Worst accents in a mainstream movie

I'm sure I posted this earlier, but Kate Beckinsale in Van Helsing was painful to listen to.

 

Jessica Simpson in Dukes of Hazard

 

The Church of baseball speech was Annie's, from the opening of the film. Crash Davis' speech was just a list of his beliefs, which some attempt to quote on cue, and others think is some of the worst dimestore philosophy put on celluloid in the past 20 years.

She spoke?

Good to know.

 

Southern accents are obviously more difficult than people think. I thought it was odd to cast an Aussie and a Brit as the leads in Cold Mountain, but Renee Zellweger's "Southern" accent in that pic frightened me.

 

Absolutely awful.
As is Angelina Jolie's in 'Alexander.'
They both sound like they're spies from Pottsylvania trying to chase down moose and squirrel.

 

Spelling corrections:

Nicolas Cage
Dukes of Hazzard

Sincerely,

Stat Boy



As for the accent of my nemesis in "Johnny Dangerously," I kinda liked the farging icehole.

Sincerely,

Johnny Dangerously





Late nomination: Dennis Quaid in "The Big Easy."

Sincerely,

Every Cajun and Yat in Louisiana

 

Knock out dees wall, knock out dees wall and knock out dees farging wall.

 

The two worst accents in movie history are Kevin Costner in "13 Days" and Jeff Bridges in "Blown Away." Bridges plays the head of the bomb squad who is supposedly an old member of the IRA. He goes back and forth between the worst Boston accent of all time, mixed in with an occasional Irish accent, and then back to a flat regular voice. The strangest goddamn thing of all time. The funny thing is, it looks even worse because Tommy Lee Jones managed to pull off an Irish accent with ease.

 

Odd. Lived my whole life in Florida, Alabama and (for three months) Louisiana.

And I'm a "midland."

Probably from when my accent got screwed up growing up around all the transplants in St. Petersburg.

But my sister definitely sounds like a hick most of the time.

 

There's a good story on the commentary (or maybe it's just one of the extras, but somewhere on the DVD) about how they tried to change one of Malkovich's lines and he really fought it. It turned out to be because he had taped an old Russian woman reading all his lines and learned them that way. He didn't have the accent down enough to say new lines.

 

Southern accent department:

-- Alicia Silverstone in the Queen Latifah movie
-- all the Californians in "Savannah" (the TV show)
-- the fat pig in Varsity Blues
-- all the whiners in Steel Magnolias (Olympia Dukakis is as southern as a Greek fucking salad)

The closest dialectic match abroad I've heard is in southwestern England. No surprise, really, since that's where a lot of our people were extracted.

 

Well m vote for best accent easily goes to Cary Elwes in Robin Hood, Men in Tights.