American movies.

[walrus]

I know I'm biased being an American but I wanted to see if those of you in other countries think we make the best movies. I have seen some excellent Japanese, Australian, Korean and French films but I think Hollywood holds the key to great movies.I know American films make a lot of money overseas so I wanted to pose the questions to my foreign friends.

[armin]

I know I'm biased being an American but I wanted to see if those of you in other countries think we make the best movies. I have seen some excellent Japanese, Australian, Korean and French films but I think Hollywood holds the key to great movies.I know American films make a lot of money overseas so I wanted to pose the questions to my foreign friends.

Once upon a time hollywood did make the best movies imo, but I have to say over the last ten years or so there are some foreign movies that take the cake for me and nothing hollywood has thrown out really compares except the departed, but hell that was a remake of a hong kong flick infernal affairs. My favorite movies of the last few years have been asian flicks, mostly korean and japanese. If ya get a chance check out the following if you haven't already new world, nameless gangster, I saw the devil, yellow sea, chaser, a bittersweet life, outrage 1 and 2, battle royale, 13 assasins, dead or alive and a french flick by the name of mesrine part one and two

[Fenster]

I would say that Hollywood doesn't make the best movies it just makes the most. Which means there are many more shit than good ones.

How many Hollywood remakes can you name that were better than the foreign original? And why the need to remake so many movies?

It's also littered with foreign talent - writers, directors, actors etc. So you get a film funded by an American studio which is filmed in Germany, has a French director and a British star.

Nobody thinks of the James Bond movies as American but they were funded by an American studio.

[erics44]

i actually agree, the one thing that americans are good at its making films

and yeah they make a lot of crap ones but most of the best ones come out of america

but americans get just about everything else wrong and they are only good at films because they are all dicks

[Beanz]

There are some great film makers in America but there are also many great film makers in Europe. Movies sounds like a throwaway blockbuster to many British ears but even those are often made with British technical and acting talent. It's also true that the great American directors were,and continue to be,inspired by cinema made outside of the States. So,um,....don't really think there is such a thing as best country for film makers.

[walrus]

Perhaps not but some counties excellent in certain genres. The Japanese make some damn fine horror movies. The French have made some excellent mysteries America has produced some excellent drama. Yes, Hollywood is global but is American by birth. It was an English man who really influenced early American cinema. Charlie Chaplin, God I love that man. Endless talent and a predilection for pedophilia. But seriously, Charlie built so much of what today are main cogs in the wheel of Hollywood today. But we have created some masterpieces, although I usual avoid a romantic movie Gone with the Wind is an all time great. The shining directed by Kubrick puts America way up on the top of the movie heap. If we made no other movies after those to our HOF status would still be guaranteed.

[Master]

Bollywood make the most cliché and crap movies for the longest period ever.

[walrus]

As far as remakes go after the Bible and Shakespeare there are no new stories to be told so I don't look down on remakes.

[Master]

As far as remakes go after the Bible and Shakespeare there are no new stories to be told so I don't look down on remakes.

Noah, Herculese, thesius, all classic remakes.