Register  |   Log In  |  
Sign up to our weekly newsletter    
Follow us on   
Search   
Forum Home Register for Free! Log In Moderator Tickets FAQ Users Online

Worst fake accent?

  		Logged in as: Guest
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [Film Forums] >> Movie Musings >> Worst fake accent? Page: [1] 2 3   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 11:17:34 AM   
LjStronge

 

Posts: 14
Joined: 30/7/2012
Hey

Having watched "Friends with Kids" last night with the missus, I couldn't help but cringe at Chris O'Dowd's horrfic fake american accent! The man has such a strong Irish accent it couldn't be disguised with his American twang!

I have no idea why they didn't just have him as Irish like in Bridesmaids?

So, I was thinking, Do any other horrible accents spring to mind and what film/actor portrays them?

Another that rings a bell for me is Ewan McGregor (in general!) but mainly in "Rouge Trader" His accent in that literally goes from Scottish to American to England in one sentance!

Any more guys?
Post #: 1
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 11:21:29 AM   
elab49


Posts: 51617
Joined: 1/10/2005
Gibson, Braveheart.

Crowe - Robin Hood. Although technically that was several

Although the other way to look at it is that people can work so hard on the accent it affects their acting - Portman, V for Vendetta


_____________________________

Lips Together and Blow - blogtasticness and Glasgow Film Festival GFF13!

Films watched 2012

Annual Poll 2012 Countdown Started.

(in reply to LjStronge)
Post #: 2
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 11:23:35 AM   
Rgirvan44


Posts: 18902
Joined: 10/3/2006
From: Punishment Park
 I think we are know what a certain forumite will be responding with. Let's wait and see how long it takes.

_____________________________

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.


(in reply to elab49)
Post #: 3
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 11:28:04 AM   
matty_b


Posts: 12883
Joined: 19/10/2005
From: Outpost 31 calling McMurtle.

_____________________________

quote:

ORIGINAL: Cool Breeze
Mattyb is a shining example of what the perfect Empire Forum member is.


(in reply to Rgirvan44)
Post #: 4
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 11:43:19 AM   
Russ Whitfield

 

Posts: 425
Joined: 10/4/2012
Requin (as played by Brion James) in Tango and Cash is really down there with Dick van Dyke's.

_____________________________

www.soldiergirlsmovie.com/
www.i-spimovie.com/

(in reply to matty_b)
Post #: 5
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 11:48:42 AM   
UTB


Posts: 8982
Joined: 30/9/2005
Stephen Graham is most things... he's a great actor but his thick scouse accent eats through anything he says.

(in reply to Russ Whitfield)
Post #: 6
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 12:12:34 PM   
jcthefirst


Posts: 4076
Joined: 6/10/2005
From: Bangor
 Cate Blanchett's Russian accent was pretty bad.

_____________________________

@Jonny_C85

My Movie Blog | My Other Various Rantings Blog

(in reply to UTB)
Post #: 7
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 12:13:11 PM   
musht


Posts: 1141
Joined: 21/1/2009
From: Oireland
 I think I can forgive O'Dowd for butchering the American accent after all the times American actors have done the same to the Irish accent; Julia Roberts, Sean Connery (terrible at all accents except his own), Kevin Spacey, Richard Gere, the list goes on. Even Rhys Meyers did a terrible job in Bend It Like Beckham.

I'm presuming Don Cheadle will get a mention at some point.

_____________________________

"SAVE ME, BARRY!!"

"What the hell are Regionals!?"

(in reply to UTB)
Post #: 8
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 12:16:00 PM   
Harry Tuttle


Posts: 7525
Joined: 12/11/2005
From: Sometime in the future.
 Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Far and Away and Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly take some beating.

_____________________________

Acting...Naturaaal

Your knowledge of scientific biological transmogrification is only outmatched by your zest for kung-fu treachery!

Blood Island. So called because it's the exact shape of some blood

(in reply to musht)
Post #: 9
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 12:58:03 PM   
FoximusPrime

 

Posts: 218
Joined: 11/12/2005

quote:

ORIGINAL: UTB

Stephen Graham is most things... he's a great actor but his thick scouse accent eats through anything he says.


I seem to remember being surprised that he wasn't a cockney when watching the special features on the Snatch DVD. Admittedly, I'm not a cockney but I like to think I have a good ear for accents.

I'll throw The Stath's "Generican" accent into the hat.

(in reply to UTB)
Post #: 10
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 5:33:22 PM   
vad3r


Posts: 4233
Joined: 3/9/2010
From: Close to Mod HQ
quote:

ORIGINAL: UTB

Stephen Graham is most things... he's a great actor but his thick scouse accent eats through anything he says.


