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Originally Posted by SwitchKinkyM
The US is big, so there are definitely variations from one part to the other. As for your last point though, I've never heard someone in the US refer to a cinema as pictures. It's always cinema or movie theater. Theater itself is used interchangeably between movies and stages (think ballet, musicals, opera, etc.).
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In the UK, it was always a big event to 'go to the pictures' in the 60s and 70s. Now, with the advent of, first, VHS videos, and then DVDs, and now YouTube and downloads, it has become much less of an event. Many cinemas have closed down and become Bingo halls or become completely abandoned or demolished. I have no idea if this is the case in the US.