# Worst movie accents **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-accents/510838 "2009-09-20T16:12:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-accents/510838/41 "2009-09-22T18:47:40Z")
Brad Pitt as an Austrian in **Seven Years in Tibet**. Pretty much put the kibosh on what could have been a Great Movie. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-accents/510838/42 "2009-09-22T19:10:26Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Part of the problem is that there is no “Southern Accent.” I’m not talking a bout variations, either. If you get someone from the coast, and someone from the mountains, you will hear two very different accents. Yes, but you also get very similar Southern accents across a broad geographic range. For example I defy anyone to tell me the difference between Holly Hunter’s accent (Conyers, Georgia) and any so-called Texas accent. It’s the same accent. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-accents/510838/43 "2009-09-22T20:59:49Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I assume we all agree that Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins is just a given and are looking other than that? I came to say _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_, which I thought was far worse. He seems to have tried it in the first few scenes and then just given it up as a bad job altogether. Quite distracting. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-accents/510838/44 "2009-09-22T21:06:31Z")
I’m going to have to go with Harrison Ford’s Russian accent in K19. At first you don’t think he’s doing one at all. Then it dawns on you…he is. The [trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz-eb3-p9X8) should give you enough of a taste. ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-accents/510838/45 "2009-09-22T21:20:47Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > Yes, but you also get very similar Southern accents across a broad geographic range. For example I defy anyone to tell me the difference between Holly Hunter’s accent (Conyers, Georgia) and any so-called Texas accent. It’s the same accent. Well, no, it’s not, but they are similar enough that they can both pass for generic “southern” to someone who doesn’t know the difference. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-accents/510838/46 "2009-09-22T22:40:20Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Season 1 of 24 – where was Dennis Hopper supposed to be from again? How about his Howard Payne in _Speed_? Atlanta PD Bomb Squad? What part of Atlanta do they say “maaadmaaan” like that? ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-accents/510838/47 "2009-09-22T23:20:47Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Check out the awful “Temuera Morrison” accent that is used in the Clone Wars 3D TV series. It drives me batty. The point at which I discovered that Boba Fett was Dr. Ropata was the point at which I decided there were only three _Star Wars_ movies; and they all had Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Sir Alec Guinness, and David Prowse/James Earl Jones in them. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-accents/510838/48 "2009-09-22T23:36:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Another vote for Kevin Costner in _Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves_. I think he just couldn’t decide, day to day on the set, whether or not he really wanted to do an English accent. Ugh. [geek post] “And why should the people listen to _you_?” “Because, unlike some other Robin Hoods, _I_ can speak with an English accent.” [/geek post] ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-accents/510838/49 "2009-09-23T01:16:32Z")
Here’s an interesting site for use as a reference as to how accurate these regional dialects were: [http://accent.gmu.edu/browse\_language.php?function=find&language=english](http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php?function=find&language=english) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-accents/510838/50 "2009-09-23T01:44:31Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#): > > he funniest thing was that he had coached Julia Roberts for _Steel Magnolias_. You know, the actress who was born & raised in the metro Atlanta area and has a perfectly decent soft Georgia accent all on her own? The one who sounds like a parody of a Southerner in _Steel Magnolias_? Yeah. hah. AHA! A mystery explained. My wife and I were watching _Charlie Wilson’s War_ last year, and at the end she said “who on earth told Julia Roberts that people from Houston talk like people from Atlanta?” At least that makes more sense now. As for Boston, I agree it’s hard to get right. Tom Hanks does a dreadful job in _Catch Me If You Can_, though at least he doesn’t go Kennedy. If you’ve ever seen _Gone Baby Gone_ you’ve heard about the best collection of Boston accents you’ll get outside the Fenway bleachers. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-accents/510838/51 "2009-09-23T02:21:57Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#): > > Well, no, it’s not… Well, yes it is. I can do this all night. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisBooth12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-accents/510838/52 "2009-09-23T05:43:10Z")
Not only was Sean’s accent horrible in Red October but their is actually a freaking scene with Baldwin mimicking his Scottish accent! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-accents/510838.md?page=2)