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[EhoaVash]

Growing up, I loved harry potter well the first 3 movies. Young me had a hard time following the movies because I had a hard time understanding British accent. None the less, i still became interested in the series and really liked it but que the 4th? movie ..where the british really started to bother me. As the actors aged, their British became more apparent/ more confusing to me D: ..maybe their acting got worse or something <.> but I digress, the jokes,dialogs became more and more unfunny and confusing all because the actors started using heavy british accents and such. thats when I started falling out with the movies all together. =/

maybe if Harry potter was american, i would of liked it/understood it

( btw I do love british shows like game of thrones, etc )

Spoiler

I blame the acting

 

[slit]

I wish he was from the deep south.

 

[BigDug13]

Just turn subtitles on like a foreign film then.

 

[strafer]

cheerio

 

[GK86]

I would prefer if he were Scottish.

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

The fact that it's set in the UK certainly adds to the charm.

And why don't you simply watch it with English subs?

 

[Hagi]

Swap the Hogwarts Express for a Greyhound.

 

[Funky Papa]

Fuck, I wish he were Cornish just to spite you and your kin, OP.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Just read the books if the accents are your problem.

( btw I do love british shows like game of thrones, etc )

Game of Thrones is not a British show.

 

[Daffy Duck]

Fuck, I wish he were Cornish just to spite you and your kin, OP.

Lol or Scouse.

Call him Barry Potter.

 

[Charcoal]

Middle class white male from the suburbs

 

[Hagi]

Fuck, I wish he were Cornish just to spite you and your kin, OP.

Scouse would have been better.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

I wish he was from the deep south.

Would fit for the Dursleys. Don't want their adopted son using Satanic magic!

 

[Fari]

OP is a cheeky cunt who is clearly 'avin' a giggle.

 

[kick51]

yeah, i'm not sure why they gave those american kids those weird accents.

 

[Inferno313]

Huh... British accents are that hard to understand? I never had a single problem understanding the films, and I was never around Brits growing up.

Also Game of Thrones isn't british.

 

[DJ_Lae]

I prefer that it's British, actually. I can only imagine how hilarious an American-based Harry Potter would be.

 

[Hot Coldman]

racism

 

[Ape Gone Insane]

u wot m8

 

[Gobias]

( btw I do love british shows like game of thrones, etc )

What?

And how are any of the accents hard to understand? It's not Trainspotting.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

ey bruv u yanks cant have it all knaw mean

 

[besada]

British shows like GoT are great.

 

[Nicktendo86]

There is no such thing as a British accent for a start. Second, its a British creation, so no. Make your own wizard story.

 

[Captain Europe]

No, American doesn't sound right to me in fantastical media, which is why Once Upon a Time can sound really cheesy. Watch with subtitles if you don't understand it.

 

[strafer]

i love chicks with british accents...god...makes me heart melt

 

[EhoaVash]

I love game of thrones <3

 

[Collete]

Growing up, I loved harry potter well the first 3 movies. Young me had a hard time following the movies because I had a hard time understanding British accent. None the less, i still became interested in the series and really liked it but que the 4th? movie ..where the british really started to bother me. As the actors aged, their British became more apparent/ more confusing to me D: ..maybe their acting got worse or something <.> but I digress, the jokes,dialogs became more and more unfunny and confusing all because the actors started using heavy british accents and such. thats when I started falling out with the movies all together. =/

maybe if Harry potter was american, i would of liked it/understood it

( btw I do love british shows like game of thrones, etc )

Spoiler

I blame the acting

The problem with this is like...the book takes place in Great Britain so it wouldn't make sense if he was American, don't you think?

Have you not read the books before?

 

[Renzoku]

But then Emma Watson's hot self wouldn't be speaking with a hot accent.

 

[Style]

I would prefer if he were Scottish.

Everything becomes better with Scottish accents. Everything.

 

[DJ_Lae]

No, American doesn't sound right to me in fantastical media, which is why Once Upon a Time can sound really cheesy. Watch with subtitles if you don't understand it.

I think Once Upon a Time has bigger issues than an American cast somehow. Man, I had high hopes for that show but couldn't stomach it past the first few episodes of the second season. I don't even know how I made it through the first.

 

[Little Old Man]

OP here's the first film with subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mQaIMYIvYU

 

[EhoaVash]

sign.. if only the series was about a wizard from detroit then the movies wouldn't be british D:

 

[Captain Europe]

I think Once Upon a Time has bigger issues than an American cast somehow. Man, I had high hopes for that show but couldn't stomach it past the first few episodes of the second season. I don't even know how I made it through the first.

I think it's alright, much preferred Once Upon a Time in Wonderland though.

 

[GK86]

There is no such thing as a British accent for a start. Second, its a British creation, so no. Make your own wizard story.

Fine, we will make our own with blackjack and hookers.

 

[Arkos]

Wait, what the FUCK.

Pls tell me Harry Potter isn't Brittish.

 

[FreeMufasa]

Only thing I hate bout it is. Movie set in London, but u don't see ONE mandem. If u manz live in London u know we about

 

[entremet]

I didn't care for the movies, but I loved that aspect in the books. America isn't novel to me as an American. It's nice being taken to another place in fiction.

Only thing I hate bout it is. Movie set in London, but u don't see ONE mandem. If u manz live in London u know we about

I googled this and got a bunch of images of black dudes. They I saw the urban dictionary definition. :/

 

[UnlovedJew]

I just wish that Daniel Radcliffe learned how to act at some point during the first 5 movies.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Only thing I hate bout it is. Movie set in London, but u don't see ONE mandem. If u manz live in London u know we about

You're English?

I just wish that Daniel Radcliffe learned how to act at some point during the first 5 movies.

I think he just apologized for this

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

English accents are hard to understand? The ones in the films are usually quite articulate...

 

[-Deimos]

What other British shows do you like?

 

[kick51]

Wait, what the FUCK.

Pls tell me Harry Potter isn't Brittish.

The writer is American. The whole series is commentary on how British actors playing Americans in shows is a double-standard and racist.

 

[Lindbergh]

I remember Conan joking about the accents in the first movie.
They took a scene from the train station and made everyone's speech incomprehensible.

 

[BigDug13]

I just wish that Daniel Radcliffe learned how to act at some point during the first 5 movies.

It's tough to know who's going to turn out to be capable actors when you're casting for a decade of movies at 10 years old.

 

[genjiZERO]

Lols, those are the most watered down British accents I've ever heard in a film. Hell, Dumbledore 2 sounds almost North American.

 

[entremet]

You're English?

I think he just apologized for this

Yep. A lot of his slang is British slang.

 

[Timedog]

I wish he spoke in a vernacular and with a certain fondness for nasally staccato that at times his speech might only decipherable to my ears and mine alone. Like a small gift from god signed with my name in shimmering gold ink.

 

[rtcn63]

I haven't really watched any of the films- does Harry speak colloquial English or BBC English?

 

[Zelda]

i wish he had a third arm coming out of where his belly button is

 

[Copenap]

This has to be a troll, right guys?

Anyways, Op may have to wait 10-20 years but there will be a remake eventually and that may as well be set in the US.

It's tough to know who's going to turn out to be capable actors when you're casting for a decade of movies at 10 years old.

They did get lucky with Emma Watson though.