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He may have won an Oscar for it, but Sean Connery's performance as Jim Malone in The Untouchables has been called the worst movie accent of all time by Empire magazine. Awww, maybe, but it's got one of the best explanations of how to fight your enemies ever, when Malone tells Elliot Ness how to get Al Capone:
You wanna know how you do it? Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send on of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone! Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?
Luckily, Julia Roberts as Mary Reilly and Brad Pitt as Heinreich Harrar in Seven Years in Tibet make the list. Gothamist wonders why Kevin Costner in Robin Hood was left off the list, but maybe he was supposed to be from California.
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Oh for shame, why are we all forgetting the ruler by which all other bad accents should be measured: Tom Cruise in "Far and Away" (Brad Pitt in "The Devil's Own" was no treat either) For that matter, any American-born actor who has ever tried to play an Irishman.
No doubt about it, not even close, it's Keanu Reeves in Dracula.
Oooooh, Felix. That's a good one. Does it count when Arnie's Austrian accent was just left alone for Red Heat and was supposed to be a Russian accent? That's gotta' be near the worst simply because they didn't even try to cover it up assuming audiences wouldn't know the dif.
I agree Keanu Reeves was bad in Dracula, but Dracula was supposed to be over the top, whereas Tom Cruise's and Brad Pitt's various movies were supposed to be like Oscar nomination type movies.
I also remember some people finding Jodie Foster's accent in the Silence of the Lambs to be distracting. ("Dawk-tuh Lek-tuh...")
Why is it the brits can come over here and their accents almost disspear (Jude Law, Ewan McG) but when Yanks go over there we're so God damn aweful?
Rob Morrow in 'Quiz Show'???
What about Tony Curtis in "Son of Ali Baba (1952)"? "Yonda lies da kassle of my fodda, da collif."
Yeah, that quote about how to get Capone is an all-time classic - it brought tears to my eyes. that level of commitment against all odds is pure heroism
In the Americans trying to sound Irish category, let's not forget Leo D. in Gangs of New York (although if we could forget it we would). His accent was so bad that they actually wrote in an explaination for why. Apparently, the orphanage where he was raised beat the accent out of him. Clearly, his accent coach wasn't beating him hard enough.
Tom Hanks in "Catch me if you can." His dime store version of a Boston accent makes my ears bleed.
Tom Hanks in "Catch me if you can." His dime store version of a Boston accent makes my ears bleed.
Don Cheadle's 'Cock-er-nay' accent in the remake of "Ocean's 11" was frickin' dreadful. Way pathetic, Guv'nor.
varsity blues anyone? how bad was that! or does that dawson's geek star really talk like that?