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Dick Trauma posted:Idris Elba's is unfortunately not good, and in Prometheus it verged on terrible. A very good actor though! I agree that Damian Lewis did a fantastic job in Band of Brothers and Ryan Kwanten is solid. This is like a loving bizarro world post.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Paul Blackthorne has a fantastic American accent too. What the hell. I had no idea.
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LesterGroans posted:This is like a loving bizarro world post. Accent discussions are fun if only because there's so much disagreement!  But to re-rail my de-rail I offer this lovely thing: 
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Dick Trauma posted:Accent discussions are fun if only because there's so much disagreement! Fairplay, I just literally had the exact opposite opinion on those accents as you. David Morissey was like the TV equivalent of a Liam Neeson's American accent. Clearly poor, but you overlook it because you like the actor. And Idris Elba's is shockingly good. And bringing it back to posters, a movie/miniseries David Morissey is in with a great poster: 
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I like all the actors except Dominic West, so no one's getting an intentional pass. I wish we could all watch some of these performances together and pick them apart, especially considering some of us are from outside the U.S. Speaking of which... enjoy our giant golden heads! 
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Idris Elba sounds so good in The Wire that it's really disappointing anytime he uses his actual accent.
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kiimo posted:Every actor in the world is vying for second place American accent behind Jason Stackhouse of True Blood (Ryan Kwanten, Australian, somehow not American redneck somehow). Holy poo poo, I had no idea he wasn't from somewhere in the American South, he sounds like so many people I know (I live in California, but a good chunk of people I hang out with are from the South, including a very sizable number of people from Louisiana who left in the aftermath of Katrina). As for the Wire, Idris was amazing and since that was my first exposure to him, seeing Luthor later was a pretty big shock. The guy who plays Carcetti is pretty good, but that might just be because I don't have much familiarity with East Coast accents. Dominick West is pretty obviously not American in retrospect but I bought it the first time around. I do like him pretending to be English in the episode with the prostitution sting, he does a weird Dick Van Dyke esque accent. Hugh Laurie's American accent is decent enough except when he laughs, especially in the early seasons of House, he has a distinctly British laugh.
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Yvonne Strahovski from Chuck had a pretty great American accent. Even knowing she's Australian I don't think I ever heard it in her voice.
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Distorted Kiwi posted:Poster Six-Pack: Sorted for E's Edition Subtle!
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Aphrodite posted:Yvonne Strahovski from Chuck had a pretty great American accent. Even knowing she's Australian I don't think I ever heard it in her voice. It was funny hearing non-Australians say her Mass Effect character have a terrible accent.
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They said the same in the Chuck thread when she uses her real accent in an undercover episode.
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cthulusnewzulubbq posted:Do you receive these in the mail? My interest is piqued. Nope, just from a huge file of posters on my hard drive. My actual wall-mounted posters are mainly from Bogart movies. And this one: 
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Distorted Kiwi posted:Nope, just from a huge file of posters on my hard drive. My actual wall-mounted posters are mainly from Bogart movies. I think I saw like the last thirty seconds of this on TV once, ended up having to google what the hell it was, because the cable box just spit back "Movie."
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Allen Wren posted:I think I saw like the last thirty seconds of this on TV once, ended up having to google what the hell it was, because the cable box just spit back "Movie." Those are always the best ones. It's used to be finding something like that used to be watching it the midnight movie and it coming on like some sort of half-crazed fever dream. Then, when you're more awake or sober, you try looking it up in the cable box or the TV guide and that's all there is.
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Young Freud posted:Those are always the best ones. It's used to be finding something like that used to be watching it the midnight movie and it coming on like some sort of half-crazed fever dream. Then, when you're more awake or sober, you try looking it up in the cable box or the TV guide and that's all there is. That was how I saw Basket Case for the first time. Came in in the last twenty minutes and had no loving clue what was happening or why and it was fabulous.
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Young Freud posted:Those are always the best ones. It's used to be finding something like that used to be watching it the midnight movie and it coming on like some sort of half-crazed fever dream. Then, when you're more awake or sober, you try looking it up in the cable box or the TV guide and that's all there is. One time I stayed at a hotel in Crystal Lake, IL (not a camp, thankfully) and in the middle of the night watched a Spanish language ad for a car dealership for like an hour. They had so many costumed characters! They just kept coming out! There was an Elvis and a King with a big "$99" gold chain or something like that, it was goddamn enthralling. If anyone has this video please share it with the world because it was an amazing experience.
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Skwirl posted:As for the Wire, Idris was amazing and since that was my first exposure to him, seeing Luthor later was a pretty big shock. Talking of Luther, I saw this poster for it that the Beeb put out. Pretty lazy in my opinion, seeing as the show is a bit mental. What's going on with that font? 
