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Do incorrect accents really deter you from enjoying a performance in a show/movie?
- Thread starter Dalek
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Nah. Not unless the accent keeps changing.
The biggest obstacle for me regarding old shows is a laugh track. Hard to ignore the obnoxiousness of it anymore.
The biggest obstacle for me regarding old shows is a laugh track. Hard to ignore the obnoxiousness of it anymore.
Echoing what others said I'm two episodes into The Boys and Urbans accent is distracting, had to look up what he was actually going for
Only julia roberts laughably bad irish accent
The bad boston accents Re so stupid but don't bother me
The bad boston accents Re so stupid but don't bother me
The only time I've had this trouble was with Logan Lucky which sucks because I loved everything about it. The cast, the premise, NASCAR, it being a heist. Just the accents killed it for me. Which is weird because I've never had that trouble before.
Most of the time I can hand-wave it because I've met a lot of people in real life with weird hybrid accents. But it's a lack of consistency I find more annoying, like Sophie Turner's X-Men accent being all over the place.
There's a scene with Olenna Tyrell where he says something like "necessary for the preservation of the realm" that is so lispy and terrible (not that lisps are terrible, but Dinklage's poor 'medieval-English' attempt slipping into one is unfortunate) that I'm not sure how it passed filming without another take.
it's probably worse when it's YOUR accent being mangled.
Australians of a certain age remember the terrible accents of the supposedly australian cops at the end of the original Point Break.
Australians of a certain age remember the terrible accents of the supposedly australian cops at the end of the original Point Break.
I think his tenure as Tyrion is just a case of the acting prowess being so damn good, that nailing the accent just didn't matter to the directors.
Karl Urban's Cockney accent in the Boys takes me out of every scene immediately. It's so bad and all I can hear is Kiwi. Breaks the immersion instantly.
Same goes any time Cumberbatch tries to sound American. It's brutal.
Same goes any time Cumberbatch tries to sound American. It's brutal.
The only two I can think of:
Mike's daughter-in-law on BCS, who is Irish or something in real life and can't quite pull off an American accent, and
Star Lord's mother in flashback scenes of both GotG movies - She's supposed to be from Missouri but talks with a deep southern accent that sounds like she should be from Alabama. Which is strange, because James Webb is from St. Louis and would know better, and thus must've made the decision on purpose for some weird reason. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Mike's daughter-in-law on BCS, who is Irish or something in real life and can't quite pull off an American accent, and
Star Lord's mother in flashback scenes of both GotG movies - She's supposed to be from Missouri but talks with a deep southern accent that sounds like she should be from Alabama. Which is strange, because James Webb is from St. Louis and would know better, and thus must've made the decision on purpose for some weird reason. 🤷🏻‍♂️
The Midlands (Mainly Birmingham and surround areas) has a very specific drone to it, while also being quite heavy with slang. "You can't" becomes "Yow cor", and "they aren't" becomes "they ay", stuff like that.
The actors in the show try very hard, but a true Birmingham/Yam yam accent is very difficult to pull off. What they end up doing is having a mix of lots of English accents so it comes off as very inauthentic. I guess being surrounded by it every day and then hearing the show "try" makes it very apparent :')
Haha yes! It's truly atrocious in spots, especially the use of "diabolical". The people they hired to be his family in the latest season were equally offensive.
If I notice, yeah. You put all this time and money into everything else just to trip over something so simple. Plus, it was an opportunity to give work to someone from the area
Not really.
Karl Urban's cockney accent in The Boys is horrendous but I still enjoy the hell out of his performance.
Karl Urban's cockney accent in The Boys is horrendous but I still enjoy the hell out of his performance.
I can always put it aside, but I do find it funny sometimes when it's really bad. Brits are often terrible at American accents (they either go cartoonish New York, yeehaw Southern, or so non regional and flat that it sounds robotic) and that's usually good for a chuckle.
I think they might have been trying to avoid upstaging Urban...having an actual cockney would throw everything out.
I was kind of hoping they'd cast Dick Van Dyke actually.
The other one I can think of Wanda Maximoff in the MCU. At times I quickly forget that she's supposed to even have an accent.
I'm working my way through sons of anarchy right now and it's genuinely ruining the show for me how bad the accents on all the Irish characters are.
They clearly made a decision not to send any of the main cast to Ireland or hire any Irish actors. There's one character in particular who jumps between an Irish, northern Irish and British accent, sometimes in the same sentence.
They clearly made a decision not to send any of the main cast to Ireland or hire any Irish actors. There's one character in particular who jumps between an Irish, northern Irish and British accent, sometimes in the same sentence.
