Best/Worst accent you've ever heard in a movie?

Tom Cruise in Far and Away,awful,awful,awful.

worst preety much any actor doing an irish accent is terrible

sky88 wrote: »

worst preety much any actor doing an irish accent is terrible

I agree - even when the actor is Irish. :pac: If anyone's looking for more suggestions, see the previous thread on this topic, here. Plus at least two other threads on dodgy Irish accents.

I haven't seen Blood Diamond, but from the trailer I was OK with DiCaprio's Sarf Efrican. I lived in SA for years and can attempt one myself: it's easy to approximate, but not easy to get right.

One accent that really bugs me, though, is Hugo Weaving's accent as Agent Smith in The Matrix and sequels. What is that?

best= DD lewis in Gangs of new york.

worst......hmmmm.... any irish cop pre 1990's programme's/

Sean Connerys Irish accent in the Untouchables is pretty memorable.

But Pierce Brosnans "Irish," accent in Evelyn is bar far the worst I've had the pleasure of though.

Tom Cruise in Far and Away (the worst movie ever made!).

sean connery in the hunt for red october is worse than any of these because he didnt even try

Can't think of his name, and too lazy to look it up.

English actor who played Cillian Murphy's da in Perrier's Bounty. WOEFUL!

I think any Irish accent with a strong regional accent i.e. Brendan Gleeson's northside accent will struggle with American or English accent's with possibly the exception of RP.

I think the opposite is also true. English/ American actors will struggle with the Irish accent. Even simple things like the "th" pronunciation. As the majority of us pronounce it like a D. "The" becomes deh, "these" becomes deese. They usually just seem to put some sort of lilt into the Irish accent and think that'll cut it.