The characters were completly unbeleivable, mainly due to Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell trying to pull of london accents, and failing sooo bad, pretentious music throughout that was trying to make the viewer believe they're watching a classic and a really bad ending! any thoughts??
btw, i wont accept any opinions on the london accents from anyone accept brits!
Are you from London born under the sound of bow bells. My father was a cockney his accent was not what you would call typical cockney as he went to the country at a young age for his health. He certainly had a london accent. Ewans accent was very believable I have heard his cockney accent before. Colin's wasn't bad either. I really don't know what you are complaining about.
shareMy problem with ewans accent was that i've lived on the outskirts of london (inside the m25) for most of my life and never heard an accent like it, and my problem with Farrells was that it slipped up every now an then! also Colins bird's accent in this film didnt quite add up either, sounded like she was a couple of decades behind!
shareMerkins always think any London accent is a cockney accent. They were both attempting a 'normal' estuary accent, with McGregor being more successful at it than Farrell. It's the dialogue that they had to work with that let everything down, rather than the accents. IMHO.
shareThe acting is very stilted, almost like an amateurish stage play at times. I think at one point you can actually see Ewan thinking about his next line, with dreadful pauses.
shareWatched this again, and I have to say that the dialogue is ridiculous, especially for McGregor's part. People just don't talk like this, whatever their accent.
Whoever wrote that little lot should be stood up and slapped with a wet kipper.
both of them are brittish, what tha *beep* are you talking about accents?
shareThe accents were unquestionably ropey. Them both being "British" (Farrell is Irish, igno) does not necessarily mean they can do competent London accents. However the fault lay mainly with the script. The mothers speech at the beginning "abaht" how "famlee is the most important thing" was contrived and cheesy and a benchmark for what we were about to see. I love Allens film but he doesn't have an ear for English dialogue the way he has for intellectual New Yorkers, and it shows. The film is not a complete washout however, and it's a bit of fun. It's just not a particularly believable bit of fun.
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