Not as Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire

_____________________________

Single Virgin Mod Candidate 2013


quote:

ORIGINAL: horribleives
To paraphrase the great man himself:

Vad3r won't go anywhere near this.

(in reply to UTB)
Post #: 11
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 5:39:10 PM   
st3veebee


Posts: 2354
Joined: 3/9/2006
From: 9303 Lyon Drive
 Irish accents seem to be the toughest to both get right and lose.

_____________________________

Latest Films:

Two days in New York: 4/5

Prometheus: 3.5/5

Abe Lincoln: VH 3/5

Twin Peaks: FWWM 3.5/5

(in reply to LjStronge)
Post #: 12
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 6:01:50 PM   
mclane1


Posts: 350
Joined: 7/2/2009
highlander- every time, which ever way you slice it.

_____________________________

If the cash is there, we do not care.

(in reply to st3veebee)
Post #: 13
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 6:05:07 PM   
TheSpleen

 

Posts: 1292
Joined: 11/7/2009
Don Cheadle in the Oceans flicks, although the script didn't help the poor bastard, good ol' cockney rhyming slang.

Bob Hoskins does one American accent in every film - 1930's hustler type guy.

The Woman who was in Bridesmaids as Matt Lucas' sister had a truly terrible Brit accent too.


(in reply to st3veebee)
Post #: 14
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 6:50:40 PM   
Toast


Posts: 69
Joined: 19/4/2012
Ray Winstone's accent in The Departed was pretty dire.

< Message edited by Toast -- 3/8/2012 7:13:46 PM >

(in reply to TheSpleen)
Post #: 15
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 7:04:29 PM   
UTB


Posts: 8982
Joined: 30/9/2005

quote:

ORIGINAL: FoximusPrime


quote:

ORIGINAL: UTB

Stephen Graham is most things... he's a great actor but his thick scouse accent eats through anything he says.


I seem to remember being surprised that he wasn't a cockney when watching the special features on the Snatch DVD. Admittedly, I'm not a cockney but I like to think I have a good ear for accents.

I'll throw The Stath's "Generican" accent into the hat.


I stand corrected, his best accent was indeed as a cockney in Snatch.

But I still hear it in Boardwalk Empire, I'm afraid.

(in reply to FoximusPrime)
Post #: 16
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 7:12:09 PM   
Harry Tuttle


Posts: 7525
Joined: 12/11/2005
From: Sometime in the future.
quote:

ORIGINAL: UTB


quote:

ORIGINAL: FoximusPrime


quote:

ORIGINAL: UTB

Stephen Graham is most things... he's a great actor but his thick scouse accent eats through anything he says.


I seem to remember being surprised that he wasn't a cockney when watching the special features on the Snatch DVD. Admittedly, I'm not a cockney but I like to think I have a good ear for accents.

I'll throw The Stath's "Generican" accent into the hat.


I stand corrected, his best accent was indeed as a cockney in Snatch.

But I still hear it in Boardwalk Empire, I'm afraid.


Same here. Not all the time but it does slip through quite often.

_____________________________

Acting...Naturaaal

Your knowledge of scientific biological transmogrification is only outmatched by your zest for kung-fu treachery!

Blood Island. So called because it's the exact shape of some blood

(in reply to UTB)
Post #: 17
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 7:16:07 PM   
horribleives

 

Posts: 4183
Joined: 12/6/2009
From: The North
 Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules. Academy awhat?

_____________________________

www.hollywoodunbound.co.uk - some nonsense about alien film directors and musclebound man-children.

(in reply to UTB)
Post #: 18
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 10:42:14 PM   
MB2


Posts: 322
Joined: 16/6/2009

quote:

ORIGINAL: Toast

Ray Winstone's accent in The Departed was pretty dire.


This.

Gary Oldman, although magnificent, does struggle a lot in TDK, particularly the line "THEY KNEW WE WERE COMING!!"

Anne Hathaway in One Day.

_____________________________

Roxy: That's who we should kill next.
Frank: A fictitious character?
Roxy: No. Diablo Cody. Fuck her for writing that movie, she's the only stripper who suffers from too much self esteem.

(in reply to Toast)
Post #: 19
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 10:50:48 PM   
Shifty Bench


Posts: 14575
Joined: 30/9/2005
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Josh Harnett's Yorkshire accent in Blow Dry- click

For a better listen here is 7 minutes of the film, he appears 1 minute 50 seconds in- click

_____________________________

quote:

ORIGINAL: matty_b
You have a nice face, Shifty. A face I would have a cup of tea with.


quote:

ORIGINAL: porntrooper
Shifty said it best


(in reply to horribleives)
Post #: 20
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 11:55:18 PM   
Biggus


Posts: 7603
Joined: 2/10/2005
From: Not Local
quote:

ORIGINAL: Russ Whitfield

Requin (as played by Brion James) in Tango and Cash is really down there with Dick van Dyke's.


