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Hey folks, Harry here... I dig this trailer, dig Harrison Ford's nifty accent and given the real life history behind this story, I'm very intrigued to see if Ms. "Blue Steel" "Point Break" "Near Dark" and "Strange Days" aka Kathryn Bigelow... will be able to turn this into the winner I hope it is. The early test screening reviews were pretty optimistic sounding. I'd love nothing more than to see a great Harrison Ford movie where he is trying something a bit different... and in this... playing a Russian Captain with a Russian accent.... well, that's really different for him. Can't wait!
Hey Harry,
I saw that you hadn't reported this on the site yet, although I'm sure
that you've heard of it by now. The preview for "K-19: Widowmaker" is
online over at the quicktime
site(CLICK HERE FOR THE TRAILER). It's interesting
to see a story being driven by and glorifying the Russians. Sadly
though, it looks rather mediocre. Thanks for a great site, keep up the
great work
mr. blank
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In "Hunt for Red October", Sean Connery couldn't be bothered. In fact, that boat had every accent BUT Russian going on. Damn, I wish "Near Dark" would come out on DVD. Good vampire movies are a rare animal.
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This looks terrible! Another sub drama with the usual cabin floods and missiles going off accidently! With had Crimson Tide and the excellent Hunt for the Red October. This has nothing to offer.Harrison Ford still sounds American! Perhaps Liam Neeson should have played the lead instead. The summer's first casualty
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I'm fairly ambivalent about this. While I'm curious how "astonishing" the true story is, I don't know if this is a must see. Harrison! Stop turning into Sean Connery ("Dad?" "Junior!") and do Indy 4 already! P.S. Gladiator music belongs in Gladiator, not in sub movies.
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Looks like absolutely nothing new! Crap. Harrison, you shoulda done TRAFFIC! Damn.
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That music aint Gladiator buddu. It was used in the ID4 trailer, as well as Crimson Tide as far as I can remember...and probably many others.
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and reading this after watching Jay and Silent Bob strike back... you guys are pathetic. a 3 minute trailer and bitch bitch bitch.
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Granted, I do not know the entire plot, but is there any reason to distract us by making two already prominent actors do awkward Russian accents for two hours? Not to mention the fact that this looks pretty generic. I can't say I'm real excited about this one.
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Then wouldn't bitching about Talk Backers that are bitching be even more pathetic? Hey Wallace, you are the ball licker.
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Mar 07, 2002 7:17:25 AM CST
"I VANT MY MEN OF THEES BOOT." Where did Harrison and Liam get t
by chuckrussel
ugh!
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Wellll, HR should realize that he can't do a Russian accent, but this looks like an exciting movie. Of course, I love any sub movie, so I may be biased. (God, I hope that's not just how effective the trailer-creating folks are.)
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If they are russian and speaking in english then they should have an accent. But if they are russian and are speaking in english for the sake of the movie then accents are pointless and really piss me off. Am I alone on this? When I read Tolsoy I dont read it with a russain accent.
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But only because I was hoping that this would be a sequel to Jim Belushi's "K-9"
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Mar 07, 2002 9:46:20 AM CST
I guess Harrison gets to star in Hunt for Red October after all
by nflrefugee
Take that Frenchy Baldwin. That is a horrible accent, I guess Costner wasn't available. I hold hope for this though because Bigelow is a great director who should work more. She's a babe to boot, ever see her photo?. Good looking woman. I wouldn't want Cameron's seconds though.
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I agree with you on the accent thing, Pageiv. Remember "Hunt for Red October" where some of the crew had Russian accents and some (Sean Connery) didn't? Also, anybody else remember when Bigelow was supposed to direct "Neuromancer"? sk
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What I'm really waiting for is a Chinese submarine movie starring Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon....
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His movies still make tons of money, the guy is still great. I don't care if his accent is bad, as someone else pointed out Connery was a russian with a scottish accent in Hunt for Red October. But the film was still good. Geeze and stop whining about Ford turning down Traffic, it was an overrated borefest. I bet you "K-19" becomes a huge summer hit.
