Videogum » Sam Waterston http://videogum.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:45:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Le Divorce http://videogum.com/82601/the_hunt_for_the_worst_movie_o_66/franchises/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/ http://videogum.com/82601/the_hunt_for_the_worst_movie_o_66/franchises/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:41:03 +0000 Gabe France is great. It’s a beautiful country with a long, rich history (God that is a dull thing to say, no matter how true). The food is great (duh), the wine is great (duh), and their influence on literature and film is immeasurable. The American stereotype of the French as rude snobs is stupid, Xenophobic, and mostly unfounded (although it is true that in Paris sometimes they are a bit rough around their polished edges). Remember Freedom Fries? We are the ones who looked rude and ridiculous in that exchange. But perhaps even worse than the American who dismissively categorizes France as a cheese-scented land of haughty Communists is the American who falls in love with France, and pretends to have discovered it all on their own. There is nothing more grating to my ears than hearing someone say that they went to Au Bon Pain for a croissant and pronouncing everything with a college-junior’s-summer-Eurorail accent.

Now imagine them going into Au Bon Pain and ordering croissants for two hours!

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