Barry Lee Dejasu Wrote:MSN Movies had a list of their top 10 all-time worst movie accents. Their list included: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.
- 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
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?
Oxenberger Wrote:The absolute worst and most annoying award goes to:
Adam Sandler in Little Nicky.
Weatherford Wrote:The female lead in The English Patient!!!!! (Julia Ormond?)
It drove me totally bonkers - which might be just as well, as otherwise I would have fallen asleep :o . (Hated the movie....)
the Oracle Wrote:Speaking of:
1. Bad Accents in movies;
2. Dennis Quaid;
3. New Orleans.
What about the Big Easy? I totally dig the flick, but the accents are unforgivably horrid!
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