The Accent - Please make it stop

Rating: 1/10 (14 May 2013)

Aside from the native Bostonians in this movie, the others don't even try to have a Boston accent. Why do you suppose that is? It causes one to be tripped up by the actors halfhearted attempt at sounding authentic. If the movie were based in NYC or Texas you had better believe they would be spot on. What the director and producers fail to realize is that people from Boston do not talk like they're from California half the time, and the other half as if they're from Boston. It doesn't happen. We never say "Baaah-ston" when we mean Boston and for the most part, we never use the letter R in any words. Ever. If you're going to create a movie about my hometown, you need to have your on screen cast perfect the accent or hire native Bostonians. Period. In one scene the lead actress, Vera Farmiga suddenly adopts the accent but throughout the rest of the movie sounds like she's from Los Angeles. This is typical and annoying and because of it, it throws off the movie's "honesty". Unfortunately the movie comes off as halfhearted and not believable to those of us from Boston. It's too bad Martin Scorsese didn't care enough to make his actors get it right. If it was a NY movie, you know they would have.