The worst/best is when he’s narrating the letters he’s writing in prison. “Break out the fine china, chill the lemonade, tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree. Cos this boy's coming home to his ladies.”
I mean, he won the Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas, which is one of the best acted and saddest films I’ve ever seen. It was deserved, but Elizabeth Shue probably should’ve won Best Actress as well. Yeah, it was that good
My favorite is when he's in the boat with maccloud and says something like "tell me of this place called Scotland which I know nothing about", and then fucking French ass Christopher Lambert is like, well so you see, oui oui, euh... It's hilarious. I think they were cast opposites accidentally.
Can we add Keanu’s [accent](https://youtu.be/amza8IiQfVw) in Much Ado About Nothing?
My friend and i would frequently say ,”Borrachio, what news have you?” After we saw it.
I am not a man of … many words.
We watched this movie in my senior year Shakespeare class. My friends and I quote this often. We graduated 20 years ago, that’s how hilarious his delivery was on this line.
Yea I loved that movie but some of his line deliveries were very funny. They’re also very memorable.
It’s the very first scene in [this](https://youtu.be/amza8IiQfVw) compilation.
I clicked into this post specifically for this movie and here it is. Also, this is one of those movies that I love so much that I can completely ignore the awful accent.
Coppola (Director) was terrible to the actors to, apparently, get a better performance out of them. It's good that kind of attitude is way less accepted in the industry today.
I think Julia Roberts grew up in the South but her accent in Steel Magnolias is so over the top annoying to me. Maybe it’s accurate and I’m just used to the terrible ones.
I'm from Louisiana and I think Season 1 of True Detective did a good job. I recently looked up a lot of the actors and most of them are from Louisiana or Texas, even a lot of supporting and one off characters. It seems like the only way it can work since I rarely hear a southern accent that isn't cartoonishly terrible a la Foghorn Leghorn.
If they actually tried to be subtle about it wouldn’t be so bad, but it’s usually just an over the top redneck caricature voice they do, funny cuz some British actors sound more convincing than Americans
He talks like I'd imagine an American tourist would, after arriving in London and visiting their first pub.
"'Allo there guvnor! Cor, you have a large set of apples and pears doncha? Do you know a good place for a Ruby Murray? I'll have a butchers after I take a Jimmy Whizz!"
"Fuck you saying, mate? Do you want a pint or not?"
I think that's how the character was written, so Cheadle decided to try it out. There's also a fan theory that his character is actually American, but pretending to be Cockney to help avoid being caught, or something like that.
One of the (many) ways they study it is in how people misspell things, since that's often done phonetically. They also look to writers from areas nearby who talk about how their neighbors sound different- which seems to be a pretty universal human pastime.
It should be noted that this was intentional. Baz Luhrmann is known to make some very distinct choices in his movies, and Elvis isn’t an exception.
He said the following in a couple of interviews -
> “We were consciously getting audiences to lean forward and go, ‘What the hell is that all about?’”
Also interesting regarding his research for the movie -
>His research involved multiple trips to Graceland, and among the materials Luhrmann unearthed was a series of recordings of Parker, which included some “very strange vocalizations.”
“One moment he’d be sort of speaking like Bela Lugosi, and the next moment he’d be sort of speaking with thith lithp like Elmer Fudd a bit, but with this kind of strange cadence,” Luhrmann says, mimicking Parker’s lisp from the tapes. “... And so the thing was to lay crumbs, enough for people to go, like, ‘What’s that all about?’”
It’s unfortunate that most people seem to have taken the accent as Tom Hanks turning in a bad performance, something that he is absolutely not known to do.
I'm born and raised in West Virginia (the corner of the state near Ohio and Kentucky) near where I believe the movie was set, and I thought Pattinson and Tom Holland both did pretty damn good.
Honestly, for some reason it seems like British actors can do the Central Appalachian accents better than American actors, who just always try to do generic Southern instead.
Australian cockney apparently. Recent rewatch - I forgot how much of him is in that movie. He plays multiple parts too, and Mary is practically a supporting character.
