Mumble Acting

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Mumbling Cunts in Films.

I’m trying to watch “Donnie Brasco” and can’t make out half of what’s being said. Subtitles aren’t available either.

I know my hearing isn’t brilliant but even when the volume is turned right up,I can’t decipher what they’re on about….but I can certainly hear the fucking ads. when they come on.

Donnie Brasco can fuck off….Naked Attraction,here I come.

Nominated by Dick Foxchaser-Fiddler

77 thoughts on “Mumble Acting”

  1. It’s called Italian-American. There were a string of ‘Rocky’ films with the same problem.

    • I think Stallone actually talks like he’s punch drunk in real life either that or he can’t tell the difference between real life and being in a movie ….

  2. I blame Marlon Brando for starting the trend with his muttering and mumbling portrayal of Don Corleone in the Godfather.

    Come to think of it, every film that Brando starred in he muttered his lines. Could hardly make out what the bald, mumbling buffoon was going on about in Apocalypse Now.

    • Joe Pesci in Goodfellas is another example of a mumbling mafiosa –

      “whaddja smay….whadja smay…….mmmar oooo shum sorta fugging wasgay……..”

      Unintelligible Bronx drivel.

      Apparently directors like their actors to mumble because it adds reality to a scene. It also adds unintelligibility.

    • Or that advert for margarine and missing fizzy orange pop he did, with that young tart- “Lost Tango in Paris”.
      🤔

    • Funny you say that I just watched the godfather pt1 and 2 again and still don’t have a fucking clue what Brando said in either film , the cunt sounded like he had spent the afternoon in the dentists chair , once Brando snuffed it the mumbling continued courtesy of al Pacino and assorted members of the cast..
      Apparently he’s cheeks we stuffed with cotton wool? So maybe the dentist chair is the answer 🤷‍♂️

  3. Donnie Brasco is a great film, Lord Fiddler-worth persevering 👍

    To your highly cultured, gentleman’s sensibilities, I am sure that anything that deviates from you no doubt, cut glass accent, will grate on your hearing.

    Just a thought, had you accidentally left your ear defenders or chainsaw helmet on?
    🤔

  4. There are a lot of films and TV series like this nowadays.

    Some cunt told me a few years back to watch ‘The Americans.’ I turned it off after a few minutes of the first episode. Mumbling quiet as fuck cunts. Turn sound up. Then music kicks in and nearly deafens every cunt within a mile. That ‘Bosch’ (Yank detective show) was another. Mumbly cunt, then the music kicked in, which seemed to be a loud as fuck death metal scream. This made the cat run for its life, clawing a part of my arm away in terror and hide under the bed for two hours. A bit of shite also appeared in my undies, the fucking cunts. You’d have needed to be able to lip read to work out what was being said in the very next scene too.

    Worst I’ve ever seen for this was SS GB by the BBC. Mumble. Loud as fuck. Mumble. Quiet as fuck. Mumble. Shout. House vibrates with the noise.

    And you’re right about the ads being fucking loud. Cunts.

  5. Ive seen Donnie Brasco.
    I learnt something from it.
    What a fugazi is.*

    Dont remember any mumbling?
    Your mutton jeff Dick.
    Need one of those big ear trumpets.

    Maybe team up with borderline blind cunter and budding Magoo Cuntstabble Cuntbubble in a remake of
    “Hear no evil see no evil”?

    *Fake diamond

  6. This just proves that everyone in Hollywood is on drugs.

    If this wasn’t true the film’s director would shout “Cut!” then ask them to stop fucking mumbling.

    But they never do.

  7. I think his Lordships television must be broken, because on reflection, Al Pacino who stars opposite Johnny Depp in that film, is the the worlds “Shoutiest ac-tor”.

    • Bring back films with shouting in.
      Like The Vikings.

      Ernest Borgignon never mumbled.

  8. Some of the sound engineering leaves a lot to be desired sometimes, and doesn’t transfer well from the cinema to the small screen. Having said that, some stuff made for telly isn’t any better. I was trying to watch that Universe thing with Prof Brian Cox. I could hardly make out what he was saying, but the music was loud enough to make the house vibrate. Mind you, even if I could hear what he said, I’d still probably not understand it anyway seeing as I’m a thick cunt.

    • Prof. Brian Cox is an interesting fellow…what he’s saying is enlightened and very interesting, but his dreamy vocal delivery is one of a tired sloth who’s eaten a pan of naughty brownies.

      • I reckon it’s the long term effects of all those disco biscuits he consumed in the early 90s. Allegedly.

  9. It’s worse when watching some ‘art’ films.

    The fella mumbles something about coming to fix her washing machine and because of the mumbling, you never get to find out if she was satisfied with the repair or the money it cost her.

    It completely ruins the plot for me.

    • And pornography gives young people an unrealistic idea of how quickly a plumber can arrive.

    • Donnie Brasco is based on a true story.
      I actually read the book first!😧

      Everyone raves about Al Pacino as a actor,
      But im not keen.

