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Top 5 Bad Accents
« on: April 06, 2008, 02:05:58 PM »
Inspired by the feedback to Charlie Hunnam's selection on Adam's Top 5 Up-and-Coming Actors list.

5. Jude Law, any American character
4. Julia Roberts, Charlie Wilson's War
3. Sean Connery, Hunt for the Red October (granted, he isn't exactly trying)
2. Mickey Rooney, Breakfast at Tiffany's
1. Kevin Costner, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (this should probably be the Kevin Costner Memorial List, really)
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Re: Top 5 Bad Accents
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2008, 02:11:01 PM »
Inspired by the feedback to Charlie Hunnam's selection on Adam's Top 5 Up-and-Coming Actors list.

I haven't heard that show.  Does Hunnam do a bad accent somewhere?

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Re: Top 5 Bad Accents
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2008, 02:18:40 PM »
5. Jessica Lange in Rob Roy
4. Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins
3. Pete Postlethwaite in Usual Suspects
2. Mel Gibson in Braveheart
1. Christopher Lambert in The Highlander

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Re: Top 5 Bad Accents
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2008, 03:24:02 PM »
Inspired by the feedback to Charlie Hunnam's selection on Adam's Top 5 Up-and-Coming Actors list.

I haven't heard that show.  Does Hunnam do a bad accent somewhere?

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Re: Top 5 Bad Accents
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2008, 03:39:52 PM »
whenever gwyneth paltrow plays a brit
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Re: Top 5 Bad Accents
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2008, 03:49:57 PM »
I saw this (not bad at all) made for TV film in which Michael Caine played a former Nazi on the run in modern-day Paris. True to form, we had a Cockney Nazi.

Also notable:

Keanu Reeves in Dracula

David Bowie in Basquiat (still manages to be brilliant)

That 'Indian' guy in the TV series Heroes.

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Re: Top 5 Bad Accents
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2008, 04:25:05 PM »
I saw this (not bad at all) made for TV film in which Michael Caine played a former Nazi on the run in modern-day Paris. True to form, we had a Cockney Nazi.


I think "Cockney Nazi" would have made a great Sam Van Hallgren Filmspotting Nickname.
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Re: Top 5 Bad Accents
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2008, 04:47:12 PM »
Alas, poor Hallgren Nicknames  :(

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Re: Top 5 Bad Accents
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2008, 04:49:32 PM »
Top 10 Worst Movie Accents (a.k.a. The Anthony Hopkins in "All The King's Men" Memorial List):

1. Kevin Costner in "Thirteen Days"
2. Jude Law in "I Heart Huckabees"
3. Al Pacino in "Scarface"
4. Brad Pitt in "The Devil's Own"
5. Elijah Wood in "The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy
6. Angelina Jolie in "Alexander"
7. Keanu Reeves in "Bram Stoker's Dracula"
8. Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus in "The Boondock Saints"
9. John Wayne in "The Conqueror"
10. Vera Farmiga in "The Departed"

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Re: Top 5 Bad Accents
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2008, 05:33:24 PM »
Top 10 Worst Movie Accents (a.k.a. The Anthony Hopkins in "All The King's Men" Memorial List):
10. Vera Farmiga in "The Departed"
huh??  She gave an award worthy performance in that film and her accent was spot on.  I am not sure I understand what you are talking about?  I also don't think Elijah Wood was supposed to have an accent in the Lord of the Rings.

 

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