Many try. Few succeed. Here's my take on the worst irish accents cinema has ever produced...
10. Michael J Fox, BACK TO THE FUTURE, PART III (1990) Sure, it’s good fun, and no-one’s really counting this against Michael J. Fox, but there’s no getting around his ropey vocal turn as Seamus McFly, great-great grandfather of Marty. It’s a bit rubbish, but it’s also loveably daft. Free pass on this one.
9. Brad Pitt, THE DEVIL’S OWN (1997) Thank the deity of your choice that a few years after this shocking attempt, Pitt atoned for his dialect sins with a magnificent improvement in Snatch, because his mauled intonation here is an embarrassment. As terrorist Francis McGuire, you can’t be sure what’s doing more damage – the explosives or the miscalculated drawl?
8. Cameron Diaz, GANGS OF NEW YORK We almost feel bad for singling out one dire Celtic lilt in a movie full of them (Leo, John C. R...
Just as what you order on a pizza over the phone will never be what arrives at your door, just as you’ll never remember every item of a big grocery shop without writing a list, so too, no matter how much they prepare the Oscars, how much they fine tune it year on year, it seems they’ll never produce the perfect coverage. Now as they made a good fist of it this year, it seems almost mean to be asking for more, but there’s always room for improvement. I watched keenly, admired the classy bits and suffered through the red carpet coverage, and I’ve come up with a few suggestions for things I would like to have seen this year – nothing radical, just some measured, reasonable, sensible notes for the Academy to observe and consider:
1. Despite my fears that Hugh Jackman’s hosting would be a schmaltzy - even cheesy, backslapping affair, we got a tremendous opening salvo. But it still, I pine for the day that we will have an Academy Awards ceremony hosted by the only...
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