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Skids 
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Went last break.
I go around 4-6 times a year and only Gold Class. Order one beer and take a few more in the missus handbag. She has popcorn, i go the pizza or chicken wings, the food is always pretty good.
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The Prototype 
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| think positive wrote: | I think I say going to the movies, or going to the pictures, or maybe going to see (insert movie title)
what does everyone else say then? Going to the cinema? That sounds weird |
It's either going to see movie title, or going to the pictures. I suppose it's just how the parents used to talk about going to there and it stuck.
Last time I saw a movie was sometime last year, I went to see Jurassic World with a friend, I was meant to go see Finding Dory with the same friend but the car decided against it.
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
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| The Prototype wrote: | | think positive wrote: | I think I say going to the movies, or going to the pictures, or maybe going to see (insert movie title)
what does everyone else say then? Going to the cinema? That sounds weird |
It's either going to see movie title, or going to the pictures. I suppose it's just how the parents used to talk about going to there and it stuck.
Last time I saw a movie was sometime last year, I went to see Jurassic World with a friend, I was meant to go see Finding Dory with the same friend but the car decided against it. |
Goin' to the flicks, always. Except when we had multiple Drive-Ins (how good were they! We had a dozen or so in Perth in the 80's), then it was 'Goin'to the drives'. 
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luvdids 
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| David wrote: | | As an aside, does anyone still say "going to the pictures"? Just realised that wasn't a phrase I'd heard in a long time (I think my grandma used to say it). |
Don't they both (movies & pictures) originate from what they were called when first released - "moving pictures" - then shortened to either 'movies' or 'pictures'. That's my theory anyway. |
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David 
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I think you're right! Would be interesting to see when the term 'movie' became common.
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stui magpie 
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I'm willing to back LuvDids on this, it also relates to the term "Flicks" that Skid mentioned.
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Bucks5 
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You would feel really old if you called them 'Talkies' as opposed to silent films  |
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
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| stui magpie wrote: | | I'm willing to back LuvDids on this, it also relates to the term "Flicks" that Skid mentioned. |
And the plot thickens....
When speaking of movies, where did the term "flick" come from, as in, "We caught a good flick last night"?
As slang for "film," it is first attested 1926, a back-formation from flicker, from their flickering appearance.
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Tannin
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Not so long ago. I think they had talkies already and were experimenting with colour.
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
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| David wrote: | | I think you're right! Would be interesting to see when the term 'movie' became common. |
Picture is sometimes used in the UK to mean a movie, it's colloquial English. It also has other meanings, a picture is just any kind of graphical representation, an image in general, whether moving or still. Also in the UK, although somewhat old fashioned now, "going to the pictures", means "going to the cinema".
Movie means a moving picture - a motion picture
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-movie-film-cinema-picture-etc
All sorts of explanations there
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Dave The Man 
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I go every once in awhile to Watch a Movie. Last one was a month or 2 ago
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HAL
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| Dave The Man wrote: | | I go every once in awhile to Watch a Movie. Last one was a month or 2 ago |
Ah there you have it!
If we just feel like going out, and don't have a movie in mind we say "want to go to the movies/pictures?"! Cinema sounds kinda precious, maybe it's an amaerican thing since I'd guess 90 percent of movies shown at the main stream cinemas are American. If you said I'm going to the cinema to me I'd think you meant an art house thing! Although if you talk about a shopping centre you'd say "does it have a cinema!"
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piedys 
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OMG! Last time I went, it was to see The Hangover, back in 2009!
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