kailus13 said:
Dansen said:
I have a hard time believing in Movie Bobs "Boston" accent, so it is always weird to me when people fawn over it. As some one who has grown up in Boston you would be very hard pressed to find some one who still talks like that. The only people that sound anything like that are townies and old white people both of which are minorities. It just sounds so fake and exaggerated that I cant help but thinking its an act. I just had to let that out of my system as this is something I have thought since the first time I have heard it.
OT: Interesting review. Bob compared it to The Hills have Eyes, so I'm just wondering if it is more or less scary than that film.
Given that his accent slips out when he's angry, and that his "normal" voice sounds so measured, I'm inclined to believe that his Boston voice is real.
To be honest I think he does it for fun nowadays more than anything because people found it cool when he first showed it. I also think he hams it up a bit at times.
I've been following Bob long enough to remember the first time when he outed it (there was no indication for a while beforehand) and then explained it, along with how he has voice training to surpress it.
Being a professional I doubt Bob "slips" unless he wants to, especially seeing as he can edit and re-do these videos as many times as he wants. It seems to be that since we accept his accent on this site at least, he can choose to "stage slip" into it to empathize certain points as if he's losing his cool in a way a profesional making a recorded product like this never would.
Such are my thoughts.
In response to the guy your quoting, I personally didn't find "Evil Dead" or "Hills Have Eyes" paticularly scary but I am a jaded horror fan. It's very hard to get a rise out of me when I go out expecting to see a horror movie, and when your dealing with such a well known franchise, and especially remakes of movies you've already seen, it becomes kind of easy to view them objectively. That said I think "Evil Dead" was far better than "Hills Have Eyes", which is a matter of opinion of course. Both have decent FX and some pretty gruelling scenes, but I guess at the end of the day I tend to prefer the supernatural horror of "Evil Dead" and it's set up.
To be honest I'm sort of waiting for/hoping for, a remake on this level of Dario Argento's "Demons" trilogy. I think the third one (actually called "The Church", as opposed to Demons 3) was lacking and could use a re-do for reasons I won't go into. I'll also say that while the original was best, a certain last stand in a basement parking garage in "Demons 2" stayed with a then-less-jaded me for a long time.