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- SteveHoltAD, on 12/10/2008, -2/+23Wrong...
Mel Gibson was born in the US and moved to Australia when he was 12.. - surfrdawg, on 12/10/2008, -3/+23you see, the point of being American is that there is no real definition for being American. The fact that we use international actors and international directors just makes sense because we are a very international nation.
- StigNordas, on 12/10/2008, -3/+18Tony Scott does American better than anyone. Sometimes it takes an outsider to really get it.
- dhirajj, on 12/10/2008, -2/+16but thats what makes it american
- hamobu, on 12/10/2008, -2/+13This is why USA is so great. No special priviledges just because your grand-daddy killed Indians and enslaved blacks. We are 100% merrit based. If Habib Jihad does better job of making American flags than Dick Patriot, than job goes to Habib.
- inactive, on 12/10/2008, -0/+11I don't really care whether or not Americans made those movies. They pretty much all kicked ass. The writer of this article must have been really bored.
- ClarkNoHeart, on 12/10/2008, -0/+8"At least the ol' USA got some props when terminally squinty Texan Renée Zellweger won an Oscar for her role as Ruby, a scrappy young gal who helps Ada chop wood or something."
That's awesome. How does she even see? Open your eyes, woman. - vandemon, on 12/10/2008, -0/+8What makes an American film? What makes a film British or German or (etc etc).
Is it the nationality of the actors, the crew, the director, the source material, the locations, the funding?
These are all Hollywood films which wouldn't have been made without Hollywood money so I guess it's fair to call them American films. - D3ADBOLT, on 12/10/2008, -0/+8Australia was written, directed, and starred by Australians...and it blew
- socialpyramid, on 12/10/2008, -1/+8This didn't mention that many of the movies, at least large parts, are also not filmed on American soil
- alexra, on 12/10/2008, -0/+6http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103923/
Captin America (1990) shot completely in Yugoslavia - hamobu, on 12/10/2008, -0/+6See that is why I clean toilets for living: I cannot spell "merrit"
- AJRiddle, on 12/10/2008, -2/+6And how many of these foreign actors and directors now live in the United States?
- vandemon, on 12/10/2008, -0/+4I'm Australian, saw the trailer and thought "not in a million years am I going to see that".
Sorry, but it looks like a three hour commercial for the outback.
And kidman needs to lay off the botox. - brandita, on 12/10/2008, -0/+4Nicole Kidman was also born in America BTW.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_kidman - megaton, on 12/10/2008, -0/+4I guess someone forgot to mention to the author of this article that the U.S. is the melting pot of the world, which not only dispels his logic, but illustrates the power of that diversity.
- veriix, on 12/10/2008, -1/+4America is the ***** melting pot, what better American movies then ones with different nationalities. I guess if you wanted to be "accurate" then all of the listed movies should have been made by Native Americans right?
- inactive, on 12/10/2008, -0/+3This goes to show, anyone can be an American.
- brandita, on 12/10/2008, -0/+3First our jobs, now our movies, what's next?
/sarcasm - kingmanic, on 12/10/2008, -0/+3A quarter of Hollywood is Australian, another quarter is Canadian with various other nationalities making up a sliver of the remaining half.
- doublefelix, on 12/10/2008, -0/+3"Proud American" sounded like such a bad movie I just had to click on that link. Included was this surprisingly funny snippet from the review portion: "If you're reading this review, you are probably aware that this film has the lowest opening box office of all time among wide releases. I believe the weekend total was around $120/screen, or about 15-20 tickets per screen. That's one or two tickets per showing.
That would jibe with my experience. I was hoping to see if the theater would show a movie to a single patron. I ended up sharing the theater with an elderly couple, with the husband clearly in the early stages of Alzheimer's. His occasional loud comments, such as "I don't get it", "Firetrucks", and "This is stupid" actually added quite a bit to the otherwise minimal entertainment value." - reaper527, on 12/10/2008, -0/+3FWIW, all these movies were made by australians, showing that they have good movie making talent down under. why wouldn't australia use their own big name stars for a movie about australia?
