Worst accents in a mainstream movie

any number of actors affectating a southern accent -- get lost, go home.

 

FWIW, I think Martin Sheen did a great job in Gettysburg.

 

Right actor. Right president. Wrong movie. Costner's accent is beyond awful in Thirteen Days. Watching him mangling a Boston accent is like watching a dog play a trombone.

 

I agree with LJB...damn near anyone trying to do a Southern accent sux!

And Moddy....See above for Cage and his accent! LOL...It just doesn't go over well when they go for the Southern accent.

 

Yup. Usually badly mutilated. I can pull it off ... then again, I'm from the South. :-\

 

Costner uses about four different accents in "Robin Hood"

 

Doc, I fully agree, though my deep fried countrified friends way differ.

 

The guy who played the gimp in Pulp Fiction had an awful accent as well.

 

Which is why Clark Gable as Rhett Butler isn't actually that bad. (He only agreed to do the movie on the condition he not do a Southern accent.) Fact is, if you live down these parts you realize there are tons of people who were born, raised here and never lived anywhere else, yet have hardly any trace of a southern ayac-sent.

 

Exactly. I took a trip with my stepfather to Syracuse four years ago (he's from upstate NY, and his sister lives in Syracuse). At a gathering of my stepfather's sister's family and friends. some wiseass Connecticut native wastes little time walking up to me and asking "where's the accent?"

It's not a requirement. Contrary to what he felt, we don't all wear overalls, make out with relatives and talk with syrupy-thick accents. Thanks for the stereotype, gasbag. :

 

Kate Beckinsale in Van Helsing (I have no clue what accent she's doing, but it's bad).

Heather Graham in From Hell (It's Irish, It's American, It's terrible)