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Bang Bang Club Trailer: Oh, Taylor Kitsch. Please Don't Talk

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (18)

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The great news about the trailer for the Bang Bang Club is that Taylor Kitsch is in it. The bad news, I’m afraid, is that he speaks. Even worse? He speaks in an accent, and it’s not Southern. I think it’s South African, but it’s hard to tell with the blood gushing out of my ear. It’s not helped by the accents of both Ryan Phillipe and Malin Ackerman, either. It’s like a symphony of pleasestoptalkingyou’reruiningthepretty.

The Bang Bang Club is the actually based on the real life story of a group of four young combat photographers — Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Kevin Carter and Ken Oosterbroek — who probably aren’t nearly as pretty, but likely speak in a way that doesn’t make you want to gnaw off your own Tympanic membrane.

I don’t know when the release date is on this, but unless movie theaters develop a mute button, I think I’ll pass.

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Comments

Oh, man. It's a terrifically good, heartbreaking book. And yes, it would be a South African accent if it is supposed to be based on the true story. This is so disappointing.

Posted by: Wednesday at March 21, 2011 9:18 PM

I'll watch anything Tim Riggins is in...doesn't mean I have to listen to it!

Posted by: CiCi at March 21, 2011 9:40 PM

Well, it's no Cajun accent, but it's definitely not a good Texas drawl either.

/still bitter about Gambit
//still upset that FNL is over
///but wondering if he takes his shirt off in the movie

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at March 21, 2011 9:43 PM

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!

Tim Riggins forever.

I'm going to be watching FNL season one (gotta be strong, I can do this...) this week to introduce a friend to the series--so I will get plenty of pretty, gorgey Taylor.

Posted by: grace b at March 21, 2011 10:23 PM

If I read one more friggin American who has no idea of the complexity as well as the variety of South African accents, complain about the accents in this film, MY ears will start to bleed. Please.

Posted by: sittingpat at March 21, 2011 11:14 PM

This is the perfect movie.................to rent from the library for free, a year from now.

Posted by: junierizzle at March 21, 2011 11:16 PM

CLEAR EYES, grace b. Clear eyes. Full hearts.

CAN'T LOSE.

Posted by: Lainey at March 21, 2011 11:34 PM

I don't get it. Why use shallow, pretty actors in a film (seemingly) this deep, to begin with? It's like somebody just didn't know what they were casting for.

Posted by: godzilla_foil at March 22, 2011 12:08 AM

Dustin, you've hit the nail on the head: So much pretty, as long as it stays silent.

I read someone opine about Ryan Philippe: "He's perfect for gay porn."

Posted by: MM at March 22, 2011 12:51 AM

Clear eyes,
Plugged ears,
CAN'T LOSE!!!

Posted by: bev rage at March 22, 2011 5:54 AM

Every time I see the name Malin Ackerman, I wonder who is that, am I supposed to know her? Then I look her up on IMDB, have a "oh yeah, I know her" reaction, but then have to scroll down to see what she's actually been in. Then a week later, Pajiba will bring her up again, and I have to do the whole thing over again.

Posted by: Jen K. at March 22, 2011 7:39 AM

Goddamnit. Again, for those sitting in the back: THERE ARE ACTUAL SOUTH AFRICAN ACTORS, YOU KNOW.

Christ, I haven't lived there in 20 years, and I can still do a better accent than that.

Posted by: TK at March 22, 2011 9:04 AM

I read the book years back, and it's gonna be a real uphill battle to make a fictionalized movie that rivals the book. This trailer doesn't leave me optimistic.

Posted by: sars at March 22, 2011 9:29 AM

I think every American-actors-trying-to-do-South-African-accents movies should include the line, "You know in America it's 'bling, bling', but out here it's 'bling, bang'." Purely for my enjoyment.

Posted by: jM at March 22, 2011 2:15 PM

T.K lived in South Africa?
Mind. Blown.
This movie? Not so much. Can't have so much pretty telling such an ugly (not in a bad way) story. Hell, if the black South African actor playing the township guy couldn't cover up his anglicized SA accent convincingly enough and speak like the average non-private educated township dweller, what chance did the pretty Americans have?

Posted by: notquirky at March 22, 2011 5:47 PM

Just have him saying "FOOKIN PRAWNS" a lot. I mean, isn't that what all the South Africans say?

Posted by: figgy at March 22, 2011 5:52 PM

That horrifying vulture picture really happened.
http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/sudanese-girl-dying-of-hunger-as-a-vulture-patiently-waits.jpg

Probable Spoiler if this movie follow real events:

The photographer who took it killed himself about a year later.

Posted by: Paultera at March 22, 2011 6:14 PM

That is the worst picture I've seen in my entire life.
Horrible. Horrible. Horrible. Horrible.
I wish I could unsee that. More though, I wish it was not something that was capable of happening.

Posted by: John at March 30, 2011 7:20 PM