what amazes me is how easy it seems for british actors to hide their accents

5/25/2007 8:54:59 AM

Brad Pitt in Devil's Own.

5/25/2007 9:13:26 AM

good one dweedle...i fucking hated that irish sounding accent....i thought travolta only did that accent in the generals daughter so he could bang that one broad

5/25/2007 9:14:43 AM

Any accent by Leo DeCaprio.

Keanu Reeves in Devil's Advocate

5/25/2007 9:16:51 AM

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"Hahaha I'm sure nobody really remembers it, but on Harold and Kumar go to White Castle when they meet those two hot girls who are supposed to be English. My god they had the worst "accents" ever. It made my ears bleed."

i totally bought that, i though they were genuin, wouldnt it be funny if i was right

5/25/2007 9:18:26 AM

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"Any accent by Leo DeCaprio. Keanu Reeves in Devil's Advocate "

man, I think Leo is pretty good in everything.

lol yeah Keanu's southern bullshit in DA was absolute balls.

5/25/2007 9:31:03 AM

the BEST would be Renee Zelweger in Cold Mountain

5/25/2007 9:32:02 AM

she was pretty awesome in that.

5/25/2007 9:45:40 AM

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"As much as I like Matt Damon, his accent in the departed wasnt too great"

yeah, sean connery's scottish accent sucks too huh?

christ.

5/25/2007 9:58:07 AM

^^That movie was the first that came to mind. I thought Kidman's accent needed some work and Jude Law had a really good accent in a few scenes but it was really hit or miss overall.

What's worse a accent that changes dramatically in different scenes or a consistent bad accent?


Also there's a show called Still Standing with the big guy from Knights Tale in which he has the weirdest accent.

5/25/2007 9:59:13 AM

DiCaprio in the Aviator.

And #1 on the list must be Van Der Beek in Varsity Blues.

5/25/2007 10:38:57 AM

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"John Travolta's attempt at a Southern accent in The General's Daughter was offensive."

southern accents in general are offensive and suck

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""As much as I like Matt Damon, his accent in the departed wasnt too great""

you have got to be jocking? between The Departed and Good Will Hunting,he's on the ball with great accents.

[Edited on May 25, 2007 at 11:15 AM. Reason : fda]

5/25/2007 11:14:56 AM

^ i think a better complaint about those instances would be about boston accents in general

aha, my accent is odd... parents from central US (mid-west to the rest of you peons) formative language learning years with BBC and NPR and whatever else wasn't censored (PBS) and a myriad of foreign languages and accents... been down heah for a biit too long and as a result have a odd slight southern accent

[Edited on May 25, 2007 at 11:23 AM. Reason : s]

5/25/2007 11:23:06 AM

I love it because its funny, but John Malkovich's accent in Rounders is horrible.

5/25/2007 11:29:45 AM

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"i havent seen blood diamond but leonardo dicaprio's accent in the previews made me laugh"

My mother-in-law and her side of the family is Rhodesian, and that's pretty much exactly how they talk. The accent was about 90% there, and the figures of speech were exact. I don't like leonardo dicaprio... but he actually pulled that one off.

5/25/2007 11:38:41 AM

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"NED PLIMPTON"

i love life aquatic, but owen wilson's accent was bad. "ahh don' usually trae graass"

who did really well as far as accents go was kate winslet in eternal sunshine. she had to work on her american accent for that and would prank call michel gondry, the director, when she had it down.

5/25/2007 11:48:25 AM

Not a movie, but Sayid's (from Lost) Iraqi accent sounds like an Indian who was brought up in the UK.

oh wait....

5/25/2007 11:52:41 AM

that trainwreck that kevin bacon is married to tries to do a southern accent on that show on TNT.

not a movie but goddamn she is horrid

[Edited on May 25, 2007 at 11:54 AM. Reason : 2, too, two, to]

5/25/2007 11:53:32 AM

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"what amazes me is how easy it seems for british actors to hide their accents"

I know it isn't a movie, but Hugh Laurie does an amazing job in House hiding his accent. When I hear him speak normally, it is incredible to notice the difference.

5/25/2007 12:50:08 PM

Owen Wilson in The Life Aquatic. Some scenes he has an accent, some he dosen't. When he does it is a pretty bad one. I love the movie though.

