Are all the (US) Americans so global ignorants?

Rating: 2/10 (6 November 2004)

I know this is just a Blockbuster pop corn movie and nobody cares about nuances or giblets like geography or world traditions.
The stupid idea to mix a religious fair (the traditional fair during Holy Week, before Easter in Seville, Andalusia, Southern Spain, Europe) and a non-religious-at-all-fair in Valencia, Western Spain, Europe too, "Las Fallas" as the same thing, should be considered a serious misdemeanor in such a high budget film like this. Mr Cruise and Mr. Woo should have hired a much more competent documentation team, and art direction team too.
This is not a documentary about European traditions, but after watching this I can imagine a director from another "undocumented" country imagining a XXI century US where main cities has no skycrapers but small wood-made buildings, and a saloon with ignorant cow-boys riding on horses instead cars,thinking the earth is flat, and treating all bearded arabic people wear as terrorists.
Moreover that stupid constant in Hollywood movies showing Spain as an undeveloped thir world country and its inhabitants as Latin Americans or Africans instead Mediterranean Europeans is somewhat funny, because it probably means that Hollywood thinks that the rest of the world thinks Spain is part of the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa or Atlantis (yes Atlantis, it exists it has borders with Syldavia .... )
Thandie Newton looks African, not Spanish, many guys here probably are wishing more Spanish women were like that, but no, poor guys, here all women look so European....
Anyway who cares, don't you think so?. Many spectators in Spain did not care too, some just watched this part astounded, some other could not help to start laughin and some (a few) felt indignant.
Advice for non Spaniards: please after watching this kind of Hollywood trash please review your geography books and maps. I hate listening things like "I'm planning to visit Spain traveling by my car.... from Seattle to Spain.... Unbelievable! He just had an old Ford, neither James Bond's Aston Martin, nor Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car.
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