Henry V LOL British people suck LOL

[xagent]

My review for the Oscar winning movie Henry V (1989)

This was a horrible movie. Forget the overdramatic, theater-style acting which just made the movie seem unbelievable. The characters didn't seem realistic

I couldn't understand a word they said due to the heavy British accents coupled with the arcane old English. Yes, I'm American, but I have no trouble understanding most British accents, but there was something about this movie that made it impossible to understand (only happened to me with one other movie - Trainspotting, which fortunately had subtitles and good acting+). Throw in some horrible Shakespearean dialect, and you have gibberish.

Why does the DVD not have English subtitles?

It was like watching a foreign film with characters who feel the need to turn the most mundane speech into a loud, flowery speech. Honestly, there is nothing wrong with the - it would have been a good movie if they treated it as one(I hate theater), and revised it to modern British English rather than reciting exactly the original play... or at least included subtitles.

One of the few movies I just turned off 3/4th of the way thru because it was just a waste of time to watch rather than get my money's worth. How'd it get nominated for Oscars and get ranked so high on imdb? Are Americans dumb hicks who just can't appreciate SHakespearean theater?

[superllamapoop]

bloody hell it sucks!

[xagent]

"It must be thought on. If it pass against us,
We lose the better half of our possession:
For all the temporal lands which men devout
By testament have given to the church
Would they strip from us; being valued thus:
As much as would maintain, to the king's honour,
Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,
Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;
And, to relief of lazars and weak age,
Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil.
A hundred almshouses right well supplied;
And to the coffers of the king beside,
A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill."


Im sorry, but someone tell me what the hell that even means? Now how is someone supposed to understand something like that when its quickly said in a heavy British accent(southern hillbilly American accent for you Brits)?

[Jas101]

you dont understand it so you think it sucks?

how very educated of you.

[superllamapoop]

Originally Posted by Jas101

you dont understand it so you think it sucks?

how very educated of you.

BLALALALALALALALALALALALA JIHAD!

[xagent]

The MOVIE sucks, not the story. I understand the story, I just couldn't physically process what the "actors" were saying

[slicedoranges]

[Jas101]

Originally Posted by xagent

but there was something about this movie that made it impossible to understand (only happened to me with one other movie - Trainspotting, which fortunately had subtitles and good acting+).

[Tubgirl'sToyboy]

It's Shakespeare. What did you expect except theatrical, Olde English type stuff.

[growler]

OY GUV

[chuckybob]

Originally Posted by xagent

Are Americans dumb hicks who just can't appreciate SHakespearean theater?

ya prty mch

[Caribbean Queen]

Originally Posted by xagent

"It must be thought on. If it pass against us,
We lose the better half of our possession:
For all the temporal lands which men devout
By testament have given to the church
Would they strip from us; being valued thus:
As much as would maintain, to the king's honour,
Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,
Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;
And, to relief of lazars and weak age,
Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil.
A hundred almshouses right well supplied;
And to the coffers of the king beside,
A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill."


Im sorry, but someone tell me what the hell that even means? Now how is someone supposed to understand something like that when its quickly said in a heavy British accent(southern hillbilly American accent for you Brits)?

Its about Taxes

[wadie]

lol, so a yank (and i'm sorry, I dont mean to generalise but this sort of thing comes up so often) can't understand an authentic accent therefore it's crap? Americans are notoriously bad at being able to understand anyone but their own 'kind'. I know its due to a lack of exposure, but still - if you have trouble with a dialect (accent isn't really the correct term, accent alone shouldn't be enough to throw off any English speaker but dialect can be) then a little research would be in order surely.

It might be a shit movie, I don't know - what I do know however is that this sort of thing just makes the rest of us laugh at you.


Again, sorry to generalise.

[Conna]

Originally Posted by xagent

"It must be thought on. If it pass against us,
We lose the better half of our possession:
For all the temporal lands which men devout
By testament have given to the church
Would they strip from us; being valued thus:
As much as would maintain, to the king's honour,
Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,
Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;
And, to relief of lazars and weak age,
Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil.
A hundred almshouses right well supplied;
And to the coffers of the king beside,
A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill."


Im sorry, but someone tell me what the hell that even means? Now how is someone supposed to understand something like that when its quickly said in a heavy British accent(southern hillbilly American accent for you Brits)?

I understood it and I'm not even a native English speaker, .

[welk]

Henry V? I never even saw Henry I - IV