His accent is so thick that I could hardly understand what he was saying. When I could, his commentary was both humorous and brilliant, but I walked out of the theater feeling I'd missed half the movie.
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Exactly my thoughts - Because of his accent I found myself closing my eyes just so I could concentrate on his words - What I did hear I enjoyed so don't be put off watching it.
watch the DVD. it has subtitles.
shareI've just tried to watch this in the U.K on Channel 4 and had to give up. Not only does this guy have an extremely thick accent, his speech patterns make it even worse. We get about four words...pause... then another few words...pause...and so on. The pauses don't even happen at the end of a sentence, it's mid sentance pauses.
There's also fact that he has a very pronunced speech impediment. Half of the sounds coming out of his mouth are "sssssh". That's not to say that people with speech impediments shouldn't narrate a documentary, but given his poor grasp of grammatical structure and accent I couldn't follow anything he was trying to say.
Apart from a few moments I thought it was fine.
I do have to remind myself on ocassions that if I've heard "A dolly sense", he's talking about adolescence.
Glasgow's FOREMOST authority Italics = irony. Infer the opposite please.