Trailer for 'The Pacific'

Evidentially, you've never seen Mel Gibson's "Hamlet." No, but I have seen Tom Cruise's Von Stauffenwhatever :D I avoid Tom Cruise movies like the plague. Tim Burton, Nicolas Cage, and Pauly Shore movies are also automatically placed on the "do not see" list. IMHO, Cruise can't even do an American accent convincingly.

James Masters had everybody bluffed when he played Spike in Buffy The Vampire Slayer : most people believed he actually was a Brit. Gwyneth Paltrow is notoriously good at British accents (she's half-British though, I think ) and so is Robert Downey Jr. I don't know that I've ever seen Downey attempt a British accent. Generally, I like him, but in Ian McKellen's Richard III his delivery of "My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs ..." has always made me wince. Yes, I realize his character was supposed to be American within the context of that film ... but still. ::wince::

I have seen Tom Cruise's Von Stauffenwhatever :D Ah, you mean Valkyrie, that well-known documentary film which at long last proves that all high ranking nazis graduated from Oxford and Eton ? :devil: You say that as if they didn't. :eh:

I have seen Tom Cruise's Von Stauffenwhatever :D Ah, you mean Valkyrie, that well-known documentary film which at long last proves that all high ranking nazis graduated from Oxford and Eton ? :devil: You say that as if they didn't. :eh: I believe William Tecumseh Sherman once said that the only good nazi is a Brit nazi. Or was that Jerry Bruckheimer ? :coffee:

I don't know that I've ever seen Downey attempt a British accent. Generally, I like him, but in Ian McKellen's Richard III his delivery of "My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs ..." has always made me wince. Yes, I realize his character was supposed to be American within the context of that film ... but still. ::wince:: Downey did a fairly decent job in Restoration, where he played a late 17th century doctor opposite Sam Neill (as King Charles II). He'll also be Sherlock Holmes in the next Guy Ritchie movie : haven't seen the trailers, so can't comment on the credibility if his accent there.

The upcoming sherlock holmes movie looks like a lemon. It's nothing like the books and has tried to be full of cgi action of explosions and fighting to keep people interested(read young and brain dead). There is a recent italian version of tobruk with the Italians playing British soldiers. I'm not sure if it's available with english subtitles yet.

I don't know that I've ever seen Downey attempt a British accent. Generally, I like him, but in Ian McKellen's Richard III his delivery of "My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs ..." has always made me wince. Yes, I realize his character was supposed to be American within the context of that film ... but still. ::wince:: Downey did a fairly decent job in Restoration, where he played a late 17th century doctor opposite Sam Neill (as King Charles II). He'll also be Sherlock Holmes in the next Guy Ritchie movie : haven't seen the trailers, so can't comment on the credibility if his accent there. Basil Rathbone will always be the only 'real' Holmes to me.

or Leon Redbone.

Jeremy Brett is the best Holmes by far,my heart sinks when i read the words'a Guy Ritchie production' rolling up the screen :devil:

One thing that has always puzzled me about the American film industry is how a nation of 300+ million people, all of whom claim to be Irish at least one day a year and a few of whom actually are, can't produce a single actor who can sustain a consistent Irish accent for a complete sentence without lapsing into Glaswegian or Somerset. Even the ones who've just got off the boat from Cork seem to have had their accents surgically removed by immigration services. Yes, Jeremy Brett was the best Holmes for me, too. He seems to have been as dark and troubled in real life as the Holmes of the books was.

Jeremy Brett is the best Holmes by far,my heart sinks when i read the words'a Guy Ritchie production' rolling up the screen :devil: Just had a look at the trailer for the upcoming Sherlock Holmes film. Suffice to say I cringed.

This is the first I've heard about this. Cool as f**k! No matter how irritating I find Tom Hanks I've got to admit that he came up trumps with Band of Brothers and if this is just half as good I'll definitely be watching it. As for the Americancentric thing, well it's up to us to do something about it isn't it?

Come to think of it, what's the most recent British war film that's been made? Everyone else has been knocking them out by the dozen, including the Germans...

The only thing I can think of is the Dunkirk scene in Atonement, although it's not technically a War Film, just a film with the war as a backdrop (a bit like Pearl Harbour).

I'll shut up now.

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