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Worst accents in films - a wee list

Discussion in 'Sensorium' started by Cúchulainn, Nov 13, 2006.

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    Antonio Banderas in the 13th Warrior.
    Leonardo diCaprio in Titanic.
    Jim Carter as Déjà Vu in Top Secret :D
    Jean-Claude Van Damme in any of his movies...except Hard Target.
     
    Iku-Turso, Nov 16, 2006
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    How about those terrible accents that are intentional....

    French Knights in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
    Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau (Steve Martin did a very bad impression of Peter Sellers' butchering of a French accent).
    James Coco as Inspector Perrier and (again) Peter Sellers as Inspector Wang in Murder By Death.
    Yet again, Peter Sellers as the title villian in The Fiendish Plot of Doctor Fu Manchu.
    One more time... Peter Sellers as Dr Strangelove.
     
    T2Bruno, Nov 16, 2006
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    Well then you could add those germans in Top Secret as well...
     
    Iku-Turso, Nov 17, 2006
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    'Allo 'Allo was a classic series :D
     
    Cúchulainn, Nov 17, 2006
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    God Moaning. The resist-once have accqo-aired a bum. They are going to ex-plod the whaleway brodge.
     
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    Every German soldier speaking... English?
    Kevin Kline in French Kiss.

    That one I was remembering too, the Widowmaker, Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson were terrible.
     
    Sydax, Nov 17, 2006
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    Mel Gibson in Braveheart has probably got to be the worst.

    Peter Sellers as Clouseau (or Dr Strangelove or Hrundi V. Bakshi) doesn't count for me because he's spoofind the accent as opposed to actually trying to imitate it (there's the real French accent, there's bad French accents, and then there's Peter Sellers).

    George Clooney in Syriana trying to speak Arabic doesn't count either, because the problem there isn't the accent: he's simply not speaking anything that remotely resembles Arabic (which makes the guy opposite him telling him "Your arabic is quite good" even funnier)
     
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    I saw a preview for Blood Diamond and Leonardo DiCaprio's accent (British? French?)... I don't even know wtf he's *trying* to sound like.
     
    kuemper, Nov 20, 2006
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    "The troon corrying the ponting has been bummer by the RAF"
    "Bummed by the RAF?"
    "Bummed by the RAF?"
    "What have those naughty RAF been doing now?"
     
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    Sorry, the accents in Allo Allo are appalling and extremely unfunny.
     
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    The French chick in "Out Cold." It seemed as though every other scene she forgot she was French, and spoke in a 'normal' accent. Throughout the movie, this got more and more pronounced, until she finally started to phase it out in mid-conversation. By the end of the movie, the phase-out was complete. Pure 'merican, and proud.
     
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