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Originally posted by Animalman:
What do you find about French entertainment to be "superior" to American entertainment, Dave?
It is not intended to achieve box office success. It is often art for art's sake.

Also the lowest common denominator is higher in France than in the US (or other Western countries) - so when they make a film, they assume that you have some sort of artistic education.

Broadly speaking its a subjective issue, though - even for me, catch me on a Monday and I like arthouse films, and on a Friday when I'm brain dead I like action movies.

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I've been to France and I found the general attitude there to be extremely snotty, though it could very well be merited. In my experience, the French generally will either pretend not to speak English or ignore you completely if they can tell you're American(i.e you can't speak French).
Parisians get snotty about tourists. The rest of the French in France are extremely pleasant.

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I think the "we saved your ass in ww2" mentality is absurd, and if anyone is in debt, it's the U.S, both figuratively(the Revolutionary War) and literally(the Louisiana Purchase).

That all being said, the French are jackasses. End of story.