Happy Face 29 Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 endured Mary Poppins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 41379 Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 Whaaaat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. It's not a bad English accent though. He tried to do one but it was so bad that the director told him not to bother and just use his own voice. His American accent is one of the truly crap things about that film that make it truly great. McNulty's English accent in that episode of the Wire is pretty shocking considering that Dominic West is English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marshall-Baines Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 The Geordie lad in Green Street trying to be a cockney. Terrible. Was going to say that. Absolutely shocking. It's my speciality I've spent so much time down there, I can do an authentic generic London accent no problem at all. Especially when I'm down there and I've had a few. Can dae a brand new Glasgow wan anaww. Moxey's scouse accent (he's a Londoner) is pretty shite to the trained ear as well, although Barry (another Londoner) does an absolutely bang on black countroi one, it's one accent I can't do, and West Country. Oz's son, Rod full blown mackem yet passed off as being brought up in Walker oh dear, and also Spuggie, how the fuck they could pass that off as Byker is anyones guess. Used to wind me up that the country thought that was a geordie accent. Brigitte Jones generic posh English accent is a bit ropey too imo. The funniest one although intended to be funny, was the English copper who was a spy pretending to be french in Allo Allo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Whaaaat? Mary Poppins is one of the most enjoyable films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 41379 Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 Whaaaat? Mary Poppins is one of the most enjoyable films. http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?...st&p=866628 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marshall-Baines Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Christopher Lambert's Scottish accent was comedic as well in Highlander. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruler of Planet Houston 1 Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 "Russian" sniper Jude Law in enemy at the gates the only movie i've ever walked out of in a cinema, awful Cracking film that. Why does this get slated for discarding the native tongue and adding subtitles, yet Valkyrie (which is shit) gets applauded for doing exactly the same? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Don Cheadle's attempt at cockney almost spoils Oceans 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruler of Planet Houston 1 Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 It's exactly the same on Valkyrie. Mr Cruise makes no attempt to put on anything other than his normal US accent because in reality, he would have had to speak fluent German all the way through. But everyone said it was an act of genius in doing so! Exactly the same only US instead of Brit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shackbleep 0 Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Richard Gere's Irish accent in The Jackal. Fuck me it was insulting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Okay, I'll explain it to you....I quite enjoyed Valkyrie and Enemy at the Gates. I think you guys are missing the point a bit - why would Russians or Germans speak to each other in English with accents? Because they don't want to or can't have them speaking in the actual language the idea is to have the characters communicate with each other in a way that is natural, and not have comedy accents. Same with Roman films, you don't have everyone doing their best Mario Brothers impersonations in Gladiator do you?! (Or Manuel in the case of 'The Spaniard' Maximus!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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