MSN Movies had a list of their top 10 all-time worst movie accents. Their list included:

• Dick Van Dyke - Mary Poppins
  
• Brad Pitt - The Devil's Own
  
  
• Angelina Jolie - Alexander
  
• Gary Oldman - State of Grace
  
• Uma Thurman - Henry & June
  
  
• Tim Robbins - Mystic River
  
• Wynona Ryder - Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula
  
• Forest Whitaker - The Crying Game
  
• Liam Neeson - Schindler's List
  
• Special Mentions: Kevin Costner - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, JFK, A Perfect World, Thirteen Days

While I can agree on Kevin Costner's absence of any signs of effort at trying to sound even like an American doing an impression of an English accent in Robin Hood, most of these mentions I've either never seen or didn't question.

MY list of the top ten worst movie accents, however, goes something like this. In order:
10 - Val Kilmer - The Ghost and the Darkness. He's Irish...then he's American...then he's Irish...then he's American. But he was great otherwise.
9 - Dennis Quaid - Frequency. I like the movie, but yikes...that's supposed to be New York?
8 - Jim Caviezel - Frequency. Even worse.
7 - Kate Hudson - The Four Feathers. "Ew look, Oi'm Aynglish!"
6 - Mira Furlan - LOST. Okay, so it's not a movie, but it's too remarkable NOT to list - I almost always forget she's supposed to be French, to the point that I might think, "Ep, careful Danielle--you almost sounded French there!"
5 - Matt Damon - The Departed. He's FROM Boston - he has NO excuse for sounding almost as bad as the other stars.
4 - Kevin Costner - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Yeah, it was pretty damn bad, after all.
3 - Brad Pitt - Troy. Don't get me started.
2 - Okay: ANY portrayal of ancient Greece or Rome. They ALL sound English! Why?!?
1 - Daniel Day Lewis - Gangs of New York. It's beyond even being funny - it's as bad as they come.

Special Mentions: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Alec Baldwin, and Martin Sheen - The Departed. Their accents all sound SO forced, it's really quite embarrassing. Does Scorsese just have a passion for making things "his way," no matter how erratically off-center they may be? Thank the gods for Mark Wahlberg - he let out the true voice of Boston.

So what do the rest of you think of as the top 10 worst movie accents of all time?

I haven't checked in here in a long time and i hope all are well. I just finished reading Bloodline and boy did i love this installment. I never get tired of this wonderful saga and can't get enough. Loved the storyline and how Jack is tied to it.

I haven't really looked but my question is: is the next book planned? Is there any info on it like title or anything?

Years ago, when I finished The Haunted Air, I had felt maybe I missed something and submitted a question - basically, who was that little girl ghost supposed to be?

I received a response from FPW - from which the basic idea was 'all in good time'.

But as the Jack books do seem to be spinning faster and faster towards the climax, and there seems to be only a few still to be written, I'm wondering if I should have figured it out by now, or if I've missed something again, or if it is still to be addressed.

Anyone?

—Jason

http://www.fearzone.com/blog/f-paul-wilson

Let me say from the start, this movie is a feast of gory sounds. Every wound squishes, every broken bone crunches, etc.

This movie begins with Jigsaw's autopsy. Warning: this is VERY graphic. I don't know how realistic, but it looked like a real corpse when they cut the skull open and removed the brain, when they made the Y incision and cut through the sternum bone and when they sliced out the stomach. At first it seems as if this is gratuitous but the point of the autopsy comes clear when it is revealed that just before his death Jigsaw swallowed a tape he'd encased in wax (see the end of Saw III). The story begins from there as Lieutenant Rigg (the SWAT officer from Saw II and III) is lured into Jigsaw's web. We get to see how Jigsaw thinks of his players as he forces Rigg to do things he wouldn't otherwise have done. I know, Jigsaw is dead- how is he getting anyone to do anything? You'll learn that pretty early on.

