It's my top 5 worst attempts at accents in the movies...ever!
1. Don Cheadle in Ocean's 11, 12 & 13 - at the top coz he didn't just do it once, but three times. The result? He was last seen in Hotel For Dogs.
2. Josh Hartnett in Blow Dry - if you're making a low-budget Brit flick about a hairdressing competition in Keighley, West Yorkshire, who would you choose to play a lovable local lad? The answer is obvious...ANYONE IN THE WORLD BUT JOSH HARNETT.
3. Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins - for many, DvD's 'cock-er-nee chim-er-nee sweep' is the ultimate example of a bad movie accent. The worrying thing is, Americans still think we all speak like this.
4. Angelina Jolie in Alexander - now I'm no expert at what accents in Ancient Greece would have sounded like. But I'll hazard a guess that they didn't sound like sexed-up Russian Bond girls.
5. Gerard Butler in PS I Love You - admittedly Gerry's Spartan also had a suspiciously Highland twang in 300 but I think in that he was merely going the Connery route of just not bothering. In PS I Love You, he's actually trying to be Irish. Worrying.
Honourable mentions - Johnny Depp in Chocolat; Johnny Depp in From Hell; Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd; Keanu Reeves in Dracula; Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing; Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own; Mel Gibson in Braveheart; Steve Martin in The Pink Panther; Jonathan Rhys-Myers in anything...the list goes on...
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At 26th Mar 2009, leighm wrote:From your top 5 I've only ever seen Mary Poppins! And I think DVD accent was charming! :)
Don't all Cockney's talk like that?
Leigh
Glasgow
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At 27th Mar 2009, kslh79 wrote:My god, how did Jason Stathams terrible american accents not get to number 1!!
By far the worst I have heard ever in the Transporter 1 and 2 and Death Race.James I am dissapointed. I can not watch anything with him in because of this!! Kate
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