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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. Mister Chief posted:I'm a New Zealander and I feel the same way when I hear our accent in isolation. In my opinion, just about every accent sounds weird and odd out of context, at least until you get used to it. American accents sound fine when you're watching an American film, but if I meet an American here in Australia, the accent seems about 10 times stronger and suddenly blisteringly nasal than it ever does in its context. Going from a podcast with New Zealand hosts, and then listening to an American podcast straight afterwards, when I'd just tuned my ear to the NZ accents, made the American accents sound really wrong and horrible. There's a random Australian flight attendant in Inception and when I heard them speak I went "wait...what?" But if you hear a person or a character say more than one line or one sentence, your brain adjusts and it no longer sounds weird or bad. Goes for any out-of-place accent anywhere. I do wish that when people in movies wanted an Australian, they actually cast one. The accents done by Bambi in Sense8, and by the Australians in Pacific Rim are just terrible. And they don't make sense. None of those parts are played by big name actors and Hollywood has heaps of Australian actors just rattling around - why not grab one of them? I know that sounds like a stupid complaint, given that most Australian actors spend the vast amount of their screen time speaking in accents that aren't their own, but it just seems particularly unjust that a) nobody lets Australians ever keep their accents, because god forbid an Australian be living in New York or London in the world of the movie, that would be impossible - while also b) when we *do* have an Australian character, they're some kind of absurd comic relief character played by someone who isn't Australian and can't do the accent. I think it might be because directors don't think actual Australians sound "Australian" enough. When I was overseas everybody thought I was English. Anyway! Posters.     Haha that last one looks like a Choose your Own Adventure cover.
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Infamous Sphere posted:I do wish that when people in movies wanted an Australian, they actually cast one. The accents done by Bambi in Sense8, and by the Australians in Pacific Rim are just terrible. And they don't make sense. None of those parts are played by big name actors and Hollywood has heaps of Australian actors just rattling around - why not grab one of them? The Australian accents in Pacific Rim were so bad that they rendered the movie practically unwatchable any time they were onscreen. Goddrat but those were poo poo. The son especially.
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Tilda Swinton/Billy Zane romance flick? What happens when the handsomest woman collides with the most beautiful man?
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MikeJF posted:The Australian accents in Pacific Rim were so bad that they rendered the movie practically unwatchable any time they were onscreen. Goddrat but those were poo poo. The son especially. Rough Lobster posted:Tilda Swinton/Billy Zane romance flick? What happens when the handsomest woman collides with the most beautiful man? Well the poster's actually kind of misleading. It's actually about Tilda Swinton playing an androgynous gender-changing immortal person, and Billy Zane shows up for 12 minutes of it. It's an absolutely gorgeous movie though and I'd definitely recommend it.
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Kyle Maclachlan's 80s hair always makes it look like he's wearing a bowler hat on this poster
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MikeJF posted:The Australian accents in Pacific Rim were so bad that they rendered the movie practically unwatchable any time they were onscreen. Goddrat but those were poo poo. The son especially. The accents being terrible added to the "this is just an anime in live action" charm of that movie. I mean...look at the Russians. Just look at them. It's obviously not a movie that is concerning itself with being anything more than the most wide stereotypes of every culture it is showing, up to and including America.
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It's weird being Australian watching US media when suddenly an Aussie appears. When you watch US TV or movies you don't hear the American accent, you hear their accent as "neutral". Then suddenly someone comes on talking just like you do and it sounds different from the "neutral" accent you were just listening to and so you instantly judge their accent as wrong.
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You can't blame us for not taking you seriously when your most famous expirts are 2 different people who fight crocodiles.
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TheJoker138 posted:The accents being terrible added to the "this is just an anime in live action" charm of that movie. I mean...look at the Russians. Just look at them. That reminds me that although I generally thought that movie was sort of weak goddamn I liked that Russian battlebot.  I would watch a prequel that was just that bot beating things up. Buildings, giant bears, construction equipment. Bonus points if the crew are drunk and leave their turn signal on the whole time. EDIT: Oh god... adrift on a wave of marinara... 
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Aphrodite posted:You can't blame us for not taking you seriously when your most famous expirts are 2 different people who fight crocodiles. Ah, thats just un-fair selection Bias. All our international airports are pretty croc infested, so alas any non-crocodial fighting citizens never make it to the boarding gates. 
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TheJoker138 posted:The accents being terrible added to the "this is just an anime in live action" charm of that movie. I mean...look at the Russians. Just look at them. It's obviously not a movie that is concerning itself with being anything more than the most wide stereotypes of every culture it is showing, up to and including America. I wouldn't have cared if they were, like, Paul Hogan stereotypical! That would've been fine. But I genuinely thought it was a really bad attempt at a South African accent at first. It's just awful.
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Good Australian movie poster Best Australian movie poster 
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dr_rat posted:Good Australian movie poster Australian movie poster or Bloodborne fanart?
