Rate The Last Movie You Saw

Ghost In The Shell

If anybody knows what this was all about I'd be interested to know... I'm joking I don't want to know... it's not that I don't get it, it's that I'm not interested enough to invest myself... this felt both expensive and somehow cheap, I can't explain it, I just didn't like it

What about the soundtrack? Has a very pulsing feel.

The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)
Nicely atmospheric period horror in places but sadly just too much of a strain at times to make the dialogue come hither

The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)
Nicely atmospheric period horror in places but sadly just too much of a strain at times to make the dialogue come hither

summed up nicely for my viewing experience.

I personally found the sound a bit unbalanced, with very loud moments and occasionally inaudible dialogue. The music and sound effects however are exceptional, and two films came to mind as I listened: Alien and Under the Skin. When it comes to the cast I thought Harvey Scrimshaw was excellent, given how tough some of the work must have been. Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Ineson were brilliant – he's always audible with that resonant voice, but perhaps too dominant for the same reason. As with Prometheus I didn't respond to Kate Dickie's performance, sadly; and it might come over as uncharitable to say that her Scottish accent was detectable on occasion. It may also seem unfair to say that I struggled to believe these people conversed in Old English all the time – I would guess it was harder to make this work with the small children – but it never really took hold and developed a credibility in the way it should.

Are you saying that the dialogue was inaudible or that the actors struggled to make Old English their own language?

I was just looking back to my reaction at the time:

Primarily for me the dialogue was incomprehensible at times from just about all the principle characters - most often but not exclusively when their lines were delivered at a faster pace. I don't think the archaic use of language came naturally to any of them which I suspect played a part in lines sometimes sounding somewhat garbled.

And yes, you could detect Kate Dickie's Scottish roots on occasion though for the most part she hid it well enough.

Yeah, she did.

Where are you from Chypmunk? It's just this is one of those occasions when it's useful to know because we're talking about dialects etc. I'm from Lancashire.

Rep of Ireland - don't have a problem with UK dialects in general unless they are particularly pronounced as much of our televisual watching is UK based output.

Ah right – not that far away then .

Incidental I know but I like the actress Lynda Steadman, who's from Belfast, and she's fantastic at accents. So good that I had no idea whatsoever that she was Irish when I saw her in Career Girls.

Aye just a short hop and a wee swim away

Can't say hers is a name I'm particularly familiar with tbh but looking on IMDb I'm sure I must have seen her in one or more of The Bill, Kavanagh QC or Murphy's Law.