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

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I'm from Nigeria and I do watch my country movies but I prefer Korean series a lot
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I love Telugu movies. The last movie that I saw was Pushpa: The rise.
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Just as one shouldn't judge a person by their ethnicity, one should also not judge a movie by the country or the culture that created it. I have found many excellent movies which were not American productions; in fact, my two favorite movies of all time are foreign (not U.S.A. made) movies.

The U.S.A. has a long-standing reputation for making good movies which is probably the result of being able to direct more money to the effort than many other countries are able to, but many excellent movies have been coming out of Europe and Asia since the end of WWII and especially in more recent times.
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I absolutely love watching Korean dramas with a lot of action and not a lot of romance.
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Turkish series are also interesting
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I enjoy foreign movies most of time. But I wish I enjoyed my country's movie the same. I think we are way to slow moving on the movie industry.
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Urg... no offense to my country but the normative taste in their movie making irks me and I frivolously aim to avoid their media releases, be it movies, series, or music.
There are some exceptions, of course, but mostly: no... just no.
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I'm a Nigerian and I love foreingn movies. My country movies is fun to watch but I don't enjoy it knowing that most of the things they act hardly happen in real life and sometimes they over exaggerate things. People find it interesting and fun but I don't.
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I am from Mauritius. We do not have a film industry here. Lately, I am enjoying Korean movies more than Western ones. Those on Netflix contain a bit to much profanity and sexual scenes for my taste. Korean movies are more subtle and are definitely more tasteful in that aspect (as least, those that I have watched so far).
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I prefer foreign movies to my country's movie because I get to learn something new about other peoples tradition.
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I love Asian movies, especially bangali/Indian ones. The music that usually accompanies them is a banger.
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Our nollywood has greatly improved in the quality of movies they produce. I didn't use to watch them before but now I do watch them. I watch both foreign and local movies
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Innocent chinenye wrote: 27 Mar 2018, 11:13 I love watching foreign movies especially the Philippines movies.
"Filipino in here. Thank you for admiring Filipino movies" :tiphat:
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It doesn't really matter if it's foreign or not, it's the movie itself.
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Foreign movies. It helps acculturation. I tend to watch American movies less oftenly for quite some years. I generally prefer European cinema. Any good movie from anywhere in the world is welcome though.
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