Olsen was doing an accent in AoU and Civil War, and then just dropped it for no reason in Infinity War I think.
I know, but even right from the begin in Age of Ultron I thought her applying of the accent wasn't very distinctive at all.
I'm an American. So, no. It has to be a REALLY rough accent for me to even realize they're putting on an accent. Even the rare bad American accent I see is something I just find endearing. Actual American accents are so diverse that it's easy to brush off too.
It's nice.
It's nice.
Not at all.
I cannot even fully differentiate between the various accents here in just New Jersey,
No way I am caring if some movie or television show has an accent right or wrong, as I truly would have zero clue if they are or not.
I cannot even fully differentiate between the various accents here in just New Jersey,
No way I am caring if some movie or television show has an accent right or wrong, as I truly would have zero clue if they are or not.
Because none of em are British! His aunt is Canadian and his dad is an Aussie. Like it cannot be that difficult to get a couple fucking actual English actors for the one or two scenes those characters are in.
Everybody in The Boys thread is like "Butcher is the best character" and I simply cannot get over the accent.
My partner is Ukrainian and it's been eye opening watching all sorts of classic movies. Sometimes there's cool stuff you'd miss unless you can read Cyrillic letters, but more often than not the words are gibberish. Same goes with Russian "speaking" characters (usually bad guys). Sometimes they're not even actually speaking the language, which is crazy. Like how hard can it be to simply get the words right, even if the pronunciation is off? That's just lazy.
Southern accents in media tend to be Texas or Everywhere Else and it's kind of wild having lived in several southern states how different areas sound. I mean I really don't want to know how different North Louisianan sounds than South Louisianan but anytime that state is featured in a show I brace myself.
Doesn't bother me unless it's, like, comically bad. Inaccurate or poor... I'm good.
I am interested in how much this affects the acting of some actors, though. Even Hugh Laurie said that his American accent in House made him very aware of how nailing the accent affected his ability to act because he was so focused on it. I mean, I think the end result was great, but given his comments, I wonder what it would have been like if he had just played a Brit who moved to America.
Robert Pattinson in Lighthouse is a great example of an iffy, wandering accent not diminishing a fucking amazing performance (I thought he was even better than Dafoe,) so I am pretty comfortable letting accuracy slide most times.
I am interested in how much this affects the acting of some actors, though. Even Hugh Laurie said that his American accent in House made him very aware of how nailing the accent affected his ability to act because he was so focused on it. I mean, I think the end result was great, but given his comments, I wonder what it would have been like if he had just played a Brit who moved to America.
Robert Pattinson in Lighthouse is a great example of an iffy, wandering accent not diminishing a fucking amazing performance (I thought he was even better than Dafoe,) so I am pretty comfortable letting accuracy slide most times.
Not always, but sometimes. If a character's accent really sticks out like a sore thumb it becomes impossible to take them seriously.
It's especially funny when an actor is butchering their own accent, like Mark Wahlberg in the Happening. Motherfucker, you're from Southie and you sound like some idiot from LA trying to make fun of Bostonians. You know how your own fucking neighbors talked when you were growing up.
It's especially funny when an actor is butchering their own accent, like Mark Wahlberg in the Happening. Motherfucker, you're from Southie and you sound like some idiot from LA trying to make fun of Bostonians. You know how your own fucking neighbors talked when you were growing up.
As many people have said, it depends. REALLY shit accents are often hilarious and, depending on the tone of the movie, don't bother me. James Coburn's Australian accent in The Great Escape it terrible but it is great.
That being said I can't stand people doing my accent (grew up in Northern Ireland) because nobody can do one right and you have a wide choice too for such a small area. I don't know why they try. This was especially bad in the 90s when people from Northern Ireland were frequently the "heroes" in serious dramas about the Troubles or the baddies in various action movies. The two "IRA folks" in Ronin for example take me right out of it.
That being said I can't stand people doing my accent (grew up in Northern Ireland) because nobody can do one right and you have a wide choice too for such a small area. I don't know why they try. This was especially bad in the 90s when people from Northern Ireland were frequently the "heroes" in serious dramas about the Troubles or the baddies in various action movies. The two "IRA folks" in Ronin for example take me right out of it.
someone could have the worst fake british, canadian or american accent & i wouldn't fucking know it as it's not my mothertongue. to be fair, i couldn't even spot a bad or fake bosnian or german accent as i only really grew up listening to the way my family talked lmao. hell, i can barely understand some german accents & i've been living here for 23 years :(