Why must everything be Americanized before anyone will touch it?

[Andrew]

Hmm, is it just me or did I just find out that war of the worlds took place in great britain in the book.

Still a good movie.

[Kiyouta]

The same was made for The war of the worlds, both in the old movie and the new one.

Original book: Early 20th century, location United Kingdom. New movie: Early 21st century, location United States. ???

Everything is Americanized nowadays.

A la Ctrl+F :P Or maybe firefox doesn't have that feature... ;)

Most Japanese/Korean horror films have been set in America in their American versions (i.e. Ring, The Grudge and soon to be Dark Water). I think its something to do with the fact most Americans think that if you keep swimming east from Florida you will hit the West coast of America...

[nemafakei]

The immediate reasons for Americanisation are quite clear: In the US market, the largest market, american-centric films are vastly more popular - even if that's giving spacemen of 4000 years from now Texan accents. In other countries, american-centric films are, on average, no less popular than local ones, so there's really no incentive for filmmakers to make non-Americaised films.

Why they're popular is a different question of course.

I would presume that it is because most everywhere is already so used to US culture that people don't notice it - but in the US, foreign-centered films are more likely to be rejected as irrelevant, harder to relate to, because of the different context or associations.

[Edric O]

I'm still waiting to see a movie about the great WW2 battle in the city of Stalingrad, Illinois.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Hey.. that was a rough battle. They lost close to 3 heads of cattle and 10 bushels of corn.

[Dude_Doc]

Now you see why I chose to get right into movies, instead of writing books :D .