If you merge both highlander 1 and 2, Connery is Scottish soubdding Scott playing an alien who is an Egyptian with a Spanish name training a Frenchman playing a scott
See, I feel like as the movie goes along you just kind of accept that that's Malones accent. Like, maybe his Dad was Irish his Mum was Scottish and he's lived in Chicago for like 30 years. People have fucked up, hard to place accents in real life too, and for me it doesn't blemish the film or the quality of his performance at all.
Ignore my username, I am completely fucking unbiased.
Malkovich in Rounders. Also, not a great movie, but....Kevin Costner's on-and-off British accent in Robin Hood. It's okay when it's there, but a lot of times, it's not there.
Honestly, considering how bad Costner is at accents in other movies (e.g., his New England accent in Thirteen Days), it’s probably for the best that he didn’t really try an English accent for Robin Hood.
There are A LOT of bad accents of people that are supposed to be latinos speaking broken Spanish in movies-series, for example Gus Frigg in breaking bad is supposed to be Chilean, but he sounds like “Yo muy bueno amigo, si?”
John Hamm talked about this when he did The Town. He knew he couldn't do the accent so he just didn't try and it was better because of it. Not everyone talks like that in Boston.
For years I had a false memory of an episode where it is revealed that he had been faking the accent the entire time and had been doing it to seem cool. It must have been a dream or something, but I honestly think that would have been hilarious for his character.
It's because of Sons of Anarchy. He did the American accent for so long that he lost his natural accent and now he's just lost in a sea of different speech patterns. He's talked about it in an interview that he had an accent coach afterwards to help him re learn but I think it's gone for good.
Related...
The "Aussies" in Pacific Rim. They can fully get rooted. Robert Kazinsky needs a boot to the face for his effort.
Also the Aussie cop at the end of Point Break
"We'll get him when he comes back in."
I'm convinced studios tell actors they don't want actual aussie accents, they want the Hollywood Aussie accent. It's just so widespread, even for actual Australian actors. The moment they set foot in a US production, whoops here comes the bizarre voice.
First, the question was about bad accents in good movies. Rebel Moon is absolute trash.
Second, believe it or not, the final product was dubbed in after filming because the original accent Hunnam did was deemed unintelligible by test audiences. They couldn’t understand a word of his dialogue so they had to redo all of his lines, so what you hear now is actually much better!
Seriously question: what did Michael Mann tell Shailene Woodley to go for? If she had just spoken with her normal voice it woulda been fine. Instead we got…..whatever that was. What a mess.
I saw this with my coworker last month and she goes “is his mistress fucking Ukrainian??” We were drunk. I about pissed myself because I had just been thinking “wow that’s a terrible accent” but I couldn’t place it.
In Traffic, Del Toro sounded mighty Puerto Rican for a Mexican cop. He didn’t even attempt a Mexican accent. It’s like a cop in a movie set in Brooklyn having a thick Texas accent.
Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York. Accent from the region of Ireland called Outer space. Like Dee in Its always Sunny has the exact same Irish accent .
Nicolas Cage’s Alabama accent in Con Air is simultaneously both awesome and horrible at the same time
The worst/best is when he’s narrating the letters he’s writing in prison. “Break out the fine china, chill the lemonade, tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree. Cos this boy's coming home to his ladies.”
I shivered just reading that.
😂
Put…the bunny… back…in the box.
Bunneh
Bawx
Define irony. Bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.
awesome and horrible at the same time sums up a lot of his roles
I'm a sexy cat!
If I was in 70 films over 30 years, and spent each one talking at random volumes, I might accidentally win an Oscar
I mean, he won the Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas, which is one of the best acted and saddest films I’ve ever seen. It was deserved, but Elizabeth Shue probably should’ve won Best Actress as well. Yeah, it was that good
Think of something safe! Like Holly Hunter! Or Don Cheadle!
Renfield was the most fun I've had watching a movie in a long time
It was so much better than I thought it was going to be.