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The sequel to K-9 was K-911, not K-9000. Christ. Stupid people should NOT try to be funny...
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Listen up here, brother! I ain't gonna care one sling of spit about Harrison Ford, brother, until he decides to lace up the boots, eat the vitamins, drink that stinkin' milk, and get back into another Indiana Jones movie, brother! Look, brother, Harrison's getting old, dude, he's so old, he reminds me of Andre the Giant at WrestleMania III, brother! Harrison's so old, the nWo is looking to recruit him as a junior member, brother. But I say this......you can run...you can hide, brother...but Harrison Ford, you can't avoid doing another Indiana Jones film, brother. Whatcha gonna do, when Lucas and Spielberg run wild on you?! (P.S. A message for the Rock...if you think I looked like a senior citizen on E! News, just wait until I go full-speed at WrestleMania XVIII).
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"Gail!" "Kathryn!" Air kisses. "You look great." "You look beautiful." "I hear your submarine movie is coming out soon." "Yeah. It's all ready." "Are people worried about Harrison's accent?" "I have a confession to make, Gail. Don't tell anyone, Harrison would be terribly embarrassed--" "What is it?" "That's not an accent. That's his real speaking voice. The voice that we've heard all these years in the STAR WARS and INDIANA JONES and JACK RYAN movies, THAT'S his accent." "Wow! I had no idea." "No one does. So how goes your voodoo spells against Jerry Bruckheimer." "As far as I've heard, his balls haven't dropped off yet, but no one muscles me out of ARMADGEDEON and keeps their testicles." "You go girl!" "Hi, Linda!" More air kisses. "Good to see you, Linda." "Can you believe they had the nerve to offer me the part of the Terminatorette?" "The Terminatorette?" "Yeah, that's what they're calling the new female Terminator." "No." "Yes." "I'm glad I sold off my rights to that years ago. So what's his Egoship think of that?" "Who cares?" A Bob's Big Boy waitress carrying a chiuahuah joins them for air kisses. This is Cameron's very first wife, who was not in the Business but was the model for Sarah Conner. "Do you girls mind if Suzy joins us?" "Suzy!" "Did she and James break up?" "Well, it's only a matter of time. She's a future ex." "What the hell." "Yeah, what the hell."
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Kathryn Bigelow is the only female director that I actually know and like. That woman's good. Damn good.
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Mar 07, 2002 1:28:39 PM CST
What, was Kate Winslet too busy to attend the monthly luncheon?
by otis von zipper
I guess being nominated for an Oscar will do that. But, what ever happened to Weight of Water? It only starred Sean Penn, Catherine McCormack, Liz Hurley and Sarah Polley. Guess no-one would be interested in seeing that.
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That movie kicked ass.
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Uh, isn't this movie infringing a little on Red October? Looks good though, I must say. I usually hate submarine movies, but this one actually doesn't look too claustrophobic.
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There was this Babylon 5 episode, the one after the Earth Civil War ends, where we see the new interim president, and she's a Russian. All the fanboys hit the message boards, whining about what a fake accent she had. Turns out the actress *was* a native Russian, was using her natural voice, and the fans were just being idiots......
Only goes to show that most of us know our accents from Hollywood - which means we know nothing. They *do* hire accent coaches and linguists on these sorts of things, typically. And honestly I'd need to know more Russians before I knew if it was a good accent or not......
But I tend to agree with one sentiment expressed here. If the characters are Russians speaking amongst themselves, they should have no accent - since the dialogue is obviously translated from Russian for our benefit. Only when the characters speak English should an accent be heard. I suppose they stick it in for atmosphere. But if so, why didn't Maximus in Gladiator speak with a Hispano-Latin accent? (And yes, the music from a lot of the latter part of the trailer was Gladiator. Not the whole thing, but a stretch towards the end). Smileys all around. -
when it was called "the hunt for red october"!!!!!!!
