12-05-2002 04:35									#91
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Doesn't have the beer gut.

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	12-05-2002 05:01									#92
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OK... at this time you guys have to sit back and tell your self it is just a movie. Im a canadian and i don't like to see the american flag everywhere i look, but if its made in america, let them show off thier flag all they wan't. And its only like 5 seconds so just close your eyes and plug your ears. Go to a happy place or something (6)

	12-05-2002 05:41									#93
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quote: Originally posted by November Adam Maybe Marks upset that there isn't a really good Greek comic hero?

and that my friends is a pure case of denial....

	12-05-2002 05:47									#94
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Livin' in an American world,
And we are an America's girl

	12-05-2002 07:09									#95
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Did you notice the big picture of Attaturk in the credits??

	12-05-2002 08:59									#96
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Good god, this thread shoulda been nipped in the bud. An American flag is on the top of just about every building, at least here in DC.

We have American flags everywhere. Everywhere. And where we don't have American flags, we have bunting! This is good. It's a nice flag!

	12-05-2002 09:01									#97
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I think it would have made for a much better movie if at the end it zoomed in on the Canadian flag flying high over the whitehouse... you know, one of those cliffhanger endings!

	12-05-2002 09:14									#98
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Sweet.

	12-05-2002 13:45									#99
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quote: Originally posted by DanS An American flag is on the top of just about every building, at least here in DC.

good for you! you should come to greece on our national holidays to see twice as much flags
but what does this have to do with a movie distributed on a world-wide market???

	13-05-2002 02:15									#100
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Hey Mark, tough titties. They make it for the #1 market. You oughta stop watching so much American pop cutlture. that stuff will rot your brain. Sheesh, you watch more than me, and I'm AMERICAN!

(p.s. USA! USA! )

	13-05-2002 02:19									#101
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I think the flag had more to do with post-September 11th New York pride.

I mean, that movie required MASSIVE editting because the whole ending sequence with the Green Goblin (I have been told) took place on the twin towers. It was, in reality, supposed to be out months ago.

Hey, I'll admit it, when the New Yorkers were out on the bridge, I was clapping! I didn't care much about the patriotism stuff, but the New Yorker stuff was good all the way!

	13-05-2002 02:32									#102
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I didn't mind the flag so much, especially compared to the impossibly long and actually physically painful love scene in the hospital...

Put all the flags you want in there, I don't care. But please, for all our sakes, can't we just once and for all separate out all the 'gratuitous romance' from good decent action flicks? (not to be confused with 'gratuitous nudity', however. I'm all for that. No movie has ever suffered because of too much nudity, except possibly that weird danish movie a few years ago.).

	13-05-2002 02:58									#103
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The flag is in there because originally, he was going to be on top of the world trade center.

	13-05-2002 03:40									#104
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quote: Originally posted by Faeelin originally, he was going to be on top of the world trade center.

with or without a flag?

	13-05-2002 03:54									#105
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quote: Originally posted by CyberGnu I didn't mind the flag so much, especially compared to the impossibly long and actually physically painful love scene in the hospital... Put all the flags you want in there, I don't care. But please, for all our sakes, can't we just once and for all separate out all the 'gratuitous romance' from good decent action flicks? (not to be confused with 'gratuitous nudity', however. I'm all for that. No movie has ever suffered because of too much nudity, except possibly that weird danish movie a few years ago.).

yeah...they were going after the females with that "lurve" crap.

	13-05-2002 04:01									#106
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quote: Originally posted by MarkG but what does this have to do with a movie distributed on a world-wide market???

Well, sh!t, Einstein. Would you have us remove all the flags from where they normally are, just to make the Greeks happy?

	13-05-2002 04:56									#107
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If you want, Markos, I can make a "Anthony the Gyro Slinging Greek Boy" into an animated series

	13-05-2002 05:07									#108
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quote: Would you have us remove all the flags from where they normally are

dont know if you noticed, but movies do NOT normally end with a flag....

	13-05-2002 05:08									#109
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more news for DanS: ww2 is over!!! we won!!!!

	13-05-2002 05:15									#110
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"dont know if you noticed, but movies do NOT normally end with a flag.... "

News Flash! Nor do they normally end on top of a building!

	13-05-2002 05:20									#111
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so the director just wanted spiderman on top of a large building and since all large building in the US have a flag on the top, it was logical to have in the very last frame of the movie spiderman next to the proudly waving american flag

	13-05-2002 05:23									#112
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"it was logical to have in the very last frame of the movie spiderman next to the proudly waving american flag"

Precisely.

At page 6, we have finally figured it out!

	13-05-2002 05:29									#113
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that's it, it's (as always) just a simple coincidence....

and remember: it's just a movie!

btw: it's page 4

more news: we won the cold war too!!

* MarkG now waits anxiously for OBL to finally get killed arrested, Iraq bombed and liberated from Saddam, etc etc, so that he might see a movie with less nationalistic nonsense coincidences....

	13-05-2002 06:12									#114
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American nationalism is not the danger. It's FYROMulan that is...

	13-05-2002 06:47									#115
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Come on Mark. You're seem to think these Hollywood types have imagination. The hero standing beside the American flag is one of the standard cliche shots used by Hollywood filmakers.

It is right up there with the standard buddy shot of two guys walking towards the camera with an explosion in the background. Or the person diving to escape an explosion in the background. Or the typical Hollywood happy ending where everyone cheers and claps their hands.

It is boring, easy and predicatable, but that's what American audiences want.

	13-05-2002 08:24									#116
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quote: Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola Well, it could have ended with a giant product placement ad for say, Starbucks, count your blessings.

what's the differance between this and the american flag

	13-05-2002 08:47									#117
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quote: Originally posted by Tingkai It is boring, easy and predicatable, but that's what American audiences want.

And yet, foreigners still watch them no matter what.

	13-05-2002 08:52									#118
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quote: it was logical to have in the very last frame of the movie spiderman next to the proudly waving american flag

Would it have been better if the flag was lying dead against the pole due to an uncharacteristically windless day?

	13-05-2002 08:53									#119
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quote: And yet, foreigners still watch them no matter what

Same reason we like to watch Jerry Springer and COPS: it's not in our backyard, so it's amusing.

	13-05-2002 09:00									#120
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quote: Same reason we like to watch Jerry Springer and COPS: it's not in our backyard, so it's amusing.

Yet for an American resident like myself, I'm left to put my head in my hands and weep at the downfall of Western civilization... *nods seriously*

BTW, I think your explanation is the same as why Americans like to watch news footage from Israel or Bosnia.