The Most Recent Movie You've Seen on Streaming, Broadcast TV, or Movie Theater?

@glitterbag,

I have seen so many productions of Macbeth I can recite it in my sleep.

The Polanski version is the default most use to teach, but I really liked Macbeth on the Estate which puts all the action in a council estate Duncan being the criminal mastermind.

I haven't seen the latest one, but Denzel Washington was very good in For Queen And Country where he nailed the accent spoken in that part of London.

Why do you allow the Scots to have a Scottisn accent but we English are told we have a British accent?

I have an English accent.

Scotland is British too.

And the way they speak in Glasgow is very different to Edinburgh or the Highlands or Dundee.

Robin Williams sounds like Robin Williams putting on a cod Scottish accent he doesn't sound Scottish.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

I have seen so many productions of Macbeth I can recite it in my sleep.

The Polanski version is the default most use to teach, but I really liked Macbeth on the Estate which puts all the action in a council estate Duncan being the criminal mastermind.

I haven't seen the latest one, but Denzel Washington was very good in For Queen And Country where he nailed the accent spoken in that part of London.

Why do you allow the Scots to have a Scottisn accent but we English are told we have a British accent?

I have an English accent.

Scotland is British too.

And the way they speak in Glasgow is very different to Edinburgh or the Highlands or Dundee.

Robin Williams sounds like Robin Williams putting on a cod Scottish accent he doesn't sound Scottish.

You do not have an English accent, Izzy. The English speak English as it should be spoken. All other English speaking people who speak differently...have accents.

Oh, some English people do have accents. The difference between English as spoken by various areas of the country (or various areas of London) is huge.

One other thing. Robins was a comedian. His aim was to make people laugh...not to do an authentic Scotch accent.

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@Frank Apisa,

Actually my accent is classed as Estuary English, very different from the way posh people talk.

It how those of us wot live around the Thames Estuary talk like.

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@Frank Apisa,

The differences are not as great as they once were, television and increased mobility has flattened a lot of the accents out.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

The differences are not as great as they once were, television and increased mobility has flattened a lot of the accents out.

I've noticed that here in the States also, Izzy. There are politicians from southern states that have almost no accent at all. The New England accent has flattened also.

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@Frank Apisa,

Estuary English is recent too. Not so long ago the accents of Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire were all very different now it's all Estuary English.

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@izzythepush,

Do any of those dialects require one to point one’s pinky finger when having tea?

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

Estuary English is recent too. Not so long ago the accents of Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire were all very different now it's all Estuary English.

I have a good friend, a British woman (drop dead gorgeous), who speaks mostly with a Cockney accent. Most of our common friends just love her "accent"...me, not so much.

She auditioned for a part in a TV show requiring a British accent. The casting director told her, "If we were doing the East Enders, I might be able to use you, but..."

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@snood,

Like this? Razz

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@Frank Apisa,

The East Enders?

It's East Enders, putting the in front of it makes you sound older than my grandmother.

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I watched the six episodes of the first and only (so far) season of Wolf Like Me - a very entertaining fantasy/romance made especially for the Peacock network (Streaming service? channel? I don't know what to call all these places where I watch stuff nowadays).

It stars the beautiful Isla Fisher and the very likeable Josh Gad as a couple who meet when their vehicles have a serious collision with each other. Right at the scene of the accident, she helps his 11 year old daughter get through a panic attack.
Their relationship is complicated because she has a secret that you can make a good guess at from the series title.

But it's done really well. I liked the three main characters right away. Besides the bloody violence, it's pretty wholesome stuff!

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

The East Enders?

It's East Enders, putting the in front of it makes you sound older than my grandmother.

I'm 85...how old is your grandmother?

And don't get me started on the Val Parnell Palladium Show.

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@Frank Apisa,

My grandmother died a long time ago, her son, my father, recently celebrated his 90th birthday.

That's how old you sound, much more ancient than a spritely 85 year old.

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I've just finished watching the BBC's latest adaptation of Around The World In Eighty Days starring David Tennant as Fogg.

It's in 8 hour long parts, it's very good.

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@izzythepush,

Last night I started watching the new Jack Reacher series. So far I like it!

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@jcboy,

I just started watching it, too.

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@snood,

So far I've only seen the first episode, last night, looking forward to tonight!

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@jcboy,

I got halfway through the first episode then got distracted. I’ll watch the 2nd half soon.
I read somewhere that this Jack Reacher is closer to the way he was in the books by Lee Child. Reacher was supposed to be a big, imposing guy, not a shrimp like Tom Cruise.

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@snood,

I've watched every episode, great series. I heard it was picked up for a second season.

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@jcboy,

I"m with izzy. Watching PBS's Around the World in 80 Days. It's been reimagined for the 21st century and eals with a real 19th century of colonialism, imperialism, racism and classism. as well as being good adventure. Watch it.

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