Worse irish accents.

BlitzKrieg

lets hear it.

Worse irish accents in a film?


Just saw fistful of dynamite and i must admit it was a pretty atrocious accent. Up there with the devil's own i think.

road_high

Julia Roberts accent in M Collins has to be up there with the worst definitely!!

Saw Jessica Lancaster(aka Murder She Wrote) in some small budget Irish film made in Wexford and her Irish accent attempt was also cringe worthy!

Hugh Hefner

mfitzy wrote:

Saw Jessica Lancaster(aka Murder She Wrote) in some small budget Irish film made in Wexford and her Irish accent attempt was also cringe worthy!

*Angela Lansbury.

mike65

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman plus many others in Far and Away. I belive Mickey "O" Roarke had a very dodgy one in some forgotten epic.

Oh I just remembered that appalling Anna Freil accent in that TV movie last year.

Mike.

Dudess

mfitzy wrote:

Julia Roberts accent in M Collins has to be up there with the worst definitely!

Oh good God, yes. It's abysmal and excruciatingly embarrassing. Can't stand Julia Roberts and that sealed the deal for me.
The OP mentioned Fistful of Dynamite. Here's another Leone one: Frank Wolff as Brett McBain in Once Upon a Time in the West.
The usually God-like Christopher Walken in Last Man Standing.
Sean Connery in The Untouchables.
More recently The Proposition featured some bloody awful attempts.

Hagar

Anyone and everyone in "The Quiet Man" but I still watch it every chance I get.

SoupyNorman

Kevin Spacey in 'Ordinary Decent Criminal'

ChityWest

Linda Fiorentino in Ordinary Decent Criminal - absolutely chronic !

fizzynicenice

The terrorists in sin city
"sharr thars nahthin like blowin the roooff off a puub"

jabberwock

richard gere in the jackal(1997)

speaking about murder she wrote there was a episode on bbc1 last week set in ireland.
so that would give about ~20 bad accents in one show.
it was comical all they had done was get a couple of outside shot, "maybe in ireland", of a 'Garda Station' in the sticks and thats was it.
nice outside shot of a cottage and cut to inside and it could of been from an old nypd blue!

Dudess

jabberwock wrote:

richard gere in the jackal(1997)

Oh my God, yes - CRINGE!!!

DirtyDog

Tommy Lee Jones - Blown away - absolutely awful!!

or my second favorite worst accent....

Brad Pitt - Devil's own (but he did redeem himself in snatch as a pikey )

Hugh Hefner

Not in a film but what about Police Chief O'Hara in the old 60s campy Batman series?

Zomp!

plastic membrane

Most Irish accents by them foreigners are atrocious but i thought Jon Voight made a good attempt at one in The General.

By the way i think that guy in Sin City was actually Irish...

Dudess

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Not in a film but what about Police Chief O'Hara in the old 60s campy Batman series?

Zomp!

Yeah, but that's kind of like saying Groundskeeper Willie's Scottish accent is crap. When it's a comedy, the awfulness of the accent makes it even funnier. But when it's serious like Michael Collins, and that idiot Julia Roberts makes a dumb-ass of herself, it's pretty sub-standard.

quon

The McManus Brothers of Boondock Saints.

Billy Connolly's accent was well off in that too.

garred

Don't know if it was supposed to be an Irish accent but Billy Connolly in Last Samurai. P1ss poor.

TheDoc

What about irish accents appearing when there shouldnt.

Alexander anyone, for some reason they all sounded to have bad irish accents, including Val Kilmer, its ancient greece for god sake!

plastic membrane

[DM]-TheDOC- wrote:

What about irish accents appearing when there shouldnt.

Alexander anyone, for some reason they all sounded to have bad irish accents, including Val Kilmer, its ancient greece for god sake!

I thought Mick Lally's appearance was the highpoint of the blarney offered in that horrorshow.

lodgepole

I discovered when I was in Newfoundland last year that most North American actors doing bad Irish accents are actually doing fairly good Newfie accents. It took me about a week to be able to go into a pub without laughing at how everybody there sounded.

[DM]-TheDOC- wrote:

What about irish accents appearing when there shouldnt.

Alexander anyone, for some reason they all sounded to have bad irish accents, including Val Kilmer, its ancient greece for god sake!

That was because Colin Farrell was the lead and Stone didn't want him to do anything with his accent. We've been trained to accept English accents in epic and biblical films, there's no reason why an Irish accent couldn't take its place. I thought Kilmer did a good job of speaking in a similar manner to Farrell (if not in an Irish accent). Jolie's mad accent on the other hand...

senordingdong

Brad Pitt in Snatch.

kevmy

Anyone in "Darby O Gill and The Little People " diabolical film Sean Connery most horrific hour and a half.
It always amazes me that these actors attempt to do an Irish accent as if one accent sums up the hole island. They should attempt a regional accent eg. Cork or Northern. I mean their isn't one accent for America or England but they always belive/pretend there's one for Ireland. Very annoying.

BopNiblets

Brad Pitts pikey was ok!

Really bad ones are any Star Trek holodeck episode, Voyager or Next Generation.

Nea

When I was in the states a couple of years ago my little cousins were watching this load o shyte on the disney channel.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274636/

It was the typical yank take on the Irish, "Begorrah, bejaysus, top o the morning to ya complimented with lucky charms and leprechans. It was brutal and all the accents were muck.

Only the fact my aunt had purchased a new TV that occupied half the room would I have put my foot through it!!!

Earthhorse

I can't determine whether Marline Brando's accent in Missouri Breaks is really, really bad or really, really good.

I think it's really, really bad.

Keedowah

I thought Brad Pitt in Snatch was excellent - the accent was amazing!?

Do I need to get my ears checked?

DaBreno

mike65 wrote:

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman plus many others in Far and Away.

There was one review of this which called for the film to be released with subtitles. For those who cant believe what they are hearing.

monkeyfudge

BopNiblets wrote:

Brad Pitts pikey was ok!

Really bad ones are any Star Trek holodeck episode, Voyager or Next Generation.

That Star Trek episode was horrible... it was on there last week.

When all the Irish are beamed aboard Picard walks into the room, completely ignores the Irish guy who speaks to him, turns to Chief O'Brien and says 'What are these animals doing here!'

One Irish accent I thought was very good was the girl in The Actors... 'That's a right lump of a sausage'

Ruu_Old

Aye Julia Roberts was awful alright, should have been shot for that performance..or at least badly beaten

Ri_Nollaig

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Not in a film but what about Police Chief O'Hara in the old 60s campy Batman series?

Zomp!

the series actually came had a full length movie, which by the way is a work of comedy genius!

Diamondmaker

Colin Farrel in all his movies...C'mon who has that accent!so exaggeraqted for our yankee cousins.

Far worse than Julia Roberts in Michael Collins is Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly.

But not far behond is Emily Lloyd in 'When Saturday Comes'.

'Da's just shoih Jimmy'...

Gizmodeon

worst irish accent in a film was actually by Peirce Brosnan!
He actually put ON an Irish accent in "Evlyn" a right peice of ****e from 2002

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000112/

Gilbag

BlitzKrieg wrote:

lets hear it.

Worse irish accents in a film?


Just saw fistful of dynamite and i must admit it was a pretty atrocious accent. Up there with the devil's own i think.

You got it right the first time thats the worst i've ever heard, also not a great movie (but by a great director)