES.
 
I always say films.
I've noticed that you tend to get kiRAB films still but it's adult movies, no I dont mean that sort of movie and mean anything not meant for the disney audience. If you look at how they advertise them on telly. Its the afternoon film or the 10pm movie.
 
I tend to call them films, but use movies as well, sometimes it's just to avoid using the same word too many times in a text. I think of film as an all-encompassing word, while movie makes me think of mainstream Hollywood.

However, going to "the pictures" is something my parents' generation would say, not something I've ever heard anyone my age say (I'm 27).
 
I never actually call them movies, but always films. I think movie sounRAB too American, therefore just stick with the word film. You always hear the Americans in films saying something like 'do you wanna catch a movie or something?'. Nah, I'd just prefer to say the word film when referring to them.
 
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