This.

_____________________________

"They offered me a hundred grand. You wanna know something? When I found out I'd get my hands on you, I said I'd do it for nothing."

http://fletchsworldoffilm.wordpress.com/

(in reply to Russ Whitfield)
Post #: 21
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 11:57:36 PM   
MonsterCat


Posts: 6221
Joined: 24/3/2011
From: St. Albans, Hertfordshire
quote:

ORIGINAL: Rgirvan44

I think we are know what a certain forumite will be responding with. Let's wait and see how long it takes.


Something about Michael Fassbender's cock letting its accent slip in Shame?

< Message edited by MonsterCat -- 3/8/2012 11:59:25 PM >

_____________________________

C*** and mocker of board members since March, 2011

Films watched in 2013

(in reply to Rgirvan44)
Post #: 22
RE: Worst fake accent? - 3/8/2012 11:58:44 PM   
Biggus


Posts: 7603
Joined: 2/10/2005
From: Not Local
 Why does Michael Fassbender's cock seem to creep into everything?

_____________________________

"They offered me a hundred grand. You wanna know something? When I found out I'd get my hands on you, I said I'd do it for nothing."

http://fletchsworldoffilm.wordpress.com/

(in reply to MonsterCat)
Post #: 23
RE: Worst fake accent? - 4/8/2012 12:02:51 AM   
Biggus


Posts: 7603
Joined: 2/10/2005
From: Not Local
 Dunno why people mention Sean Connery in these threads. I've never heard him attempt one.

_____________________________

"They offered me a hundred grand. You wanna know something? When I found out I'd get my hands on you, I said I'd do it for nothing."

http://fletchsworldoffilm.wordpress.com/

(in reply to LjStronge)
Post #: 24
RE: Worst fake accent? - 4/8/2012 12:29:07 AM   
Shifty Bench


Posts: 14575
Joined: 30/9/2005

quote:

ORIGINAL: Biggus

Dunno why people mention Sean Connery in these threads. I've never heard him attempt one.


click


_____________________________

quote:

ORIGINAL: matty_b
You have a nice face, Shifty. A face I would have a cup of tea with.


quote:

ORIGINAL: porntrooper
Shifty said it best


(in reply to Biggus)
Post #: 25
RE: Worst fake accent? - 4/8/2012 1:39:33 AM   
Whistler


Posts: 2277
Joined: 22/11/2006
Keanu Reeves' British accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula is horrible.

_____________________________

"And my straw reaches acrooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake. I...drink...your...milkshake!"

Read my film reviews at Frame by Frame
Fast & Furious 6, Mud & more

(in reply to Shifty Bench)
Post #: 26
RE: Worst fake accent? - 4/8/2012 3:07:56 AM   
Timbzy


Posts: 183
Joined: 30/6/2012
Pretty much everyone who attempts an Australian accent.

(in reply to Whistler)
Post #: 27
RE: Worst fake accent? - 4/8/2012 9:56:34 AM   
TheSpleen

 

Posts: 1292
Joined: 11/7/2009

quote:

ORIGINAL: Whistler

Keanu Reeves' British accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula is horrible.


Winner!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=113XaZpybqs



(in reply to Whistler)
Post #: 28
RE: Worst fake accent? - 4/8/2012 5:01:44 PM   
will1000


Posts: 1739
Joined: 8/10/2005
Anna Paquin in Steamboy. Yes it's animated, but whoever chose her to play a boy from Yorkshire was clearly smoking something!

_____________________________

...donuts don't wear alligator shoes.


(in reply to LjStronge)
Post #: 29
RE: Worst fake accent? - 4/8/2012 6:50:00 PM   
horribleives

 

Posts: 4183
Joined: 12/6/2009
From: The North
 Toby Kebbel in War Horse.
Not bonny, lad.

_____________________________

www.hollywoodunbound.co.uk - some nonsense about alien film directors and musclebound man-children.

(in reply to will1000)
Post #: 30
Page:   [1] 2 3   next >   >>
All Forums >> [Film Forums] >> Movie Musings >> Worst fake accent? Page: [1] 2 3   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


 
Movie News  |  Empire Blog  |  Movie Reviews  |  Future Films  |  Features  |  Video Interviews  |  Image Gallery  |  Competitions  |  Forum  |  Magazine  |  Resources
 
Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

0.094