Worst fake accent

[Shotgunjim]

After watching The dark last night with atruly horrible US accent from Sean Bean... what are your worst accents???

1.\ Jason Statham (especially Ghosts of Mars)
2.\ Sean Bean (The Dark)
3.\ Jason Statham (Mean Machine)

I would say Cary Grant, but I think that is how he actually spoke!?!

Im sure I will think of some lame attempts at Yanks playing English but nothing spring to mind while writing!

[maverick_15]

Sean Connery in The Untouchables. Actually Sean Connery doesn't do accents, he just does Sean Connery (see The Hunt for Red October) so I suppose that's a bit of a moot point. Dick Van Dyke, Mary Poppins, worst cockney ever. Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own- Oi'm an Oirishman so oi am.

[Tr1xerb3ll]

i ony discovered this recently as until last week i thoughtpeople were lying when they said this , then i got surround sound and a new TV ....
Braveheart - Mel Gibson - Nor the Noeeeeew

[4me2]

That bitch in that advert trying to put on an over the top Geordie accent.

" I vink ya dards fownd ya scuuuuuuuuuuuuder"

God that one makes me heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeave !

[beerman]

After watching it last night the one that sticks in my mind is Don Cheadle in Oceans 11.
FFS why not just cast an English actor. Although Jason Statham in The One is just as shite putting on an American accent

[WalterPill]

For me it's Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins

Other notably awful takes on accents include:

Sean Connery in The Untouchables
Richard Gere in The Jackal
Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Don Cheadle in Ocean's Eleven
Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own
John Malkovich in Rounders

[Cenus_]

Gotta be Charlie Hunnam from Green Street, truely terrible cockney/geordie hybred.

[WalterPill]

Yes, that was awful. I thought it was more of a cockney/upper middle class abomination myself though. Someone patently too posh to adequately portray an east end hooligan roustabout. Terrible accent, terrible film.

[flumperino]

Richard Gere in The Jackal

Yep, that's the one I was going to say

He single handedly downgraded the Jackal from an excellent film to a good film.

[WalterPill]

I didn't rate The Jackal much actually. I hated the whole 'IRA terrorist as rebel hero' bullshit that plays so well with the septics. Few things wind me up at the cinema more than seeing the idealised Hollywoodization of the Northern Ireland struggle. NORAID and all that bollocks too. That's a completely different thread there though.

[holtehero]

If we are talking about music as well as movies, then Joss Stone has just developed a strong american accent - sounds terrible

[Hybrid]

Mel Gibson's accent in braveheart wasn't good, no, but it was perfect compared to mike myers efforts to grasp a scots accent in Shrek.

[TheThingIs]

ewen mcgregor in black hawk down.......dire

[cronus71]

The Cyberdyne Systems T-800 Model 101, (why would a supercomputer program it to speak with an Austrian accent?)

Chris Lambert, Highlander, although I still like the movie

[WalterPill]

Chris Lambert, Highlander, although I still like the movie

'Lots of deeffrant plaeceess'

[maverick_15]

The Cyberdyne Systems T-800 Model 101, (why would a supercomputer program it to speak with an Austrian accent?)

Spoiler:

[superchelseafc]

That bitch in that advert trying to put on an over the top Geordie accent.

" I vink ya dards fownd ya scuuuuuuuuuuuuder"

God that one makes me heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeave !

O GOD!! don't even get me started on that, i think i hate that as much as you do.

[steve10574]

'Lots of deeffrant plaeceess'

"oh conner your all muck and muscle" " eye blossom just the way you like it"


best film ever!

[johnny]

Josh Hartnett in Blow Dry, that film with Alan Rickman and Bill Nighy.. It's just wrong!

[GTI]

Leonardo DiCaprio's attempt at a Africaan accent in Blood Diamonds is worthy of a negative Oscar.