8ball
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That doesn't seem like a bad attempt in that clip.
The Top 10 Worst Accents In Film
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That doesn't seem like a bad attempt in that clip.
8ball
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Really? I thought that was fine.
Depending on where he was meant to be from, obviously.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Vinnie Jones doing watever the fuck that accent was in 'Kill the Irishman'
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
May Kasahara
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Pff. It's no Darkman, that's for sure.
ska invita
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Don Cheedle is Don
Speaking of his accent in Highlander...how the hell does a tanned mediterannean charcater get a scottish accent?
youngian
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I'd have to ask an American on its authenticity but sounds to me like he's going through the motions much of the time.
Sounds like a bad Rory Bremner take to me. MacGregor seems to have a lot of form and I'll add him and Colin Farrel's estuary English from Woody's Allen's Cassandra's Dream.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Watching Ordinary Decent Criminal - a those-crazy-gangsters take on the Martin Cahill story, bankrolled by Miramax and easily beaten to the screens by John Boorman's The General - I cannot help but bow my head in silent memory of the Great Oirish Actor Famine of 1998-1999.
That, of course, is the only logical explanation why a film about a notorious Irish gangster, set in Ireland, filmed in Ireland, directed by an Irishman and crewed in large part by Irish technicians, is so packed to the gunnels with, err, English and American thesps.
Kevin Spacey. Linda Fiorentino. Stephen Dillane. Patrick Malahide - all terrible variations on De Brogue.
Peter Mullan & David Hayman - a pair of Scots, they at least dialled down the shillelaghisms and kept to, you know, acting rather than impersonating.
Vincent Regan - Welsh-born, but with Irish family and moved to Ireland as a teen. With him it's not the accent that's distracting, it's the bulgey-eye angry thing he's forced to do. “Fuck! Fuck! FUCK! FUUUCK!!!” etc.
And then... Helen Baxendale. An English-born, English-raised English actor who had trouble putting on an English accent in Friends. I'm sure you can guess how her Irish turned out.
With all this nonsense going on, no wonder no one objected to Colin Farrell. (And no complaints regarding Gerard McSorley's quick turn as a barrister, or Tim Loane as a Provo.)
That, of course, is the only logical explanation why a film about a notorious Irish gangster, set in Ireland, filmed in Ireland, directed by an Irishman and crewed in large part by Irish technicians, is so packed to the gunnels with, err, English and American thesps.
Kevin Spacey. Linda Fiorentino. Stephen Dillane. Patrick Malahide - all terrible variations on De Brogue.
Peter Mullan & David Hayman - a pair of Scots, they at least dialled down the shillelaghisms and kept to, you know, acting rather than impersonating.
Vincent Regan - Welsh-born, but with Irish family and moved to Ireland as a teen. With him it's not the accent that's distracting, it's the bulgey-eye angry thing he's forced to do. “Fuck! Fuck! FUCK! FUUUCK!!!” etc.
And then... Helen Baxendale. An English-born, English-raised English actor who had trouble putting on an English accent in Friends. I'm sure you can guess how her Irish turned out.
With all this nonsense going on, no wonder no one objected to Colin Farrell. (And no complaints regarding Gerard McSorley's quick turn as a barrister, or Tim Loane as a Provo.)
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
To be fair, the clue is in the film's title. Hensleigh just told him to ‘kill the Irish, man’.
It only now strikes me that every single accent* in Sweeney Todd is atrocious.
I suppose it could at a pinch be argued that the film is set in Oldlondontown, an anachronistic** southern suburb of Brigadoon, so they're appropriate to that.
* With the possible exception of Professor Snape, who plays himself
** For example: the original story is set in 1795 and the film features Tower Bridge, which opened 99 years later in 1894.
I suppose it could at a pinch be argued that the film is set in Oldlondontown, an anachronistic** southern suburb of Brigadoon, so they're appropriate to that.
* With the possible exception of Professor Snape, who plays himself
** For example: the original story is set in 1795 and the film features Tower Bridge, which opened 99 years later in 1894.
5t3IIa
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Amy Adams in American Hustle. Some of the plot appeared to hinge on her suddenly dropping her fake English accent and not being English at all, but American!! Twist!!! But her English accent was so poor that I has assumed she'd dropped the ruse ages before so the denouement was fucked/didn't make any sense.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Watching Maleficent for the first time, and I am blown away by Sharlto Copley. He appears to have learnt his Scottish accent from repeated viewings of Shrek.
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
wow kevin spacey should be fucking ashamed of himself
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
For what?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
his rubbish accent
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
In what?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I was about to reply to this before I noticed I'd covered much the same ground more than five years ago
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Moving pictures
Orang Utan
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ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Look up the thread.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Oh ffs. It doesn't kill to quote so people know what you're banging on about. Esp after a big bump