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Completely mediocre, generic crap. The worst Russian accent I have ever heard coming from Harrison. This is Das Boot Ultra lite.
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In 'The Hunt for Red October' McTiernan handled the russian/english accent problem quite well. For the first few scenes of the film, Connery, Sam Neill and all the other Russian characters speak in Russian (not to say that they do it well) translated via subtitles, but then he does an audio cut which bridges the translation problem. As Connery recites a poem in Russian in the Captain's Wardroom aboard the Red October, which he completes by reading the last line in English. It's an effective way of saying "Look, these guys are russian, but to make it so you don't have to squint to read these fucking subtitles, assume they're still speaking russian, even though what you're hearing is English."
Later, when Baldwin and Scott Glenn enter the Red October, the Russians are SPEAKING RUSSIAN again, until Baldwin and Connery trade a few lines in each other's 'native' tongues and we revert back to english. Further, Scott Glenn asks one of the russian sailors 'You speak English? Then sit here.' during the climactic battle between October, the Dallas and the Russian Alfa-class sub.
Got it? For my dissertation on why all Nazis must speak with a British accent, please see my post regarding Hart's War. -
I heard some extremely distressing news a while back about that. I heard that they were unable to find a master print of it to make a good transfer so it might NEVER come out on DVD. Hell, I can't even find it on VIDEO anymore! I hope this is complete bull because the DVD world is poorer without a deluxe, super-duper, limited collector's edition 4-disc set of NEAR DARK. Get Anchor Bay on the case. They'll figure it out.
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THEY PAID HIM $20 MILLION DOLLARS!
Here is Ford talking to his agent:
FORD: "What movie can I wedge into my schedule before the actor's strike?"
AGENT RESPONDS
FORD: "I'll work for anyone who pays me $20 million."
AGENT RESPONDS
FORD:"That film will win 8 Oscars! Will they pay me $20 million?"
AGENT RESPONDS.
FORD: "Then fuck them. What else you got?"
AGENT RESPONDS
FORD: Who is Kathryn Bigelow?
AGENT RESPONDS
FORD: Whatever. Will they pay me $20 million.
AGENT RESPONDS
FORD: Sold!!!!!!!!!!
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That little trailer sucks, don't it? I foound a larger, easier to see version here: http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/5ad75990ef1c64/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e81787e85abb28970c7aee1d68c7f831/K_19_r480.mov I know, I know, it's long, but what are ya going to do?
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Sorry! Did I screw up the page format? I apologize people.....flame away!
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There are 2 L's in Hollywood, brother. Shit, I hope you ran out of letters when creating your ID or something. Cause otherwise, that's truly pathetic...
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If the movie's good, who cares. Liam's doesn't sound too authentic either, unless a lot of Russians speak with traces of an Irish accent. The only Russian accent I remember buying completely was Robin Williams' accent in Moscow on the Hudson, which I also remember as a pretty good movie. Besides, we tolerated Koenig's Checkov accent "Nu-cle-ur wessels, Keptin" for 30 years. Perhaps I'll order one of those mail-order Russian brides that are all over the internet so I can have a frame of reference to compare accents to.
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Well, there are arguments on that score. Go to this link for a nice story about the sub, the survivors and the movie:
http://www.vce.com/atomicnews/rumeltdown.html
In the meantime, any Oz or UK types remember this story from a BBC series of disaster re-enactments? I recall seeing something similar, anyhow, although in this instance I think one man sacrificed his life in going down to the water-filled areas of the sub where the, ah, nuclear bits lay and turning something off. Okay, vague I know, but I am sure I have seen a fictionalised account of this before. -
it just doesn't work. really. the guy can't do the accent.
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So bad. But hey, at least it looks like he didn't sleep his way through this one, and that's something.
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Mar 08, 2002 12:17:11 PM CST
hey!!! ok i accept your opinion! BUT always bitch bitch bitch b
by drjones
i found this trailer not THAT bad!!! well...sometimes harry looks a bit old but remember: he`s 59!!!!?
and the accent...well...we`ll see!!!
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