Worst accents

[The Octagon]

I must be the only person who was really impressed with Spike's accent. I was so surprised to find out James Marsters was American!

*still can't actually see what was wrong with it*

And it was certainly better than Angel's Oirish lilt

Seconded, that was truly comical .

The only actor who got the accent right in Buffy / Angel was Alexis Denisof (Wesley), and that was because he lived here for a while.

 

[seeformiles]

Watched "Ronin" over the weekend - Jonathan Pryce's N.Irish accent is dreadful. Nearly as bad as Richard Gere's in another film whose title escapes me. They always get the upward inflections wrong and it sounds shit!

 

[The Octagon]

Watched "Ronin" over the weekend - Jonathan Pryce's N.Irish accent is dreadful. Nearly as bad as Richard Gere's in another film whose title escapes me. They always get the upward inflections wrong and it sounds shit!

The Jackal.

 

[BlackArab]

Any African-American playing a Jamaican

 

[May Kasahara]

Yea mon!

 

[Leafster]

The blond kid in Green Street. Cant remember his name but crap mockney accent anyway.

I was going to mention him but couldn't remember the name of the film. His accent was painful to listen to but at the same time so mangled I felt compelled to keep watching.

 

[Leafster]

Really? I thought he was an actual Cockney?

It's embarrassing but as a kid I didn't know how bad it was. I led a very sheltered life.

 

[seeformiles]

The Jackal.

Ah - that's the one!

 

[BlackArab]

Yea mon!

Yep and goes downhill from there, cho!

 

[foo]

i'm a fan of ewan macgregor and i like his obi wan kinobe impression, i didn't realise that he was putting a voice on for trainspotting, just sounded like an edinburgh voice to me

his nick leeson impression was rubbish tho even tho i liked the film

he totally ruined Moulin Rouge for me.

 

[Crispy]

Bobby Carlisle. He's from Glasgow

And did an Edinburgh accent I like this collection of city names.

 

[Crispy]

Dick Van Dykes famously shitty cockney in Mary Poppins.

It's not even a bad cockney, it's just demented. Like someone's put electrodes in the speech center of his brain and keeps zapping it.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Any African-American playing a Jamaican

I'm guessing that you caught a bit of the Steven Seagal film last night!!

 

[purplex]

he totally ruined Moulin Rouge for me.

I love moulin rouge

 

[Greebo]

Helen Baxendale's allegedly London accent as Emily in "Friends". She was sent to a voice coach to talk like that.

IMHO that voice coach should have been slowly hung, drawn and quartered to the sound of Lloyd Grossman reciting his contorted vowels over & over again.

 

[BlackArab]

I'm guessing that you caught a bit of the Steven Seagal film last night!!

Nah, memories of Predator 2

 

[Orang Utan]

and Cool Runnings

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Given that Dick van Dyke wins every time, I'll chip in with Brad Pitt in Snatch.

 

[Goatherd]

"Well what do you expect with these blinkin' nippers sitting in my lap?"

 

[Orang Utan]

"Well what do you expect with these blinkin' nippers sitting in my lap?"

I think that may have inspired this scene:

 

[Orang Utan]

everyone 'English' in this biopic of Hendrix:
(that's only part 4, check out Cream in part 3)
the guy who plays Chas Chandler is particularly bad (esp since he was a Geordie), and Billy Zane's accent is dire.

 

[bendeus]

Forest Whitaker's dreadful cockernee in The Crying Game

Brad Pitt (for it is he!) gets his second nomination for lamentable cod Irish accents for those strange sounds he emitted during Snatch.

 

[tarannau]

and Cool Runnings

That's positively wonderful compared to the jawdroppingly bad 'yardie' accents in Steven Seagal's 'Marked for Death'

I think they got a load of Americans actors to listen to dancehall, whilst impersonating voodoo fearing tribespeople taken straight from a bad James Bond movie.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

he totally ruined Moulin Rouge for me.

I found the film managed that for me.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

It's funny about that Fraser story - "I did it right, but the studio told me to go and do it differently". Because didn't Dick Van Dyke make exactly the same claim about Mary Poppins?

 

[danny la rouge]

It's funny about that Fraser story - "I did it right, but the studio told me to go and do it differently". Because didn't Dick Van Dyke make exactly the same claim about Mary Poppins?

I've not heard the DVD version, personally. However, Jane Leeves (who played Daphne) is actually from Manchester.

 

[Leafster]

I've not heard the DVD version, personally. However, Jane Leeves (who played Daphne) is actually from Manchester.

Hmmn, she was born in Essex and grew up in East Grinstead.

 

[danny la rouge]

Hmmn, she was born in Essex and grew up in East Grinstead.

"Born in Salford, Greater Manchester"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Leeves

 

[Leafster]

"Born in Salford, Greater Manchester"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Leeves

Oh, there seems to be a little confusion over her place of birth She definitely grew up in East Grinstead though.

 

[danny la rouge]

Oh, there seems to be a little confusion over her place of birth She definitely grew up in East Grinstead though.

Although I must confess I have no idea where that is!