Top 10 Worst Accents in Film

This is an old BBC article, but I found it amusing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3032052.stm

Does anyone have any new entries for worst film accent? Let's hear them!

This is probably on the list, but Dick van Dyke had the worst Cockney EVER for "Mary Poppins."
But then he explained that Pat O'Leach was brought by Disney to be his Cockney coach... Pat O'Leach is Irish.

Dick Van Dyke is #2 on the list. His Cockney accent is, indeed, horrible.

Michael Fassbender's character, Burke, from Jonah Hex, was the worst Irish accent I'd ever seen in a movie. What's funny is his mother is Irish. My guess is he was going for a Connacht accent, but failed horribly. He would often sound more "plain American" than he would Irish.

Can't believe that Rooney didn't make the list for Breakfast at Tiffany's, and also Michael Caine in Weatherman ugh. But I don't think Connery should've made the list, he doesn't try to alter his accent unlike the others 😬

Mickey Rourke as Whiplash

Steven Sagal as Torrez(Machete)

Jessica Alba as that US Customs Agent(Machete)

Most attempts at Scottish accents usually end up horrifically bad.

Christopher Lambert in the Highlander
Christopher Eccleston in GI Joe
Mel Gibson in Braveheart

I love ya. Always 'ave.

Boston accents are usually really overdone and exaggerated.

Originally posted by KingD19

Steven Sagal as Torrez(Machete)

Yep, that was probably the worst Mexican accent in film history.

Damon's Texas accent in True Grit.

Dunno what kind of accent it was supposed to be, but Ben Foster's in 3:10 to Yuma was awful.

I think American of some short.

Yeah, it was supposed to be a West Texas/Southwestern accent (AKA: the "Cowboy accent"😉. And yeah, it was terrible. Ben Foster's from Back East, so that might explain why he sucked so badly at it. Still, the man's an actor, so he should have at least been able to pull off a decent one. Maybe he just had a bad dialect coach, who knows.

What about Al Pacino in Scarface?

Originally posted by The Dark Cloud
What about Al Pacino in Scarface?

That was actually a pretty good Cuban accent. He did a great job sounding like a first-language Spanish speaker. And I would know, since Spanish was my first language.

I remember Christopher Lambert came up one time for his scottish accent in Hightlander.

I think Sir Sean Connery does great accents.Richard Gere is horrible in "The First Knight" and so was Kevin Costner in the Robin movies he can't make any english accent

Definitely have to give a nod to Elijah Wood and Sean Astin for their awful English accents in the LOTR trilogy.

Or Gere's lucky charms accent in The Jackal.