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So much bloody British b*llocks.

posted 9 years ago by neil_j_harper
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The overuse of "British slang" and references got really annoying. I'm British and it's both jarring and insulting for a movie to keep dropping in "local colour" the way they did.

Beyond the use of British terms like "mobile" and "quid" by American characters and the Mary Poppins way some of the "londoners" talked are the blatant "insert British thing here" parts of the script

For example "our first car was a rover that smelled like fish n chips"

FFS

[–] mungreluk 8 years ago

Thats unusual for a fellow 'Brit' to say the word movie, surely we call them films 

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[–] fatality713 8 years ago

The movie was set in London. Do you want American Colour in there?

[–] m143386 8 years ago

No, i expect supposed Brits to speak English, not Hollywood. Besides if they were tradesmen they would more likely have been Polish. :-)

HANG OUT WITH US MAN, we got the Pizza dude comin! (The Burbs, 1989)

[–] stanfieldUK81 8 years ago

I lol'd also, like an American would say mobile lol

[–] jac163 8 years ago

Was the film subtitled for our American friends? Mobile is a town in Alabama, they must think we call our phones after the place.
We here enough slang in American films, it's nice to hear a bit of brit slang.
Cheers fellas!

[–] lysergic-acid 8 years ago

Well, he's an American living and working in the UK. Some Americans develop an English accent after just vacationing there for a few months. Someone who has lived there for a decade or more is certainly going to assimilate at least in terms of words like lift/elevator, mobile/phone, trousers/pants, etc. if they want to communicate effectively.

[–] Goombas84 8 years ago

I agree i also hate the *beep* british language/slang/reference/people

[–] john-webb-970-879318 8 years ago

None of that amounts up to a hill of beans compared to the bloody cabby not knowing his way around London and getting fooled by a mobile phone road-map. It could have been a good film but it took to many silly moves and liberties with reality. One of my pet hates is when they hook into a CCTV system like they did in the chemists. FFS they are a hardwired system, not something you could hack into, ever. I should have known it was going to go a bit silly when the police car crashed that was transporting Costner magically opened its rear door after they crashed and he then managed to set dripping diesel alight with a dropped fag.

[–] CQTiger 8 years ago

The target audience will be non brits. All the things brought up here would go unnoticed I for one couldn't even understand the locals when the van was being stolen. Also as a reader pointed out you tend to learn to speak the lingo of the country very quickly if you want to be understood.

[–] rosalee_adams 8 years ago

You realize it's fiction right?

[–] tob1000-276-560764 8 years ago

Agree, stood out really badly. Poor writing.