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Blueblooded65 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

The difference between "going to a movie and to the movies"?

What's the difference between
"going to a movie" and "going to the movies"?
  

Top answer

Effectively the same, though "movies" would mean going to the theater, while "movie" would be a particular movie.

— Vorpar

  • Effectively the same, though "movies" would mean going to the theater, while "movie" would be a particular movie.
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Effectively the same, though "movies" would mean going to the theater, while "movie" would be a particular movie.
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By theater you mean the place in which there are plays?
So "a movie" can mean a place for play shows/theater?
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By 'theater' blueblooded means 'movie theater'.

In BrE we call it a 'cinema'.
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I think I got it.

"A movie" means a hall for a particular movie.
"The movies" mean the cinema in which there are several halls in each there is a movie on the ecran and you can choose which one to see.
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