Defective Yeti, another Seattle based blog, commented on how much he hates certain scenes in movies that don't even try to mimic realism. He then invited people to comment on their pet peeve scenes in movies.
One of my biggest pet peeves is accents. I love accents, especially well done accents. And it generally makes or breaks a movie or show.
For example, One Piece pre-resurrected form had every character with a horrible psuedo-accent, void of any understanding or intellegence. That broke the show.
But even worse is the cop-out whenever the movie is set somewhere foreign. Case in point: The Count of Monte Cristo.
The movie is set mostly in France. The main characters...don't speak in French accents. Actually, nobody does. But do you know what accents some of the characters speak?
British. The soldiers slur in something similar to Cockney. Granted, they do kinda look like Redcoats, but these are French Redcoats, people. The jail keepers also have a "dirty" British accent, reminescent of those you would find in pubs or dark alleyways behind pubs.
Apparently, the French have outsourced their dirty jobs to Great Britain and their nobility to...Midwest United States. Sad.
It's always like that in a movie. The main characters have no accents, and secondary characters do. Sometimes with the wrong accents.
Beauty and the Beast is similar. Once again, set in France, but no French accents. Except for Lumiere. Only one character. One character who speaks French. Ah, ah, ah!
Feel free to vent any movie pet peeves in the comments, if you like.
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For a film with good accents, try "O Brother, Where Art Thou." It's got a huge range of Southern accents, all of which are good. Though, when we showed it at Quark, most of the non-Southerners had a devil of a time understanding the speech. Maybe you could watch with subtitles?
I'm not sure if it has English subtitles but it does have closed captions. I just checked the back of the box on my copy.
As far as annoyances go, I hate the depictions of software and computer programming in Hollywood films. It's always so fakey and they get all of the lingo and jargon wrong. Probably this sort of annoyance applies to everyone with a given profession though. Police, doctors, lawyers, soldiers... anyone with a profession which is glamorized on TV or film.
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