The Top 10 Worst Accents In Film

[damnhippie]

have we had Ewan Mcgregor in the Star Wars film?

i don't care if he was trying to mimic Alec Guiness, he still sounded like a dick. fuck continuity, a scottish jedi would have been brilliant.

 

[scifisam]

Given how bad the accents are in some big budget shows, I'm not sure Angel's Orisih can be blamed on lack of a well-paid dialect coach. Mind you, he's still better than Fi in Burn Notice, who was so bloody terrible that they decided to have her speak with an American accent after the first couple of episodes. She's English, so I don't know if her American's any good, but it can't be worse than her Irish. Moyaaaami!

Has there ever been a good fake Irish accent on film or TV? Even one? I can't think of any at all.

 

[damnhippie]

oh and just because:

up and AT THEM

 

[Reno]

Has there ever been a good fake Irish accent on film or TV? Even one? I can't think of any at all.

http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/the-best-and-worst-irish-accents-in-cinema/

 

[Kaka Tim]

Buffy having been on a small, fledgeling cable network had a much smaller budget than one hour dramas on major channels and for the first three seasons was shot on 16mm, because they couldn't afford 35mm. Eventually they got more money, but it was always considerable cheaper than a major Network show. It's a credit to the crew that it looks as good as it does.

Got a problem with that ?

Still I'm sure they could have afforded an occaisional accent coach - there really is no excuse.

 

[red rose]

oh and just because:

up and AT THEM

 

[mk12]

The black bloke in The Beach, who loves "crickit". Is he supposed to be cockney, or Jamaican?!

 

[DaveCinzano]

As for the thread topic, Afrikaans (and other South African-related accents) does seem to smoke out some duds - Kevin Kline, Donald Sutherland, Penelope Wilton, Mark Strong, Thomas Jane, Derek Luke, Janet Suzman, Tim Robbins, William Hurt etc - but I've never really found an off-key accent to be that troubling if the rest of the performance is hitting the mark.

Returning to this theme, how about Stephen Dorf in The Power Of One?

 

[DaveCinzano]

And never having seen it before, I am currently being subjected to Jude Lw's whistlestop tour of accents of the world in eXistenZ. Most curious.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

My favourite: Melanie Griffiths in Shining Through
Apparently she has an accent "like a Berlin butcher's wife" but pronounces her every line in German like an American who has never before seen a foreign language.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Oh and fucking hell how could anyone not mention Tom Cruise in Far and Away.

The worst Irish accent you will ever hear.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The worst Irish accent you will ever hear.

Have you not seen that butter advert?

 

[Rainingstairs]

Kevin Costner in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. He didn't even TRYYYYY!

 

[laptop]

Dick Van Dyke.

This. Him.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

What's wrong with this accent?

 

[Portia]

Jason Statham in the Transporter. We spent most of the flim trying to figure out what nationality he was supposed to be...

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

oh and just because:

up and AT THEM

 

[DaveCinzano]

Jason Statham in the Transporter. We spent most of the flim trying to figure out what nationality he was supposed to be...

Do we?

 

[scifisam]

Watching the excellent In Bruges the other night, I was shocked at how bad Ralph Fiennes' cockney accent was. There was one line he said that neither of us could decipher at all despite rewinding three times.

 

[Orang Utan]

James Mason plays an old Aussie painter perving over a very young Helen Mirren in a film called Age Of Consent. It's on the telly right now.
His Australian accent is a marvel to behold.
And it's directed by Michael Powell!

 

[Miss Caphat]

Lee evans' californian in theres something abut mary.

Although that is clearly getting the yanks back for every shit british accent ever.

dave

I didn't think it was that bad.
I was only introduced to Lee as a performer when I went over to UK, and was shocked when I realized it was him in that role.

 

[Miss Caphat]

Watching the excellent In Bruges the other night, I was shocked at how bad Ralph Fiennes' cockney accent was. There was one line he said that neither of us could decipher at all despite rewinding three times.

a bit like this, then?

http://donyougorouninrountorero.com/

 

[Miss Caphat]

ah, thread bump

 

[DaveCinzano]

Welshman Stanley Baxter's Manc copper in Hell Is A City, squeezing in hints of Geordie and Yorkshire, is a joy to behold.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Eddie Izzard's fake American in The Riches is a bizarre and horrible concoction.

 

[danny la rouge]

have we had Ewan Mcgregor in the Star Wars film?

i don't care if he was trying to mimic Alec Guiness, he still sounded like a dick. fuck continuity, a scottish jedi would have been brilliant.

Haven't seen him in Star Warts, but his accent was crap in Trainspotting.

 

[seeformiles]

The worst Irish accent you will ever hear.

Surely that honour should go to Sean Connery in "The Untouchables" - he makes a half-hearted stab at it early in the film but reverts back to "Shurely Shome Mishtake, etc." after about 10 mins. A good thing too!

 

[seeformiles]

What's wrong with this accent?

He's clearly from Johannesburg (or thereabouts..)

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Yup, I worked on that. Half way through production Myers decided his terrible performance would be improved by a Scottish accent and we had to redo large sections of the film. In all fairness, his line readings became a bit more lively after that.

I always thought it was odd though. To cast someone for their 'fame' rather than VO talents, and then hide the famous voice you cast.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Dick Van Dyke.

What's wrong with this accent?

Jack Black had a fair crack at it in the Run Ronnie Run film-within-a-film (NSFW etc):