to be fair, when i saw it in the cinema, that scene with the hollowed-out chest cavity of an autopsied body growing teeth and clamping down on the dudes hands got a huge laugh from the audience. Yeah, there was some screaming, but it was supposed to be funny, right?

and the sleeve design was lovely - it’s a gatefold that folded vertically down, not the traditional horizontal across. Because of course they would.

oh, the script is terrible, but the intonation is totally South Belfast. He actually hung out here before the movie started, to do some research. There’s a story that he got winged by a guy who spotted him, and smacked him in the head with an elbow as he was walking by. Which is totally a Shankhill Road thing to do,…

spell-check corrupts moderutely, too.

heyyy Abbott!

dood - that movie was shite, but I’m from Belfast and Brad’s accent was perfect. He even had the walk right. I’ve seen that guy walking up the Shankill Road.

totally. Or they’re all doing accents that they’ve heard in an old movie. 

Idris is flawless, but Christian... he’s a bit chewy as Bruce Wayne. And the posh Brits (Kate, Rosamund etc) all sound a bit too fussy. Also, they all think American accents are the same. Fatal flaw. 

or, if you can’t do an Irish accent in an American movie, just make the character Irish. You think an American audience will care? 

i’d like to hear them both chewing on that bucket that you throw your trash. Y’know, the gyar-bidge kh-yan

great shout - perfect in The Wire.

Haven’t seen him in Billions, but he accent in Homeland was excellent. And yes to Dom West - so good in The Wire. 

Brad was brilliant in Snatch. And in that terrible Harrison Ford movie, where he does a perfect Belfast accent. 

ah, Gerard Butler - this close to being Bond, instead he had a career of terrible rom-coms and various Fallen codenames.

and which branch do you use, no reason, just curious...

let me get this straight: the American actor is playing an English Pope, and the English actor is playing an American Pope, and neither of them can get the accent right? So.... why not cast the yank as the yank, and the boy from Blackheath as the guy with the fruity accent?

wasn’t it a bent copper conspiracy using an Islamist terrorist as cover?

i’ve never noticed the writer on the stories byline before, so I don’t know if this comment is fair, but... it is damn funny.

great googly-moogly....

There’s one moment in this that sticks with me - Connery’s “oh yeah?” reaction when he hears that Ryan O’Neals character broke his back in the landing, after disparaging him as a lightweight. Sean is so good - you can just see the wheels turning behind his eyes in that look.