Movies vs Films

[Big Papa Goat]

What exactly is the difference between a movie and a film?

[Anonymous]

A movie is something you watch when the film is put through the projector.

[Royal Tenenbaum]

mov·ie ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mv)
n.

A sequence of photographs projected onto a screen with sufficient rapidity as to create the illusion of motion and continuity.
A connected cinematic narrative represented in this form.
A showing of a movie. Often used in the plural: During the movie, the person in front of me kept talking. Would you like to go to the movies tonight?
movies The movie industry.



film ( P ) Pronunciation Key (flm)
n.
A thin skin or membrane.
A thin, opaque, abnormal coating on the cornea of the eye.
A thin covering or coating: a film of dust on the piano.
A thin, flexible, transparent sheet, as of plastic, used in wrapping or packaging.

A thin sheet or strip of flexible material, such as a cellulose derivative or a thermoplastic resin, coated with a photosensitive emulsion and used to make photographic negatives or transparencies.
A thin sheet or strip of developed photographic negatives or transparencies.

A movie.
Movies considered as a group.
A coating of magnetic alloys on glass used in manufacturing computer storage devices.


They are the same thing.

[Mockery]

Movies and Films are the same thing except...

Movies - What most people watch.

Films - What people who wear berets while typing on their laptop in a Starbucks watch.

[Big Papa Goat]

I'm glad Mockery got it, and that Royal Tenenbaum didn't. :)

[WorthlessLiar]

pfff Films. I only watch cinema.

[Snatchtastic]

What about SHORT FILMS in WIDESCREEN?

[theapportioner]

Filmsters drink soy chai.

[Zhukov]

Bad Boys II is a movie, Pirates of the Caribbean is a film.

[Snatchtastic]

Maybe a movie is made for the soul purpose of numbing brain cells for entertainment and a film depicts the gritty realism of our society.