Movies Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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raincoat crowd n. Back in the days when these producers were forming this formula, the biggest audience was the raincoat crowd [isolated men masturbating under their coats]. They were catering to the gentlemen who went to adult theaters. [English Entertainment Movies Sex & Sexuality Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 12, 2006)

raincoat crowd n. (porn movie title) [English Entertainment Movies Sex & Sexuality Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 12, 2006)

raincoat crowd n. One thing that distinguishes couples films from those made for “the raincoat crowd,“ as Mr. Fishbein put it, is more plot, more characterization and thus more motivation for sex. [English Entertainment Movies Sex & Sexuality Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 12, 2006)

raincoat crowd n. In defense of unique Mensa activities such as the dirty adult movie group, Hume said members who attend have “no prurient interest,“ they’re “not the raincoat crowd.“ [English Entertainment Movies Sex & Sexuality Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 12, 2006)

raincoat crowd n. It’s a popcorn and Pepsi kind of movie house.…Somehow I don’t think the raincoat crowd is going to fully appreciate the Granada. [English Entertainment Movies Sex & Sexuality Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 12, 2006)

rear-window captioning n. There are several companies that will add text to some (not all) current run films; one is Mopix, which provides rear-window captioning. The text is displayed from a LED screen in the back of the theater, under the cinema projector; the text is reversed, and the theater provides the hearing impaired viewer with a piece of clear plastic attached to a flexible stand that fits in the cup holder of the theater seat. The LED text is reflected off the clear plastic, which the viewer reads while watching the film simultaneously. [English Entertainment Media Movies] [full cite] (Sep. 12, 2005)

red-band trailer n. More uncensored versions, referred to as “red-band” trailers, are popping up on the Internet, with studios using them as a marketing tool to reach older audiences not as likely to be offended by super-violence, sex or use of the “F” word. In the process, the more provocative trailers allow them to telegraph to moviegoers the edgier content of their films. [English Movies Jargon] [full cite] (Oct. 29, 2007)

rom-com n. The Holiday, written and directed by gal-movie goddess Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give) offers a classic rom-com contrivance as Yankee overachiever Cameron Diaz and Brit plum pudding Kate Winslet swap houses and find themselves in rebound relationships with, respectively, dreamy Jude Law and seamy Jack Black. [English Entertainment Movies Abbreviation] [full cite] (Dec. 14, 2006)

runaway n. As it happens, a fair number of those imported film projects (or “runaways,“ as the California film industry calls movies that shoot elsewhere) aren’t exactly blockbusters or critics award-caliber works. [English Movies Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 27, 2006)

scriptment n. “What do you mean, you’re going to greenlight the movie with a kid named Matt directing?” Mr. Grey said, according to Mr. Weston. Yet with just a 65-page “scriptment” (more than a treatment, less than a script) laying out a film about a bunch of friends who happen to capture on camera the utter destruction of New York by a monster, he went with Mr. Weston’s judgment, hedged by Mr. Abrams’s assurance that he would be closely involved with the film. [English Entertainment Movies Jargon] [full cite] (Jan. 13, 2008)

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