[Closed] worst accents in films.

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Russell Crowe in Robin Hood - made the film totally unwatchable.

He's a bit sensitive about it though.

+1

Not as bad as that Irish dude as Alexandra the Great.

Bit obvious but what the heck.

And yep, Russell Crowe is a genius.

Has to be Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Far and Away to be sure, to be sure.

How could I forget..

Was it James Coburn in The Great Escape trying to play the ozzy

Don Cheadle in Ocean's Eleven.

Patsy Kensit in Lethal Weapon (27?)

Natasha McElhone in Ronin.

Patsy Kensit in Lethal Weapon (27?)

She's pretty cute in that film, so I'd let her off that.

Without a doubt Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.
It's brilliant! Hilariously bad.

Simon Pegg in the Star Trek reboot - woeful!

Mel Gibson - Braveheart

havent seen it but colin firth and orlando bloom in Main Street pretty grim, bizzarre one here, in the Geicko ins ads shown in the USA the guy has a eastend posh london accent, well that guy is from LA. How about Kevin Costner Robin Hood

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Ray Winstone in The Departed was pretty bad. Didn't really spoil the film though.

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I've still not worked out what accent it's supposed to be. 🙂

Sean Connery, Er in most of his later films. Hunt for red October, the rubbish one with Catherine zeta jones etc..

Second Tom Cruise in Far and Away.

"Yer a corker Shannon Christie, y'are" 😆

And John Wayne in The Quiet Man of course.

Natasha McElhone in Ronin +1!

really struggle to get in the film cos she keeps being given things to say.

Highlander - Sean Connery playing a Spaniard speaking with a Scottish accent & Christopher Lambert playing a scot & speaking with a very French accent.

Sean Connery +1

Surely there is no compare?

Tommy Lee Jones in Blown Away.

Thread over.

Anything with Jason Statham in it

Highlander - Sean Connery playing a Spaniard speaking with a Scottish

"I'm not Schhhpanish, I'm Egyptschhhian."

Tommy Lee Jones in Blown Away.

I forgot about that one, he sounded like a lepricorn.

Sean Connery in the one he WON AN OSCAR for!!!

Charlie Hunnam's accent in Green Street is pretty terrible.

Not film, but those Aviva ads with Paul Whitehouse? I reckon they've alienated most of the Scottish market.

Cringeworthy on roughly the same level as when Frank Skinner used to finish his chatshow with a ropey karaoke-esque rendition of some ancient chart hit.

EDIT: Film-wise, Mike Myers tries hard but never quite nails it. See: Shrek and Fat Bastard.

Nicolas Cage's Italian efforts in Captain Corellis Mandolin.

Charlie Hunnam's accent in Green Street is pretty terrible.

not a film, but a bad accent 'done properly'

All of the actors in 'Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'.

Now I know it is slightly daft to have people speaking in English with German accents in war films (as is the norm), but conversely having them all acting with their 'normal' posh English accents sounded really weird. I had to keep telling myself 'they are playing Ze Germans, they are playing Ze Germans'...

Jason Statham doing an American accent...

can't take him seriously after watching Lock Stock / Snatch..

Gene Hackman as the Polish general in a 'Bridge too Far'

THe way he says the 'Germans'

There seems to be a theme with bad Irish accents.

Gerard Butler in PS I love you
Brad Pitt in The Name of the father
Tommy Lee Jones in Blown Away
Natasha McElhone in Ronin
Sean Connery in The Untouchables
Tom Cruise in Far and Away
Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly

Sean Bean's American accent in Silent Hill was pretty comical.

One of the classics:

I love some of the comments on this on Youtube, people saying how inspiring it is while anyone who recognises a Scottish accent is pi$$ing themselves.

I actually thought MG did ok in that, bearing in mind that WW early life is largely undocumented and he may not have been in Scotland at all!

Did you expect him to sound as if he was born and bred in The Gorbals?

Sean Connery on the other hand - has he ever attempted an accent?

Guess who the very well known American actor is playing the Chinaman (the term Chinaman caused as much a stink as the supposed Hollywood racial stereotyping)

Not film, but those Aviva ads with Paul Whitehouse? I reckon they've alienated most of the Scottish market.

