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The worst 'Irish' accent in a film.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭woof im a dog




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    all the 'Priests" in any US film.

    why do they always have to be irish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,329 ✭✭✭bullpost


    James Cromwell in L.A Confidential was pretty hilarious.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    bullpost wrote: »
    James Cromwell in L.A Confidential was pretty hilarious.

    Awesome film, though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭Ellian


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    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...







  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 272 ✭✭Lanshane


    lockie1983 wrote: »
    Tom Cruise, "Far And Away"

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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭nbar12


    Tom Hanks in The Commitments


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭Esox Lucias


    The entire cast of Alexander.

    I don't know what they were thinking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭ArtyC


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    nbar12 wrote: »
    Tom Hanks in The Commitments
    Forgot about that, truely horrendous effort!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    lockie1983 wrote: »
    Tom Cruise, "Far And Away"

    Easily that.

    The accent is laid on with a trowel!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭rugrats


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,644 ✭✭✭SerialComplaint


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭podgemonster


    Sean Connery in the Untouchables had a dreadful accent.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Sean Connery in the Untouchables had a dreadful accent.
    Sounded like something out of Darby O'Gill and the Little People!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 paddyd10


    Vinnie Jones - Strength and Honour


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭ukonline


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


    Yes, have to agree. Joe Viterelli.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭ukonline


    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:


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