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Infamous Sphere posted:I do wish that when people in movies wanted an Australian, they actually cast one. The accents done by Bambi in Sense8, and by the Australians in Pacific Rim are just terrible. And they don't make sense. None of those parts are played by big name actors and Hollywood has heaps of Australian actors just rattling around - why not grab one of them? You're making me miss Trevor Goddard.
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In case you are Australian and not completely sure, the American people consider your accent among the best sounding ones. Show up in an American bar and try not to get laid. Unfortunately this doesn't work in reverse. Nobody hears our nasally accent and gets hot and bothered.
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TheJoker138 posted:Roth has said it was him being pissed at hashtag activism and people who think that indigenous peoples who are doing just fine somehow need white people to come in and "save" them. Then he's an idiot considering that hashtag activism is the least of the troubles that indigenous people in that region has: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140804-sad-truth-of-uncontacted-tribes
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kiimo posted:In case you are Australian and not completely sure, the American people consider your accent among the best sounding ones. I dunno where you get this idea. At best, most Americans think Australians sound English and they like English accents. quote:Show up in an American bar and try not to get laid. You can have pretty much any accent and get laid in America because it sounds ~exotic~
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Alhazred posted:Then he's an idiot considering that hashtag activism is the least of the troubles that indigenous people in that region has: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140804-sad-truth-of-uncontacted-tribes I'm guessing he didn't do all that much research before making his Cannibal Holocaust homage. And due to it being a Cannibal Holocaust homage, that's the way it should be, god drat it.
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At best they sound English and we like English, trying to see how this disagrees with my statement? Also I think the exotic accent thing isn't really true for all accents, e.g. Russian, German, Eastern European or Asian or South American. I feel like I could go on.
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dr_rat posted:Best Australian movie poster Also in the running for Best Tagline To Like Ironically.
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One time i saw an article about Law and Order and it said "Anthony Anderson (Kangaroo Jack)" and I felt really sorry for him. He had been in Hustle and Flow by then, or The Shield on TV.
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Aphrodite posted:One time i saw an article about Law and Order and it said "Anthony Anderson (Kangaroo Jack)" and I felt really sorry for him. I don't. Kangaroo Jack is more than Anthony Anderson loving deserves.
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Jul 27, 2015 20:50
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Anthony Anderson's a good actor.
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*insert vehement rage towards Anthony Anderson here*
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kiimo posted:At best they sound English and we like English, trying to see how this disagrees with my statement? The point being that Americans don't think Australian in particular is a great accent, they just like what they vaguely identify as "British" and that can be lots of things. Personally, I think Australian can be kind of nasal and grating, but that's the same thing they say about us, so  Since we're talking about Australia in the movie posters thread, hey remember this dumb thing 
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I was watching Calvary and wondering where I knew Chris O'Dowd from. Turns out it's from that drat poster.
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dr_rat posted:Good Australian movie poster Russell Mulcahey pre-Highlander. I love this movie.
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Vegetable posted:I was watching Calvary and wondering where I knew Chris O'Dowd from. Turns out it's from that drat poster. Watch IT Crowd, decent show.
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kiimo posted:In case you are Australian and not completely sure, the American people consider your accent among the best sounding ones. Show up in an American bar and try not to get laid. Haha, sadly the one time when I was in the North American continent and went to a bar, it was in Montreal. Nobody in Montreal cares about accents in English. (Well that's not entirely true - I went to bars in the states but none of them were the right kind of bars.)
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You can't go to a place with better accents than yours, that's just common sense.
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Vintersorg posted:Watch IT Crowd, decent show. Warning: Netflix does not have the double length finale. That appears to only be on Hulu where it is listed as the only episode in Season 5 (in the US anyway).
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Vegetable posted:I was watching Calvary and wondering where I knew Chris O'Dowd from. Turns out it's from that drat poster. I wish Calvary was more popular than it was. Such a good movie
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I will watch literally anything with Chris O'Dowd, and incidentally, that is largely because of his accent.
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I thought everyone knew him from Bridesmaids.
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kiimo posted:I thought everyone knew him from Bridesmaids. I thought everyone could only remember the making GBS threads scene from Bridesmaids.
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anticake posted:Warning: Netflix does not have the double length finale. That appears to only be on Hulu where it is listed as the only episode in Season 5 (in the US anyway). That explains why it feel it ended out of nowhere. At least on  netflix too. Ill have to hunt that down.
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Erebus posted:The point being that Americans don't think Australian in particular is a great accent, they just like what they vaguely identify as "British" and that can be lots of things. Personally, I think Australian can be kind of nasal and grating, but that's the same thing they say about us, so
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Dick Trauma posted:That reminds me that although I generally thought that movie was sort of weak goddamn I liked that Russian battlebot. Pacific Rim genuinely felt like there was an hour of cut content. I wanted to see other Jaegers and learn about their history but nope they get a brief mention and that's it.
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