Why are american moovieees so schomtlzy????
348088
They're afraid American audiences can't take anything else.  They think we're all wusses, and we keep proving them right by watching these sorry excuses for movies.
1156556
I'm not American but I love a lot of things about traveling there and I do work with Americans. Do I think it's great? Hell, yeah. Do I think it's messed up too? Hell, yeah. Then again people mistake redneck donutheads as speaking for ALL of America.
1095080
no thanks i heard about it and its Stereotypes Americans i think there are   a lot of hard working Americans out there\n\n can't think of one positive thing to say about this steaming pile of crap masquerading as a comedy film. OK, maybe one thing: IT ENDED.\n\nIf you happen to have seen it, I extend my deepest, most heartfelt condolences for one hour and thirty eight minutes of your life that you'll never get back. One hour and thirty eight minutes that could have been spent doing something far more interesting and productive, like, oh I don't know -- staring at a spot on the wall, or digging for toe jam.
445760
Yes. Their paper money has more colors than ours and we're jealous! Also, their speed limit signs are in kilometers, and at first we Americans think its OK to drive really fast, then we figure out it's not miles per hour and we get all bummed out.
379168
yes i do. i am from Louisiana (40 miles south of new orleans) and i get very offended by the way the portray this state. they always make it look like we live out in the swamps, and all we do is sit on our porch playing cajun music. they always have the accent wrong too, no one can imitate it so they shouldn't even try. i am tired of movies making us look like all we are unintelligent and all we are into is cajun music, wrestling alligators and voodoo. its so not like that at all.
795920
Big egos, small brains.\n\nThey begin to think they don't have to answer to anyone and want everybody to cater to their whims.\n\nHollywood has created more monsters and immoral people than it has decent upstanding citizens......
1180194
yea ... unfortunately its led the americans to understimate the world outside .. their opinion is further clouded by an insatiable materialistic pursuit... they constitute 5% of the worlds population and consume 45% of the worlds natural resources ... \n\nthey fail to realise that people have different satifaction levels.. for example i live in india... just cause my country isnt fully developed it doesnt mean that we aren happy...  it would broaden the perspective of americans if they stopped lookin at negatives of other communities and recognisin positives.
958935
I am American, and I don't know if it is a geographical thing or not:\n\nMy problem is that there is very little courtesy, people show up late way to often or don't tell you when they aren't going to show, and the lack of following through, what I mean is don't tell me you are going to call me unless you are, don't say you are going to do it if you aren't\n\nThe other things would have to be how image conscientious people are here, people put way to much into name brands, trying to out do the next person, and trying to look beautiful, when there is a lot to be said for natural beauty (a little make up okay, but looking like a painters pallet ugh!). People tend to be so superficial and want to impress so much they have no idea how to keep it real! This is one of the reasons Americans are so far in debt!\n\nAlso the lack of family, we seem to be a very detached society!\n\nI am not trying to bad mouth my fellow Americans, just voicing my opinion.\n\nHave a GREAT day (and yes I mean it, it wasn't "fake")
38388
Because American children are selfish and spoiled.... LOL, just kidding. It's because trix are for kids :)
100570
My answer is not going to be liked but.......Americans are self absorbed and greedy. They are a fast food, drive through pharmacy, no time to breath culture that has no respect for anything that does not prersonally effect them. They refuse to see the rest of the worlds struggles. Yes I am American but wow, how this country has gotten this way I don't know. When the bombing happend in England, I heard people say..."that was no 9-11 though" Absolutely ridiculous, death is death and struggle is struggle. There have been terroristic holy wars for decades that people refuse to see unless it is in their back yards. My opinion, agree or not.
573473
No man, they don't. To them it is whiny. It might be different if they didn't hear it all the time on TV and in movies. Now most western english speaking countries are desensitized to the American accent...it has lost its novelty. Quite the opposite for the pomes and ozzies when they come to the states. Man, what a pantydropper that is. Just not fair.
447407
The main reason Americans are such prime targets of stereotyping is becuase they are part of the most predominent country. No, I'm not saying they're the greatest. The truth is that America itself is a very hypocritical nation in that it was first organized against imperialism ,but now has bases on almost every country. You ask why America is stereotyped? Well, would you like one of the newest nations just strutting around as if they could do no wrong ,in your own backyard no less? Anyway aside from America's bad points you are absolutely correct. However, America does feed most of it's own bad press in statistics and the news. The question you should be asking is why all news reporters just happen to find the least literate, fattest, and most interesting characters to interview. Its simple, it sells. America, whether people want to admit it or not is a bussines and what is a bussiness if they're product doesn't sell? Its not a bussines at all. So in reality all the stereotypes and slander that plague your tv set is old fashioned American ingenuity at work. By the way, America is a diverse country. I guess you could say America is a little bit of every country so when people in other countries stereotype America they're just laughing at what they would be if they had freedom. I don't hate America ,but i do hate some of its characteristics. No country is perfect and at the moment America is as close to perfect as we can hope for.
