Worst. Accent. Ever.

[underjoyed]

dguzpy said:

I explained that Mozart was Austrian and that maybe they should all sound like Schwartzenegger.

Hasta la vista...Salieri.

[workgeordie]

underjoyed said:

dguzpy said:

I explained that Mozart was Austrian and that maybe they should all sound like Schwartzenegger.

Hasta la vista...Salieri.

I am Austrian and Schwarzenegger comes from Styria, a province in Austria, which is notorious for people with an ultra-strong accent and therefore quite often the subject of jokes. So to defend most Austrians, we don't speak like Arnie

[underjoyed]

workgeordie said:

underjoyed said:

Hasta la vista...Salieri.

I am Austrian and Schwarzenegger comes from Styria, a province in Austria, which is notorious for people with an ultra-strong accent and therefore quite often the subject of jokes. So to defend most Austrians, we don't speak like Arnie

Agreed. I lived there for two years and didn't meet one person who spoke English like Arnie. They were all much more intelligible than the Terminator.

[raqs]

flipper said:

Pick any movie with Halle Berry trying to sound "mo' black".

That contrived blaccent!!! It hurts.

Oh lord, you don't lie. My ears bled in Monsters Ball.

Taye Diggs in How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

How about Naomie Harris and Don Cheadle in After the Sunset? How about ANYONE who is not from the Caribbean attempting a Caribbean accent? Please Hollywood, stop that shit.

[Augustus]

flamethrower said:

the most recent example is Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta. It sounded southern at times.

I visibly cringed when I first heard a little soundbite of her speaking in V. All I could think was "Make it stop! Make it stop!".

And aww Beanie, it doesn't matter what role he plays, his Sheffield accent will always find a way to come through. Whenever he plays non-Brits, he sounds like someone who has an identity crisis according to my British friends, the accent is allover the place.

But we don't care, it is Sean Bean after all.

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But we don't care, it is Sean Bean after all.

Agreed. I'll sit there and be all like "oh hee hee, he sounds so silly trying on that American accent", but I'm still drooling. And there's always the possibility he'll flash his rear or get his shirt ripped off so who's complaining?

On topic again: Whatever happened to Jean Claude Van Damme? His English was pretty bad too, though a different kind of bad than Ahnuld's. I vaguely remember one movie I saw with Van Damme where he was an American cop from Louisiana (I think). Like that was supposed to explain the accent? Never got that.

[tamaradixon]

mimmilina said:

But we don't care, it is Sean Bean after all.

Agreed. I'll sit there and be all like "oh hee hee, he sounds so silly trying on that American accent", but I'm still drooling. And there's always the possibility he'll flash his rear or get his shirt ripped off so who's complaining?

On topic again: Whatever happened to Jean Claude Van Damme? His English was pretty bad too, though a different kind of bad than Ahnuld's. I vaguely remember one movie I saw with Van Damme where he was an American cop from Louisiana (I think). Like that was supposed to explain the accent? Never got that.

Ya, they always had to find ways to explain away his Belgian/French accent. The film was "Hard Target", probably only notable because "The Mummy" played the bad guy in it.

[elizabeth]

Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones' Diary. She doesn't sound British at all.

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I'm Irish, so actors doing Irish accents make me curl up into a ball and weep. I don't think any actor should try to do it - ever. Let's just put a law into effect banning it, or something.

There are only two American actors in the entire world who can do a reasonable Irish accent and that's Angelica Houston and Aidan Quinn and it's no coincidence that they both spent lots of their early years there. Aidan does a good Dublin accent cos that's where he lived, and Angelica does a mean Galway one cos that's where she lived.

Minnie Driver did a fairly good one in Circle of Friends (though even she fell into the trap of exaggerating vowels - everything was "oiiiii"). English people tend to have more success because a lot have actually visited here. And they're very familiar with Scottish accents so there's no fear of them mixing them up like American actors routinely do. The amount of American actors who attempt to do an Irish accent by rolling their "r"s all over the place........

Worst ever offender? Tommy Lee Jones in a crap-fest called Blown Away. When that was shown in Dublin there wasn't a dry seat in the house. He obviously didn't know where he was from. The funniest part of that movie wasn't even accent related - they were in this bar and started eulogising about Guinness - held the glass up to praise it and you could see right through it. We fell about laughing.

[tamaradixon]

Does Britney Spear's "new" redneck accent count? its god awful and was on full display in tonight's "interview" with Matt Lauer.