In Day Of The Dead the guy playing John(the pilot) has the most bizarre fake Jamaican accent I’ve ever heard.
I thought Highlander topped the polls for the worst ever movie accents…
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I haven’t seen the film, only clips, but I’m pretty sure it’s specified he’s from New Zealand. If you’re right with the Murdoch comparison, then I guess it’s just an extra degree of differentiation.
I don’t think it is simply a poor imitation, he seems to be channeling some older American WW2 movies. I got a good laugh out of the episode where the clone cadets were in barracks and one starts talking about women…and then another tells him he has never even SEEN a woman.
Baker and James Arnold Taylor on The Clone Wars both say “kant” and not “cahnt” for “can’t” and “fasst” instead of “fahst” for “fast” when doing non-U.S. accents. Otherwise, I find their accents quite good.
I guess. Still irritates me, though.
Ironically, Daniel Logan, who has voiced young Boba Fett in the animated series since he originated the role in Attack of the Clones, a genuine Kiwi of course, is losing his accent the longer he lives in America.
Wow. I have a really lousy ear for accents. I assumed Malkovich got the Teddy KGB role on the strength of his accent. Same goes for many of the other cited movies in this thread.
How about Julia Roberts in Michael Collins?
Guess you didn’t see Jude Law in Contagion?
Gene Hackman’s attempt at a Polish accent in A Bridge too Far hurts my ears every time.
Meryl Streep in Silkwood. If you’re going to do a horribly bad accent, woman, at least stay in it for Og’s sake!
I can’t think of much anything more humiliating than being out-acted by Cher and Kurt Russell.
It tends to sound as if they think all Americans are from either Brooklyn or Texas. Some of them can even do a pretty good Brooklyn-or-Texas – it’s just that those two accents are very distinctive to Americans, and it’s jarring when a character seems to have one for no apparent reason. There are several neutral American accents (Hugh Laurie does a very, very good west coast one), but very few actors manage to hit them.
Nick Nolte got a raft of shit for his Italian accent in Lorenzo’s Oil, but I saw an interview with the man he was playing, Augusto Odone, and damned if he didn’t sound exactly the same.
I don’t know if that’s how some people sound in Louisiana, but everyone in Steel Magnolias gets my nomination. Even Julia Roberts, who is from Georgia. In fact she grew up quite near me, so our accents should be similar, but she is doing something totally off in the movie. (Again, unless that’s how they actually talk there.) Dolly’s is at least real, but it’s Tennessee real, not Louisiana real.
His French accent in “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” wasn’t fantastic, either.
Jar Jar Binks had the worst accent ever in any movie, ever, really, ever, even considering it was the accent of of a non-existent alien species.
She actually jokes about this herself in Wishful Drinking (which would be a funny show except she needs to speed it up by about 20%).
Anthony Hopkins is that rare British actor who does not do a good American accent. His inner Brit (RADA trained/Welsh born so whatever that makes his regular speaking voice) slipped out several times when playing Nixon and in the abysmal Road to Wellville among others.
I’ve mentioned before, but Lucas Black is a native of north Alabama, yet when he played Helen Keller’s brother (who was from north Alabama) in a TV remake of The Miracle Worker he spoke in a southern accent so ridiculous I can only assume it was the director’s choice.
Perhaps I missed it, but has anyone mentioned Keanu Reeves in Dracula? I can only imagine that there were boos when English audiences first heard him speak.
Speaking of which: I saw The Pantom Menace at a theatre in Glasgow. When Ewan McGregor first spoke in his Alec Guinness accent, a few people actually did make disapproving sounds. Hillarious 
Not sure if I’m being whooshed here, but that’s deliberate, ya know.
Yeah doesn’t she have a formal accent and then an everyday one?