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I was reading about the silent film era and thinking about how silly the word "talkie" is, and was then forced to really consider, for the first time, the word "movie"

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The fact that the community has decided to call the things that are studied "films" annoys me

Talkie and Movie are at least still descriptive!
@silverwizard "film" over "movie" seems to be the preferred term in British English over here in the UK at least. Just seems to be the way our variant of English has evolved.
Anyone who did film studies has strong opinions that make no sense to me
@silverwizard Yeah it doesn't really matter ultimately, everyone knows what your talking about. "film" I suppose is also technically an obsolete term because of the decline of using 35mm and such over the past 10 years or so.
I mean calling it a "film" these days is pretty silly since everything's all digital now by the time you're watching it.
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