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Post by Push R Truth on Jul 6, 2020 14:34:46 GMT -5
I feel like you could make an entire list of just Sean Connery movies. He's my personal champion for this phenomena.
And I say that loving the dude's work. That said, he didn't ruin a lot of the movies. More of just a "wtf I thought he was supposed to be Spanish/French/Egypytion/Japanese/etc"
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Jul 6, 2020 14:43:52 GMT -5
I feel like you could make an entire list of just Sean Connery movies. He's my personal champion for this phenomena. And I say that loving the dude's work. That said, he didn't ruin a lot of the movies. More of just a "wtf I thought he was supposed to be Spanish/French/Egypytion/Japanese/etc" And he’s in a movie with one of the worst accents ever (that wasn’t his) in Con Air where Nicholas Cage did his impression of what he thought someone from Alabama sounds like
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 6, 2020 14:57:39 GMT -5
I feel like you could make an entire list of just Sean Connery movies. He's my personal champion for this phenomena. I do occasionally wonder if its a case of Connery simply being unable to flatten his natural accent to any believable degree (see Gerard Butler any time he plays an American), or if it's more a case of "I'm Sean Connery, dammit" outright refusal.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jul 6, 2020 19:08:11 GMT -5
As a southerner, any movie that has fake southern accents in it kinda ruins it for me. They're all just so blatantly fake and bad. A lot of them try to sound like they're an extra on Gone with the Wind and it just sucks. As a Boston area native, that's how I feel about Boston accents in movies. We don't all sound like the Kennedys!! The Departed is nearly unwatchable to me for this reason.
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Post by Cela on Jul 6, 2020 19:21:29 GMT -5
I feel like you could make an entire list of just Sean Connery movies. He's my personal champion for this phenomena. And I say that loving the dude's work. That said, he didn't ruin a lot of the movies. More of just a "wtf I thought he was supposed to be Spanish/French/Egypytion/Japanese/etc" And he’s in a movie with one of the worst accents ever (that wasn’t his) in Con Air where Nicholas Cage did his impression of what he thought someone from Alabama sounds like Connery was in The Rock, not Con Air. But good call on "Put the bunny back in the box."
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Jul 6, 2020 20:27:53 GMT -5
And he’s in a movie with one of the worst accents ever (that wasn’t his) in Con Air where Nicholas Cage did his impression of what he thought someone from Alabama sounds like Connery was in The Rock, not Con Air. But good call on "Put the bunny back in the box." You’re right, got my Nicholas Cage 90s cheese movies mixed up . Cage in con air is an awful nonsensical accent which is as much Alabama as Casey Affleck in Gone Baby Gone is Australian
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Post by Savage Gambino on Jul 7, 2020 3:20:01 GMT -5
This might be an unpopular choice, but Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. I know she's kind of one of the universally recognized bright spots of an otherwise divisive DCEU, but an Australian doing what is more or less an Arleen Sorkin impression was always going to be tough to pull off, when even American VAs have an issue with it.
Like, I wouldn't say it ruined the movie (Lord knows it had a lot more problems than that anyway), but I recall her just straight up dropping the accent and then juggling with it in Suicide Squad did take me out of the movie for a minute.
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Post by Cela on Jul 7, 2020 10:06:05 GMT -5
This might be an unpopular choice, but Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. I know she's kind of one of the universally recognized bright spots of an otherwise divisive DCEU, but an Australian doing what is more or less an Arleen Sorkin impression was always going to be tough to pull off, when even American VAs have an issue with it. Like, I wouldn't say it ruined the movie (Lord knows it had a lot more problems than that anyway), but I recall her just straight up dropping the accent and then juggling with it in Suicide Squad did take me out of the movie for a minute. Would be better if she didn't do that accent in every movie. Wolf of Wall Street, I, Tonya, Contrabulous Fabtraption of Harley Quinn, Mary Queen of Scotts, same accent. Okay, maybe not the last one.
