Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.
The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.
It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.
And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.
I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.
I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.