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The Top 10 Worst Accents In Film

Bump because I just saw Shia LeBoeuf in 'Nymphomaniac'. Genuinely couldn't tell if he was trying to do English or Australian but either way it was a fucking car crash.
 
We watched Gladiator last night. Apart from Oliver Reed and a couple of minor players, nobody in it is speaking in their natural accents, but I genuinely can't tell what some of them are going for. It's English/Irish/Aussie/Bulgarian/Cornish?/Martian from line to line. Some of the actors in Pompeii were like that too.
 
If anyone didn't catch it in the news about the new Star Wars movies, apparently Carrie Fisher was going for a British accent in the original films. She is probably the only person in the whole universe who knew that.
 
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Any American actor in any film that is supposed to be based in New England, primarily the Boston area, and butchering the "Bawstin" accent. There are times to drop the ahs (R) and add an ah. You can't do both in the same word. Also: Any native Massachusetts actor (ex: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck) trying to do a Boston regional accent. They even screw it up. Then again, you can't take the Boston out of the boy, so all the movies they're in, they sound like they're from The Dirty Bean. (I've noticed the only Wahlburg that has even remotely cleaned up his accent has been Marky Mark, but it's real slight... The Dot is still in him).
 
Honestly, I am not a big fan of Donnie. He's got a bad side of ugly on him (IMO). From what I can remember about Southie, I paid more attention to the scenery then I did his acting. The most memorable scene was his exercising at Castle Island.

I'll have to find it in my DVD collection and rewatch it later.
 
abe11825 said:
Honestly, I am not a big fan of Donnie. He's got a bad side of ugly on him (IMO). From what I can remember about Southie, I paid more attention to the scenery then I did his acting. The most memorable scene was his exercising at Castle Island.

I'll have to find it in my DVD collection and rewatch it later.
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Okay, how about Mark Ruffalo and Ethan Hawke in What Doesn't Kill You?
 
there was an episode of Frasier on some shitty cable channel today - it had random man, robbie coltrane and Richard E Grant , all supposed mancunians apparently. fuckin hell.
 
just googled him - hes a fuckin australian! so we have a scotchman, an aussie and a Zimbabwean all pretending to be English in Frasier.
 
I think that was a deliberate joke at the expense of American portrayals of British people.
 
Chz said:
If anyone didn't catch it in the news about the new Star Wars movies, apparently Carrie Fisher was going for a British accent in the original films. She is probably the only person in the whole universe who knew that.
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That's what I thought when I heard about. But then I did a search on YT for an example and it's true!



Apparently the story is she used the accent for a few scenes filmed early on, but then they decided it didn't work, so she went back to her natural accent.
 
Tom Hanks in just about every role he plays in Cloud Atlas, but in particular the Irish gangster author who chucks the critic off the roof.
 
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