So I haven’t seen the movie yet (definitely on my list though, Eggers is usually great), but one way around this could be using something like RP (Received Pronunciation) for high class characters, and use regional accents for your lower class characters. Only problem I see with that is that in my experience most Americans hear an English accent and think it’s ‘posh’ even if it’s a Yorkshire or Scouse accent.
One of the better solutions to that kind of thing is how the series Warrior handles it. When two Chinese charaters are talking to each other, they just speak normally for how the actors would converse since they are speaking the same language, but when a Chinese character is talking to a white one, the Chinese character speaks with an accent as they would when speaking English.
Multiverse of Madness is a pretty bad movie to be gentle about it, but I will say that it would have been ever so slightly less bad if the alternate universe that most of the movie took place in was something more creative and visually interesting than "earth, but you stop when the light's green, pizza are little balls, and they have convenient memory exposition machines". What a maddening multiverse that we see!
I agree with them about theaters. I only go maybe once a year anymore, and I almost always regret it. Even if by some miracle I don't have any crunching, talking, or screaming children in my theater, I'm still assaulted with at least a half hour of advertisements before the trailers even start.
I honestly don't know what type of knuckledraggers have to be living in Milwaukee or what type of bootleg theaters they're going to for me to be hearing all this shit from Mike, Jay, and Rich on a consistent basis, the worst I can recall ever getting it in a theater was when I saw a capeshit movie opening day, which is unsurprising because those types of people are a special breed. But the way they describe it, especially Rich's Oppenheimer story of the Millennial watching Tiktok videos while her spawn praises Barbie loudly after the two danced in halfway through the movie, makes it sound like Milwaukee is a city housed solely by degenerates.
My city used to have this really crappy cheap theater where you could see movies for like 7 bucks a ticket three weeks after they came out in regular theaters and I don’t think I’ve ever had an experience there go nearly as bad as they’ve had with their theaters, at least when it comes to other people.
Milwaukee is only 36.5% White [archive] and the median income is ~50k.
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oh the movie sucks, but Mike's idea was retarded. thats the point i was making, Mike's ideas bring movies up from a D- to a D, but they're still not good.
people forget they're boomers. plenty of people just pirate the new releases and tolerate the shitty international quality.
Theaters would probably lose money by doing this too.