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The worst 'Irish' accent in a film.

  • 29-08-2012 09:19AM
    #1
    lazygal
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    I'm nominating Julia Roberts in Michael Collins.

    Add yours.


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  • #2
    Crooked Jack
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    Everyone in the second Boondock Saints film


  • #3
    Jillian Muscular Arrow
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    all of them


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
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    Gabriel Byrne does some awful ones.


  • #5
    Bad Panda
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    Tommy Lee Jones in 'Blown Away'. Hands. Fcuking. Down.


  • #6
    Sonics2k
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    Not so much in a film, but David Boreanaz who played Angel in Buffy.

    The only good thing is that he was honest enough to admit it was complete shíte.


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  • #7
    Loughc
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    Tom Cruise, "Far And Away"

    The lifeboat has set sail



  • #8
    Elmer Blooker
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    Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal

    Criminal !!


  • #9
    Diddler1977
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    Gene Wilder in "Quackser Fortune has a cousin in the Bronx"

    For an Aussie I don't think Rod Taylor was too bad in "Young Cassidy"


  • #10
    lazygal
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    Elmer Blooker wrote: »
    Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal

    Criminal !!

    Yes-was trying to remember that film! Or forget it, rather.


  • #11
    Nux
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    The Leprechaun in "Leprechaun"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C21l29hurRI


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  • #12
    Diddler1977
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    Sonics2k wrote: »
    Not so much in a film, but David Boreanaz who played Angel in Buffy.

    The only good thing is that he was honest enough to admit it was complete shíte.

    Useless info:
    David Boreanaz was married to an Irish woman for a few years. She was from Dublin and was a social worker.


  • #13
    Lollipops23
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    Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly.


  • #14
    Pebble on the Beach
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    Gerard Butler in Galway Girl!!


  • #15
    skinny90
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    Brad Pitt In snatch


  • #16
    Hande hoche!
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    Richard Gere in the Jackal.


  • #17
    nbar12
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    Your man Gerard Butler in P.S. I Love You

    Gave me sleepless nights for weeks


  • #18
    Xavi6
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    nbar12 wrote: »
    Your man Gerard Butler in P.S. I Love You

    Gave me sleepless nights for weeks

    Just punishment for watching it in the first place to be fair.


  • #19
    Lollipops23
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    skinny90 wrote: »
    Brad Pitt In snatch

    In fairness, he was trying to sound like a traveller. Thought he did a pretty daycent job of it too.


  • #20
    Sonics2k
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    skinny90 wrote: »
    Brad Pitt In snatch

    Except he wasn't Irish in that.


  • #21
    Elmer Blooker
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    lazygal wrote: »
    I'm nominating Julia Roberts in Michael Collins.

    Add yours.
    We'll forgive Julia, she can get away with it.
    I thought Aidan Quinn (as Collins' mate Harry Boland) was a lot worse.


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  • #22
    nbar12
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    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Just punishment for watching it in the first place to be fair.

    ah now, it was a first date, I was hardly going tell her to piss off we're watching Transformers instead


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
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    Titus Welliver in Sons of Anarchy.


  • #24
    UDP
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    Without a doubt it is Pearse Brosnin in any movie that he has played an Irish character.


  • #25
    Hande hoche!
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    UDP wrote: »
    Without a doubt it is Pearse Brosnin in any movie that he has played an Irish character.

    He get's a free pass in my book due to the cinematic masterpiece of Taffin.


  • #26
    Pebble on the Beach
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    Pebble on the Beach wrote: »
    Gerard Butler in Galway Girl!!

    Ah, silly me .... the film of course is called 'PS I Love You'. I seriously cringe each time it's shown.


  • #27
    fishy fishy
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    lockie1983 wrote: »
    Tom Cruise, "Far And Away"

    you'r nosh in Oireland ana more :D


  • #28
    TobyZiegler
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    All of the above - especially Gerard Butler - or maybe that was because the film was so unbelievably crap that it was even more annoying.


    The Irish accent must be v. difficult to do as you rarely see it done well. I thought that Richard Coyle in Grabbers did a great job of it though.


  • #29
    RikkFlair
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    Sean Bean in The Field. "What age was Seamie when he died?" was probably his longest line, but he couldn't escape his Sheffield tones :pac:

    Also, not a film, but the Irish accents when one of the characters in Heroes ended up in "Cork" (season 2 I think it was?). Oh dear :o


  • #30
    daveyboy_1ie
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    Jon Voight in 'The General'. Just no.

    Actually seeing an Irishman do a posh English accent was even funnier (Colm Meaney cameo as a pilot in Die Hard 2). Terrible stuff.


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  • #31
    wandatowell
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    The father of the big girl in Shallow Hal. Not good at all.


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