Movies, Not Films

I watch movies, not films. Perhaps they would have you think that movies are fun and meaningless and something to move product and popcorn, and on the other side of the dichotomy, films mean something and are for mature, intelligent people with attention spans. Movies are flashy, appeal to people who like shiny things and bright things and fast things and follow the crowd; films make you think and don't rely on special effects, and are oftentimes made in some strange foreign language that requires you to read. Movies are made by big studios that are little more than factories, and films are made by intelligent people with Buddy Holly glasses and bad haircuts. Movies are low culture, films are high culture.

But really, a "seeing a film" is just a pretentious way of saying you saw a movie. And even when you think you're watching a film, no matter how much the truth galls you, you're really just watching a plain old movie. That's why I will never watch a film. I like watching movies too much.