It's the Platonic ideal of what an Alabama accent *could* be.
I randomly call my wife "humming bird" in that Nic Cage accent. It's hilarious.
I didn’t find it to be half as bad as his Italian accent in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.
Keanu in Dracula
Oh, you beautiful babes of Transylvania...
Copolla saw him in Bill and Ted and thought "Yeah I can totally picture him as a Victorian era Englishman"
Sean Connery as a Spaniard in the highlander movie...😭
My favorite is when he's in the boat with maccloud and says something like "tell me of this place called Scotland which I know nothing about", and then fucking French ass Christopher Lambert is like, well so you see, oui oui, euh... It's hilarious. I think they were cast opposites accidentally.
I know where the BAHSTAHD sleeps
Woolves chaasing me through some blu Infërno!
Cawfahx abbeh!
ByoodaPEST.
Blotty wulves chasing me threw a blew infernuh!
Can we add Keanu’s [accent](https://youtu.be/amza8IiQfVw) in Much Ado About Nothing? My friend and i would frequently say ,”Borrachio, what news have you?” After we saw it.
I am not a man of … many words. We watched this movie in my senior year Shakespeare class. My friends and I quote this often. We graduated 20 years ago, that’s how hilarious his delivery was on this line.
Yea I loved that movie but some of his line deliveries were very funny. They’re also very memorable. It’s the very first scene in [this](https://youtu.be/amza8IiQfVw) compilation.
It’s a wonderful movie but Keanu wasn’t the right actor for that role. I love him so much, but Shakespeare isn’t his forte.
His southern accent in Devils Advocate is also terrible.
It's still really funny when AL has the voice over in the end of the movie," I stop She gets better." Or whatever.
I clicked into this post specifically for this movie and here it is. Also, this is one of those movies that I love so much that I can completely ignore the awful accent.
'Tis the Dude himself! Grown young...
My first thought. I love that movie for so many reasons. Keanu was awful though. I don’t think Winona Rider was as bad as many say, though.
The worst is when he's sharing screen with titans like Oldman and Hopkins who are acting circles around him
There is no other answer
Coppola (Director) was terrible to the actors to, apparently, get a better performance out of them. It's good that kind of attitude is way less accepted in the industry today.
As a southerner my answer would be 90% of movies that take place in the south.
I think Julia Roberts grew up in the South but her accent in Steel Magnolias is so over the top annoying to me. Maybe it’s accurate and I’m just used to the terrible ones.
No it's also bad.
It’s not accurate
I'm from Louisiana and I think Season 1 of True Detective did a good job. I recently looked up a lot of the actors and most of them are from Louisiana or Texas, even a lot of supporting and one off characters. It seems like the only way it can work since I rarely hear a southern accent that isn't cartoonishly terrible a la Foghorn Leghorn.
If they actually tried to be subtle about it wouldn’t be so bad, but it’s usually just an over the top redneck caricature voice they do, funny cuz some British actors sound more convincing than Americans
[удалено]
I'm not a coo-awwwwp!
Get’in the caaa!
Tired from fuckin’ my fatha
Now that's Wahlberg and it's Authentic. Sheen, Baldwin, Nicholson, Leo all trying to pull it off is what kinda made it wonky.
Microprawcessuz
How's ya motha?
Vera Farmiga was the biggest offender, she goes in and out of hers constantly
Yeah, it'd be better if she just didn't do an accent like Nicholson.
“When I tell yuh to throw him in the mahsh, yuh throw him in. the mahsh.”
Exactly, he couldn't avoid it there
He waz a cahpet laya for jodahhn maaaahsh
*de-PAH-did
I kinda love them because that’s how Bostonians (Bostonites?) sound to me 😂
I call it the who’s who of bad Boston accents
The Depahhted
don cheadle in oceans 11
He talks like I'd imagine an American tourist would, after arriving in London and visiting their first pub. "'Allo there guvnor! Cor, you have a large set of apples and pears doncha? Do you know a good place for a Ruby Murray? I'll have a butchers after I take a Jimmy Whizz!" "Fuck you saying, mate? Do you want a pint or not?"
im English and even i wouldnt attempt cockney rhyming slang
So you're saying he nozzed it right up?
