As opposed to what?
30 Apr 2023
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Talkies?
Or given the age of the average member here 'moving pictures'.
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Film refers to a thin layer of material, often but not always covering something else.
Film can also mean a thin strip of photosensitive material used in cameras for taking photographs.
The word film is also sometimes used to describe a series of still images strung together and played at a particular speed with an accompanying soundtrack, known as a movie. Film is a somewhat anachronistic term given the majority of movies these days are recorded not on film, but on digital storage media.
Film is a somewhat flexible term that can mean multiple things depending upon context.
A movie is a movie.
What retard hates specificity and prefers anachronistic and imprecise terminology?
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I will claim the title as I prefer films, too. More British, innit?
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.... which common parlance has shortened to "movies".
I was aware that TB had a nasty core of Little Englander to it, but I didn't realise it ran quite this deep.
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My nana used to call them fillums.
They’re movies in our house. We make a movie-mix - which involves getting a big mixing bowl and fill with popcorn, haribo, biscuits, chocolate and crisps, give it a big stir and argue about what movie we’re going to stream whilst stuffing our faces with shite. It’s ace.
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Regarding 'Movies V Films', I've had a good look around for some fucks and found none to give, I'm afraid.
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That was exactly my point.
My elderly relatives, back at the advent of the turn of the century (20th) and then onwards, would talk about going to watch the moving pictures (at the picture house), before the advent of the talkies, and later the newsreels. You might go to see a feature, or a short.....which you might describe by how many reels it had (how many times the projectionist had to change the reels of film).
In the golden age of television (seventies and early eighties), and of my living memory, it was called "film" - mainly, I suspect, because of Barry Norman. I don't know when or where the change happened for sure.
I suspect that people used to moan to the projectionist to "put the film back on" when they fell asleep at the end of a reel (or got pissed, or set fire to the cellulose in the film with heat from the candle of the lamp)....and 'film' (the thing that carries the moving pictures) became synonymous and interchangeable with 'movie' (the pictures you watch on the 'silver screen').
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And before they worked out how to move the pictures and show movies all they had were stiffies.
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They can get you into trouble.
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@Russ they still call their internet connections "broadband" here. And half way through a film they pop to the "loo".
14 years overseas mixing with people of the world, returning to Britain was in many ways a step back in time language wise.
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And that's OK. You know what people mean when they say these things, and meaning has been effectively communicated via the medium of language. The thing that gets right on my wick though is the almost exclusively English habit of insisting that their way of saying things, and only their way, is the correct and only acceptable way. It's the thin edge of the utterly distasteful wedge of national exceptionalism.
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So you're getting upset about people using colloquial terms even though in context we'd all know that a thread titled films was about 'movies', not about thin layers of material deposited on another material.
Isn't it enriching to preserve a bit of local flavour? It is a Nottingham Forest forum after all, not some global corporate marketing channel.
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Little man grinds axe, nothing to see here, move on.
