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Movies where you didn't understand what they were saying because of the accents.


I just finished watching Ratcatcher (1999) and had such a difficult time understanding those Scottish accents. It was so bad that if there were subtitles, the subtitles would need subtitles. The only other film I couldn't understand was Kes (1969), but that film has been infamous for its mediocre sound quality.

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Most Guy Ritchie movies require subs imo

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I love me some Guy... Ritchie that is. I've never had a problem understand his films, but I know a lot of people complain about Lock, Stock.

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Attack The Block

Yanks speak English beha den da English, in'it Bruv?

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I know what you mean, fam. Dey don't be sayin' them "r's" at the end of words but den be saying "sawr" instead of "saw".

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rocknrolla '08

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Totes nang innit (or so I’m led to believe is the current vernacular).

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i watched ratcatcher a few weeks back. good, but a complete downer. & definitely needed subtitles for that one.

i find most uk accents incomprehensible, tbh. i've seen echo & the bunnymen a few times over the years, & every time i haven't been able to understand a single thing ian m said.

so i need the subs for almost every uk film i watch, more or less. kill list is a good example of one where i find it pretty much impossible to grok what anyone's saying.

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As long as the audio is good, I'm good with any accent from England. But Ratcatcher was more of a headscratcher. I've never heard Scottish accents so thick.

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Green Street Hooligans '05

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Good film. Not part 2 though. That was horrible.

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I avoided it, i think. I use to not even bother with British movies, now I appreciate & enjoy them.

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I love British movies. I actually got about 5 on my flash drive waiting for me.

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Coach & Fletcher n 'The Gentlemen were fantastic

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Such a long list, so little time....

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BÁNH SANDWICH BLOW ME 3

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Sounds Shakespearean.

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Everything. I’ve realised putting subtitles on movies I’ve seen many times that I mishear a lot of words.

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I think that has to do more with bad audio.

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Trainspotting

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See? It's those Scots.

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No Country For Old Men

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