Why cant anyone but the Americans save the planet?!

Because that's our job, didn't you know that?

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Because know one else has enough money to do it. Not even the Chinese; they loaned us all of their money.

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Dude, it's just a movie; and an American one at that. A British movie would have had an eccentric Brit scientist kludge together a device to get to the Earth's core. A Japanese movie would have a Godzilla or Gamera dig a hole to the Earth's Core. In this case Hollywood put together a movie for a mostly American audience so it had American heroes.

Finally, while The Core is not real strong on logic or science it did make sense that as Americans caused the problem, they were responsible for fixing it.

Well since it was the idiotic Americans that screwed the planet in the first place, it's only fair that they clean up their own mess.

Because the Americans are the ones making the movies about saving the planet. When other countries make movies about impending global apocalypse, their countries can start saving the planet. It's not selling out. It's logic. An American-made movie is going to have Americans saving the world from impending doom. A British-made movie is going to have Brits saving the world from impending doom.

How about instead of being bitter at Americans for always saving the world in movies, be bitter at the other countries who don't make their own end-of-the-world movies. :P

That said, we're far from the only ones saving the world, even by cinematic standards, as others have pointed out. ;)

I hope our little game isn't causing you to perspire.

Ok, so we've established that a country's film will have heroic people from that country saving the world.

My point is why? Why can't a country's audience accept other nationalities saving the planet. Are people that stupid that they can only like a film if it features people the same race/nationality as them?

If this is the case then those people are really simple.

In real life who cares who saves the planet, as long as it gets saved. It's not a competition, people.

Because Americans are supremely arrogant. It's why they tell you they won World War 2. It's why they tell you theirs is the greatest nation on Earth. It's why they require remakes of original foreign films to be made for their benefit. It's why we have an American flag on the moon.

For any other country to save the world would be sacrilegious to Americans.

Because we have the money, the technology, Steven Hawking, NASA, and Bruce Willis- who always saves the day!

And we may be arrogant and "simple" but we have contributed more than our fair share to the rest of the world... Electricity, mass production lines, medicine, computers, flight, the internet and other countless inventions that make all the things we do today possible.
Ponder this:
At a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?"
A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and
from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?"

For example, do French movie makers make alot of movies with French actors that also happen to be american and save the world? Or do they make the French actors play French people that save the world?

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