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Christian Bale faking an actually decent London accent, Gerard Butler being a loveable scot, and Matthew McCaughnehey doing his best Norse/Spartan Warrior impression?
Horrible acting all around (except Bale at times), the lead female character was basically there to soothe/flirt with the lead (wish i was joking), you can barely understand anyone, and yet really impressive set/castle and overall atmosphere. You believe you are there, and that the world is gone.
Huge gaps in logic on the hunting patterns of dragons, helicopters seem to run on infinite fuel, and the final plan to take down the main dragon is just stupid at best.... but the execution of fighting dragons in the air with nets dropped by guys without parachutes was a phenomenal air sequence.
Also, the dragon CGI holds up. You never quite see it, but when you do, you believe it's there, and the CGI team did a great job with consistency in that the dragons are always depicted expelling fluid that they ignite, and you see it every time they cast fire.
Brilliant movie, and one of the best opening 5 minutes in terms of origin story. Just a lot of bad acting, and some questionable feats in logic plot-wise.
I'm a crazy, or did you completely fail to mention what movie you're describing?
https://lemmy.ml/post/30029796/18578529
It took me a while to figure out what movie you were talking about. But it's "dragons invade the modern world, with Christian Bale!" (I can't remember the name)
reign of fire
Eragon: Returns
One of the movie series I was sad to see die before it even began. Read the whole series of books.
I'd watch this, but only because sometimes I need to watch bad movies
Christian Bale is English. His accent in Reign of Fire is not far off his normal accent.
You are shitting me!
Heβs crazy good at assimilating accents so a lot of people donβt realise. Hereβs his real accent (apologies for the YouTube link).
his real accent sounds fake.... I almost don't believe it...
I remember being extremely well entertained by awesome dragons, and that's it. Which means you're probably correct.
What Bale's native accent?
https://lemmy.ml/post/30029796/18578697
I know it's a British one, I was wondering what region, since OP was talking about his London accent.
its vaguely welsh, but I actually can't tell
Nah it's not welsh at all, he was born there but grew up entirely in England.
I cant place his english accent anywhere though either haha