      Tell you who does mumble.
      The actor Sam Elliot.
      Normally in westerns,
      Got a big moustache,
      He was in Roadhouse.

      Cant understand a fuckin word.

      • Mumble acting is a skill.

        Clint Eastwood and Sylvester Stallone. Mumble to fuck those two.

        But I got every word they said.

        Didn’t have to adjust the sound either. That’s fucking skill.

        That cunt Mads Mickelson or whatever he’s called is another mumbling twat. He also has a foreign accent, just to make it even worse (one of them Viking countries).

        I had to download subtitles to that TV series ‘Hannibal’ because of him mumbling in herdy gerdy ‘English’.

      • Sly Stone to be fair has a speach impediment.
        Cleft palate and minor brain damage.

        Yo Adrian!!!

        Mitmot.

      • In the good old days when football fans would have banter and were anything but woke, I was at a game between Arsenal and West Ham. West Ham had a new foreign keeper (Romanian I think) with the surname ‘Adrian’.

        About 500 of us were doing the mongy Rocky Balboa ‘Adrian!’ shout at him every time he collected the ball for a goal kick.

        He had no fucking clue what it was all about and the look of utter bemusement on his face made it even funnier.

        Probably get banned for life and sent to do community work for Romany gypos nowadays.

      • If you want unintelligible herdy- gurdy Scandinavian Englisg, Cuntybollocks, try Vikings on Amazon Prime. Half of its unintelligible whilst the other half is battle cries and death screams.

      • Watch the Viking’s and Vikings Valhalla. Good battle scenes, good acting and some quality Scandinavian vag on show.

      • Sam Elliott was good in Tombstone, Miserable. Brilliant film. Met Michael Biehn at Comic Con talked about the film (he played Johnny Ringo). Made me laugh though, my brother asked him about working with Schwarzenegger in The Terminator. Michael replied “I’m sorry Jon I can’t understand one word your saying”. Michael obviously not been to Yorkshire a lot then.
        The one who does get on my tits mumbling in films is Jodie Foster. Like trying to listen to a mouse with an HGV driving past.

      • Hiya Bob!👍
        Yeah hes alright as a actor just he has like a Texan mumble.
        I like Sam Elliot as he does a lot of westerns.

        But its
        “Sassafrassa dissadassa”..
        WHAT?
        “Umagumma ungowwa”..
        WHATS HE SAY?

        He needs to project his voice.
        Like me.
        Shouty Northern Cunt.😀

      • We call Al Pacino ‘Shouty’ in my household and that Gerard Butler ‘Scottish Shouty’.

  10. Donnie Brasco is a great film. They mumble because that’s how New York gangsters speak Dick. Ps I watched it abroad with subtitles otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to follow dialogue

  11. Still easier to understand American mumbling than any speech done by a Scottish person.

  12. American Hustle got to be the worst example of this. Got that over the top cunt Christian Bale and Bradley “I’ll do my best to sound like I’m belching my poncey ad-lib dialogue” Cooper in it. Drove me fuckin’ mad…..Turned the shite off.

  13. I was moaning about this to some other Cunt who told me that I need a “soundbar” on my telly….it’s a fucking new telly..vast,if course…but apparently the inbuilt speakers face the wrong way or something… I suspect the Cunt is having me on.

  14. If that Al Pacino came in here acting Billy big bollocks,
    Throwing his weight around and acting hard id say

    “Yo! Douchebag.
    Yeah you, you cocksucker.
    Ill fuckin whack you
    You got no respect
    Fergettaboutit.”

    Like that.

    • I’d just mumble unintelligible bollocks at him…see how he fucking likes it.

    • Mis: imagine Goodfella’s adapted for the stage by the Stockport and district amateur dramatics society 😂

  15. It’s usually because they make these modern tellys so thin, but there isn’t the equivalent speaker technology, hence the need for a sound bar or some other speaker set up. Apparently some are so good that they make Rosie Jones sound intelligible

    • I like to see Rosie Jones on my 75″ telly, especially if the camera zooms in on her. Then I can pretend that she’s a sort of honky, giant King Kong mong.
      And with high-end surround sound, you can hear the droplets of saliva hitting the surrounding furniture whilst she’s doing one of her hilarious “jokes” as the embarrassed studio audience claps politely, although they’re really thinking “this is cruel, spastics aren’t funny.”
      But the audience are wrong – they’re hilarious!

      • Would it be a crime to fondle her breasts after the show – a friend was asking.

      • Wear gloves-they are covered in stinky saliva and bits of teeth-cheese🤢

        Thomas told me…..

  16. My Left Foot has a lot of unintelligible speech from Daniel Day-Lewis. He was taking the piss. Thespian cunt.

      • John Hurt was probably on his eleventh vodka by the time he staggered out of the make-up chair to do his scenes with Hopkins.

  17. That Oirish cunt in Peaky Blinders was the worst.
    Not only the worst Brummie accent since Tim “cockney wanker” Spall in Auf Wiedersehen Pet, but a complete fucking mumbler👎

    How the fuck did a TV show about Pi.keys by the canal in Brum, become so popular ?

