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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
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 Posted - 07/02/2003 : 13:44:45
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| To all those from Ireland (and anyone else who'd like to respond), have you seen the Kevin Spacey movie "Ordinary Decent Criminal"? If so, what did you think? How was Kevin Spacey's (and all the american actors) Irish accent? I thought it sounded decent enough, but what do I know? Nothing. So tell me. |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2003 : 14:20:16
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i saw it, but i can't remember the accents. this is like in 'as time goes by'(i have too much time on my hands) where the guy wrote a script of him life and this crappy company were doin the film and all their accents are terrible(bad american actors trying to be 'british, what what!') but the producer explains they mightn'y think it represents the english accent, a pumpkin farmer in idaho would find it really realistic.
in your face, space coyote!! |
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11687 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2003 : 15:16:21
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| I suppose if that's your target demographic... |
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bazza
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1439 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2003 : 02:13:22
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i saw it - its an ok film based on martin cahill but i wouldnt write home about it.
kevin spacey is apparently a great guy - one of my friends who worked in a shop i used to work in made him a sandwich while filming ODC and had nothing but praise. really down to earth guy.
as for irish accents in film - holy shit. put an END to this maddness NOW!!! look at tom cruise in 'far and away' and richard gere in 'jackal' - truly shite (allegedly). at least KS makes a semi decent effort. ah.. my daily rant. eases the pain.
If you treat the people around you with love and respect, they will never guess that you're trying to get them sacked - David Brent |
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Ten Percenter
- FB Enquirer -
United Kingdom
1733 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2003 : 02:49:36
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Top o' the mornin' to ye, Barry. Meanwhile poor Sean Connery gets voted as the guy who puts on the worst accent of all time (e.g. Untouchables) - when he doesn't even seem to attempt to put on any accent at all. He even beat Dick Van Dyke's fabulous cockney accent. What about Mel Gibson as a Glaswegian Highlander in Braveheart? Or Richard Attenborough's Scottish burr in Jurassic Park?
What was it Tom Cruise said in Far and Away? "Sure, yer a corker so's ye are"
No man is an island, unless he is in the bath |
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bazza
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1439 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2003 : 04:43:15
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andy me auld fella. hows she cuttin' boyo me lad.
aye - sean connery doesnt do himself justice in the untouchables - and yes - tom cruise did say that. yeah - like we use stupid words like 'corker' to chat up girls. 
If you treat the people around you with love and respect, they will never guess that you're trying to get them sacked - David Brent |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2003 : 16:12:21
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Originally posted by Ten Percenter
What was it Tom Cruise said in Far and Away? "Sure, yer a corker so's ye are"
i got to see that movie.
Today i realised frank is the greatest man alive. Go figure. |
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therewererumours
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1240 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2003 : 18:19:30
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Kevin Spacey was supposed to be from Dublin, but he had an Northen Irish Leprecans accent, that film made me want to puck, The General was much better(though a totally different film, plus I love John Voight, even though his accent was shit as well!). Kate Blanchets accent in the new Orla Geran film sounds the best so far, at least she has some sort of qausi middle suburbian Dublin accent, instead of the fucked up hodge podge of accents they give actors in most other so called Irish films.
"I meet a man with no little toe and a real big head" |
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Pioneer
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Posted - 07/04/2003 : 19:12:30
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| Kate Blanchett is British, right? She played and American southerner in "The Gift." Pulled it off well. |
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bazza
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1439 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2003 : 04:58:48
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Originally posted by therewererumours
Kate Blanchets accent in the new Orla Geran film sounds the best so far
er barra.. hate to break it to you - but orla guerin is RTEs foreign affairs correspondent! its veronica you are thinking of (the pedantic ba*tard that i am).
If you treat the people around you with love and respect, they will never guess that you're trying to get them sacked - David Brent |
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therewererumours
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1240 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2003 : 08:59:50
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Ha Ha! I think she works for the BBC now, thanks Bazza!  , it was late when I wrote that.
"I meet a man with no little toe and a real big head" |
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thalassocrat
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
46 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2003 : 10:21:11
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Kate Blachett ain't british, right? Australian instead? Still, did a decent job in Elizabeth but apart from acting she's a dumb blonde:
"There is a lot of anti-semitism out there and some of it is not just against jews" - Kate Blanchett
they speak vaudevillian... |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2003 : 11:15:01
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Originally posted by therewererumours
Orla Geran film
i'm guessing you mean veronica gueran right?
bored of the little comments. i guess i'll just have an actual signature. much shorter.
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2003 : 11:16:49
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oops, just saw bazza's post. sorry.
bored of the little comments. i guess i'll just have an actual signature. much shorter.
-Jessie |
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guy_nolan
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
417 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2003 : 04:36:51
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| I thought the Irish accents in 'Ordinary decent criminals' were appaling for the most part. Why did they have to use so many un-Irish actors??? It was nice seeing my old home town again though. Ahh happy memories. |
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Stuart
- The Clopser -
China
2291 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2003 : 05:00:19
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Tommy Lee Jones' Irish accent in Blown Away is very very bad.
War....... Its not fantastic |
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Scarla O
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/15/2003 : 06:50:27
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Thallasocrat, Kate's quote isn't necessarily oxymoronic - semites are those people who speak semitic languages (Arabs,Aramaeans, Jews and many Ethiopians). Her point could may well have been about the poor treatment of palestinians...(but equally might not have been).
Me a pedant? |
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guy_nolan
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
417 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2003 : 07:37:22
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| Blown away? Is that the movie where Tommy Lee Jones shows that little kid how to fly a kite? I think I've seen a little bit of it and I do remeber his accent being appaling. What is it about the Irish accent that's so difficult for Americans? English and Irish actors always seem to manage the American accent okay, such as Helena Bonhem Carter in Fight Club or Colin Farell in that thing with Pacino. Then again Tim Roth's accent sucked serious ass in Reservoir Dogs. |
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bazza
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1439 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2003 : 07:41:29
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i thought brendan gleesons american accent in 'lake placid' was funny!
get 'im maw.
Is your work done? Are all pigs fed, watered and ready to fly?....
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Mr Grieves
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Posted - 07/22/2003 : 13:03:14
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I thougth Tim Roth's accent in Reservoir Dogs was good! But then I'm Northern Irish, so what would I know. Sean Bean's accent in Ronin was fairly bad as far as I can remember. But the worst I can think of is Pete Postlethwaite in The Usual Suspects. He has a Japanese name and is made up with a kind of Oriental skin tone, but I couldn't figure out if he was really supposed to be Japanese at all!
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2003 : 14:06:41
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Kevin Costners Southern (US) accent in JFK is pretty awful too, sometimes he has it and other times it's gone. For a lovely Scotish accent try John Hannah - mmmm, John Hannah....or our own Ten Percenter. I shall never forget him screaming in my ear "You're MISQUOTING ME!"  |
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