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Because today we're going to talk about this cinema and worries.
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Did you usually go to the cinema when you were a child?
Oh yes, we used to go once or twice a year, especially in the summer when the blockbusters
would come out.
Do you often go to the cinema with your friends?
Well, these days, not very often. I mean, you can livestream things from the comfort of
your own home for a fraction of the price without having to tolerate people's phones or
them making inappropriate noises.
Do you still like the same kind of movie you liked as a child?
Of what ones with big explosions and heroes? Oh, absolutely. Yeah. It's a great sense of
escapism and nostalgia.
Although I would like to point out that I have since broadened my palate with movies like,
well, like my favourite movie, Contact, which is a lot calmer and tone.
What genres of films do you like?
Well, in my case, I don't think it's about the genre of the film and it's more about
the quality of the strip writing and cinematography. I mean, I really like science fiction, for
example, but I'm not about to sit through, I don't know, a mock buster from a company
like the asylum because they're script writing and special effects are awful. However, if
you are going to twist my arm, I'll still say something like science fiction because,
well, it's my go-to.
Do you think going to the cinema is a good way to spend time with friends?
Well, these days, not really. You would probably get more out of something like going for
a walk or watching television with friends. That kind of thing has fewer issues. I think
the only exception would be if it was some kind of shared experience like barbenheimer,
but that doesn't happen very often.
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So first of all, what is a blockbuster?
Oh, what is a blockbuster? It's like a big movie. Help me out Maria.
Yeah, it's like a successful film, a hit. It's huge. It's successful. So yeah, it's
a blockbuster or it's a hit. The Antenium would be it's a flop. No, this film is not successful.
No one is watching it. Everybody hates it, so it's a flop. So it's either a hit or a
flop, a blockbuster or like, eh, a flop.
Blockbusters or film come out. So when a new blockbuster comes out, I go to the cinema
to watch it and we go to the cinema. Okay, I'll go to the movies, right? You'll see
a film, you'll watch a film, or you can also say like, see or watch a movie, right? Or
you can say like, oh, I'll go to the movies or I go to the cinema.
Yeah, so come out is like, well, the film is released.
Yeah, the film is released or like, what's on at the cinema? So I usually go to the
cinema and see what's on. So what films they have on? We can livestream things at home.
What did you mean to livestream something?
You know, it's so funny. You've asked me that question and I've used this phrase a lot,
but I don't actually know what it means in detail. I think it means that you have an internet
connection and you just pull the data from the internet. So it's like the film is playing.
It's not recording. It's like a live experience of getting the data of the film.
So you watch a film online, your livestream things at home. So but the film is not live at
the cinema. As for example, we can watch performances at the theatre and they are live. So
you just go there, you switch it on and it's going on life at the theatre and you watch it
at home. So this is like live streaming. Sounds like we're just going on life now. You watch
it at home. So but it's not the same with the movies, right?
It could be. I think some events are live streamed. I think there's concerts that get streamed
at cinemas. So they're filmed and broadcast over the internet and people watching the cinema.
I used to be quite a popular thing. I don't know if it is now. I don't know how popular it
ultimately became because I don't watch this kind of thing.
Okay, so if you say like I live streamed things, it means that something is going on life.
Somewhere else and you watch it at home. Well, no live streaming is to do with the internet
being involved. A live event is just it's happening now in the moment.
Okay, so can I say just I watch things online at home like Netflix is online at home?
You could, but why say that when you can say I live streamed things?
Ah, okay, okay. Alright. Okay, listen, so it doesn't mean that it's going on life. You
just watch it online at home. Do you say like watch it on Netflix or I use Netflix to watch films?
I don't think we can talk about specific companies because they're not paying us money yet.
Yes, not to get in touch, okay? We need to plead that too.
The end word.
Uh-huh.
F-reaction of the price. So it's just like little money. It's cheap. Yeah, it's uh, well,
a fraction of the price is like a small amount of the price that it would be to do it somewhere else.
So for example, for me to watch a movie at the cinema is something like 20 pounds. I don't know
how much that would be in dollars. It's like 30 dollars or something. And in Russian rubles,
it's about 4,000 rubles. So that's what it's like for me. Whereas I could sit in the comfort of
my own home and watch it for next to nothing like just the price of the electricity bill and the
internet bill, which is nothing. Yeah, I pay for online streaming services next to nothing. So
they are very cheap, right? Like a-
Are you are they paying you? Because they're not paying me. I can watch films online for a fraction of the price. So or a pain next to nothing. Or it's very cheap to watch films online. Yeah, using different streaming services, do you use? Could you write things down? Tolerate. And the cinema, you might have to tolerate certain people.
