movie

/ˈmuːvi/

noun 4

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

home

My grandmother showed us old home movies from when my parents were children.

in-flight | silent | action, disaster, gangster, horror, war, etc. | blue, dirty, porn/porno

VERB + MOVIE

see, watch

go to (see), take sb to (see)

My parents took me to see a movie for my birthday last weekend.

direct, make, produce, shoot

MOVIE + VERB

be based on sth

The new superhero film was based on a popular comic book series from the 1990s.

be called sth, be entitled sth

I watched a movie called The Last Train last weekend with my friends.

star sb

MOVIE + NOUN

actor, actress, director, maker, mogul, people, producer, star

The young film student dreamed of becoming a movie producer and making her own documentaries.

rights

The studio paid millions to acquire the movie rights to that bestselling novel.

version

The movie version of that book was much shorter than the original story.

camera | poster

PREP

~ about

I watched a fascinating movie about two friends who discovered a hidden treasure in the forest.

Definitions

noun

A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion; a film.

He is watching a crime-thriller movie.

A cinema; a movie theatre.

Let's go to the movies.

Any event, especially one that is unpleasant or tiresome.

Don't worry; this isn't the first time I've been through this movie.

And then when the other five were in the Dance Hall up there on the river, steps away from the hot seat, Lehman let off an Italian dragged along on the lookout detail and a Hebrew who was supposed to have furnished the guns, although that had the smell of a frame because the cops didn't like him from another movie.

An extremely fun and exciting experience.

Every night with you is a movie!

My life is a movie / Bull ridin' and boobies / Cowboy hat from Gucci / Wrangler on my booty

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a s

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

popcorn movie

A motion picture without serious dramatic content, a weighty message, or intellectual depth, which serves simply as enjoyable entertainment.

Ah well, it's a pure popcorn movie, so what do you expect? Drop Zone doesn't tax many brain cells, but it does keep the pulse pounding right to the end.

tentpole movie

A major motion picture which is expensive to produce but expected to generate significant revenue for its studio and investors.

United Artists hasn't prospered in recent years, so a box office hit from its tentpole movie franchise is essential.

have seen this movie

To have experienced a situation which is the same as or similar to the current situation, especially with a sense of the unpleasantness or tiresomeness of the recurring situation.

The 2008 presidential race may have been branded a "change" election, but abortion rights advocates have seen this movie before.

movie jail

A state of derailment of a career or limited opportunities to which a film industry professional is seemingly relegated, usually as a result of making an unsuccessful film.

"They have this term in Hollywood, movie jail. When a director does this horrible movie that fails, he's in movie jail, where they're not letting him make another movie again."

Example Bank

He is watching a crime-thriller movie.

Wiktionary

Let's go to the movies.

Wiktionary

Don't worry; this isn't the first time I've been through this movie.

Wiktionary

I recognized the bank teller as the man I had seen in the movie theater.

Tatoeba · #18435

Are there any movie theaters near here?

Tatoeba · #18738

The audience sobbed throughout the climax of the movie.

Tatoeba · #20940

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, movie is marked as figuratively, informal, slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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