issuevoter
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Thank God for the large flat screen TV. It has made a trip to the cinema redundant in most cases. I read somewhere that the USA produces 400 feature films a year. I don't know if there is any other country that comes close.
A few years back, the influence of American media was decried, but that was back before the coffee explosion and the adoption of African American salutations. Same thing happened in France, where they now eat more McDonald hamburgers than the famous old baguette sandwich.
I find big production US movies hard watch. The actors mostly seem to have come from the same stud-farm, and the productions are just a bit too slick. The plots are riddled with stuff I, at the least, have heard before, in some form.
I'll watch American movies, in the hope, something interesting will turn up, but more often than not I'll turn it off, and go play my guitar, or, (oh the mental energy it takes) read a book.
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