Well I am American and to be honest most of us don't have much of an idea what and who is popular in Germany. I saw "Run, Lola, Run" (loved it) and like the music of Rammstein but don't really know who's music tops the charts or what movies & TV shows are really big over there. What we do know is that Hasselhoff (who's singing had about 3 fans over here) did have a few hits over there and everyone has seen that video of him playing at that concert to celebrate the end of the Berlin wall. When cultural products are exported to other nations it's often strange which ones find an audience and which ones don't. Here in the US we have a bit of a running joke about media products (songs, movies, TV shows, actors) that fail here but are "huge in Japan" or "huge in Europe." So basically because it's because it's an easy joke that everyone will get.
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outthesnow
17 years ago
Just one more stupid Hollywood movie where someone protects incredibly sensitive data with a dictionary password, a name, or something else that could be guessed or cracked easily. (Fun quiz: Name some other movies that do this!) Someone needs to tell Hollywood that passwords look like this:
}x25EH%5(2z[S>VSLJ!>6/MSa-B(A4"qK
IMDb users probably already know this, so maybe IMDb should tell them :-)
Never believe anything that comes out of Hollywood.
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