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Post by ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul on Jul 7, 2020 10:31:19 GMT -5
As a southerner, any movie that has fake southern accents in it kinda ruins it for me. They're all just so blatantly fake and bad. A lot of them try to sound like they're an extra on Gone with the Wind and it just sucks. As a Boston area native, that's how I feel about Boston accents in movies. We don't all sound like the Kennedys!! The Departed is nearly unwatchable to me for this reason. No, you're all Mayor Quimby.
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Post by The Trashman on Jul 7, 2020 13:33:10 GMT -5
Knives Out with whatever accent Daniel Craig tried comes to mind.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 7, 2020 13:52:20 GMT -5
I don’t know about ruined, because it had bigger more fundamental problems, but Jodie Foster’s space French accent in Elysium didn’t help. French? It felt more like she didn't know what accent her character should have so she tried out all of them.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 7, 2020 13:55:05 GMT -5
As a southerner, any movie that has fake southern accents in it kinda ruins it for me. They're all just so blatantly fake and bad. A lot of them try to sound like they're an extra on Gone with the Wind and it just sucks. As a Boston area native, that's how I feel about Boston accents in movies. We don't all sound like the Kennedys!! The Departed is nearly unwatchable to me for this reason. I would pay Leo an undisclosed large sum of money to never talk in an accent other than his own ever again. It's the one thing he's terrible at. He sounded like a f***ing cartoon in Shutter Island.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jul 7, 2020 14:08:01 GMT -5
I don’t know about ruined, because it had bigger more fundamental problems, but Jodie Foster’s space French accent in Elysium didn’t help. French? It felt more like she didn't know what accent her character should have so she tried out all of them. I love that reasoning and I'm going to pretend it's what happened.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 8, 2020 13:05:12 GMT -5
I feel like you could make an entire list of just Sean Connery movies. He's my personal champion for this phenomena. And I say that loving the dude's work. That said, he didn't ruin a lot of the movies. More of just a "wtf I thought he was supposed to be Spanish/French/Egypytion/Japanese/etc" HE has the perfect accent for a Russian Submarine commander!
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 8, 2020 13:29:25 GMT -5
While it doesn't ruin anything, I've noticed a trend lately where the conscious decision is made to not use accents appropriate to the story. Chernobyl may well be one the greatest pieces of TV ever broadcast, but it does take some getting used to when every single one of these Soviet characters talk with a broad range of British accents (and one Swedish).
The Great goes one better and has Elle Fanning, an American, portraying Catherine the Great, a Prussian, with an English accent.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 2:05:46 GMT -5
Not like the movie doesn't have plenty of other issues but After Earth might be a little less of a trainwreck if everyone wasn't talking like Elmer Fudd.
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Post by madness50 on Jul 10, 2020 1:02:47 GMT -5
That one movie with Tommy Lee Jones trying to pull off an Irish accent. Can’t remember the name of the film though.
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Post by madness50 on Jul 10, 2020 1:04:36 GMT -5
Charlie Hunnam's attempt at a cockney accent in Green Street was pure comedy. His American accent was awful at first on Sons of Anarchy. It got better as the show went along, but you could definitely tell he was from England.
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Post by Cela on Jul 10, 2020 12:31:08 GMT -5
That one movie with Tommy Lee Jones trying to pull off an Irish accent. Can’t remember the name of the film though. Blown Away? Have there ever been any Irish Accent attempts that don't sound like Lucky Charms?
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Post by lucas_lee on Jul 10, 2020 12:36:33 GMT -5
As a southerner, any movie that has fake southern accents in it kinda ruins it for me. They're all just so blatantly fake and bad. A lot of them try to sound like they're an extra on Gone with the Wind and it just sucks. As a Boston area native, that's how I feel about Boston accents in movies. We don't all sound like the Kennedys!! The Departed is nearly unwatchable to me for this reason. To me the film with the best Boston accent is "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" Robert Mitchum really nailed it
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