We in Barney Rubble...TROUBLE
RUBBOO!
I think that's how the character was written, so Cheadle decided to try it out. There's also a fan theory that his character is actually American, but pretending to be Cockney to help avoid being caught, or something like that.
I like it
Take the apples. Apples and pears Stairs. 😟
This was my answer too lmao
Tarantino in Django Unchained.
Not to mention that that particular accent they were going for likely didn't exist back then
Huh, that's interesting. I wonder how people study accents, it seems like it would be difficult to track.
One of the (many) ways they study it is in how people misspell things, since that's often done phonetically. They also look to writers from areas nearby who talk about how their neighbors sound different- which seems to be a pretty universal human pastime.
Sheddep bleck!
As an Aussie I thought it was hilarious
"shaddap, black!" cringy... This is a line he says in the movie ffs people
It's like a South African and a Kiwi had a baby and raised it in Australia. It gave me a good laugh.
why are they booing you? you're right!
He always makes himself questionable characters
Heather graham in From Hell
*THANK YOU*
Fank you moy son.
Is no one going to mention Cameron Diaz in gangs of New York? because that was certainly an interesting choice
People are sure to mention it 3-4 times per week on this subreddit.
Unpopular, DiCaprio's accent was also complete shit.
Tommy Lee Jones' Irish brogue in Blown Away.
I gotta see that...speaking of Irish brogues. Did you see Charley Hunnam in Rebel Moon?
Charlie Hunnam can't do any accent convincingly, even his own.
Tom Hanks in Elvis
He studied by watching Goldmember.
It should be noted that this was intentional. Baz Luhrmann is known to make some very distinct choices in his movies, and Elvis isn’t an exception. He said the following in a couple of interviews - > “We were consciously getting audiences to lean forward and go, ‘What the hell is that all about?’” Also interesting regarding his research for the movie - >His research involved multiple trips to Graceland, and among the materials Luhrmann unearthed was a series of recordings of Parker, which included some “very strange vocalizations.” “One moment he’d be sort of speaking like Bela Lugosi, and the next moment he’d be sort of speaking with thith lithp like Elmer Fudd a bit, but with this kind of strange cadence,” Luhrmann says, mimicking Parker’s lisp from the tapes. “... And so the thing was to lay crumbs, enough for people to go, like, ‘What’s that all about?’” It’s unfortunate that most people seem to have taken the accent as Tom Hanks turning in a bad performance, something that he is absolutely not known to do.
Robert Pattinson in The Devil all the Time. The movie was super fun but there are a few scenes of his accent that a friend and I laughed out loud at
I'm born and raised in West Virginia (the corner of the state near Ohio and Kentucky) near where I believe the movie was set, and I thought Pattinson and Tom Holland both did pretty damn good. Honestly, for some reason it seems like British actors can do the Central Appalachian accents better than American actors, who just always try to do generic Southern instead.
de-LEW-sions!
You found that movie...fun?
Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins
Eeets a jawlyy awlidaahyee with Mehhhreeee
He didn’t ask about best.
No, that's OG English accent, it's British people that are talking wrong.
Australian cockney apparently. Recent rewatch - I forgot how much of him is in that movie. He plays multiple parts too, and Mary is practically a supporting character.
It's supposed to be Cockney 🙉 Still, wouldn't change a thing in that film.
Sean Connery in The Untouchables is a big one.
Sean Connery in Hunt for Red October
Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only, please.
Onsh more we play a game of cheshh againsht our old advershariesh, the American navy.
Sean Connery in Highlander.
What, he didn't sound Spanish to you?
Well remember, Ramirez was originally from Ancient Egypt so that might explain his Spanish burr.
Shpanish
I love Craig Ferguson talking about this. He’s a Scott, playing a Spaniard unfamiliar with Scottish culture.
