Also, don't go see the movie with an actual linguistics professor as I did. After the movie, there was a lot of ranting about how this was a super unrealistic stretch of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and grumblings about how she'd now have to prepare to discuss this with her students because of the stupid movie. I told her she has no poetry in her soul and super-unrealistic stretches of known scientific priniciples are what SF is all about. :p
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Vonnie K - Nov 14, 2016 9:45:00 am PST #330 of 3455
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Volans - Nov 14, 2016 10:39:00 am PST #331 of 3455
move out and draw fire
I saw Dr. Strange this weekend in IMAX 3D. Totally worth it. The movie was more moving art than a movie, if you know what I mean. The story is simplisitic, but the visuals. Wow. And the concepts for how sorcerors would see the world and deal with problems was cool. The concept of the whole final fight scene was Volans Crack for non-traditional problem-solving. And The Swinton! Every scene, so good.
The only real negative was Cumberbatch's accent. He has many talents, but an American accent is not among them.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 14, 2016 10:50:20 am PST #332 of 3455
"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
I didn't hear any problems with it, but then I've tended to avoid work in which he's using his own British accent.
Jessica - Nov 14, 2016 11:09:59 am PST #333 of 3455
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
super-unrealistic stretches of known scientific priniciples are what SF is all about.
Well...yeah!
Volans - Nov 14, 2016 11:33:20 am PST #334 of 3455
move out and draw fire
Matt, I thought it was really distracting and the guy I saw it with commented afterwards that Stephen Strange had about 6 accents.
ION, we watched Top Secret last night. Carson from Downton Abbey was in it. Maybe that's why he looked familiar to me!
Jessica - Nov 14, 2016 11:36:10 am PST #335 of 3455
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
He has many talents, but an American accent is not among them.
It reminded me so much of Hugh Laurie's accent from the first season of House. I think maybe that's just how Brits think we sound.
Toddson - Nov 14, 2016 11:48:55 am PST #336 of 3455
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I always wonder if the American version of an "English" accent sounds as bad to them as many of the British "American" accents sound to me.
Jesse - Nov 14, 2016 11:53:20 am PST #337 of 3455
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Did anyone else watch the London production of Gypsy on PBS over the weekend? The little kids were comical in their attempts to do the American accent a lot of the time. No shade, though -- they were doing a lot of other stuff really well!
Jesse - Nov 14, 2016 11:55:20 am PST #338 of 3455
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And I just found out that Louise was also Irene Adler in Sherlock!
-t - Nov 14, 2016 1:29:32 pm PST #339 of 3455
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, man, I need to see Arrival so bad so I can jump into this discussion! Stupid work. And sleep. Etc.