Calling movies "flicks"

[AAlgar]

Nope, I call 'em "talkies."

[sleep]

"Flick" comes from the original term "flicker show". Movies are indeed flicker shows - a small slate flicks between each frame of the film.

Yeah, I get where it comes from, but using the term nowadays just seems to me to smack of pretension. Even though I'm sure not all people who use the term are being pretensious.

[Boris the Blade]

I know that Robert Rodriguez called Once Upon a Time in Mexico a "flick" (it says "A Robert Rodreiguez Flick" in the credits) but that was an excuse to make it seem like his poor filmmaking was intentional.

[bartleby]

Sometimes I even say "picture" just to be overly pretentious.

[sleep]

I hate it so much.

I am not alone!

[THWIP!]

Can I ask why it bothers you so?

IUt's just sounds so damn stupid. I also call them films and only call movies, the summer blockbuster or animated or kid type stuff.

[JABSEN]

"Flick" comes from the original term "flicker show". Movies are indeed flicker shows - a small slate flicks between each frame of the film.

Yeah, I get where it comes from, but using the term nowadays just seems to me to smack of pretension. Even though I'm sure not all people who use the term are being pretensious.

It's funny.I think the opposite,People who can't stand calling certain films "flicks" striles me as pretentious.Like why is it a Bruce Willis flick and a MillionDollar Baby a movie?

[Boris the Blade]

"Flick" comes from the original term "flicker show". Movies are indeed flicker shows - a small slate flicks between each frame of the film.

Yeah, I get where it comes from, but using the term nowadays just seems to me to smack of pretension. Even though I'm sure not all people who use the term are being pretensious.

It's funny.I think the opposite,People who can't stand calling certain films "flicks" striles me as pretentious.Like why is it a Bruce Willis flick and a MillionDollar Baby a movie?

It's the level of thinking. Die Hard requires less brainpower than, oh, Schindler's List. That doesn't mean it's a bad flick - Die Hard is bad-fucking-ass. It's just a name thing. I call action movies, generally, flicks, if they require little intelligence to enjoy.

This isn't knocking them. Sometimes I want to watch something I don't have to think about. If every film was Breathless, I'd have a migrane even thinking about it.

[Boris the Blade]

Oh, and Million Dollar Baby is justified because it's a made-for-tv movie-of-the-week, not a "film". Movie isn't held in high regard as a "Picture" or "Film".

[sleep]

It's funny.I think the opposite,People who can't stand calling certain films "flicks" striles me as pretentious.Like why is it a Bruce Willis flick and a MillionDollar Baby a movie?

I wouldn't call either of them are flicks. I'd call both films, or movies, or if I were going to distinguish I'd call Million Dollar Baby a film and Die Hard a movie.

Am I being unreasonable, even pretensious myself? Probably. But I'd be happier if that use of the word "flick" were erased from our cultural lexicon.