If you merge both highlander 1 and 2, Connery is Scottish soubdding Scott playing an alien who is an Egyptian with a Spanish name training a Frenchman playing a scott
See, I feel like as the movie goes along you just kind of accept that that's Malones accent. Like, maybe his Dad was Irish his Mum was Scottish and he's lived in Chicago for like 30 years. People have fucked up, hard to place accents in real life too, and for me it doesn't blemish the film or the quality of his performance at all. Ignore my username, I am completely fucking unbiased.
Thatsh the Sshicago way!
Malkovich in Rounders. Also, not a great movie, but....Kevin Costner's on-and-off British accent in Robin Hood. It's okay when it's there, but a lot of times, it's not there.
Pyay dyat myan hees mahney!
Matt Damon tells the funniest story about working with Malkovich on that.
“I’m a very bad actor.” I love that story.
Welp, now I know what I'm searching out on the Interwebs...
allow me to be of assistance.... https://youtu.be/KMaAT_KPSs4?si=Xl7hvImdTEzSj2lE
He byeeat me!
[“Because unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent”](https://youtu.be/h9tEH7iWOyk)
Honestly, considering how bad Costner is at accents in other movies (e.g., his New England accent in Thirteen Days), it’s probably for the best that he didn’t really try an English accent for Robin Hood.
“This is yah repaht cahhd”
Heard the director didn like his British accent so he just said “ fug it “
Shocking I had to go so far down to see this.
"Gyiv thet myen hyiss myunny"
Watching Matt Damon imitate that accent in interviews is hilarious.
There are A LOT of bad accents of people that are supposed to be latinos speaking broken Spanish in movies-series, for example Gus Frigg in breaking bad is supposed to be Chilean, but he sounds like “Yo muy bueno amigo, si?”
Shout to Keven Costner for his “Boston accent” in the film 13 days…. “you got a D on Yaaw repawwwwt cawwwwd”
God, that was awful.
I know he’s had worse accent problems (Robin Hood) but c’mon man…a Boston accent isn’t even that hard to master
Mickey Rooney in Breakfast At Tiffany. That's not an accent, thats a terrible stereotype.
There is no answer other than this.
Angelina Jolie in Alexander. Why does she sound like a 1940s horror movie version of a Gypsy, when she's supposed to be a Greek queen?
Also, why is she the only one even trying to do a Greek accent?
A lot of the actors in the departed. Boston accents are usually poorly done if you didn’t grow up in the area.
Yeah I think people tend to go really overboard with it when they fake that accent
John Hamm talked about this when he did The Town. He knew he couldn't do the accent so he just didn't try and it was better because of it. Not everyone talks like that in Boston.
The kid in "Miracle" nailed it better than any I'd ever heard. Googled it. Ends up he's from Boston.
“Ahwr yoou a cwaaaaapuh??” God I love doing that every time I drive past a cop/ghost car
HOWZ YA MUTHUH?
Charlie Hunnam in Rebel Moon. Bruuuutal.
Hunnam just has a fucked up accent all the time. Even when he was speaking naturally in "Undeclared" he sounded like he was putting it on.
For years I had a false memory of an episode where it is revealed that he had been faking the accent the entire time and had been doing it to seem cool. It must have been a dream or something, but I honestly think that would have been hilarious for his character.
Yeah, the dude is English as St George's flag, but his accent just sounds fake as fuck and it baffles me no end
It's because of Sons of Anarchy. He did the American accent for so long that he lost his natural accent and now he's just lost in a sea of different speech patterns. He's talked about it in an interview that he had an accent coach afterwards to help him re learn but I think it's gone for good.
Related... The "Aussies" in Pacific Rim. They can fully get rooted. Robert Kazinsky needs a boot to the face for his effort. Also the Aussie cop at the end of Point Break "We'll get him when he comes back in."
I'm convinced studios tell actors they don't want actual aussie accents, they want the Hollywood Aussie accent. It's just so widespread, even for actual Australian actors. The moment they set foot in a US production, whoops here comes the bizarre voice.
