What do you call motion pictures?

[trof]

Poll question: What do you call motion pictures?

And is this a regional thing?
Let us know how you voted and what section of the country you're from.
Merci.

[tishaLA]

1. Films

[Bertha Venation]

7. Films here, too

Grew up in Orange County, CA.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Michigan...they call it the show or the theatre around here

:hi:

[Maeve]

3. Central Ohio--movies

"Theater" is for stage productions (altho you might hear "Going to the movies? What theater?")

[Skip Intro]

4. Does "movie" pre-date "talkie" - ?

It seems to me like it would, because "moving" pictures came before "talking" pictures. I'm assuming that's where the term "movie" comes from.

Weird how over a century later, movies are still called "movies."

on edit - I'm in SC, and everyone I know calls them movies.

[trof]

5. I think you're right.

First there were "pictures".
Photographs.
Then "moving" pictures.
Silent films.
Then ba-daaa - "talkies".
"Jolsen SINGS!"

[DarkSim]

6. Bejing, China - Movies.

i dunno why. just kind of stuck with me.

[nuxvomica]

8. I go to "the movies" to see "films"

So "the movies" is the place and the "film" or "movie" is the thing I watch.

[Aristus]

9. When I was in Liverpool, England visiting friends, I asked if anyone

wanted to go to the movies. They laughed and said they were "fillums".

[trof]

12. An Irish director (I think)

who has a film at Sundance (I think) was being interviewed on the telly yesterday and he kept talking about his "fillum".
I thought it was kind of cute.
Made him sound like a regular "working class" guy.

[Maeve]

16. Irish puts an "uh" between some consonants

That's one and it carries over into English.(l+m, r+m, maybe a few others I can't think of right now...)

[beyurslf]

10. Blockbuster movies like action or thriller...

are movies...

Good shows that are truly modern classics are films.

[bobthedrummer]

11. Flick, Green Bay, WI.

Born and raised in Milwaukee though.

[HuckleB]

13. We go to the cinema to see a film.

Both of us were born in the midwest (Wisconsin and Chicago), went to high school and undergrad in Arizona, traveled widely and have spent most of the last decade in Portland, Oregon.

[ZenLefty]

14. Depends on the title

If it's Titanic, then I call it 'Titanic'. If it's Braveheart, then I call it 'Braveheart'. Same goes for almost every other one.

Oh, and I'm in Colorado. :)

[slackmaster]

15. Films

That's the way I learned it in all the "film criticism" classes I took during my undergraduate years.

[arwalden]

17. As a child we went to the "thee-AY-ter" to see a "MOO-vee"

Now it's just "the movies".

-- Allen

[felonious thunk]

18. Suckfests

At least any that I have had the displeasure of seeing lately.

[DS1]

19. Satan's Fingers

[Neshanic]

20. Magic lantern show

[trof]

22. Do you have a stereoptican viewer?

You may be even older than I am.
;-)

[LiviaOlivia]

21. Let's go to a show

My Utah parents always used "show". I think I say "movie" but a "show" might slip in there every once in awhile.