because i found myself not being able to concentrate on the movie as i was cringing at Coogan's ridiculous accent too much. Seriously, i can fart and do an american accent better than him. It was only about 15 minutes into it that i actually realised he was trying to do an American accent. The first part looked poor and i'm glad i never wasted any more time watching it.
shareC'mon, it wasn't that bad. Give him credit for not losing it completely when he raised his voice - for some reason accents seem harder to control when there's yelling involved. Also, it was waaaay better than Jude Law's, or Christian Bale's.
shareSorry, it was terrible. Plus, Coogan is an arrogant prick in RL so.
shareWhy do so many Brits think they possess expertice on the topic of accents? The topic is much more complicated than you think. A Henry Higgins-type of locating people within a small geographical region based on speech is not always possible. The spread of mass media is homogenizing accents everywhere. Anyways, you're wrong in the case of this film: Coogan doesn't make a single sound that you can't hear amongst millions of Americans in the New England region.
Oh, and raj--the arrogance is a put on. Coogan is a character clown, from the Auguste tradition, and his inflated ego combined with incompetence is a joke. I, for one, think he carries it off brilliantly.
The caracter Coogan was playing is a Canadian (dairy farm boy from Manitoba) - he had a fine Canadian accent; maybe should be paying more attention next time -and you certainly should watch it again without being critical of accents as there is more to this movie than pronounciation
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His words that end in "R" are a dead give-away. A lot of British actors doing American accents just don't pronounce it quite right.
shareThe beginning of the movie is slow and I was afraid that it was gonna be one of those arsty fartsy films, but it was such a great movie. Steve's accent was the furthest thing from my mind.
shareI'm american and i forgot for the first half hour that steve coogan is english. i only heard him slip up a couple of times, all in all his accent was very good. there're only a few british actors that can sound american all the time, such as emma thompsom and hugh laurie and joseph fiennes (although I've heard him slip a tiny bit.)
Two wonderful actors that can't do american are alan rickman and ciaran hinds.
SC was worst in the deleted scene with David Arquette. The word "Gary" gave him problems. wonder if that had anything to do with why they took it out.