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Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’

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Most non-American movies are slop, melodramatic vaudeville, or tear-jerking gut-punches. Most American movies are slop too, but America can afford to swing at more pitches and consequently get more hits. Have you ever tried to watch Korean movies from the last 20 years? It's all melodramatic romance-crime-poverty slop, with the rare Kim Ki-duk or Bong Joon Ho in there to balance it out. And that's a country with a wo…

Hollywood undoubtedly has more money, but you genuinely have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to the quality of what gets made. So many things that hollywood produces are remakes of foreign movies, except with an order of magnitude more money poured in and palate-switched for american audiences. (which, due to the sheer volume of content that comes out of hollywood- becomes the default international pa…

Every country has 5 or 10 good movies you can name, and they're always the same ones. Brat and Brat 2, Leviathan and Durak... the list doesn't go on much beyond that. And certainly not in the last 20 years.

For US movies, the list goes on. And you can debate which ones should make the top-100.

But here's a pivotal soviet comedy about a guy who goes to the future... okay, here's Bob Zemeckis's Back to the Future. Compare the quality of any aspect: story, acting, props, costumes, cinematography, special fx, attention to detail, MUSIC... 1:1 US cinema destroys on every level.

Bollywood action movies? They're parodies of themselves- Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess with the Zohan, except they take themselves seriously.

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I am so looking forward to the sequel of Rome ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_(TV_series) ), filmed in Georgia ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome,_Georgia ). Or the new Lord of The Rings in the Grand Canyon... :)

Or the remake of 'Paris, Texas' filmed in ..., oh.

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In addition to the other comments pointing out how your "Americans invented microprocessors" is wrong, > [Americans] landed on the moon without a federal Department of Education maybe you should check what the budget for NASA was during the space race and what it is now, considering also the news from 3 days ago about further budget cuts to the Agency.

I’m not wrong. It’s called Silicon Valley for a reason

Since the DoE was established, education has only declined versus the rest of the world. America spends more money for less.

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What would a meaningful fight look like?

Impeachment. There have been multiple clearly impeachable offences by the current administration. The congress GOP should take responsibility for getting the US out of this.

For those replying who think this isn't an option - what precisely is the end-game in your mind?

Edit: I'd be interested to hear why the downvotes. I'm genuinely curious about this, because a lot of people seem to think that a) Congress is useless, and b) half the population of America is stupid, and so I'm just curious how you see America moving forward, or even if you do at all?

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Movies are overwhelmingly made _by_ American studios but I don't know if they are overwhelmingly _made_ (shot) in the US. It's very common to shoot in a location that gives tax incentives. E.g. Vancouver used to be (potentially still is) a common production location.

Vancouver and Toronto were very often used as stand-ins for shows based in places like Chicago, Seattle, NYC and many others. Might still be, but I barely consume that sort of media nowadays. It made watching TV shows like Stargate SG1 additionally amusing though -- every planet they visited was basically some location near Vancouver. Me and friends used to joke about how much like carcinisation is a thing in evoluti…

An argument could be made that the Ancients built Stargate's in places they wanted to go/were comfortable for them, and those areas were like BC

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Trump always hated foreign movies - I remember him disparaging an Academy award winning movie purely because it was non-English language. Wonder what prompted this outburst - the success of Ne Zha 2 (china bad), or No Other Land (can't say Palestine)?

I had never heard of Ne Zha 2, but a quick search shows that it only had a limited release in the US and made a tiny $20 million at the box office. Unlikely that Trump is making decisions based on that.

What is your source, I get $2 billions at the box office, which is indeed a triumph.

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Vancouver and toronto just had a heart attack. london UK and berlin probably far less impacted. elbows up! Though i dont recommend continuing to antagonize trump even more because it's just triggering his ego and making him retaliate.

China stood up to his tariffs and he was forced to reverse some of them.

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Was the USA's movie industry really under threat from abroad? In my local cinema here in Europe the great majority of popular movies is American .. To me this move seems more a kind of cultural censorship. Similar to how many foreign movies can't be shown in Russia or China.

That's not what this is about. Most American movies are shot outside of the US these days because among other factors Hollywood unions have made it way more expensive to shoot in the US.

> That's not what this is about.

Of course. It's clearly about the fentanyl emergency.

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I had never heard of Ne Zha 2, but a quick search shows that it only had a limited release in the US and made a tiny $20 million at the box office. Unlikely that Trump is making decisions based on that.

What is your source, I get $2 billions at the box office, which is indeed a triumph.

That’s globally, not in the US. It was barely released in the US at all.
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