596172
Because whether people want to admit it or not, the American media plays an ENORMOUS role in how we perceive ourselves, and the world.  Watching millions of repetitive images daily via advertising (print and television); television shows; movies; magazines, and news (print and television)...all of these mediums combine to shape our images of who we are and our place in this world.  We get a sense of "normalcy" by our lives matching what we like on TV. That's why most Americans strive to be the nuclear family: two parents, two kids and a dog, and a nice house with a white picket fence.  \n\nSame is true with foreigners.  Our media tells us that the U.S. is one of the few developed countries in the world.  When we see images of Africa, we see naked people running around with flies on their eyes, starving and living in huts.  I have known many Africans from many different countries in Africa (North, South, East and West), and NOT ONE of them lived in those type of conditions, and I asked every, single one of them how they lived.  They laughed when I told them my images of their native lands.\n\nArabs are abstract to Americans, too.  Thanks to 9/11, now Arabs are almost synonamous with terrorism (and camels and sand).\n\nForeigners see lots of America thanks to the export of our movies, so our lifestyles aren't that foreign to others.  However, the media even twists what our reality is.  Many foreigners think we are all rich, which is bullcrap.  \n\nI think if the media were more honest, people would have a better, more accurate understanding of the world, but they aren't, so we don't.
906015
well said uncle sid...I have never actually followed b.b. but I have watched bits of it and I would love to know where they get the morons from, seems to me..the more obnoxious and perverse you are the more you are a ' celebrity ' ??  : (   why...and this is entertainment !!   ANNNNDDDD....who the hell decided we Brits want to watch plastic comedy american trash along with the rest of the muck they show, americans have no sense of humour like ours ..now you've got me mad !!    lol
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It is - perhaps - due to the relative isolationism of the US.\n\nOther countries hear a lot more about their neighbours, new ideas........and the US of course and are influenced by each other.\n\nI don't mean to offend US citizens by any means but so many have absolutely no clue about geography..if that is a element to consider.\n\nThey are very religious and for many sex is still a taboo subject. And wherever there is taboo : people are fascinated by it...and guilt ensues.\n\nStill very interesting to see that shows like Jerry Springer exploit this kind of counsciousness whilst nude scenes are cut out of movies but shown in Europe. \n\nDifficult to explain really.....Maybe a metaphor: like someone on a diet or someone who tries to cut down smoking..what do they think about ? The forbidden of course ! the cake and the cigarette :-)).\n\nWould German for example talk about "the German way of life" ?, Swedes " The Swedish dream".....are people told elsewhere if they  disagree that they are "unpatriotic" ?? (not talking about countries where extremists live here..).\n\nWell...my point of view in any case :-) !
506398
Why not?Are not we Americans civilized people?I feel "we the people" are going to catch it,just because the "DECIDER" is deciding to be the playground bully,and everybody likes to to see the bully get it,but this time he will drag all of us down with him!The problem is as I see it, our government is just trying to a real prick about things,but us Americans just want to live and let live.Why does BUSHCO want to give them crazy mad as hell peckerwoods a reason?Those guys are not,like those other guys,them boys look dangerous as hell!
959069
Ah, dog lover, you are a person after my own heart!  Here's my theory.\n\nPeople connected with Hollywood have publicity pumped out about them and the characters they play.  It would seem that for many of them they begin to believe the hype about themselves. \n\nThe latest trend is that if you've ever been in a Hollywood film you are somehow now endowed with a keener sense of political awareness then the average person and are compelled to use your superpowers to set the rest of the world back on course to truth, justice, and the American Way! \n\nOne of my favorites in the lunatic parade is Angelina Jolie.  Here is a woman who fits the dicitonary definition of the word whore, can't negotiate peace with her own father, but yet has the gall to run around in third world countries and tell them how to run their goverment.  Then you have the peabrain has-beens like Madonna emulating her by stealing a kid from another third world country.  What planet are these people from?  \n\nThen of course, you have the people without a life emulating and praising them because they were once "STARS!!!", until the next idiot of the moment pops out of the Hollywood machine.\n\nPleaseeeeeeeee!