Dodgy Irish Accents - Mega Thread

me-skywalker · 02-02-2010 8:30pm #1

Think this should be sticked. there will be all the usuals thrown in but alsosome random ones from maybe cameo's or 1 scene in a movie.

Ill start with a random one, Back to the Future 3, Micahel J. Fox and Lea Thompson in 1885 irish accents are lolable.

Voodu Child · 02-02-2010 8:51pm

Another random one, definitely not even close to worst ever, but Ron Perlman in The Mutant Chronicles had a pretty weird accent

grezz · 02-02-2010 8:59pm

tom cruise in far and away, just horrible

senordingdong · 02-02-2010 9:44pm

Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal.

BluesBerry · 02-02-2010 9:49pm

Mickey Rourke in "A Prayer Before Dying" was quite bad

fuelinjection · 02-02-2010 10:02pm

Yeah Tom Cruise and Mickey Rourke would be top of my cringe list. "It's all bluud farrrrer"

Check out Sean Bean's IRA accent in "Patriot Games" with Harrison Ford. Terrible.

By the way did anyone think Johnny Depp's Irish accent was perfect in Chocolate ? (And I'm not gay)
Also Brad Pitt's travellers accent in "Snatch", I read he lived with them to pick up the accent. Irish people can make it out no bother, but british and americans had to get sub-titles. Hilarious.

deadhead13 · 02-02-2010 10:17pm

Sean Connery and just about everyone else in "Darby O'Gill and the Little People."

budgemook · 02-02-2010 10:21pm

beaten to far and away, by far the worst. Some of the accents in boondock saints are very poor.

Has anyone seen that "irish" movie with Eddie Griffin?

Little Acorn · 03-02-2010 1:21am

Kim Cattrall-The Tiger's Tale

seraphimvc · 03-02-2010 1:51am

that p.s.I love you...i lol everytime when i think of it.

Gillington · 03-02-2010 2:06am

budgemook wrote: »

beaten to far and away, by far the worst. Some of the accents in boondock saints are very poor.

Has anyone seen that "irish" movie with Eddie Griffin?

Haha,Irish Jam!!?

Worst film ever.

liah · 03-02-2010 4:15am

fuelinjection wrote: »

By the way did anyone think Johnny Depp's Irish accent was perfect in Chocolate ? (And I'm not gay)
Also Brad Pitt's travellers accent in "Snatch", I read he lived with them to pick up the accent. Irish people can make it out no bother, but british and americans had to get sub-titles. Hilarious.

Depp was Irish in that? Jesus, I haven't seen that in years.. must re-watch.

Anyway, the subtitles bit re: Snatch is bull, the first hundred times I watched that movie, I did so in Canada, and there were no subtitles involved.. so I'd imagine the same would be the case in the States and Britain.

It was a bit hard to understand but you basically got the idea after awhile.

me-skywalker · 03-02-2010 4:48am

cant believe nobody said Ricahrd Gere in The Jackal!!

aww and I love darby O'Gill leave it alone!!

'she's my dear my dahling one, no other no other...' haha classic movie!

seanybiker · 03-02-2010 4:53am

me-skywalker wrote: »

cant believe nobody said Ricahrd Gere in The Jackal!!

was just about to mention that. Tis a disgrace really.

me-skywalker · 03-02-2010 5:06am

Worst attempt at an Irish accent ever has to go to... Colin Farrell in 'In Bruges'

Otis Driftwood · 03-02-2010 8:47am

You want one of the most pointless list threads ever created to be stickied?

Jesus wept.

podgemonster · 03-02-2010 8:47am

Julia Roberts in Michael Collins, awful awful!!

+1 on Johnny Depp in Chocolat, he got it spot on!

damoz · 03-02-2010 8:58am

Dodgy Irish Accents......?

Wexford.

D1976 · 03-02-2010 9:06am

Any of the Irish actors in Flight of the Doves, good god how creepy was Ron Moody in that

conorhal · 03-02-2010 9:17am

The entire cast of 'Ardenray Daycent Crimnel' in my book, for some bizarre reason half the cast decided that a Dublin accent was either too hard, or unrecognizable to an American audience and decided these hardened inner city Dublin criminals should speak with a Norn Iron accent.