Or Tolerate certain noises. Yeah, it's just when someone write like, yeah, yeah, yeah, so we kind of have to put up with. We have to tolerate. We have to, I don't know what else can you say?
Oh, put up with Tolerate. Hmm, that's it. That's all. That's all we've got. Although one is, what is a C? No, it would be a B2 level word, I guess. And can you check that? Am I right? Is Tolerate a B2 level word? That would be awesome if I was right.
B2 words. Tolerate. Oh, yeah, that's right. I am better than the Cambridge vocabulary profile. Tolerate, accept behavior or beliefs that are different from your own. And you don't like it, you disagree, but you have to kind of tolerate this. Tolerate doing something. And here, Rory said, tolerate people using their phones. Or for example, tolerate inappropriate noises at the cinema. What kind of appropriate noises?
Oh, any noise that's not coming from the speakers. I mean, why do people have to talk or use their phones at the cinema? I will never understand this concept. And I would love it if the people that do this could explain it to me. Because there's no reason you don't need to be loud at the cinema. No one wants to hear what you have to say. So why would you do this?
So I prefer watching a film from the comfort of my own home. What do you call the first showing of a film? I think the word you're looking for is the premiere. Am I right? Yeah.
Yes. But it could also be the opening. However, that is two words if we include the article.
The world premiere of the Barbie movie, for example, can you use it in a sentence? How do I say premiere in a sentence that I usually... I'd well, I usually don't go to the premiere of movies because I'm not famous or rich. But the night it's shown is called opening night. So don't get those things confused. The event is the premiere. The time is the opening night.
As a child, a rory watched films about heroes and explosions, so action films. And it's a great mix of nostalgia.
A nostalgia is a feeling when you think about the past and you kind of like, oh, when I was a child and you feel nostalgia. And also escapees.
Yes. Well, escapeism is just a distraction from reality. Usually if you think reality is quite unpleasant, which if you're a child and you're forced to go to school every day, reality can be a bit unpleasant for you.
I've broadened my palette. So that just means I've expanded the range of my taste to include slow burn films like contacts. That contact, that film really was quite slow.
And palettes were usually used this word about tasting. So tasting food or wine, for example, right? And Rory could you give us the whole sentence about this palette thing?
So I said, though I would like to point out I have broadened my palette with films like contact. That just means that I've expanded the range of things I'm interested in.
I've broadened my palette to include action films or adventure movies. So if you don't usually watch action films, so kind of you've broadened your palette, your broadened your tastes.
Then we talk about genres, right? So genres, kinds of films. And here Rory told us about science fiction, right? You told us about action films and what's a mock bath?
A mock buster is like a blockbuster. It's a very cheap form of a blockbuster. And it's released at the same time of a film that is probably going to be very popular in order to gain money from the success of that film because people will confuse the titles or they'll be really into the genre of the blockbuster and they'll think that this is just as good.
There are companies that have a reputation for releasing these cheap knockoff products, a knockoff is like a copy, it's lower quality and it isn't very good. So I think when a movie like The Avengers comes out, they'll release these companies that make mock busters or release another film called
like Avenging Force or something like that and it'll have some pictures of superheroes on the front which they've made up. And that kind of thing is designed to get them money from people who don't recognize that this sort of thing is going to be cheap and the script will be awful.
I can think of more examples, but I'm not going to give these people the attention they want because this is how they make money piggybacking all of the hard work of other people.
Wow, that was a lecture. Thank you, Rory. So different genres of films, thrillers, comedies, westerns, musicals, horror films, fantasy like The Lord of the Rings, fiction, animation, drama, romantic comedies, okay? Dark comedies, action films, drama.
Make sure that you name like two or three genres of films that you enjoy. Rory also talked about cinematography. So it's not just about the genre of a film, but it's about cinematography and script writing and writing. So every film has a script.
The script is like what is the words, yeah, that every character says, every actor says, right?
It also describes some of the actions that they have to do and key parts of the story or the plot.
Yeah. So it's not about the genre, it's about the plot, the story of the film, script writing and also cinematography. And cinematography, you mean like how the film is made?
