Kevin Bacons accent
wow as soon as he started talking, i seriously thought is this whole movie dubbed
Haha, his accent was terrible.
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It is so bad, I walked out on this movie within 10 minutes
shareI stopped watching after 5 minutes of that accent. It ruined whatever chance the movie had for me.
shareim from cambridgeshire.i thought Bacon was australian..but as he was repeatedly called "English" and later referred to himself as "the brit" i guess he was meant to be english.terrible english accent but at least it sounded consistent throughout the movie.
shareJust an awful awful film. Does the director have pcitures of Kevin Bacon that he doesnt want getting out?
shareSome Americans think that English actually means British. Perhaps it's the language name or something dumb.
Also British people tend not to call themselves "Brits" - an often hideously pronounce shortening in the USA - "So you're a Briiiiiiiiit are you!" *shudder*
Umm, I lived in England for a little while, and people actually called themselves "Brits". I'm not American by the way. Also, if you're English you are British, it's the other way around that's not necessarily true.
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Yeah I was really confused trying to place it.
At first I thought it was Australian because it sounded a bit Paul Hogan, then at times it sounded a bit Ray Winstone... bizarre, yet funny.
terrible english accent but at least it sounded consistent throughout the movie
Well, I guess you can say that about the accent—at least it was consistently bad.
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It sounded like a really bad dub to me. When I saw him in the club, the first scene I thought "Ok *beep* this is a dubbed movie" and, when I actually saw him later after he was stopped, I knew it was actually HIS voice, and stopped watching since it sounded like a bad voice actors dub.
shareI refuse to believe that was his voice, it was a dub surely?
I switched it off after five minutes because of that.
Sounds like a South African accent and his voice acting is not as bad as you all make out. The issue is that some South African accents are simply not that pleasant to listen to (compared to other accents).
I'm only halfway through the movie and not really paying attention to it all that much, but all this time I thought he was trying to do an Aussie accent, is that not the case?
sharei also thought it was meant to be a south african accent whilst i was watching the trailer...
however its entirely possible as with some people (i have heard this from americans especially) claiming to be english / brits when they are clearly like 10th generation people living in america / south africa / australia
or even thailand i guess...
I think he was trying to do a Michael Caine to be honest haha
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