zico
3:52 Mon Aug 23
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Russel Crowe in Robin Hood was odd considering I thopught he was quite good in Master and Commander. Charlie Hunnam in Green Street has to be up there as pure comedy gold. Not a British accent but I watched The Interpretor last night and god only know what accent Nicole Kidman was attempting. A bizarre cross between US, South African and Australian!
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On The Ball
3:41 Mon Aug 23
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Jason Statham in..... anything Jason Statham is in. I can never tell if he's meant to be English or American - or from somewhere in the Atlantic.
We recently started watching the Canadian series Orphan Black (and soon stopped again) - two of the main characters are meant to be English and it's painful.
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Far Cough
3:25 Mon Aug 23
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Russell Crowe the Roman general in Gladiator
Sean Connery the Soviet submarine commander in Hunt for Red October
Are two examples of not trying to murder their respective characters accents, just plain old Kiwi and Scots (Glasgow)
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Pentonville
3:16 Mon Aug 23
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Green Street as mentioned in OP is worst accent I've ever heard and literally have never been able to take the bloke seriously ever since
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Swiss.
3:09 Mon Aug 23
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Another one for Sean Bean in this series called Legend when he tries to do a Texan accent. Cringe worthy. How does this guy make a living?
But British accents.
Dick Van Dyke of course. Audrey Hepburn's cockney in My Fair Lady. Mind you do we really know what cocknies sounded like in the 1800s?
Spike in Buffy falls in to an almost Aussie accent sometimes.
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Russ of the BML
2:55 Mon Aug 23
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Joe C 2:18 Mon Aug 23
That's superb! LOL
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ironsofcanada
2:41 Mon Aug 23
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Joe C 2:26 Mon Aug 23
Agreed. The bad of American network television, you have to keep churning out a bunch of episodes even when all your half decent ideas are gone.
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Long Lost
2:41 Mon Aug 23
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They should just be like Sean Connery and speak normally whatever the role.
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RBshorty
2:31 Mon Aug 23
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I seem to recall Anthony La Paglia (Another Antipodean) Murdering the Cockney accent in a episode of Frasier as Daphne’s brother.
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Mad Dog
2:30 Mon Aug 23
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Kevin Costner gets a pass because he didn't even try to do a British accent in Robin Hood.
And a special mention to anyone that has a scouse accent.
Disgusting horrid nasal whiney fleghmy shit accent
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Mad Dog
2:29 Mon Aug 23
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Don Cheadle in oceans 11
The one off green street.
Sean connery got an Oscar for playing an Irish cop with a Scottish accent.
Ray Winstone's "russian" accent in black widow or his accent in departed. Not sure if it was supposed to be Irish or American. Either way it was shit
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Joe C
2:26 Mon Aug 23
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ironsofcanada 2:21 Mon Aug 23
Yep, great show - other than that awful last series
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ironsofcanada
2:26 Mon Aug 23
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Sorry here is the exactly moment Olivier goes through about 3 different accents in one line. In 49th Parallel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXTffkM-ME0&t=1953s
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RBshorty
2:23 Mon Aug 23
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I would say Russell Crowe in Robin Hood. But he may thump me.!
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ironsofcanada
2:21 Mon Aug 23
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Joe C 2:18 Mon Aug 23
I like Castle and remember that, the funniest thing was they shoe-horned the character in in an ESL class.
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Side of Ham
2:20 Mon Aug 23
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TBF my grandad used to go mad at the chumley warner type accents for cockneys in the 1930's/40's/50's films.....so the posh wankers could understand them........ :-)
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ironsofcanada
2:19 Mon Aug 23
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arsene york-hunt 1:51 Mon Aug 23
"Scotty in Star Trek Sounded like the nearest he'd been to Scotland was a bottle of Johnny Walker."
It might not be very good but he tried to go back to an Aberdeen accent he heard training in same barracks as Aberdeen soldiers here - ie. England - during WWII. It was shortly before he lost his finger on Juno Beach in Normandy.
But even the greats - not that Doohan was one - are really bad at times. Olivier in the 49th Parallel for instance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXTffkM-ME0
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Joe C
2:18 Mon Aug 23
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American TV cop show called Castle - did an episode featuring a Geordie.
Hands down the worst attempt at any kind of accent - whatever the fuck it was, it wasn’t Geordie
https://youtu.be/Ei1DnFdJrww
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zebthecat
2:16 Mon Aug 23
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BRANDED 2:07 Mon Aug 23
That is the one that sprung to mind.
Absolutely atrocious.
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oldtimer
2:14 Mon Aug 23
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How about Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins.
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Wilko Johnson
2:14 Mon Aug 23
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Sean Bean in Essex Boys.
One that was bad but I found entertaining and funny was the Geordie Tim Healy playing a West Londoner in Boys From The Bush.
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