Yeah, so it's, um, oh, it's just the effects that are used or the technology that's used to create the impression of the story that you're enjoying.
So for example, the cinematography of Lord of the Rings is amazing. Whereas I'm trying to think of like a really bad movie. I think there's a movie called Birdflue. And it's just awful.
It's like they've copied and pasted things from Microsoft paint onto the scenes and it looks dreadful. It's one of the worst made films of all time.
You can see a cinematography is dreadful or it's horrendous. Like special effects in the film are horrendous, unpleasant, extremely bad. Like terrible, horrible, horrendous. What else could be horrendous?
Oh, the acting could be horrendous. Trying to think of another film where the acting was horrendous. Well, that's quite subjective, isn't it?
Although the acting in the mockpusters always horrendous. Honestly, it's, they're just the worst kinds of movie ever.
And if you don't like a film, you can say like, oh, I had to sit through this film at this cinema. So the last time I went to the cinema, I had to sit through this horrible action film.
So you just sit through it. You watch it to the end, but you don't like it.
If you're going to twist my arm, it's an idiom. So twist my arm, just twist my arm, like take it and break my arm.
If you're going to force me. Yeah, if you are going to force me, if you're going to make me do things I don't want to do.
So if you're going to twist my arm, I'd say that like this. If you twist my arm, I'll go to the movies, for example. But I don't want to go to the movies.
Yeah. To get more out of something or to get more out of doing something.
Rather than going to the cinema, you can get more out of going for a walk. Or you can get more out of watching TV at home.
For example.
And what's Bob and Hymer?
It was the portmanteau, Barbie and Oppenheimer were released at the same time. These two films are about completely different things.
But people combined them together and it made this cultural meme of Barbie and Hymer where people would go and see one film and then go and see the other one.
And it was just a really weird social phenomenon to watch unfold from a distance.
I have seen either of these films, so I can't really comment on the experience of Barbie and Hymer, but it was something that happened.
Dylasna, if you want to be in the trend, you have to watch the Barbie movie, you have to sit through it. If you don't like the Barbie thing. And you have to watch Oppenheimer and tell us in the comments section.
Did you enjoy the movies? What do you think of them? If you have watched them, so yeah.
You can also say that I prefer going to the cinema to watch the latest movies like the newest films.
And also I enjoy big screens. For example, I enjoy going to the cinema with like 12 screens, so I can watch five films at the same time.
Yeah. You can also say that I enjoy the activities that cinema theatre provides.
It's about the whole experience. You go to watch a movie, then after that you stay, you eat more popcorn, you do this bowling thing, you go to a bar and everything is in one place.
And then you go to see another film. Yeah, it's kind of this activity experience.
And now movie theatres want to provide this experience, like a range of activities. So I film, food, some more activities like bowling, I know, some, what else do we have at the movie theatres?
Acts throwing? No.
Yes, you can, there's Acts throwing. I mean, I have only done this once in my life, but I'm sure there was a cinema nearby.
Acts, you throw an X. Yes, have you never seen this? Oh, I saw this in some, but not the cinema halls.
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Did you usually go to the cinema when you were a child? Oh, yes, we used to go once or twice a year, especially in the summer when the blockbusters would come out.
Do you often go to the cinema with your friends? Well, these days, not very often. I mean, you can livestream things from the comfort of your own home for a fraction of the price without having to tolerate people's phones or them making inappropriate noises.
Do you still like the same kind of morvie you liked as a child? Of what, ones with big explosions and heroes? Oh, absolutely, yeah, is a great sense of escapism and nostalgia. Although, I would like to point out that I have since broadened my palate with movies like, well, like my favourite movie, Contact, which is a lot calmer and tone.
What genres of films do you like? Well, in my case, I don't think it's about the genre of the film.
It's more about the quality of the scriptwriting and cinematography. I mean, I really like science fiction, for example. But I'm not about to sit through, I don't know, a mock poster from a company like the asylum, because they're scriptwriting and special effects are awful.
However, if you are going to twist my arm, I'll still say something like science fiction, because, well, it's my go-to.
Do you think going to the cinema is a good way to spend time with friends? Well, these days, not really. You would probably get more out of something like going for a walk or watching television with friends. That kind of thing has fewer issues.
I think the only exception would be if it was some kind of shared experience like barbenheimer, but that doesn't happen very often.
