wanderer Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 (edited) Michael Caine playing a German Nazi officer with a cockney accent in The Eagle has Landed? Edited March 29, 2016 by wanderer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristolhibby Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Ray Winstone as Irish/American Mr French in the otherwise excellent "The Departed". J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Brad Pitt in Snatch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Sean Connery in pretty much everything! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 To be fair, to call any of Sean Connery's efforts a bad accent is kind of missing the point. He doesn't even attempt an accent, so it can't really be called bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 (edited) Thing about Connery is in most his films I always feel it takes nothing away from his performance.... granted in Highlander it does raise a few eyebrows, yet can not say its something I really notice or take interest of in the likes of Hunt for Red October (where he plays a Russian/Lithuanian) or Untouchables (where he plays a Irishman). William Hurt using a English accent in Gorky Park, while playing a Soviet agent is a odd one (but almost every b-list English actor from the early 80's is playing a Russian character in that movie....Even Rikki Fulton puts on a posh English accent). Don Cheadle in the Oceans series is a good one (for a while I did think he was English) its just the annoying fake cockney slang they try to throw in that is terrible. Edited March 29, 2016 by wanderer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 6 hours ago, dan cake said: gerard butler cant even do his own accent his moisturiser voice over is hilarious i can understand how he makes the ladies/men wet but non speaking parts only surely Spot on! Any attempt he has ever made at an American accent has been cringeworthy and he's become so "Hollywoodised" that even his own accent is fecked up beyond all recognition. He's like the Sheena Easton of the film industry. Worst thing Paisley has produced since Andrew Neil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaggycoo Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stapes Posted March 31, 2016 Author Share Posted March 31, 2016 Watched Bridge of Spies a couple of nights ago. Mark Rylance's performance was outstanding and I can see why he won the Oscar. His accent, mixing Scottish with Russian was outstanding, except that he wasn't supposed to be Scottish, but from northern England (Whitley Bay to be precise). Am I missing something? Do they have a Scottish accent in Whitley Bay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewarty66 Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 On 29/03/2016 at 0:26 PM, Bristolhibby said: Ray Winstone as Irish/American Mr French in the otherwise excellent "The Departed". J David Ohara as Fitz was a shocker in The Departed. As you say though it is an excellent film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 2 hours ago, Stapes said: Watched Bridge of Spies a couple of nights ago. Mark Rylance's performance was outstanding and I can see why he won the Oscar. His accent, mixing Scottish with Russian was outstanding, except that he wasn't supposed to be Scottish, but from northern England (Whitley Bay to be precise). Am I missing something? Do they have a Scottish accent in Whitley Bay. Weird as I just watched this the other night and said this to the Wife. I researched it after and Rylance said a Scottish accent was easier to do than a Geordie one as he had a Scottish nanny growing up. I then read that Sting ripped into him about the accent as Sting's own parents lived next door to that spy guy's folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jock strap Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Leonardo Di Caprio in Gangs of New York. truly truly horrendous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 16 hours ago, Stapes said: Watched Bridge of Spies a couple of nights ago. Mark Rylance's performance was outstanding and I can see why he won the Oscar. His accent, mixing Scottish with Russian was outstanding, except that he wasn't supposed to be Scottish, but from northern England (Whitley Bay to be precise). Am I missing something? Do they have a Scottish accent in Whitley Bay. Apparently the guy he was playing had a weird hybrid Scottish accent in real life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 4 hours ago, Fairbairn said: Apparently the guy he was playing had a weird hybrid Scottish accent in real life. Because of his Scottish nanny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stapes Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 7 hours ago, Fairbairn said: Apparently the guy he was playing had a weird hybrid Scottish accent in real life. If that's the case then seriously, what a performance. Not only did he nail an accent, which is hard enough in itself. But he nailed the accent of someone who moved between two countries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParisInAKilt Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Thought he was by far the best thing about that film Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristolhibby Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 23 hours ago, jock strap said: Leonardo Di Caprio in Gangs of New York. truly truly horrendous. See as much as it was weird, this is how I rationalised it. Let's not forget, Leo is brilliant at accents (Blood diamond, Django Unchained, etc). He is playing a young second generation Irish immigrant who was brought up in an orphanage. His accent would have been a hybrid of Irish from the old country and a New York accent. I'm in the same position myself, moved to England when I was a kid, and now have some Scottish Edinburgh/West country farmer accent. J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 7 hours ago, Bristolhibby said: See as much as it was weird, this is how I rationalised it. Let's not forget, Leo is brilliant at accents (Blood diamond, Django Unchained, etc). He is playing a young second generation Irish immigrant who was brought up in an orphanage. His accent would have been a hybrid of Irish from the old country and a New York accent. I'm in the same position myself, moved to England when I was a kid, and now have some Scottish Edinburgh/West country farmer accent. J Blood Diamond? Are you having a laugh? That was one of the worst accents ever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnpauls Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Going to be heretical and say I thought both Mel Gibson in "Braveheart" and Johnny Lee Miller" in "Trainspotting" were good at Scottish accents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 On 02 April 2016 at 6:50 PM, mcnpauls said: Going to be heretical and say I thought both Mel Gibson in "Braveheart" and Johnny Lee Miller" in "Trainspotting" were good at Scottish accents. Same here. Particularly JLM's. Mel's broke down now and again with certain words or phrases, but for the most part I thought it was pretty good. For me it was certainly no worse than Brendan Gleeson's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giblet Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 On 3/29/2016 at 7:50 AM, new hugh said: Christopher Lambert in Highlander This, cringeworthy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al1978 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Lili Taylor's Scottish accent in The Promotion is the worst accent of any kind i've heard. Can't find a clip of it but it's quite incredible. Ruins an otherwise under-rated film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larky Masher Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 On 3/31/2016 at 7:13 PM, Stapes said: Watched Bridge of Spies a couple of nights ago. Mark Rylance's performance was outstanding and I can see why he won the Oscar. His accent, mixing Scottish with Russian was outstanding, except that he wasn't supposed to be Scottish, but from northern England (Whitley Bay to be precise). Am I missing something? Do they have a Scottish accent in Whitley Bay. I was the same as I thought his accent was all over the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grantyboy1983 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 The late Pete Postlethwaite in The Usual Suspects as Kobiashi, WTF!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 13 hours ago, Grantyboy1983 said: The late Pete Postlethwaite in The Usual Suspects as Kobiashi, WTF!! What was that even supposed to be? Anyone know? It seemed to be some sort of Irish/Welsh/Asian combo!! Tom Cruise's Irish accent in Far and Away was ropey as feck too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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