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The worst 'Irish' accent in a film.

lazygal

I'm nominating Julia Roberts in Michael Collins.

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woof im a dog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4_f-Ht5-vY

old hippy

UDP wrote: »

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

Agreed. Pierce Brosnan, however, is a much better actor.

fishy fishy

all the 'Priests" in any US film.

why do they always have to be irish.

Lollipops23

daveyboy_1ie wrote: »

Jon Voight in 'The General'. Just no.

I thought he did a really good job actually. He certainly sounded more Irish than Pierce Brosnan did in Evelyn.

bullpost

James Cromwell in L.A Confidential was pretty hilarious.

old hippy

bullpost wrote: »

James Cromwell in L.A Confidential was pretty hilarious.

Awesome film, though

Duckworth_Luas

Had this conversation in a bar in Chicago recently with a few movie buffs. They were well aware of how bad the irish and Britsih accents of US actors can be.

What we might not realise is how bad the American accents of Irish & British actors can be. Worst offender in their eyes is Liam Neeson, same accent in every movie!

Ellian

I seem to remember Katie Hudson having a pretty good south Dub accent in About Adam.

ballsymchugh

Hande hoche! wrote: »

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

any excuse to bring you some adam and joe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXcgt6l_LcA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szuvXF0bLrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LMDAnq7UQ

Lanshane

lockie1983 wrote: »

Tom Cruise, "Far And Away"

I'll most definitely second that! Kidman's attempt in second!

nbar12

Tom Hanks in The Commitments

Esox Lucias

The entire cast of Alexander.

I don't know what they were thinking.

ArtyC

The extras any time Jessica fletcher went to Ireland!!! Celtic riddle in cork---- desperate

Duckworth_Luas

nbar12 wrote: »

Tom Hanks in The Commitments

Forgot about that, truely horrendous effort!

Biggins

lockie1983 wrote: »

Tom Cruise, "Far And Away"

Easily that.

The accent is laid on with a trowel!

mikemac1

Lollipops23 wrote: »

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

It's not English, it's not Irish, it's just pikey

He wasn't trying to be Irish

nbar12 wrote: »

Your man Gerard Butler in P.S. I Love You

He apologized to the Irish nation over that

There's a youtube clip of it somewhere

rugrats

Not so much a film, but this ad beats them all

That's why I use it toooooo

SerialComplaint

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal

Criminal !!

lockie1983 wrote: »

Tom Cruise, "Far And Away"

Two right doozies there all right. Jim Broadbent in Perrier's Bounty was desperate - he's normally such a brilliant actor, it really pi$$ed me off. It added nothing to his character either. He could easily have stayed with his native accent.

MakeEmLaugh

In fairness, Julia Robert's accent in Michael Collins was far from the worst. Neither was Jon Voight's in The General.

We, as Irish people, are accustomed to pick up any slight digression from what we imagine an accent should be. If you'd never heard of Colin Farrell but knew he was from Ireland and saw Ondine, you'd probably think, "he must be from around that region."

But because we all know Colin Farrell is a Dubliner, many people pounced on his Kerry accent in that.

Personally, the most distractingly-bad Irish accent in a film, for me, was Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York (Leonardo DiCaprio would not be far behind). Considering that movie was tackling such epic subject matter, and made by Martin Scorsese, it should have been brilliant, but any time those two spoke, it dragged me right out of the film.

And please don't say, "well, they were Irish people who'd moved to America" as an explanation for how crap their accents were.

Ghost Buster

skinny90 wrote: »

Brad Pitt In snatch

Oh but that wasnt an irish accent. That was a traveller accent and they are a separate ethnic grouping yadda yadda etc

podgemonster

Sean Connery in the Untouchables had a dreadful accent.

Ghost Buster

podgemonster wrote: »

Sean Connery in the Untouchables had a dreadful accent.

No he didnt. He just does Scottish regardless. remember him as the Soviet submarine commander och aye the nooooooooo

Duckworth_Luas

podgemonster wrote: »

Sean Connery in the Untouchables had a dreadful accent.

Sounded like something out of Darby O'Gill and the Little People!

RikkFlair

Its interesting how Irish actors invariably can do the American accents, but not vice versa.

podgemonster

RikkFlair wrote: »

Its interesting how Irish actors invariably can do the American accents, but not vice versa.

Sure most of spend alot of our evenings watching American TV shows, video games and movies. Its all around us.

To Americans our accent is more rare in their entertainment industry over there.

Duckworth_Luas

RikkFlair wrote: »

Its interesting how Irish actors invariably can do the American accents..

Not to American ears though! As I mentioned above, a group of Americans I was talking to were laughing at the attempts by certain Irish & British actors to do US accents.

cantdecide

wandatowell wrote: »

The father of the big girl in Shallow Hal. Not good at all.

I thought he did pretty good?

rugrats wrote: »

Not so much a film, but this ad beats them all

That's why I use it toooooo

Fackin' 'ell

paddyd10

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ukonline

wandatowell wrote: »

The father of the big girl in Shallow Hal. Not good at all.

Yes, have to agree. Joe Viterelli.

ukonline

Lollipops23 wrote: »

I thought he did a really good job actually. He certainly sounded more Irish than Pierce Brosnan did in Evelyn.

I thought John Voight did one of the best Irish accents. :eek: