Jack the Giant Slayer

Neutronale

Good crack BUT wtf is the story with the accents

The good king and his daughter have nice English home county accents.

The faithfull (but ultimately doomed) soldier has north England accent.

The hero, Jack' has an indeterminate but south England leaning accent.

But the giants take the biscuit, if you had a really nasty, smelly, grimy and very violent giant, what accent would you give him, wait for it, wait for it...obviously a thick Norn Iron accent thats what :rolleyes:

I mean WTF, have the English learned nothing?

Corholio

Your thread title is interesting because I think your being a bit anal about it.

Neutronale

Corholio wrote: »

Your thread title is interesting because I think your being a bit anal about it.

How so?

Neutronale

The bad guys had the Irish accents...the good guys had the BBC accents, have we a patern here

JP Liz V1

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jack-giant-slayer-could-lose-432584

Jack the Giant Slayer looking a like a big flop for Warner Bros

crazygeryy

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jack-giant-slayer-could-lose-432584

Jack the Giant Slayer looking a like a big flop for Warner Bros

the trailer looks fantastic.my son is jumping out of his skin to see it.hope its good.

TerrorFirmer

Thought it was decent, much more enjoyable than I expected it to be, albeit largely forgettable.

constitutionus

finally got around to seeing this today as A) there was feck all else on i was interested in seeing that i hadnt already seen and b) one of me mates said it was alright.

its a bit of a mixed bag.

its fairly slow to get going. in fact there was bits of the first half when i was thinking this is rather naff, but it had just enough humour in it to keep me interested.

the main human villain for instance seemed to think he was in a different film than everyone else- almost channeling the bad guy from the princess bride at times.

but when the second half kicks off it really shines.

the whole seige of the castle was fantastic and it really perked me right up to see

burning oak trees being tossed in to the court yard with abandon. theres even some lovely little directorial flourishes too like when a giant takes out the automatic cross bow on the walls. it finishes with some poor bastard being hit so hard he ends up going through a caslte wall

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that whole final sequence is what saves the film for me as it left me leaving the cinema with a bit of a high.

its definetly more of a kids centric film than anything else , but its perfectly servicable from the adult point of view too and for all the slagging its got from some quarters i can honestly say ive been to worse.

give it a 6.5 out of 10.

not great, but pretty good. particularly if your in the mood of the genre.