The Top 10 Worst Accents In Film

[youngian]

Caine like Connery should not even bother to attempt accents. His lardy-dah officer in Zulu is pretty grating as well.
Audrey Hepburn's cockney in My Fair Lady is pretty terrible as well.

 

[DaveCinzano]

As for their honourable mention of Forest W in crying game. I think his weird accent adds something to the performance.

What, along with his inability to bowl a cricket ball?

 

[Gromit]

What, along with his inability to bowl a cricket ball?

He does look a bit like a giant panda trying to bowl now that you mention it.
But cricket is shit so I don't really mind.

 

[SpookyFrank]

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.

I dunno if I could spot a bad South African accent. In fact, the more absurd someone's accent the more South African they sound.

 

[Gromit]

I dunno if I could spot a bad South African accent. In fact, the more absurd someone's accent the more South African they sound.

Sharlto Copley's South African accent in District 9 is truly bad.

 

[Orang Utan]

You jest!

 

[Orang Utan]

I remember Victor Meldrew's SA accent in Cry Freedom.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Sharlto Copley's South African accent in District 9 is truly bad.

You see, I thought he was a real Saffie.

e2a: Oh, it seems he is a real Saffie.

 

[Gromit]

You jest!

Attempting to validate his point with the accent of an actual South African.

 

[Orang Utan]

What?!

 

[danny la rouge]

Recently saw Richard Attenborough in Jurassic Park again. It's a pretty good Bulgarian accent. Pity that isn't what he was going for.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

William Hurt in Second Best.

It's supposed to be a Welsh accent. I'm guessing nobody had the heart to tell him.

 

[DaveCinzano]

William Hurt in Second Best.

It's supposed to be a Welsh accent. I'm guessing nobody had the heart to tell him.

I love that film

 

[pissflaps]

most people's presumptions about the sarf efrican eccent and culture is based almost entirely on Lethal Weapon II

trupost.

/diblowmadig eemyoonidee!

 

[nino_savatte]

To be fair to Connery, he doesn't actually try to do accents, does he? He isn't butchering anything; he's playing it straight. As many American actors have done playing everything from French people to Romans to Germans. Indeed, on that last example, in a number of films English actors play Germans with their own, English, accents, while Americans play the good guys (whether that be French, or whatever, in their own).

As to accents where the actor is trying to do one, Scotty in Star Trek is legendary.

Yep, James Doohan's attempt at a Scottish accent is pretty dire. It sounds like bad Irish, that's how terrible it is.

 

[youngian]

Yep, James Doohan's attempt at a Scottish accent is pretty dire. It sounds like bad Irish, that's how terrible it is.

And I'm not sure if Simon Pegg is attempting a Scottish accent or a James Doohan impression.

 

[Orang Utan]

I thought both Jameses Doohan and Cromwell were Scottish. I thought Dickie sounded good as a Scotchman too.

 

[May Kasahara]

Scooby Doo and the Loch Ness Monster had the best crop of awful Scottish efforts I've ever heard.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I thought both Jameses Doohan and Cromwell were Scottish. I thought Dickie sounded good as a Scotchman too.

James Doohan is Canadian iirc - though I like his accent but that's 'cos his accent is Scotty

Not sure if this has been mentioned but Jude Law in "Contagion" - is it Australian, Cockney, Mockney, Mockstralian?

 

[idumea]

Norman Reedus in the Boondock Saints is one of the more terrible Oirish accents I've ever heard.

 

[TitanSound]

Richard Gere in The Jackal.

 

[89 Til Infinity]

Emma Watson's shitty american accent in that wallflower film

 

[Stigmata]

I thought both Jameses Doohan and Cromwell were Scottish. I thought Dickie sounded good as a Scotchman too.

Doohan was a voiceover artist iirc- when he auditioned for the Star Trek role they hadn't picked the nationality of the engineer so he read the part as a German, an Irishman etc

 

[inferno]

It's the people who cast these actors that are at fault what fucking idiot cast Sean Connery as Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez of "SHPAIN" (as Sean pronounced it) in Highlander.

 

[DotCommunist]

Richard Gere in The Jackal.

Vinnie Jones in 'Kill the Irishman' takes some beating

 

[DotCommunist]

for saffa accents I'm told Blood Diamond has a really bad turn from Leonardo di Caprio trying to do saffa- and yet it sounded OK to me. hmm

 

[pissflaps]

hmm... i think he was supposed to be a zimbo in that pile of condescending shite. Notice how many of these films feature a flawed, yet well meaning white man saving those poor, helpless africans from themselves?

 

[The Boy]

hmm... i think he was supposed to be a zimbo in that pile of condescending shite. Notice how many of these films feature a flawed, yet well meaning white man saving those poor, helpless africans from themselves?

tsk, tsk, tsk. Rhodesia. /DiCaprio

 

[DaveCinzano]

hmm... i think he was supposed to be a zimbo in that pile of condescending shite. Notice how many of these films feature a flawed, yet well meaning white man saving those poor, helpless africans from themselves?

Have a crack at the Roger Moore-starring Gold

 

[pissflaps]

/torrents