Worst Irish Accent in a fillum

GirlInterrupted

Mickey Rourke played an ex IRA guy on the run in the U.S. after 'accidentally' blowing up a bus full of kids, but I can't remember the name of the fillum, its about 20 yrs old or more - anyone know the name? The accent was more than 3,000 miles off centre....

And completely agree with the Tom (lovin' the alien) Cruise in 'Far and Away'

Joe Cool

The Mickey Rourke one about the bus full of kids was 'Prayer for the Dying'
Don't remember the accents but Bob Hoskins was in it.

Also 'Boondock Saints' was an awesome movie, the accents were class.


:cool:

dlofnep

PS: I love you

Was absolutely atrocious. Like, that's exactly how to feck up an Irish accent.

Best Irish accent was "In America". The main lad in it was spot on.

GirlInterrupted

Joe Cool wrote: »

The Mickey Rourke one about the bus full of kids was 'Prayer for the Dying'
Don't remember the accents but Bob Hoskins was in it.

Also 'Boondock Saints' was an awesome movie, the accents were class.


:cool:

Thanks for that - but Bob Hoskins didn't play the priest did he? Was that not Alan Bates?.....(typing first, thinking later)..

Miss Fluff

Ray Winstone in the fillum Agnes Brown

Wertz

Joe Cool wrote: »

Also 'Boondock Saints' was an awesome movie, the accents were class.


:cool:

QFE

The accents in Boondocks were bostonian, not Oirish and they were pretty bang on IMO.

Everyone's mentioned anything I was gonna suggest so far, so I'm just going to give an honourable mention for Gillian Anderson doing the single mother from Belfast in some movie about a greyhound...she really got the shafty accent down, even managed to make a decent rollie...of course since she's English it's easier than if she were a yank but still, shafty accent is hard to do, so fair f*cks...

"Where's me ipods?"
:pac:

javaboy

Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption :cool:

GirlInterrupted

Miss Fluff wrote: »

Ray Winstone in the fillum Agnes Brown

''I've come to kill your MonSta......'' Beowolf

Love Mr. Winstone anyway tho, Sexy Beast that he is..


ok, not really.:)

Miss Fluff

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

''I've come to kill your MonSta......'' Beowolf

Love Mr. Winstone anyway tho, Sexy Beast that he is..


ok, not really.:)

I know, him and Ben Kingsley are legends in Sexy Beast, one of my favourite films

The guy

kowloon wrote: »

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

In Bruges though.

is_that_so

There was a TV show last summer called Burn Notice in which Gabrielle Anwar, as an ex IRA member, produced an absolutely atrocious Irish accent for a couple of episodes which was quickly morphed into a tolerable American accent.

Holsten

fermoyboy wrote: »

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

Yeah totally agree.

Total joke of trying to be Ireland, few of the lads had muddled English/Irish/Norn Iron accents.

Stupid.

bantee

Yep Gerard Butler in that PS sh1te had to be one of the worst. He should stick to being King of the Spartans me thinks

Acacia

That Captain Planet thing was hilariously bad. Johnny Depp also did an 'Oirish' accent in 'Chocolat' that was just plain odd. The worst I've ever seen was on a Discovery Channel programe called 'A Haunting', where the 'true-life' experience of a family in a haunted house is dramatized. Anyhoo, there was one episode set in Ireland supposedly (but house looked like it belonged it a Californian suburb). The accents were appalling, the dad was aiming for a Donegal accent, and the daughter was had more of a Cork one . At one point she was screaming, 'da, da, the kurtans (curtains) moved be demselves!'. I think it's on youtube.

eamon234

Holsten wrote: »

Yeah totally agree.

Total joke of trying to be Ireland, few of the lads had muddled English/Irish/Norn Iron accents.

Stupid.

That was so bad - the guy that used to be on Star Trek Enterprise that Peter copped was trying to double cross them was the worst of them though

Where's me oipods!!

connundrum

Hrududu wrote: »

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

Was gonna point this one out. What a crock tbh.

You'd think that being semi Irish he'd want to do a decent job of it.

kowloon

There was a fillum made by the hallmark channel called "The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns". Hilarious, but any Irish person who collaborated should be taken around the back and shot. :pac:

DanGerMus

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.

Bet everyone in the cinema thanked you for that.

kowloon

DanGerMus wrote: »

Bet everyone in the cinema thanked you for that.

I crave that power.

longshanks

there was an episode of murder she wrote set in cork i think, worst oirish accents ever.
and a film with vinny jones and micheal madsen that was shot in cork, again, dire oirish accents.
and cork, terrible irish accent.

JerryHandbag

Chris O' Donnell in Circle Of Friends. breeeeeewtal!

BOHSBOHS

worst is TOMMYLEE JONES in BLOWN AWAY by far:eek: shocking!

then gerard butler ps i love you

Pride Fighter

Acacia wrote: »

That Captain Planet thing was hilariously bad. Johnny Depp also did an 'Oirish' accent in 'Chocolat' that was just plain odd. The worst I've ever seen was on a Discovery Channel programe called 'A Haunting', where the 'true-life' experience of a family in a haunted house is dramatized. Anyhoo, there was one episode set in Ireland supposedly (but house looked like it belonged it a Californian suburb). The accents were appalling, the dad was aiming for a Donegal accent, and the daughter was had more of a Cork one . At one point she was screaming, 'da, da, the kurtans (curtains) moved be demselves!'. I think it's on youtube.

