Worst. Accent. Ever.

[Ripley]

I love me some Alan Rickman, but his accent in Something the Lord Made is just terrible!

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Actually both Alan Rickman's & Jeremy Iron's German accents in the Die Hard movies were pretty appalling. I work with a load of Germans and they sound completely different.

I always get the feeling with actors trying to do accents like the German one (and the aforementioned Irish one) that they just look at movies of other actors doing those accents - and then copy those. They never bother to find someone who's originally from that country to copy them instead.

[bklynred]

Paul Walker's New Jersey accent in Running Scared. So bad. So good.

[borborygmus]

Emma was on the Starz free weekend, and you know? Gwyneth's accent was not good; even worse than I recalled. It kept drifting in and out... I think I didn't notice the first time I saw that movie, because all the other actors in it are so great, they blow her off the screen. Singing Ewan! Yummy Jeremy Northam! Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Juliet Stevenson... a dream cast. Aaaaand the overhyped and undertalented Fish.

[tamaradixon]

raqs said:

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.

In defense of Don Cheadle (wonderful Don Cheadle!!), his character was actually from Detroit (or NYC or somewhere in the U.S.), so he wasn't doing Caribbean. At least I didn't think so.

That said, his english accent in Ocean's 11 was god awful.

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Bad accents abound in "Pretty Baby." I hate to rag on Brooke, as she was just a kid, but some of the adult actors don't do much better. It's still beautiful to look at, though (thank you, Sven Nykvist!)
And William Hurt in "A History of Violence"? Where in bloody hell did he get that mess?! "Broheem" did nothing in that movie to dispel Libby Waxman-Gelner's impression of him as "a giant piece of Tip-Top bread."
Mmmmm... scenery... *ghrghrghrghrghr*...

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That said, his english accent in Ocean's 11 was god awful.

I was just coming here to post that. Oh, Don!

It seems Hollywood is terrible with British accents and even worse with Irish ones.

You know I really got a kick out of Pierce Brosnan's awful Irish accent in Evelyn. He was worse than Tom Cruise in Far and Away. And Pierce is Irish. So funny how an Irishman butchered an Irish accent like that.

[FotoStoreSheila]

I haven't seen it yet, but I'm going to go ahead and nominate Sean Penn in All the King's Men. When he bellows in that 'backwoods Southern drawl', I am instantly taken back to his ridiculous screaming in Mystic River.

[groovethang]

^^^ Same here. I hate that trailer; I don't even think I can see the movie thanks to Sean Penn's overblown acting.

As for Taye Diggs in How Stella Got Her Groove Back - he spoke in that movie? Hmmm, I didn't notice...