Anyone for tennis?
After all the science of last week I needed a break so we spent the weekend in Weymouth with ma and pa and Gemma. After a shopping trip (bought a little cream bobble hat) and some coffee and cake we watched Match Point. Odd film. Woody Allen film set in London. Not about tennis at all. There were quite a few things wrong with it, least of all the fact that the main character was supposed to be working class Irish but had the plummiest accent I've ever heard. He talked like the Queen. But I really liked it. I would recommend it. Believe it or not film reviews aren't my forte. Go here for someone who thought it was good, here for someone who thought it was bad.
posted by karen at 9:43 PM
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I watched a film this weekend in which a couple of American actors were sporting the worst British accents I have ever heard. And I remember thinking if I, as a Canadian, think these are terrible accents, what would a Brit think?
I love being able to spot plot holes and other errors in films, being a natural born nitpicker.
I am too miserly to go to the cinema now that I live in the lovely London where it costs far too many pennies BUT I will add this film to my online-dvd-rental wish-list - sounds worth waiting for if only to snigger at the accents! : )
Heard of but never seen!
I bought The Secretary http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274812/on DVD for about £4 the other week on Mr Foxes recommendation.
I haven't watched it yet.
I loved that you posted links to both a good and bad review!
I loved this film, and was actually really happy with how it ended. And I think that makes me a little off, but oh well.
I was thinking the same thing as Barb when I watched it. Who trained this people? But isn't the lead male actually Irish?? Because I've read a couple interviews with him and he talks of growing up there. But, still could be a class distinction.
Have you seen Scoop?? Fun and quirky, another London based Allen flick.
It's true Barbara, Americans generally do terrible British accents but I think our American accents are much much worse. Totally cringeworthy.
Yep stick it on your list little one. London looks very beautiful in it which I also like.
I think it might have been my recommendation Dogga - it's one of my favourite films ever ever ever and I usually rattle on about it. It's proper kinky. Very beautiful love story. And I'm a huge Maggie Gyllenhaal fan. Watch it!
I know exactly what you mean Ben, when I first moved here I went to Ikea for the regulation meat balls and the girl kept asking me if I wanted 'berress'. There comes a point when you just can't ask people to repeat themselves again. She was saying 'berries' in reference to the jam/chutney stuff.
Thing is Mel I liked it but I'm a simple creature who knows very little about film!
He IS Allison, he's from Dublin. We wondered if maybe there was some point to his plumminess becasue we can't believe he wouldn't have said "by the way 'poor Irish' people who have to play tennis as a way out of their poor background tend not to speak like this".
I've heard of Scoop, isn't whatsherface in that too? Must keep an eye out for it.
lol, yes whatshername is in it.
Match point: the nearest I've ever got to leaving the cinema during a film. Including Forces of Nature (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141098/).
I saw MP last new year's day. I had assumed that it would be a comedy. It was not. Somebody told me that Jonathan Rhys Myers actually is Irish. So why can't he do the accent? And why is all the sex so vile? "Pass me the baby oil would you darling?". It's like something from the one-handed reading section of Cosmopolitan (circa 1993). Yuck.
Excuse the rant, I know it's nearly a year since I saw it, but I was a bit disappointed.
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