5/25/2007 1:03:05 PM

i cant believe you people didnt mention....what's his name, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain. sounded like he was talking through a mouthful of peanut butter THE ENTIRE TIME

5/25/2007 2:47:18 PM

thats cause no one saw that movie but you bro

5/25/2007 2:50:06 PM

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"I was watching My Name Is Earl tonite and Jamie Pressley had a terrible southern accent "

lord.

the show is a damn COMEDY about trailer trash.

it isn't a historical perspective of life in a southern mobile home community

5/25/2007 3:01:56 PM

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"jessica simpson in dukes of hazzard... "something bumped up into my under carriage" "

Worst attempt at an accent EVER...I'd rather she not talk at all

5/25/2007 3:05:38 PM

everyone from Cold Mountain. Horrible movie.

5/25/2007 3:23:01 PM

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""Harrison Fords Russian accent in K-19""

A-fuckin-men

5/25/2007 3:27:37 PM

Edward Norton in Primal Fear

5/25/2007 3:37:48 PM

^retarded is an accent?

[Edited on May 25, 2007 at 3:39 PM. Reason : eh]

5/25/2007 3:39:02 PM

clearly, you haven't seen the movie... he attempts a thick country accent, or whatever it is. You sir, are retarded.

5/25/2007 4:25:10 PM

Or, I haven't seen the movie since the year it was released, in which I was about 15 or 16.

<3 trolls.

5/25/2007 4:26:53 PM

I'm surprised no one said Halle Berry in the first X-Men. She sounded so horrible they just dropped the accent all together in the second and third.

5/25/2007 5:22:43 PM

i never noticed her accent in x-men 1

5/25/2007 5:23:32 PM

Yeah, both Storm and Rogue had accents in the first X-men movie...they both got rid of them in the second and third

5/25/2007 5:26:31 PM

mel gibson, braveheart

5/25/2007 5:35:21 PM

^that was a well done accent.

5/25/2007 5:43:29 PM

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"I was watching My Name Is Earl tonite and Jamie Pressley had a terrible southern accent ""

Interestingly, she grew up in North Carolina.

5/25/2007 6:56:04 PM

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"older movie but Dan Ackroyd trying to sound southern in Driving miss Daisey... the way he says maamma just irrates the shit out of me. "

That's what I was going to call. Lewis Grizzard has a pretty funny bit on that attempt at accent...

5/25/2007 9:11:40 PM

Nic Cage in Con Air is the only correct answer to this thread.

5/25/2007 9:23:47 PM

Christian Bale trying to talk like Batman, haha.
(Not Bruce Wayne, he did fine there, but when he's Batman he sounds odd)

5/25/2007 10:50:16 PM

the main character in the show The Closer (I'm only assuming based on the 3000 commercials i've seen)

5/26/2007 2:29:09 AM

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"Christian Bale trying to talk like Batman, haha. "

A friend and I had this really long discussion talking about this, and I completely agree with you. He has that really "deep", scratchy voice with it and it was really annoying to me. My friend says that's "how Batman is portrayed in the comics".

5/26/2007 2:42:26 AM

Julia Roberts in Michael Collins.

5/27/2007 2:15:16 PM

Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking.

5/27/2007 4:14:56 PM

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""I was watching My Name Is Earl tonite and Jamie Pressley had a terrible southern accent ""

Hate it break it to you, but Jamie Pressley always talks like that. She's hot as hell, but in a slutty girl from the trailer park kinda way.

5/27/2007 4:26:13 PM

hugh laurie's American accent on House

[Edited on May 27, 2007 at 5:08 PM. Reason : not a movie but whatever]

5/27/2007 5:07:51 PM

cage in con air

5/27/2007 5:52:24 PM

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"I'm surprised no one said Halle Berry in the first X-Men. She sounded so horrible they just dropped the accent all together in the second and third."

I clicked on this with the intention of posting that.

Fucker.

5/29/2007 12:05:09 PM

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" "every accent attempted by Kevin Costner ever" "

i wasn't aware that kevin costner ever even attempted an accent... in robin hood he just talks like an american hanging out with a bunch of brits

5/29/2007 12:11:44 PM

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"Hate it break it to you, but Jamie Pressley always talks like that. She's hot as hell, but in a slutty girl from the trailer park kinda way. "

WELL SHE IS FROM KINSTON, NC SOOOOOOOO

5/29/2007 1:34:00 PM

I WAS WATCHING THE MOVIE WITH J-LO AND MATT MCGONEGHEY (SP?) THE OTHER DAY...I THINK IT WAS THE WEDDING PLANNER.....ANYHOW THE DUDE FROM GREY'S ANATOMY ATTEMPS TO PLAY AN ITALIAN IN THIS MOVIE...IT WAS THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED

5/29/2007 1:37:26 PM