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Re: Do you love watching your country movies or foreign movies?

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I love to watch and read foreign book/movies from around the world, I find that makes you think about other countries and how they think. I have been in a lot of
countries, from Ukraine to Russia, to Iceland and so much more, a lot of places many people dream of going, and a lot of my travel has been in the military and some a civilian, which makes my learning greater, because I have been where others have not.
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I love watching both foreign movies and local movie if they have what it takes to keep me interested.
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I enjoy certain types of genres made outside of the US more than US made films. Horror is one of them. I think Japanese, Korean, and a lot of Eastern European countries handle horror so much better than Americans. The POV, narrative, and all around feel really embody the essence of genre.
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I love watching foreign movies for me to know more about other countries
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I love foreign movies, especially International Thrillers. Indian, Spanish, Porteguese, French... Any language, if it's good, it's good.
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It doesn't really matter to me if they are local or international movies as long as the movie is not boring and played by good actors with good pictures and clear sounds.
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It really depends on the story line. I like both. :)
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It's amazing to see that there are foreigns who loves to watch Filipino movies. Anyway, i don't care where the movie came from. As long as its entertaining and takes me to a different world.
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Foreign. Mostly American and sometimes Russian. In the past I used to watch movies in languages I don't understand with either subtitles or voice over, but now I've stopped doing that. Some things just can't be translated accurately, you lose some of the meaning and sometimes the translator just does a crappy job. Basically, when I watch a movie I want to experience it just as the filmmakers meant it to be experienced.
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Foreign movies,mostly black american movies.
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Movies from my country are not suspense filled. One can tell how the entire movie will go down just from the first 10 to 20 minutes, so i don't bother watching them. I prefer watching foreign movies, especially american and english movies. 😀😀
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It doesn't depend on the language of the movie, for me it depends on the storyline of it. I can watch any story whether foreign or not.
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I honestly watch both indistinctly. It does really depend on the storyline. Sometimes, when a movie is a remake of an old one from a different country, I watch both.
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I love watching both it's amazing what you can learn about a culture when you watch what they make.
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I love American blockbusters, the kind that really need to be seen on the big screen to do the special effects justice. But I also love watching foreign films, especially horror movies which tend to be more cerebral or just more interesting since they usually draw from urban legends or cultural anxieties that I'm not as familiar with.
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