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Why are they all speaking English?


With ridiculous Russian accents?

Anyone see Gorky Park? Film was good. They didn’t use fake accents.

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Completely agreed! The fake Russian accent was so annoying, why not to speak in a proper language? If you speak in English then speak it properly for f. sake.
Fake accents really spoil movies. Why are the filmakers still doing it? It's silly.

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Adds a bit of etho-regional flavor, is all. Get over it.

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if they did not use accents to reflect the locale then people here would complaint about THAT. (“they lacked talent so much yhey didn’t even TRY accents!” etc)

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I agree that there will be people who will complain about something. But in HBO's Chernobyl they don’t speak with a Russian accent or in Russian at all and this is a great show.

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I think that worked because in Chernobyl it's all Russians. While in this movie there are Americans too. So when they meet it would be a little bit jarring if both Russians and Americans speak in American English (no accent.)

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Because it’s been a cinema thing since, well, basically always. And so those on movie boards can continue to complain about it, I suppose.

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