Nobody mention the flag, the americans get too defensive....

For god sake can we shut up about the flag.

I am a British left of centre person who loves to see our flag,on government buildings,on soldiers uniforms,especially because I am Scottish and the union flag reminds me of the fact that Britain is a union of 3 nations.

My point is that most countries fly their flag at different times and places and the flag does not just belong to one section of the society it flies above.

Seems to me that since 9/11 the American flag has been flown more and more in public,and the USA (and Britain)has been involved in 2 wars since 9/11,I don't understand why most Americans or foreign people should have any problem with Americans flying their flag at a time of national emergency as shown in this film.

I watch tv news and see plane crashes and bombings in countries and guess what they fly their flag.

if that's the case then don't you dare vote for anyone other than Obama to be president again...if hes not good enough then go live in another country :D

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But when they portray Englishmen through terrible false wimpy overly-posh stereotypes that they need to be looked after by strong confident American women (why couldn't they be American too?), and that even the actor who played Blake's cowardly boyfriend who ran away is also British, then the USA flag at the end becomes even more a blatant symbol as rubbing it in even more to the rest of the world that only Americans can be the real true strong heroes.

Well patriotism is fine, in its place. Over-patriotism though doesn't sell well abroad. In movies it's really becoming embarrassingly cringeworthy and outdated now. San Andreas isn't just a one-off. There's many over-patriotic flag-waving movies.

The Christopher Reeves Superman movies were notorious for the over patriotism, when he's supposed to be the worlds protector it seemed that even if it came to an illegal aggressive invasion by the USA government against a small innocent country, then Supe's would still side with the USA waving the American flag regardless, because the way he's been presented he considers himself as more the typical patriotic American rather than Kryptonian and protector of the whole human race.

Rocky IV was also another culprit. What a facepalm that was having all those Russian spectators at the end cheering on Rocky, effectively cheering on the USA against their own country. I bet that went down in Russia just as well as a gay pride march, lol.

Look at the flip-side. Could you imagine James Bond (English) killing an evil American stereotype stetson wearing cigar chomping villain with a terrible accent by impaling him on a flag pole with the union jack flag flying proudly at the end? I'm reckoning most Americans would be in absolute outrage giving it a huge thumbs down calling us arrogant, even though their movie industry does the same thing a hundred times more, with them then wondering why non-Americans scratch their heads about it.

At the end of the day, it's all propaganda which serves nothing to the story, just to arrogantly tell the rest of the world "We're the best and everyone else sucks" compared.

Being proud of your country is stupid.

A Mexican saying Americans are overly patriotic, oh the major irony. You Mexicans are constantly displaying your Mexican flags to brag about your Mexican heritage. Even when you people are in other people's country like The U.S. There are neighborhoods in California for example where you are way more likely to see a Mexican flag displayed than an American flag. You know what they say about glass houses.