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Best/Worst Irish accents on film/tv

  • 14-03-2010 01:20AM
    #1
    filthymcnasty
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    Got this idea from watching Ned Kelly on 3e. heath ledgers efforts are not great but Mick Jaggers in a previous Ned film were particularly bad.

    any thoughts on non-irish actors doing irish accents?


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  • #2
    Teutorix
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    Richard Gere comes to mind.


  • #3
    Giselle
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    Gerard Butler in P.S. I Love You

    Tom Cruise in Far and Away

    Richard Gere doesn't even come close :)


  • #4
    Great tits btw.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Great tits btw.


    just watched julia roberts and her huge mouth in michael collins, but also got to go with richard gere - hes in a class of his own.


  • #5
    dambarude
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    Cate Blanchett was pretty decent in Veronica Guerin.


  • #6
    liah
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    Everyone's accents in the third Back to the Future. I adore Michael J. Fox, but jesus christ that was awful.


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  • #7
    Teutorix
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    liah wrote: »
    Everyone's accents in the third Back to the Future. I adore Michael J. Fox, but jesus christ that was awful.
    Yeah, his performance was a little shaky


  • #8
    liah
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    Teutorix wrote: »
    Yeah, his performance was a little shaky

    Ah now! :( No bad jokes about Michael J. Fox!


  • #9
    Giselle
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    Teutorix wrote: »
    Yeah, his performance was a little shaky


    To the naughty step, one minute for each year please.


  • #10
    Fromvert
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    Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal

    Awful


  • #11
    Teutorix
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    Giselle wrote: »
    To the naughty step, one minute for each year please.
    back in 10


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  • #12
    magma69
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    Apparently the Irish accents are some the toughest to get right. Jon Voight in The General is perfect. Proper culchie guard accent.


  • #13
    Mars Bar
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    That episode of CSI New York where they tried to speak Irish and have hurling. It got some pretty decent coverage on here!



    Even the hurl in the bin looks fake!


  • #14
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    liah wrote: »
    Everyone's accents in the third Back to the Future. I adore Michael J. Fox, but jesus christ that was awful.

    You know when the Doc arrives in 1985 with his time-train and he's got his kids in the background as he's talking to Marty? I noticed the last time I watched it that one of them acts quite strange when the camera is on him. IIRC he makes a "show me the money" hand-gesture for no reason. :confused: I also read it mentioned in a tabloid newspaper the other day, so I know I didn't dream it. Look it up, y'all.


  • #15
    ixoy
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    From TV we had Fiona's accent in "Burn Notice" which was dire. So bad that they actually had her drop it about halfway through the season and mutter some excuse about her adopting an American accent.


  • #16
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    liah wrote: »
    Ah now! :( No bad jokes about Michael J. Fox!



  • #17
    ddef
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    magma69 wrote: »
    Apparently the Irish accents are some the toughest to get right. Jon Voight in The General is perfect. Proper culchie guard accent.


    pretty sure he is irish?


  • #18
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    ddef wrote: »
    pretty sure he is irish?

    Nein...
    Wikipedia wrote:
    Jon Voight was born in Yonkers, New York, the son of Barbara (née Kamp; January 7, 1910-) and German-American Elmer Voight (October 29, 1909–June 1973), a professional golfer. His maternal grandparents were German; his paternal grandfather was an immigrant from the city of Košice (German: Kaschau) in Slovakia.


  • #19
    Teutorix
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    ddef wrote: »
    pretty sure he is irish?
    O_o

    hes from new york


  • #20
    liah
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    ddef wrote: »
    pretty sure he is irish?

    New Yorker afaik. Maybe Irish in the American "oh yeah we're irish even though our family hasn't been in ireland for like 10 generations" way. But I'm pretty sure he's a Yank.


  • #21
    liah
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    Gwendolyn Vast Drivel wrote: »
    Nein...
    Teutorix wrote: »
    O_o

    hes from new york
    liah wrote: »
    New Yorker afaik. Maybe Irish in the American "oh yeah we're irish even though our family hasn't been in ireland for like 10 generations" way. But I'm pretty sure he's a Yank.

    ...You can tell who didn't get invited for drinks tonight :(


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  • #22
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    liah wrote: »
    ...You can tell who didn't get invited for drinks tonight :(

    Not just tonight...


  • #23
    Armin_Tamzarian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5TEc1bSaNs


  • #24
    Hank_Jones
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    Julia Roberts.

    Watched Michael Collins earlier and she literally just ruins every scene that she is in with her horrible accent.
    The accent is all over the place.
    I don't know what it is, but it's not an Irish accent.

    And less of the M.J Fox jokes. The mans a legend.


  • #25
    bazza1
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    Tom Cruise in Far and away. Pretty bad


  • #26
    Manach
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    Tommy Lee Jones in 'Blown Away'


  • #27
    El Siglo
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    Brad Pitt in "The Devil's Own" comes to mind. Yeh Richard Gere was pretty bad as well.


  • #28
    filthymcnasty
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    thers a lot of regional irish accents though: is it too much to excpect actors to get them all to a tee?

    anyway to continue with the criticism:

    Brad Pitts in in the devils own...woeful
    But not too bad of a pikey-ish accent in snatch... go brad.

    Cate Blanchett in veronica guerin was not the worst.. got that bland dublin middle-class brogue down allright.

    but for me the best: John Hurt in The Field- shhhhhpot on sir.


  • #29
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    The worst part about it you'd imagine all these bigtime actors just listen to 5 minutes of "The Quiet Man" before prepping their awful accents, but in reality they put a lot of work into them even going as far as to hiring expensive dialect coachs to guide them towards their goal.


  • #30
    Pittens
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    minie driver in Circle of friends was good.


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  • #31
    bazmaiden
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4_f-Ht5-vY


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