Worst Irish Accent in a fillum

tolosenc

Just watching the Jackal now. If people in the raa spoke like Richard Gere is right now, I dread to think how different Irish history may be today...

Xavi6

The worst is easily the shitehawk in that 'P.S. I Love You' bollox.

DublinWriter

obl wrote: »

Just watching the Jackal now. If people in the raa spoke like Richard Gere is right now, I dread to think how different Irish history may be today...

I saw this thread and that was the first filum that came to mind.

What's-her-face in Micheal Collins comes a close second.

kowloon

Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal was pretty mixed up.

KTRIC

I can't believe no one mentioned Tom "didly-dildy oi" O'Cruise in Far and Away. I had to turn it off half way through because it was really embarrassing.

alkev

Mick Jagger in Ned Kelly

The_Conductor

Natasha McElhowen (or however you spell her name).
That "Oirish" accent when she played the IRA gangster in Paris in "Ronin"......
It was cringeworthy........

On a similar note- in "Heroes" the episodes that were supposedly in Cork- and the accents once again........ arrrrgghhhhhhhhhh

Xavi6

Oh actually, has anyone watched 'Burn Notice'? Great show but the accent your one Fiona had in the first few episodes was horrendous. Luckily they've now pretty much dropped it.

c - 13

The crowd in sin city were pretty bad. Not the worst i've ever heard mind you ...

Karl Hungus

smccarrick wrote: »

Natasha McElhowen (or however you spell her name).
That "Oirish" accent when she played the IRA gangster in Paris in "Ronin"......
It was cringeworthy........

Hmm, I thought both herself and Jonathan Price did fairly well accent wise. Definitely not great, but nowhere near as bad as Tom Cruise or Gerard Butler.

Pherekydes

Colin Farrell in Alexander.

kowloon

Irish accents should be done by Irish people in Irish films.
Alexander was just wrong.

Pherekydes

kowloon wrote: »

Alexander was just wrong.

On every level.

togster

Xavi6 wrote: »

Oh actually, has anyone watched 'Burn Notice'? Great show but the accent your one Fiona had in the first few episodes was horrendous. Luckily they've now pretty much dropped it.

I was just going to post that. Good show though

Karoma

Tom Cruise in Far and Away.
Godawful accent in a godawful movie from a godawful gob****e.



(Google: Did you mean: far and away tom cruise accident?)

Sherifu

Heroes did a fair hatchet job last season.

humanji

c - 13 wrote: »

The crowd in sin city were pretty bad. Not the worst i've ever heard mind you ...

Weren't they actually Irish actors as well?

GAAman

"The devils own" Bradley pitts "belfast" accent made it real hard to get into the film at all

c - 13

humanji wrote: »

Weren't they actually Irish actors as well?

Were they ? I never knew that. Maybe they were just overdoing it, plus the dialogue itself wouldn't have helped lend to the overall impression.

Hrududu

Irish accents should be done by Irish people in Irish films.

Have you heard Pierce Brosnan's accent in Evelyn? Holy sh!te "Wheres me dhaughther?"

Aspiration

Sherifu wrote: »

Heroes did a fair hatchet job last season.

Ditto. Caitlin and Rocky in the Wandering Rock Pub in Cork... lol :rolleyes:

Steve_o

Yea Tom Cruise's accent in 'Far Away Home' is god awful, also Julia Roberts' accent in 'Michael Collins' was pretty sh*te...

Steve_o

Hrududu wrote: »

Have you heard Pierce Brosnan's accent in Evelyn? Holy sh!te "Wheres me dhaughther?"

Pierce Brosnan is a paradox, an Irish actor who has the worst Irish accent ever!!!

more tea vicar

What about stereotyped phrases they use in films, like ... "top of the morning tee yee" and talking about stuff like leprechauns, banshees, shillelaghs and the like.

My personal favourite is Tommy Lee Jones as Ryan Gerragggttthhyy in Blown away..hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWU_SteRfOI

It's in there about 2 mins in,for anyone not familiar

Alun

The ones in the current series of Heroes are pretty dire.

JethroC

How's about the girlfriend of Chevy Chase's caddy in Caddyshack...f**king dire! :eek:

superfly

Alun wrote: »

The ones in the current series of Heroes are pretty dire.

i think 'Caitlin' was in an episode of CSI:NY the other night and she was doing the same **** accent

biko

Sean Connery in Untouchables. He doesn't even try.

