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Worst Irish accents ever - a tribute to Hal Roach

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  • #2
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Link doesn't work for me. Is this about crap Irish accents. If it is then Daniel day Lewis in the name of the father was very dodgy but for the mother of bad accents check out Mickey Rourke in prayer for the dying.

    Poor Mickey actually thought that it was only Catholics/nationalists and the British army that lived in Northern Ireland. Everyone sniggered at that. The director or whoever had to tell him to catch himself on.

    Lastly I nominate Liam neeson. He is trying to be mid Atlantic and it just sounds odd.


  • #3
    Samaris
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    David Boreanez as Angel in the spin-off to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There were occasional flashback episodes when he was "Liam", a brat in 1750's Galway. And my god, his accent is atrocious.


  • #4
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Sons of anarchy. ( the modern day A Team absolute crap btw)

    Anyway they have Scottish men playing Irishmen????? Why do they do this? There are plenty of decent Irish character actors so just wtf? I stopped watching when they arrived in Belfast as it was just so cringeworthy I couldn't continue.


  • #5
    osarusan
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    Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own was pretty bad.


  • #6
    Cortina_MK_IV
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    Richard Gere, The Jackal.


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  • #7
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Davy Fitz.


  • #8
    chalkitdown1
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    timthumbni wrote: »
    Sons of anarchy.

    The best answer.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVIkgK6eyn0


  • #9
    razorblunt
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    Gerard Butler in ps I love You, he'd have known how bad it was when he was doing it.


  • #10
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭George White


    This is not about bad Irish accents per se. There's plenty of them. It's just that someone who has been in Christian fantasy films with Kevin "Hercules" Sorbo among others has made a Hal Roach fan film - in Colorado. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Acf0zKU6s


  • #11
    timthumbni
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    chalkitdown1 wrote: »
    The best answer.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVIkgK6eyn0

    Jaysus. That was like 14 seconds of seeing what hell is like when I get caught by the devilllll. I know it's Americans but surely they can't be that thick and say we need an Irish character, hey lets go mad and hire an Irish actor.


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  • #12
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭George White


    timthumbni wrote: »
    Jaysus. That was like 14 seconds of seeing what hell is like when I get caught by the devilllll. I know it's Americans but surely they can't be that thick and say we need an Irish character, hey lets go mad and hire an Irish actor.

    It was very, very low budget, hell even lower than that.


  • #13
    timthumbni
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    George White wrote: »
    It was very, very low budget, hell even lower than that.

    But surely they could get a genuine Irishman as cheap. James Cosmo is a known Scottish actor and that other guy is off gladiator ffs. And I thought his accent was ****e in that too.

    As I said there are lads of great genuine Irish character actors that could have been had for a few pints of harp. I know Americans aren't the smartest bunch of bananas in the world but it is simply ridiculous the way they portray Irish/northern Irish in tv and film.


  • #14
    Thespoofer
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    I think the Steve Staunton quote ' I'm the boss, I'm the gaffer, what's I says goes ' has to be up there with the worst of them.


  • #15
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    De Caprio in Titanic. A face that you would never get tired of slapping. ....


  • #16
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    osarusan wrote: »
    Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own was pretty bad.
    He sounded a lot better than all of the contrived false accents young Irish wans use nowadays ;)


  • #17
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    timthumbni wrote: »
    De Caprio in Titanic. A face that you would never get tired of slapping. ....
    Did he even play an Irishman in that?
    He've an even bigger head for slapping now, especially with his sucking up to the Pope with his heap of sh1t book on climate change preaching, the pope should get a slap as well and stick to the preaching he knows best.


  • #18
    razorblunt
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    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Did he even play an Irishman in that?
    He've an even bigger head for slapping now, especially with his sucking up to the Pope with his heap of sh1t book on climate change preaching, the pope should get a slap as well and stick to the preaching he knows best.

    He played an American in it.
    His buddy is Dano from Love/Hate, it was on tv just now.


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