What's Winona Ryder doing on that list?
Wait. People? She eats people? 'To Serve Man.' It's 'To Serve Man' all over again.
Gunn ,'Power Play'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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Tom Scola - Apr 04, 2005 4:47:55 am PDT #1477 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jon B. - Apr 04, 2005 4:52:34 am PDT #1478 of 10002
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Dick Van Dyke below Marlon Brando & Keanu?
Maybe the latter accents are worse, but walk up to a random Brit and say "Dick Van Dyke!". 9 times out of 10, they'll groan, "Oh, that horrible accent in Mary Poppins" (seriously -- I've experimented). The same doesn't happen with Marlon or Keanu.
sumi - Apr 04, 2005 4:55:11 am PDT #1479 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I wondered about Dick Van Dyke -- given that his name seems to be synonymous with a bad faux-Cockney accent.
Jim - Apr 04, 2005 5:06:23 am PDT #1480 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Spike is the one people may have heard of - bear in mind that Angel was never shown properly on terrestrial TV here.
Fred Pete - Apr 04, 2005 5:15:29 am PDT #1481 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Spike is the one people may have heard of - bear in mind that Angel was never shown properly on terrestrial TV here.
Might that also explain Dick Van Dyke's reputation?
Brando and Reeves have both done quite a few films, and I'm sure they're known in the UK for work other than the bad accents.
OTOH, Dick Van Dyke is mainly known (even in the U.S.) for the TV show and MP. If the show didn't make the crossing, he doesn't have much else to be known for.
Jim - Apr 04, 2005 5:42:27 am PDT #1482 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Fred Pete - Apr 04, 2005 5:57:41 am PDT #1483 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
OK, two movies where he played English characters. And IIRC, he didn't exactly have a good accent in CCBB, either.
bon bon - Apr 04, 2005 6:01:13 am PDT #1484 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Hot Fuss isn't doing well?
I guess that's not the point. It's arguable that Reeves's accent in Dracula isn't recognizable as human speech, but I haven't seen Mary Poppins in a while.
Vonnie K - Apr 04, 2005 6:11:14 am PDT #1485 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I saw both Sin City and Upside of Anger during the weekend. I enjoyed Sin City, although I was perhaps not as transported by it as other people have. The sheer pulpiness of it all got to be a bit too much after a while, and the Bruce Willis segment had me going "eww! She was friggin' 11 years-old when you last saw her, you perv!". I didn't find the gore that bothersome because it was so stylized--much less than the extent I was bothered by Kill Bill anyway. What I liked the best were the flashes of ultra-morbid humor, which was why I liked the Marv segment and the whole give-and-take between Clive Owen and Benicio Del Toro's characters.
Upside of Anger had some terrific performances, but it kind of fell apart at the end due to its dubious conceit. NYT review had said that the main "romance", such as it is, was like Crash Davis from Bull Durham (gone to seed) and Joan Allen's character from Ice Storm got together, which I thought was very apt.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 04, 2005 6:15:23 am PDT #1486 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
To put it in perspective, while Reeves' hypothetical British accent was pretty bad, it got lost amidst Anthony Hopkins' fits of maniacal laughter, Gary Oldman's facial transformations, and Sadie Frost sailing about trailing yards of cloth like one of the martial artists in Hero.
Whereas in a move that had flying merry-go-round horses, kids jumping into chalk paintings, and Julie Andrews smacking down her nanny competition with a wind tunnel, people would overlook all the fantastical scenes to wince and say "Wow, is that accent BAD!"