Shittest Irish accent competition

[Minnie_the_Minx]

*adopts whiny teenage voice*

Aw, do I have to?

I managed to avoid it the first time around (for the most part).

You can lust after Dervla Kirwan

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I think it was always a little thicker than it needed to be for the area hes from.

What I'm saying is, he wasn't famous before BallyK and as it was an Irish series, his accent would probably be 100 times more natural there on that show, made for a Irish/English audience, than any accent he decides to exaggerate for the benefit of the Americans.

 

[seeformiles]

Richard Gere in "The Jackal" was pretty bad

Julia Roberts in "Mary Reilly" was atrocious

Probably the worst was Sean Connery in "The Untouchables"

(compared to those Brad Pitt's one wasn't too bad really)

 

[Bakunin]

You can lust after Dervla Kirwan

Who doesn't?

 

[Dillinger4]

Terry Wogan.

He doesn't fool me.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Who doesn't?

The Octagon on watching BallyK

Originally Posted by The Octagon
*adopts whiny teenage voice*

Aw, do I have to?

I managed to avoid it the first time around (for the most part).

 

[Red O]

DiCaprio in Gangs of New York. Cameron Diaz's was actually half decent in comparison.

 

[fieryjack]

Natasha McElhone in Ronin.

 

[stupid dogbot]

Natasha McElhone in Ronin.

God, and Jonathon Pryce.

"Right, so your motivation is that your Oirish terrorists, ok?"

 

[Flashman]

Julia Roberts - Michael Collins

I think anyway, only saw it the once and I think she was shit.

 

[krtek a houby]

Orson Welles in "The Lady from Shanghai".

Irish accents are very difficult on the whole. So many diverse and regional - Dublin alone has so many different accents!

Kate Blanchett was quite good in "Veronica Guerin".

 

[skyscraper101]

Wot no mention of Michael J. Fox's "Seamus McFly"

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Orson Welles in "The Lady from Shanghai".

Irish accents are very difficult on the whole. So many diverse and regional - Dublin alone has so many different accents!

Kate Blanchett was quite good in "Veronica Guerin".

yeah, but you'd have to have a finely tuned ear to hear the differences between some. It's obvious when someone's from Dublin and Belfast etc. but if you put a Clare man next to a Tipperary man, there's no way I'd be able to know who came from where. You'd probably have to come from Ireland and maybe even those counties to notice the differences

 

[Bakunin]

Irish accents are very difficult on the whole. So many diverse and regional - Dublin alone has so many different accents!

It's the same with the West Country accents. A lot of people think that there's just the one ('Orlroight, moi luvver!', 'Oooooarrrrrgh!' and so on) when in fact there are a great many different accents depending on which part of the West Country you happen to be in.

Plymouth is very distinctive, while outside of Plymouth the Dartmoor accent is much more subtle for instance. 'West Country' is an easy accent to parody, but as there's no single West Country accent it's also a minefield for any actor to try and get right, depending on where in the region their character is supposed to be from.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

Tom Cruise(far n away) and Brad Pitts in that Harrison film were woeful...
to be sure, to be sure
Im sure i willl think off others..

eta: and Bono's wtf kinda accent is that...

 

[elevendayempire]

Yeah, but probably not born there or moved to the States when they were young and now speak it with an embarrassing plastic-paddy accent

Sin City was a truly cringeworthy experience for me. I'd read the comic beforehand, and we were sitting next to an Irish couple on their first date. And as the Clive Owen segment of the film started, I thought, "Oh fuck, this is the story with the appalling Oirish terrerrist stereotypes who 'like to blow up pubs'."

 

[8den]

Nicole Kidman's accent in far and away is slightly worse than Tom's.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Stephen Boyd in The Squeeze sounds like whoever voiced Gerry Adams through the 1980s.



(39s on)

 

[SpookyFrank]

Johnny Depp in Chocolat springs to mind...

 

[youngian]

Top 10 Worst Irish Accents

Some mitigating circumstances in that list;

Lloyd Bridges's Irish accent in Blown Away was even worse than Tommy Lee Jones.

Sean Connery in the Untouchables at least decided to drop his Oirish after 10 minutes after realising he's Sean Connery and has previously got away with playing Scottish sounding Latvian submarine captain and an Eygptian alongside a French Highlander.

Brad Pitt at least paid his dues with his Irish traveller in Snatch.

 

[friedaweed]

Ellen Barkin in Into the West

1.34 She even talks out the side of her mouth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=TOAb-sUCm7U

 

[DaveCinzano]

Ellen Barkin in Into the West

1.34 She even talks out the side of her mouth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=TOAb-sUCm7U

She does that in all her films, though.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Ellen Barkin in Into the West

1.34 She even talks out the side of her mouth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=TOAb-sUCm7U

I've got that film on DVD somewhere

 

[friedaweed]

She does that in all her films, though.

Fair doos. I don't normally look at her lips

 

[friedaweed]

I've got that film on DVD somewhere

It's our fav family movie

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's our fav family movie

May have to dig it out for another viewing

 

[friedaweed]

May have to dig it out for another viewing

"Now young man what's your name?"
"Murphy"
"Yes I know you're a Murphy but what's your first name?"
"Mr Murphy"

 

[DaveCinzano]

Fair doos. I don't normally look at her lips

I suspect there is a generation of awkward, hormonal teenagers who grew up with The Big Easy and Sea Of Love which is now saddled with a stroke fetish.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Brad Pitt is the worst.

 

[89 Til Infinity]

Andy Mcphee's was pretty funny sounding