Aspiration

superfly wrote: »

i think 'Caitlin' was in an episode of CSI:NY the other night and she was doing the same **** accent

Caitlin was dire but the "gardai" were worse!

barryfitz

Sean Connery in Darby O'Gill and the little people. That was a real didly eye film anyway but his accent was terrible

ejmaztec

biko wrote: »

Sean Connery in Untouchables. He doesn't even try.

He did a remarkable Spanish accent in Highlander, as in Scottish Spanish

Wurly

I'm going to second Colin Farrell in Alexander. :D The whole thing was so embarassing to watch. The water got muddied imo as to what accent he was trying to achieve. I don't think he even had a baldy.

Yes, those cretins in PS I Love You. For f*ck sake. 'Waylans'.

Shudder.

Morlar

Linda fiorentino in 'ordinary decent criminal' -she was great in the last seduction and ok in dogma but ordinary decent criminal accent wise was total rubbish.

Pompey Magnus

Tri wrote: »

I'm going to second Colin Farrell in Alexander. :D The whole thing was so embarassing to watch. The water got muddied imo as to what accent he was trying to achieve.

The accents in that were awful, stereotypical Irish accents for Macedonian characters???

Ahriiite there, Patroclus?

Didn't Miley from Glenroe even make an appearance at the start?

CtrlSource

ejmaztec wrote: »

Originally Posted by biko
Sean Connery in Untouchables. He doesn't even try.

He did a remarkable Spanish accent in Highlander, as in Scottish Spanish

i was just going to say! Connery never bothers with accents too much.

But it's gotta be Cruise in Far & Away FTW! "Ahhh Shannon!"

Wurly

Depeche_Mode wrote: »

Ahriiite there, Patroclus?

Ha ha, LMAO. Exactly. Pack of feckin eejits.:rolleyes:

Love2love

The irish mafia in Charlie's angels 2. I actually went red in the face when I saw that.

jcoote

Love2love wrote: »

The irish mafia in Charlie's angels 2. I actually went red in the face when I saw that.

LMAO that was just awful

the one's in shallow hal were dreadful too :pac:

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

KTRIC wrote: »

I can't believe no one mentioned Tom "didly-dildy oi" O'Cruise in Far and Away. I had to turn it off half way through because it was really embarrassing.

came in here to say this

WhiteWashMan

well, i dont know about fake irish accents, most of them i can live with, even if it does continue to feed the god awful world view of the stereotypical irish accent.

however...

i can never forgive colin farrell for his 'ride macedonians, ride' in Alexander.

I mean seriously, i thought he was going to break out into the macedonian version of 'roide sally roide'.

i cried the day i saw that.

the_syco

Pherekydes wrote: »

Colin Farrell in Alexander.

You talking about how all the foreigners had dub accents?

The Don

Sherifu wrote: »

Heroes did a fair hatchet job last season.

+1. As soon as I saw Cork come up on screen I knew it was going to be bad, but not that bad.

Some episode of captain planet was really bad also when they went to the north to stop a nuke.:rolleyes:

Ruu_Old

Aside from that ass clown, Tom Cruise, I would go with 'Seamus McFly' in BTTF III. Made me chuckle though.

Seamus: Maggie! Fetch some water, we got a hurt man here!

witnessmenow

The Don wrote: »

Some episode of captain planet was really bad also when they went to the north to stop a nuke.:rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJrovKgrTw

KnifeWRENCH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m86CGG_EmWM

Blazer

square_igloo wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m86CGG_EmWM

apart from that fact that it's the usual irish drivel from hollywood there's nothing wrong with the accent..or maybe I'm missing something here...

KnifeWRENCH

Mathew Reilly wrote: »

apart from that fact that it's the usual irish drivel from hollywood there's nothing wrong with the accent..or maybe I'm missing something here...

There are worse accents in it, but that's the only youtube clip I could find! It's just so Oirish that all the accents sound ridiculous.
The girl singing was ok though

fermoyboy

Heroes did a complete hatchet job on the whole Irishness thing.

Worst accents I'd ever heard....

Peter wanting his pounds back from the bookies...

English reg taxi etc

Sinfonia

JethroC wrote: »

How's about the girlfriend of Chevy Chase's caddy in Caddyshack...f**king dire! :eek:

Ha I thought that was hilarious! - just added to the brilliance of the film



About 3 or 4 characters in The Boondock Saints were pretty terrible. Didn't think much of the film either, tbh - Karl Hungus, you haven't failed me on any recommendations bar that one

CtrlSource

square_igloo wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m86CGG_EmWM

The building Jessica is driven up to is the hotel that my brother and his wife had their wedding reception in. It's in Rathnew, Co Wicklow