Hollywood took a liking to working class Boston in the late ‘90s thru 2000s. So saw the rise of Matt Damon, Ben and Casey Affleck and anyone else who could do the accent. Plus the rise of films based in lower to middle class Massachusetts communities. Has it reached saturation point? I am tired of the accent, for one thing. There is a Gillette ad on tv with a Boston narrator that is irritating af.
shareI love the accent. But I don't live in the USA so I don't run the risk of saturation.
shareAs long as that Whaaalberg guy is around, they’ll never truly go away, lol.
Frankly though, “Boston Accent” with Seth Meyers put a bullet in them. It was the Boston film to end all Boston films. XD
Boston films passe'? Bite your tongue!!! Boston films rule!!!
shareThe accent is funny AF. As a Californian whose accent is often mocked and ridiculed (I can laugh at it too) it's even funnier with these action dramas with tough guys who sound like Jack Kennedy on meth. I guess enough movie goers find it endearing thus we keep seeing movies made there, and that's okay.
On a related note, I'm more annoyed with all of the filming they do in New Orleans and they try to pass it off as the North East or the Midwest when the landscape and cityscape scream otherwise.
Californians have an accent?
shareJeff Spicoli, Moon Zappa's parody song "Valley Girl", the way The Dude (Lebowski) talks
shareI guess I don't consider those accents in the typical sense. I know people in Minnesota who talk like Spicoli, and they're just potheads. Lol
sharepeople all over North America sound like this now. 30 to 50 years ago it was attributed to SoCal Surfer talk. Jeff Bridges even did a few teen surf movies in the late 60s/early 70s
shareNowadays people talk where they end the comment ...
"And then we went to SacraMENTO ? Like WUT?"
Always an uprise to the end of the comment like it's a Question.
We don't want to be Wrong, so we frame it as quesTION ?
Nah they could make a thousand Boston movies with the hard accents and I'd never get tired of them.
shareI wouldn’t say they were frequent enough to reach saturation point. Not even with lumping The Departed and The Social Network in there.
Although Bostonian arrogance has reached saturation point. The spineless pussies there aren’t anywhere near as tough or smart as they think they are.