Howver, going the other way, i never realised that Spinal Tap were American till years later

Sean Connery. In anything.

Michael Fassbender in X-Men: First Class - love the film, but his accent's all over the place

Kevin Bacon in X-Men: First Class - his German is horrible.

Kevin Costner in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

Russel Crowe in the other Robin Hood

Keanu in Dracula

Ray Winstone in The Departed was pretty bad

Not as bad as Ray Winstone in Cold Mountain.....

Sean Astin in Lord of the Rings.

The rest of the hobbits too for that matter. Except Ian Holm as Bilbo.

Guess who the very well known American actor is playing the Chinaman (the term Chinaman caused as much a stink as the supposed Hollywood racial stereotyping)

Peter Sellers as that French detective geezer.

Kevin Costner in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

did he even attempt an accent?

Ooooh. Have we had Christopher Lambert in "Highlander"? For the first few historical flashbacks, I thought he was having a stroke.

If someone just uses their own accent a la Costner in Prince of Thieves, Gerard Butler in 300, or Connery in, well, anything - then I don't think it really ranks in the same category as a poorly executed faked accent, a la Statham in The Transporter.

I suspect the reason that nobody has mentioned Christopher Ecclescakes (alleged) Scottish accent in G.I. Joe is because nobody has watched it.

It is very entertaining. (The accent, I mean. Not the film.)

can't take him seriously after watching Lock Stock / Snatch..

Considering all he does now are cheesy action films, I dunno if you're meant to take him seriously 😆

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I suspect the reason that nobody has mentioned Christopher Ecclescakes (alleged) Scottish accent in G.I. Joe is because nobody has watched it.

It is very entertaining. (The accent, I mean. Not the film.)

Hey! I loved G.I. Joe! You're talking about my childhood here...

did he even attempt an accent?

I remember reading news reports at the time that he had a voice coach to help with his English accent, but that he got sacked part way through filming, and that you could tell some bits were more English than others. None of it sounded remotely English to me though.

Anthony Quayle in Ice Cold in Alex.

Pretty awful Afrikaans and a not much better German accent. Bloody great film though! John Mills is my hero.

To be fair, we don't actually have any idea what William Wallace or King Leonidas sounded like. Maybe Spartans really did sound scottish and old scots sounded australian.

Nicole kidman in the Interpreter.
NO ONE disrespects Ice Cold In Alex 👿 lest they incur my wrath and I smite them (hav'nt done much smiting of late tbh....might be a wee bit rusty).

Marcel Marceau in Silent Movie 😀

Natalie Portman in V For Vendetta. Started off wobbly Dagenham, rapidly headed overseas, and ended up somewhere in the Indian Ocean half way between South Africa and Australia. Bizarre.

NO ONE disrespects Ice Cold In Alex lest they incur my wrath and I smite them (hav'nt done much smiting of late tbh....might be a wee bit rusty).

Slow your roll! No disrespecting going on one of my favourite films ("Stop grinning about your bloody love life and come and help!"/"Never mind your bloody makeup - push!") but Quayle's accents are pretty ropey! Doesn't detract from the awesome at all, he's still brilliant in it.

Zee Germans.

Elephant Man.

Enemy at the Gates was a pretty awful film on several counts but one of them was Bob Hoskins as a Russian Army Officer - I'd not heard any Cockney Russians until then.

Richard Gere in The Jackal

Every climbing scene with Stallone in Cliffhanger.

Oh hang on, it's accents not ascents. Oops.

Still applies though, especially John Lithgow's accent. And i normally like him.

Every climbing scene with Stallone in Cliffhanger.

Enemy at the Gates was a pretty awful film on several counts but one of them was Bob Hoskins as a Russian Army Officer - I'd not heard any Cockney Russians until then.

I take your point but if the film is gonna be in English then you either need everybody speaking with Russian accents (daft) or everybody with a mix of regional English accents to simulate a Russian army drawn from all over the country. So Cockney would be one of them.