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  • worst accents in films.
  • racefaceec90
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    my starter for 10 [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDdY6dh5dJc[/video] 😉

    jon1973
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    double post

    jon1973
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    Russell Crowe in Robin Hood – made the film totally unwatchable.

    He’s a bit sensitive about it though.
    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr-6ZjlGuBU[/video]

    derekrides
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    +1

    Not as bad as that Irish dude as Alexandra the Great.

    Northwind
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    Bit obvious but what the heck.

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW18-2-QrIg[/video]

    And yep, Russell Crowe is a genius.

    donsimon
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    Has to be Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Far and Away to be sure, to be sure.

    jon1973
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    How could I forget..

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_rVzBt20N0[/video]

    Taff
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    Was it James Coburn in The Great Escape trying to play the ozzy

    Harris
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    Don Cheadle in Ocean’s Eleven.

    Nobby
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    Patsy Kensit in Lethal Weapon (27?)

    Bez
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    Natasha McElhone in Ronin.

    jon1973
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    Patsy Kensit in Lethal Weapon (27?)

    She’s pretty cute in that film, so I’d let her off that.

    samuri
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    Without a doubt Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.
    It’s brilliant! Hilariously bad.

    ditch_jockey
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    Simon Pegg in the Star Trek reboot – woeful!

    mcmoonter
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    Mel Gibson – Braveheart

    handyman
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    havent seen it but colin firth and orlando bloom in Main Street pretty grim, bizzarre one here, in the Geicko ins ads shown in the USA the guy has a eastend posh london accent, well that guy is from LA. How about Kevin Costner Robin Hood

    edited for loust spelling etc

    _tom_
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    Ray Winstone in The Departed was pretty bad. Didn’t really spoil the film though.

    RustySpanner
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    I’ve still not worked out what accent it’s supposed to be. 🙂

    althepal
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    Sean Connery, Er in most of his later films. Hunt for red October, the rubbish one with Catherine zeta jones etc..

    deadlydarcy
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    Second Tom Cruise in Far and Away.

    “Yer a corker Shannon Christie, y’are” 😆

    And John Wayne in The Quiet Man of course.

    philconsequence
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    Natasha McElhone in Ronin +1!

    really struggle to get in the film cos she keeps being given things to say.

    PrinceJohn
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    Highlander – Sean Connery playing a Spaniard speaking with a Scottish accent & Christopher Lambert playing a scot & speaking with a very French accent.

    mastiles_fanylion
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    Sean Connery +1

    Surely there is no compare?

    SaxonRider
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    Tommy Lee Jones in Blown Away.

    Thread over.

    FuzzyWuzzy
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    Anything with Jason Statham in it

    Harry_the_Spider
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    Highlander – Sean Connery playing a Spaniard speaking with a Scottish

    “I’m not Schhhpanish, I’m Egyptschhhian.”

    jon1973
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    Tommy Lee Jones in Blown Away.

    I forgot about that one, he sounded like a lepricorn.

    DezB
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    Sean Connery in the one he WON AN OSCAR for!!!

    matthew_h
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    Charlie Hunnam’s accent in Green Street is pretty terrible.

    TheFlyingOx
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    Not film, but those Aviva ads with Paul Whitehouse? I reckon they’ve alienated most of the Scottish market.

    Cringeworthy on roughly the same level as when Frank Skinner used to finish his chatshow with a ropey karaoke-esque rendition of some ancient chart hit.

    EDIT: Film-wise, Mike Myers tries hard but never quite nails it. See: Shrek and Fat Bastard.

    boxfish
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    Nicolas Cage’s Italian efforts in Captain Corellis Mandolin.

    terrahawk
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    Charlie Hunnam’s accent in Green Street is pretty terrible.

    it’s also perhaps the worst film ever made.

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePdDZLSgoRA[/video]

    terrahawk
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    not a film, but a bad accent ‘done properly’
    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRIOj4yM3uM[/video]

    mastiles_fanylion
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    All of the actors in ‘Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’.

    Now I know it is slightly daft to have people speaking in English with German accents in war films (as is the norm), but conversely having them all acting with their ‘normal’ posh English accents sounded really weird. I had to keep telling myself ‘they are playing Ze Germans, they are playing Ze Germans’…

    xiphon
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    Jason Statham doing an American accent…

    can’t take him seriously after watching Lock Stock / Snatch..

    benfeh
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    Gene Hackman as the Polish general in a ‘Bridge too Far’

    THe way he says the ‘Germans’

    richmtb
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    There seems to be a theme with bad Irish accents.

    Gerard Butler in PS I love you
    Brad Pitt in The Name of the father
    Tommy Lee Jones in Blown Away
    Natasha McElhone in Ronin
    Sean Connery in The Untouchables
    Tom Cruise in Far and Away
    Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly

    franki
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    Sean Bean’s American accent in Silent Hill was pretty comical.

    Rio
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    One of the classics:

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn8qwAUYnH4&t=1m12s[/video]

    I love some of the comments on this on Youtube, people saying how inspiring it is while anyone who recognises a Scottish accent is pi$$ing themselves.

    Woody
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    I actually thought MG did ok in that, bearing in mind that WW early life is largely undocumented and he may not have been in Scotland at all!

    Did you expect him to sound as if he was born and bred in The Gorbals?

    Sean Connery on the other hand – has he ever attempted an accent?

    Guess who the very well known American actor is playing the Chinaman (the term Chinaman caused as much a stink as the supposed Hollywood racial stereotyping)
    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DC5pqdp64Q[/video]

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