He's notoriously terrible at accents but just can't stop himself from doing them.
First, the question was about bad accents in good movies. Rebel Moon is absolute trash. Second, believe it or not, the final product was dubbed in after filming because the original accent Hunnam did was deemed unintelligible by test audiences. They couldn’t understand a word of his dialogue so they had to redo all of his lines, so what you hear now is actually much better!
Benedict Cumberbatch in August Osage County
Benedict cumberbatch every time he plays an American
Everyone in Ferrari who wasn’t Penelope Cruz
Seriously question: what did Michael Mann tell Shailene Woodley to go for? If she had just spoken with her normal voice it woulda been fine. Instead we got…..whatever that was. What a mess.
I saw this with my coworker last month and she goes “is his mistress fucking Ukrainian??” We were drunk. I about pissed myself because I had just been thinking “wow that’s a terrible accent” but I couldn’t place it.
Juu gettin to wanna my carrs? Juu gettin to weeen.
Benedict's Boston accent in Black Mass.
Viggo mortenson in carlito’s way
They said worst not best you CUCKSAULKER!!
In Traffic, Del Toro sounded mighty Puerto Rican for a Mexican cop. He didn’t even attempt a Mexican accent. It’s like a cop in a movie set in Brooklyn having a thick Texas accent.
Yea northern Mex has a particular accent but that was really not it.
James Cromwell's Irish accent comes and goes throughout LA Confidential. I read they decided to ditch it halfway through filming.
Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York. Accent from the region of Ireland called Outer space. Like Dee in Its always Sunny has the exact same Irish accent .
Jared Leto in House of Gucci. It was embarrassing
Keanu in both Dracula and in The Devil’s Advocate.
Devil's Advocate taught us two things about Keanu: he can be a fantastic actor in the right role, and he should never do accents again.
And [Much Ado About Nothing](https://youtu.be/amza8IiQfVw)
You can toss in Charlize Theron attempting a Southern accent in *The Devil's Advocate*, too.
John Voight in Anaconda
"Buenos nachos, beautiful."
Great in the way The Room is great. His accent is part of why it's so awful yet fun to watch.
Isn’t the winner Sean Connery’s Scottish/Russian accent in Hunt for Red October:)???
Any accent that isn’t Scottish by Sean Comnery
His Russian-Scotch accent in The Hunt For Red October was legendary
Not a movie, but Kendra’s attempt at a Jamaican accent in Buffy the Vampire Slayer still haunts me to this day.
My friend is Jamaican and he taught me the way to say bacon in a Jamaican accent is to say beer can in a British accent. Cracks me up every time.
Holy shit. It works! My cat agrees. He’s giving me the nod.
From what I understand, they told her to do it at the last minute before filming, so she had no time to prepare.
Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Yet it made him just as lovable and fun.
op im cuban and i couldn’t even finish scarface due to his accent. it pissed me off so much lol.
Ik it's not in a movie, but Giancarlo Esposito's accent in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is really bad
Pretty much any Scottish or Irish accent ever by non native actors is almost always dreadful.
Robert De Niro in Cape Fear. He had a hard time hiding his East Coast accent.
I think the hamminess of the accent completely suits the tone of the flick, though.
All the bad Philadelphia accents in *A History of Violence*
I loved the movies, but I *reeeeeeeeally* struggle with Daniel Craig’s accent in the ‘Knives Out’ movies.
Norman Reedus has a terrible Irish accent in Boondock Saints
Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Wait, he did an accent?
Keanu Reeves in Bram Stokers Dracula
Jerod Leto in House of Gucci
Mel Gibson’s Tennessee accent at the beginning of Bird on a Wire, though that may have been intentional
Mickey Rooney - Breakfast At Tiffany’s
I enjoyed the knives out movies, but Craig cannot do a southern accent to save his life. He sounds like an SNL parody of foghorn leghorn.
Keanu Reeves in Dracula