At first it seems like they're going to go overboard with the "games". Like in 80s slasher films that have a person getting hatcheted every 10 minutes or so. But the actual story advances, revealing more of John Cramer's history and how he came to be the Jigsaw killer. Cramer is shown as a proponent of personal redemption through pain (his initials are J.C.- get it?) after tragedy struck him personally (before he found out about his cancer). But there is actual "purpose" to each of these games that advance the story line. We're also introduced to two FBI agents who are working to figure out who's been helping Jigsaw and by the end it wraps up in a way that leaves room for another sequel but resolves its own story line.

It isn't Shakespearian acting or writing, but if you've been a fan of any of the previous Saw movies you should like it.

So, I already have all of the Adversary Cycle, bought when they were released way back when. Then someone on this board (I can't find the post... but I think it might have been ccosborne3) mentioned that there was a limited set on Ebay... and I just couldn't resist. Snagged them for $100 plus postage.
Made me wonder, though, how much a writer must hate Ebay. Granted, I probably never would have bought these books again at the Borderlines price (because I already have them, as opposed to them not being worth the money, because they so are) but still, it's money in someone else's pocket, not FPW's. In my defense though, the guilt is relieved somewhat by the amount of money I've already spent on other FPW books.
Just wondered what other people think. Where possible, do you like to buy a writer's books from the source or are you happy to grab them any way you can?

Brrrrrr Blah!

A Northern Exposure nightmare.

Pretty standard fare, drawing much of its inspiration from
such films as "Near Dark," "Pitch Black," and John Carpenter's
"The Thing" and "Assault on Precinct 13"

You can read a more detailed review at the Blog at my
website.

Based on a critically acclaimed 3-part comic book miniseries,
this popcorn flick's upscale production values and a high
body count contend for nearly two hours with weak
characterizations and an occasionally slow pace.

In the end, I actually enjoyed it.

I give "30 Days of Night" THREE out of five cans of diet cherry
vanilla Dr. Pepper.

Mike Out

The new series I think is very well done (My wife really enjoys it as well) and this Jan. starts the final season. A movie called RAZOR will appear in Nov. on Scifi and on youtube a well done prelude (2min per segment) called RAZOR FLASHBACKS (about the first Cylon War ) is being shown #1#2#3#4. Check them out-very good!

If you like Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman series", I'm sure you also like "Death: The High Cost of Living".

I found interesting articles.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=6447


Selma Blair play Death? And Guillermo del Toro is director? I don't know yet, but now I can't wait for this one!

Okay, this really creeped me out:

I read in a whole bunch of different fields and genres, but October is traditionally reserved for fantasy and horror novels (and films). I'd had a copy of Bloodlines for a while, but was waiting to read it until this month, as part of my pre-Hallowe'en line-up.

About a week ago, I was sorting through some boxes of comics I'd stored away over the years. My 7-year old son Ryan is getting seriously into comics (and is developing some serious talent himself as an artist), so I was going through and selecting some for him to read (some of the titles are for mature readers, and would be too adult for him, but after he read through my collected Cark Barks, Little Lulu, Sugar and Spike, Hot Stuff, and then most of the Superman and Kirby DC titles, I'm working my way up to other stuff I think he'll like.) I was setting aside some of the early run of Jonah Hex for him when I found 4 titles that Alan (Watchmen) Moore did for Image Comics in 1993 - all loving (but very funny) take-offs on the glory days and titles of Marvel Comics. I remembered really enjoying them when I first read them, especially the ad spoofs and the letter columns in which "Affable Al" Moore perfectly copied the over-the-top style of Stan Lee's editorials and responses in the 1960s. As I reread the "Avengers" take-off "The Tomorrow Syndicate" I read a letter from one "P. Frank Winslow" of 662 Rolling Dune Way, Blech, N.J. commenting on "Affable Al's" alliteration that I remember reading when I first got the issue back in '93. The name of the letter writer seemed vaguely familiar this time...

A week later, I started reading Bloodline and stopped dead in my tracks when I read page 157.

Damn, that was weird. And funny. Who knew...?