That episode of Captain Planet is a masterpiece, I wont have a bad word said about it:D

vobyrne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4_f-Ht5-vY

Agamemnon

eamon234 wrote: »

That was so bad - the guy that used to be on Star Trek Enterprise that Peter copped was trying to double cross them was the worst of them though

Where's me oipods!!

Slaaaaannnchaaaaaa

ByrdsFan

Tom Cruise in Far & Away, most definately the worst attempt ive ever heard. But granted, as a general rule, I cant recall ever hearing any kind of decent put on Irish accent in any movie.

R0ot

Yeah that accent he attempts in The Jackal is horrible, but then again put his accent on a few of the Dublin accents i've heard and ill take his fake accent attempt any day.

Nickibaby*

The main actor guy in PS I Love You.... trying to do an Irish accent.

Larianne

Nickibaby* wrote: »

The main actor guy in PS I Love You.... trying to do an Irish accent.

I was working in Australia when this film came out and two girls in work said I sounded like him?!?! :eek: I friggin hope not, I am actually Irish and a girl.

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Far and Away is the worst I've seen.

That girl in Heroes who was going out with "Payter". Her name was something like Coleen or Caitlin or something. Coz we're all called that over here.:rolleyes:

Solarball10

Nickibaby* wrote: »

The main actor guy in PS I Love You.... trying to do an Irish accent.

Definitely...but looking like he does, he can talk however he wants....*drools* :eek:

and I know it's not an IRISH accent, but has anyone seen The Edge of Love? Was that meant to be a Welsh accent Kiera Knightly was trying to pull off? Friggin shameful!

chopperbyrne

Anyone say Boondock Saints yet?

Great film, terrible accents.

Degsy

Now,take State of Grace..that film was about the irish mafia(the westies)and nobody even attempted to put on an irish accent and it was the betther for it.

D-A-V-E

i remember a film years ago based in a plane, it had to crash land in shannon..the accent coming out of the control tower of 'shanwic international airport!' made me laugh histarically! anyone else remember this one?

melekalikimaka

that parcor movie - district 13... the dubbed version, the lead guy has the worse dublin knack accent ever

Degsy

melekalikimaka wrote: »

that parcor movie - district 13... the dubbed version, the lead guy has the worse dublin knack accent ever

Prosperity..the biggest pile of crap ever shown on telly.You'd think being shot in dublin the directors might be able to find somebody who has a Dublin accent.Not so.
Reminds me of ten years or so ago a friend of mine from baldoyle had a walk-on part in fair city as a motorbike courier.His lines were "Parcel here for you".He said it in his baldoyle(Dublin) accent and was told by the director or whoever that it wasnt Dublin enough.The end result was a "??Parhhsel heeh for yoou??" ending as it allways does on an interogitive inflection when idiots who have no idea what a Dublin accent sounds like start giving orders.

thelordofcheese

smccarrick wrote: »

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

Sherifu wrote: »

Heroes did a fair hatchet job last season.

Aspiration wrote: »

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

Alun wrote: »

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

fermoyboy wrote: »

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

You are all wrong. Those accents were pure gold. Comedy gold.
I wanted the entire season to be set in cork, that would have been amazing beyond all measure.

superfly

eh never mind

javaboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhwJ6F9tY18

FYP

Just take the GhwJ6F9tY18 bit and stick it between [YOUTUBE]GhwJ6F9tY18[/YOUTUBE] tags.

superfly

Sgt Hartman

Worst I've ever heard was in an 80's American tv cop series called "Hunter". In one episode it had Irish criminals with some appalling accents. At one stage, one of them shouted at Hunter "YOOL NEVIRR TAY-KE MEE ALEEV, COPPIRR!!!"

chopperbyrne

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Anyone say Boondock Saints yet?

Great film, terrible accents.

They're not supposed to be Irish accents. They're Boston Irish and aren't that far from how many people in Boston speak.

avillan

mr gob****e scientology in not far enough away !

Alcoholocaust

Yer one in Michael Collins.... Julia Roberts? Terrible...

MagicMarker

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Anyone say Boondock Saints yet?

Great film, terrible accents.

That's a great film!! Wilem Defoe at his best:)

My vote goes to whoever was responsible for the voice of the Irish kid in the Simpsons movie. My god that was bad!!

Acacia

Pride Fighter wrote: »

That episode of Captain Planet is a masterpiece, I wont have a bad word said about it:D

LOL :D

JP Liz

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.

Thank God she lost the accent

Tom Cruise - Far and Away
Richard Gere - The Jackal
Julia Roberts - Michael Collins
Tommy Lee Jones - Blown Away
Cameron Diaz - Gangs of New York
Justin Theroux - Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
Chris O’Donnell - Circle of Friends
Leonardo Di Caprio - Gangs of New York
Kevin Spacey - Ordinary Decent Criminal

stooge

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Anyone say Boondock Saints yet?

Great film, terrible accents.

Yet? It's been one of my favourite films since I first watched it back in 2001.

The accents are great, because theyre not meant to be completely irish, more of a boston irish.

The film itself has some great quotes and scenes.

Quazzie

Colin Farrells brutal accent in "In Brugges" is laughable. In fact its probably the most laughable thing in the film.

The_Conductor

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

Colin Farrells brutal accent in "In Brugges" is laughable. In fact its probably the most laughable thing in the film.

I thought he always spoke like that
Remember "The Callbox".......

MJOR

PS I love you no contest... maybe the guy that played Darby in dary o gill and the little people.