Only the girl was passable, Aaron Taylor sounded like a character from Oliver Twist, woefully exaggerated cockney accent. And the black guy....just god awful. Don't know what accent he was doing.
shareJoey King is the only reason to watch this. Ignore everything else.
shareYou do realise there are 4 seperate countries within Great Britain which constitutes the largest variation of accents anywhere on earth.
In short there is no such thing as "a British accent"
Always gotta be one smart alec. You know what i'm referring to dickhead, it's the same as saying 'American accent'. It's a blanket term.
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Always gotta be one smart alec
You know what i'm referring to dickhead
It's a blanket term
North America doesn't have seperate countries for one.
Call it whatever you want you are still wrong.
Ah so you knew I was referring to North America despite me saying just 'America' which comprises of many different countries. Thanks for proving my point. You lose.
it's the same as saying 'American accent
Nope, you are as proven above. The cockney accent is used within Britain so it's technically not incorrect. It is one of the accents used in Britain. Thanks for playing though.
It is one of the accents used in Britain
Just seeing this nonsensical reply now.
Of course you are talking about North America.
The cockney accent as you call it has many versions of the same accent, it isn't just one. It depends from which part of East London you are situated. You would know this if you actually knew what you were talking about, which you don't.
No. It is one of the accents used within London, England and specifically East London and even more specifically the east end of east London.
I live in a small town in North East England with a population of about 150k. Very small. YOu can walk across it in an about an hour form one end to the other. We have 3 distinct accents in that small space
Learn what your talking about before argueing with someone who actually lives there.
The continent of America does---there's North America, South America, then Central America.
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Joey King's was actually pretty good but she slips a couple of times. It comes off as a sort of put-on Gillian Anderson I-went-to-school-in-England mixed with a fake Lara Croft type deal.
The black dude was so obviously not English, you could tell it from his cadence and in a couple of lines it was all over the place. Not bad though, for an American guy.
I don't think it would have made any difference if he had just used his natural accent.
Doing accents is part of acting though so...maybe he could have got it with more practice.
The black dude was so obviously not English, you could tell it from his cadence and in a couple of lines it was all over the place. Not bad though, for an American guy.
Considering that most American actors don't do English accents in films, I thought the brother (Brian Tyree-Henry, best known for the TV series Atlanta) managed to pull it off pretty well. And funny how some folks are saying that Aaron Taylor-Johnson's (the white guy) English accent was awful, since he is British, and he was doing an actual Cockney accent, lol. Both Johnson and Henry were the funniest people in the entire film, damn near, and both entertaining/hilarious as hell. I actually liked this flick because it was crazy, insane as hell and way over the top----but that's what made it so damn fun to watch. And since it's basically about a bunch of assassins covertly seeking out one another on a train, and each one trying to make it to their destination in one piece without getting bumped off, that definitely heightened the suspense way the hell up. Brad Pitt was also fun to watch, especially since he rarely does comedies, so people forget how funny he can be when given a chance to show off his comic skills.
It was also cool as heck to see Japanese martial arts star Henry Sanada playing the main villain near the end, with the younger Asian guy (British actor Andrew Koji, who was in the film GI JOE, SNAKE EYES) being on the train for his own reasons, too. Never heard of actress Joey King, but she was equally fun as hell to watch as the deceptively innocent-looking supposed school student, who turns out to have her own agenda.
You know Aaron Taylor Johnson is from England, right,?
shareAaron Taylor Johnson is from my neck of the woods, Buckinghamshire, just outside London. He absolutely mangles the London accent though. Reminded me of Jim Sturgess (from super posh Surrey)in London Fields. Painful to listen to if you know anyone from London. Come the revolution the pair of them will be first to the guillotine.
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