A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
American men are more open, they are readier to express their emotions, but they also get frightened easily. Italians are used to drama. For us, arguing, shouting is perfectly normal - for them it is inconceivable.
I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.