Going to the pictures

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Apparently no one goes to the pictures anymore , it's the movies or the cinema. Am I a dinosaur?

Me and DH have been to the pictures this evening. He also says “flicks”. I tend to say pictures or cinema.

Dinosaur! Although it might also be regional?

Well if you are a dinosaur, I am too.

My DC look at me with two heads if I say 'pictures' so I've learned not to say it any more

Right, I'm staging a revival! It was always pictures!

I've always called it the pictures. If I say movies it sounds like I'm trying to be a cool, college kid American

I am from the 1920s and deeply posh, and say ‘cinema’ with a hard ‘c’. As in ‘Shall I bring my opera glasses in case we have a bad seat at the kinema, darling?’

Oh, and my Dad still calls it 'the Picture House'. He is actually a dinosaur though.

Movies seem forced and a bit American

My mum says the pictures - she’s 54!
I say the cinema. Although I never go as I hate films and sitting still/being quiet for more than 3 seconds at a time. Seems boring so I avoid it like the plague.

My work colleagues called me up on this not so long ago! I used to say pictures all the time! I'm 28. Apparently no one says this in the area that I live in now!

My parents say Pictures, I say Cinema. I'd never say Movies, very American to my ears but I expect younger people might.

Dinosaur. My Grandma always says this ‘what did you see at the pictures?’. Think it’s because they used to be known as picture houses.

I say the cinema.

Movies is definitely an Americanism.

Yes, or possibly from the Midlands (my mum's side of the family all use it)

Yup. Pictures.

I will always say pictures!

I say cinema to my kids though, they have no idea what I'm on about otherwise.

Yep same as Fatted

I am from the Midlands!!! How funny

We either "see a film" or go to the cinema

I say movies if I was at the cinema but film if I'm watching at home. I wouldn't say theatre rather than cinema though.

The Pictures definitely!,

I say going to the pictures or going to see a film. Movies is way too American.

I was at the pictures this afternoon 😊

It's most definitely the pictures. In the town I used to live in, down south, the cinema is called the Picture House.

Definitely the pictures! Or possibly the cinema at a push, but never the movies