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Distorted Kiwi posted:Nope, just from a huge file of posters on my hard drive. My actual wall-mounted posters are mainly from Bogart movies. Hey,I remember this! I can't remember if it was the Betamax cover or a poster, but it's one of those pictures I still remember from the video rental store my parents used to visit, along with the April's fool cover/poster and Dario Argento's Opera. And the Fly's posters. And that huge cardboard Batman they would put outside the store. I loved that store, good memories.
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The MSJ posted:It was funny hearing non-Australians say her Mass Effect character have a terrible accent. I'm putting that one on the Australian accent itself. Something about it, when surrounded by non-Australian accents (particularly Americans), just makes it sound awful. That might just be me, though.
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Cleretic posted:I'm putting that one on the Australian accent itself. Something about it, when surrounded by non-Australian accents (particularly Americans), just makes it sound awful. I'm a New Zealander and I feel the same way when I hear our accent in isolation.
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LesterGroans posted:Fairplay, I just literally had the exact opposite opinion on those accents as you. David Morissey was like the TV equivalent of a Liam Neeson's American accent. Clearly poor, but you overlook it because you like the actor. And Idris Elba's is shockingly good.  This is a YA scifi book, the first of a trilogy. I would think "oh, they're just copying what's successful for profit" given the intentional Ender's Game/Hunger Games marketing but my mind twists in knots when I try to think why someone would try to use the Red Riding Trilogy as a part of that. A Venn diagram of those audiences is probably two separate circles.
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Cleretic posted:I'm putting that one on the Australian accent itself. Something about it, when surrounded by non-Australian accents (particularly Americans), just makes it sound awful. Kinda, but also it seems like Americans'll only get exposed to two Aussie accents: either absolutely terrible fake ones, or the most extreme, ridiculous ones like Steve Irwin or Paul Hogan. Strahovski's got a pretty bog-standard (albeit slightly broad) Sydney Aussie accent. Although even with regards to non-extreme Aussie accents, it feels like Melbourne accents (Hemsworth, Jessie Spencer, etc) are a little easier to blend with American. Although maybe with them it's just an effect of vocal training; most Aussie actors in America will shift their voice to be less nasal, speak lower down, even when using their Aussie accent. Whether or not they're doing that is probably a big factor in how well they blend. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Accents are like wigs and CGI, people think they're way better at identifying them than they actually are.
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latest edgy film from a very edgy filmmaker
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Calico Heart posted:latest edgy film from a very edgy filmmaker Reading Eli Roth's interviews about the movie make it seem even more insufferable than I thought, because apparently the message is taking activists down a peg in a "pee pee doo doo caring about things is for losers" South Park way.
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That rules, I hope it gets more people in to the theater to see his movie about cannibals.
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Parachute posted:That rules, I hope it gets more people in to the theater to see his movie about cannibals. Nobody's gonna go see it.
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If the response to this movie is going to be that lukewarm Eli Roth is going to wish he kept that baby the natives offered his crew as a gift. They didn't accept it and the mother was slightly disappointed that they rejected this gift from her people.
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I remember hearing nothing but good things about Green Inferno while it was in release hell, is it actually a bad movie or is it just being assumed as such because it's a genuine exploitation film? addendum: I also didn't start hearing anything *at all* about the film's politics until Blumhouse picked it up, so unless they did some reshoots I'm inclined to believe they're William Castling it up to try and get people to see it.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Nobody's gonna go see it. I will but I'm most definitely a stupid people.
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MacheteZombie posted:Lol what? He told the story on the Doug Loves Movies podcast a while ago (might have been summer of last year). Basically they sent out some people to get in touch with these natives/villagers to discuss if they were willing to participate in this movie and shoot it on location there. After they had been informed what a movie actually was, they came together to make a decision. They agreed and they offered a baby child as a gift of some sorts. Apparently it was a real honor for it's mother to part ways with the child for this too, but there were no hard feelings about it being rejected. He had another story about a boat of crazy Christians suddenly appearing and passing by while they were filming, docking the boat and disrupting the shoot because they thought they were participating in some kind of devil worship. So yeah, I look forward to the retail release should it have a director's commentary track. Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Calico Heart posted:latest edgy film from a very edgy filmmaker Nothing get's people off their high horses better than watching random college kids get brutally murdered. You sure showed those SJW's, Eli Roth.
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Next up: a movie about panda bears mauling wwf members
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That tweet is way too long, and that's just in hashtags. Immersion ruined, Eli. 
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Kurtofan posted:Next up: a movie about panda bears mauling wwf members I parsed that as bears vs. wrestlers, which is basically Zangief: The Movie. I'm okay with that.
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Kurtofan posted:Next up: a movie about panda bears mauling wwf members Habitat for Humanity makes homes for the homeless but they are all haunted and everyone dies a brutal death. You just got pwned, liberals
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