- turpenine, on 12/10/2008, -0/+39
- DirtyBinLV, on 12/10/2008, -1/+3All reggae fans should track down the 1972 film The Harder They Come, the first movie produced in Jamaica. Even the evil, rich record executive is black.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070155/
The soundtrack is widely considered one of the best ever. - erichh, on 12/11/2008, -0/+2Yes Australia did adopt Mel Gibson as one of our during the Mad Max / Galipoli era but we gave him back when he went whacko.
- RustyMcloon, on 12/11/2008, -1/+3This article is inaccurate. Mel Gibson is an American citizen with dual citizen to Ireland. He was born in the US, though raised in Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Gibson - Jbone1986, on 12/10/2008, -0/+2Rudegar..... no
- Curufir, on 12/10/2008, -3/+5100% merit based? Explain Bush, Paris Hilton, Nicolas Cage, etc,
Privilege is alive and well. - beloitpiper, on 12/10/2008, -0/+2Ummm...Patriot Games is about the IRA, and the title is from an IRISH folk song, so no, it's not American.
That's some gooood reportin', Lou. - kingmanic, on 12/10/2008, -1/+3If you look at the back drops of movies and TV. The old Wild West and Texas often resembles rural Canada Alberta. Middle America often looks like the wooded areas around Vancouver, any major urban center seems to resemble Toronto and Vancouver, and myriads of American malls look like West Edmonton Mall. The take home message is Canada is more American than America to Hollywood, or at least a cheaper and easier to shoot America.
-A Canadian - petebot, on 12/10/2008, -2/+4Well if you don't like it, you can getttttt out!
- crushallcakes, on 12/10/2008, -0/+2They're takin' our jobs!
- brownsound00, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1visually speaking...
- deldigger, on 12/10/2008, -1/+2Did you know that Goldfinger was not filmed in Maryland or Kentucky.
Del - brownsound00, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1better than singles?
- deldigger, on 12/10/2008, -1/+2do you know Lawrence of Arabia was not filmed in Arabia.It was filmed in North africa.
Del - BrewBeau, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1She's almost unrecongnizable when she's not trying to squeeze out a deuce, like in Chicago.
- ecualung, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1I like Australia. But is it Best Picture material? No.
- lsatkins, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1Was Australia that bad? I was reading the Dark Knight boards on imdb today and a lot of people there were saying Australia should be nominated for Best Picture!
- deldigger, on 12/10/2008, -1/+2did you know that the first version of Ben Hur was made entirely in Rome.The first American film made overseas.
Del - deldigger, on 12/10/2008, -1/+2The fact is this is not unusual.Hollywood will hire whoever they think is best.
Del - MacLiberal, on 12/10/2008, -1/+2There is nothing to be proud about america, even it's lame patriotism has to be outsourced by people more intelligent than the dumbest people in the world.
- TsuruchiBrian, on 12/10/2008, -1/+2Maybe we should have the government give $15 billion to the 3 most American actors using tax payer money. That would allow them more opportunity to compete with foreign actors on a "level" playing field.
I can not think of anything more American than that. Except maybe giving a few trillion dollars to bankers maybe... - BrewBeau, on 12/10/2008, -1/+2That actually seems to be exactly the modern American definition of "patriotism".
- souLLy, on 12/11/2008, -0/+1DYERR TEKINNN URR JERRRRRBGS!
- TVarmy, on 12/11/2008, -0/+1Joke went over your head I guess.
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 12/11/2008, -0/+1puh lease. TOP GUN is a great film but it is A) hardly patriotic, and B) it's a paint by numbers story and directorial affair.
- censormagnet, on 12/11/2008, -1/+2hehehe at least the south park guys are american ;)
- LordMaude, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1That's actually quite a lame list. Americans should be more worried where the film is shot. Not who directs it.
For instance if the Patriot or Top Gun had been shot outside the USA then that would be true outsourcing.
In this respect TV productions by US companies are far worse, Stargate was shot in Canada for instance. - MacLiberal, on 12/10/2008, -1/+2This should be no surprise, there is nothing to be proud about america, even it's lame patriotism has to be outsourced.
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