    Even worse, thousands of young lads dress up as the fucking characters and go to “Peaky Blinders” events😂👎

  18. Background and mood music just fucks everything up, the dialogue is drowned by it, fucking useless Yanks.

    • Poor lad suffers from (as defined in the Lancet) ‘Spazzy Goz Teeth’.

      I heard some pundit saying England should build their team around him.

      The only thing he should have built around him is a fucking swimming pool.

  20. My favourite is Brad Pitt in Snatch. Some sort of pikey gibberish that is totally unintelligible. And very funny.

    • His best performance by far, very funny performance and film. Twelve Monkeys is fine mad performance by Pitt, too. Seven Years in Tibet, where he mangles a German accent is horrendous! I bet he has been to some “interesting” parties, too.

  21. Slightly off topic.
    There is an ad on the box for Chase bank/credit card.
    The Scot cunt doing the voiceover pronounces it “Cheese”. 🤔

    • That continuity cunt with the ridiculous OTT West Indian accent on Radio 4 annoys me – ” aaarnnnd nooo on deee beeebeeeceee Nerk Roooobbbinsooon with Tooordayy”.

      It’s obviously an over-emphasised West Indian accent, the R’s rolled for dramatic effect beyond what’s natural.

      • I think his name is Neil Nunes and he was actually voted the number one irritating voice on the radio a few years back.

  23. Mumbling actors and scenes that are shot so dark that you can’t see what the fuck is going on.

    Children in adverts annoy the fuck out of me.
    I have no interest in what they are saying but they should use kids that can be understood if they want to shift their products.

    There is one new advert with the 12 year old girl who won an Olympic medal for skateboarding.
    She is advertising a kid’s debit card but I have no fucking clue what she is saying.

    • The reason so MANY children in the UK struggle with the British accent, is because they are NOT British.

  24. No mumbling in Dr Finlay´s Casebook. Dialogue as crisp as the air over Tannochbrae.
    Telephone rings. Janet answers: “Arden House”.
    Dr Cameron: “Janet. Put that young Doctor Finlay on.”
    Janet: “He already is Dr Cameron and a strapping young lad he is too. Not quite as experienced as you or Dr Snoddy though.”
    Dr Cameron: “OK Janet. I´ll just leave you two to get on with it. Meanwhile make sure my porridge is warm when I get there for breakfast.”

  25. Worked with a number of the cunts and arse’ole attitude comes with the package. Always pity the sound man who has to try and record their whispers and grunts. Harrison Ford is loathed in the profession for this and Brando really kicked it all off with his Method Acting (check Lee Strasberg another damaged cunt).
    Auditioned Terry Downes many moons ago (actually as a favour to his agent, I was hoping to get up her pants at the time) when his brain was still partially functioning but soon found there was no hope in Hell of him ever remembering any dialogue. Anyway he came stumbling in (he had already taken too many head shots hence looking for a career change) giving it lots of front and to my reasonable question as to whether he thought he could act and remember what camera he was on, what character he was and his lines all at the same time he replied with the immortal words

    “Yeh, I can marmble wiv the best of ’em”
    “We’ll get back to your agent Terry”

    Terry was a fighter who fought in the typical Briitish style absorbing as many head shots as he could to wear the other man down. sometimes it actually worked.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE9WWr4Qjbg

    • Blimey! Terry Downes
      That brings back a horrid memory from 1972, when trying to get a coach to Bournemouth at Victoria Coach station at @ 7:30am when he was pissed a newt and wanted to knock the block off my mates who were innocently queing for tickets.
      I was hiding, as I was and still am a cowardly cunt.
      Happy days! 😁

  27. Lots of films have terrible sound even if the actors have diction like Brian Sewell.

    • True. Sound editing is now of the mega loud whoosh pop variety between cuts so the audiences ear drums are already ruptured long before some mumbling cunt of an actor gets to open their mouth. Even worse the sound mix is designed to work with Dolby multiplex stereo in theatres ie very loud so no chance if home viewing and laughable on a smart phone.

  28. True. Sound editing is now of the mega loud whoosh pop variety between cuts so the audiences ear drums are already ruptured long before some mumbling cunt of an actor gets to open their mouth. Even worse the sound mix is designed to work with Dolby multiplex stereo in theatres ie very loud so no chance if home viewing and laughable on a smart phone.

    • I have been asked, in online surveys, how much TV I watch on my phone. My reply of ‘none’ always elicits the question ‘why not?’ My reply there is ‘I have a 50″ 4K TV at home, why the fuck would I want to watch crap on a rubbish 6″ screen?’ They always appear to be puzzled.

      • I get all sorts of surveys which ask a simple question like “do you watch blah blah” then, when you say no, ask “why not?”. “Dead easy, it’s fucking shit, anything else you need to know?” They appear not to be impressed.

  29. Mumbling seems to be endemic on TV nowadays. On the rare occasion I watch the idiot box, I normally put the subtitles on and just turn the sound off, that way I don’t need to keep hitting the mute button when the cunty adverts are on.

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