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Kevin Costner in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
did he even attempt an accent?
Ooooh. Have we had Christopher Lambert in "Highlander"? For the first few historical flashbacks, I thought he was having a stroke.
If someone just uses their own accent a la Costner in Prince of Thieves, Gerard Butler in 300, or Connery in, well, anything - then I don't think it really ranks in the same category as a poorly executed faked accent, a la Statham in The Transporter.
I suspect the reason that nobody has mentioned Christopher Ecclescakes (alleged) Scottish accent in G.I. Joe is because nobody has watched it.
It is very entertaining. (The accent, I mean. Not the film.)
can't take him seriously after watching Lock Stock / Snatch..
Considering all he does now are cheesy action films, I dunno if you're meant to take him seriously 😆
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I suspect the reason that nobody has mentioned Christopher Ecclescakes (alleged) Scottish accent in G.I. Joe is because nobody has watched it.It is very entertaining. (The accent, I mean. Not the film.)
Hey! I loved G.I. Joe! You're talking about my childhood here...
did he even attempt an accent?
I remember reading news reports at the time that he had a voice coach to help with his English accent, but that he got sacked part way through filming, and that you could tell some bits were more English than others. None of it sounded remotely English to me though.
Anthony Quayle in Ice Cold in Alex.
Pretty awful Afrikaans and a not much better German accent. Bloody great film though! John Mills is my hero.
To be fair, we don't actually have any idea what William Wallace or King Leonidas sounded like. Maybe Spartans really did sound scottish and old scots sounded australian.
Nicole kidman in the Interpreter.
NO ONE disrespects Ice Cold In Alex 👿 lest they incur my wrath and I smite them (hav'nt done much smiting of late tbh....might be a wee bit rusty).
Marcel Marceau in Silent Movie 😀
Natalie Portman in V For Vendetta. Started off wobbly Dagenham, rapidly headed overseas, and ended up somewhere in the Indian Ocean half way between South Africa and Australia. Bizarre.
NO ONE disrespects Ice Cold In Alex lest they incur my wrath and I smite them (hav'nt done much smiting of late tbh....might be a wee bit rusty).
Slow your roll! No disrespecting going on one of my favourite films ("Stop grinning about your bloody love life and come and help!"/"Never mind your bloody makeup - push!") but Quayle's accents are pretty ropey! Doesn't detract from the awesome at all, he's still brilliant in it.
Zee Germans.
Elephant Man.
Enemy at the Gates was a pretty awful film on several counts but one of them was Bob Hoskins as a Russian Army Officer - I'd not heard any Cockney Russians until then.
Richard Gere in The Jackal
Every climbing scene with Stallone in Cliffhanger.
Oh hang on, it's accents not ascents. Oops.
Still applies though, especially John Lithgow's accent. And i normally like him.
Every climbing scene with Stallone in Cliffhanger.
Good job you hadn't noticed the shoe changes...
Enemy at the Gates was a pretty awful film on several counts but one of them was Bob Hoskins as a Russian Army Officer - I'd not heard any Cockney Russians until then.
I take your point but if the film is gonna be in English then you either need everybody speaking with Russian accents (daft) or everybody with a mix of regional English accents to simulate a Russian army drawn from all over the country. So Cockney would be one of them.