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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget about Japan. They're also an epicenter of extraterrestrial activity and supernatural disaster

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

More like all tokusatsu as a genre.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is also how americans see America. So that means all americans are aliens?

...wait

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I'm sorry, but that's clearly marked legend, so maybe we don't propagate the idea of mythical lands?

[–] cheddar 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's fair given that the movies in question are also American.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (10 children)

That's generally Reddit too. Everything is /r/usdefaultism

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anyone notice that when they visit a webpage predominantly used by Americans that is marketed towards Americans that it feels very American?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I’ve had Americans argue with me saying that what I was talking about doesn’t happen in America and that I don’t know what I’m talking about, when I made it abundantly clear that what I was talking about was irrelevant to the US as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Like talking European politics in a Starbucks in Ohio you’re going to run into that, it’s because of where you are and your surroundings.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

There's a little German peppered in.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Bollywood needs to make more SciFi

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wait, if you look really closely at that globe, you’ll find New Zealand is missing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not my fault the euros don't know what a culture victory looks like.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

We won that one so many times we stopped playing for it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There’s also China, i.e. the Great Wall and some high-tech megacities, because the studios want a chance at that billion-viewer market.

Maybe the bad guys will also blow up Big Ben or the Eiffel Tower if the Europeans are lucky.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Some pyramids too. I forget where. Not important.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's one of the best aspects of District 9. Johannesburg. Right out of left field.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There’s a reason they chose Johannesburg, the movie is an allegory for apartheid.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That map is wrong. You have stuff in the void between Las Vegas and Chicago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ah, I see you are a developer of The Crew

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They need a placeholder for New York that is actually just a portion of Vancouver where they do their battles, chases, investigations and conversations.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I see this criticism a lot and I just wonder how many films from outside the US people have seen because this kind of thing happens in pretty much every country that makes films. The film will usually take place in and feature heroes from the country that made it. Like most Godzilla movies take place in Japan and the day is saved by Japanese people (or Godzilla himself depending on the movie).

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

They occasionally land in the U.K.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

...but only in the original books, and when the moviemakers didn't dare to ~~change~~correct that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

And dr.who my guy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Attack the Block is a goddamn masterpiece.
(Aliens try to invade earth, land in a South London ghetto, are fought off by its residents. Starring John Boyega)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I can’t remember if I’ve seen that because I always think of The World’s End when it is brought up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That was my first thought.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

that's on the other side of the globe you can't see it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but they got that one guy with a police box

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And he takes exception to all the others that come so they tend to stay away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

What are you talking about? The Master is extremely friendly and welcoming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Torchwood and Primeval are two of the best

[–] mikyopii 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

District 9 literally calls this out in the first five minutes.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

They painted over Maine! Those bastard's

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Based on what, watching Men In Black, but not the whole series?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"Heroes" the TV show was legit pretty good about stretching outside the three largest American cities.

Also "Independence Day" at least flirted with the idea of a global invasion, even if all the action took place in DC and Nevada.

Otherwise... yeah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Edge of Tomorrow completely tossed most of this habit to the side and at worst didn't suffer for it, but imo was incredible because of it. One can only see The Statue of Liberty, the Golden Gate Bridge, NYC, etc so many times before it gets old. The Louvre? Flooded and full of aliens? That was new.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not just movies. Sci-fi series also have a heavy tendency to base their stories in/on the US.

Like Stargate SG-1, filmed around Vancouver and considered an American-Canadian show while having Canada completely irrelevant. At least they got better with Stargate Atlantis and the international team. I consider Rodney McKay and Radek Zelenka heroes.

There is also Farscape that was filmed in Australia and is loosely international, as Crichton is an "international" astronaut but he's still American.

The only sci-fi series that I know is taking place outside of the US is Continuum. Everything is revolving around Vancouver.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is the wrong country if you're watching anime.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

This is a bit reductive. You could add in Alaska (blue filter, remote military base, etc...) and Mexico (yellow filter, foreign land, grungy dusty bar).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Rule America! America rules the waves! Yankees never, never, never will be slaves! Errr, umm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
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