Speaking of accents, I heard Rachel Weiz's (Evy from Mommy) real voice, man that was a bit of a shock, I always thought she was british.

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sean connery in highlander

he didn't even try to sound spanish

Wha?




The first time i saw "Highlander" i kept thinking to myself "why does he keep calling him 'spaniard' when he is clearly scottish?"

Which begs the question: "Why cast Sean Connery in a movie called Highlander and have him NOT play a Scottish guy?"

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Mommy?!?

Ya know, thats a damn good question.

If we look at Highlander a bit further we can rip a hole in the Space/Time Continuum.

Sean Connery played a character who was an Egyptian, masquerading as a Spaniard...and yet he has a Scottish accent.

Christopher Lambert plays a Scottsman...and yet he has a French accent.

Clancy Brown plays a character who originated from Russia...with an American accent.

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Nicolas Cage in Con Air. Yikes. He did pretty good in Raising Arizona, not sure what happened.

While the truth is probably that the actors/director just didn't care, a viewer could easily conclude that living for hundreds (or thousands) of years in many different countries could have a weird effect on someone's accent. I mean, Ramirez and the Kurgan were born before the English language even existed. And the weird accent issue is addressed in the movie.

Cop: "You talk funny, Nash. Where are you from?"
Macleod: "Lots of different places."

Worst accent of all time:

1. Keanu Reeves in "The Devil's Advocate" - horrible, cringe-worthy
2. Nic Cage in "Con Air"

even though I love the movie, Costner's Boston accent in "Thirteen Days" is really terrible as well.

Same here.

Rachel Weisz is English.

From IMDB:

I must say that Sean Connery, Keanu Reeves and Kevin Costner have got to be the most one note and leaden performers in Hollywood today, in nearly all of their movies they mostly play themselves and do not really act (although Sean Connery has a strong presence, plus to be fair he acted well in the earlier Bond films and some 70s movies).

Brad Pitt had a pretty bad accent in Seven Years in Tibet, a passable one in The Devil's Own and an intentionally hilarious dialect in Snatch. Pretty open and shut really.

Natalie Portman's accent was borderline bad but still passable in V for Vendetta. I did not mind Gwyneth Paltrow's British accent in Sliding Doors either.

But one of the worst or most inconsistant accents in living mermory has got to be Richard Attenborough playing the "Scottish" John Hammond in Jurassic Park. Maybe it was to do with bad editing or bad directing, but Attenborough's accent was very hard to pin down and kept changing from region to region.

John Hammond was supposed to be Scottish?

Why not just hire Sean Connery?

was that a hint of sarcasm I noted in your posting...

Well i presume you mean The Mummy films. She is English...maybe thats why she does a good english accent.

Its interesting reading some of the opinions people have. Personally i think one of the worst i have ever heard was Tommy Lee Jones in Blown Away. That Irish accent was bloody awful. I didn't think that Brad Pitt's was bad at all in Snatch however. My brother-in-law is a paddy and some of his mates sound just the same. I also thought that Pete Postlethwaite in the Usual Suspects was very good. I don't think we ever find out where the character is from...so it makes it more interesting. Possibly Turkish as Keyser Soze is suppossed to be from that neck of the woods....i would not say Japanese as someone else suggested. Also Don Cheadle does a terrible English accent on par with Dick Van Dyke's. For many years people in the UK have always used Dicks bad accent as a guage for badness....now they have Don's as well.

As for Sean Connery, well it appears that he gave up giving a shit about accents a long time ago....and thats cool with me. I don't expect him to try anymore and i still enjoy his performances. I thought the Hunt for Red October was excellent and the lack of accent didn't distract at all. Also another bad Irish was Richard Gere in the Jackal. It appears that American actors have a hard time picking this accent up.

I also have to say that the entire cast of Brits that appeared in Black Hawk Down did awful jobs. Ewan McGregor, Ewan Bremner, Orlando Bloom, Jason Isaacs, Matthew Marsden, Ioan Gruffudd...they all did terrible American accents.

I still think that one of the best people for accents is Gary Oldman. The guy is amazing in every role...no matter how bad the overall film might be. Unlike say Christopher Walken who does the same accent in every film...but again is brilliant in every part he plays.

I don't remember which actors in particular, but the accents in JFK were irritating.

I can't stand bad fake southern accents.

Well, Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg are both from Boston so I think they will be pretty good.

Where is Angelina Jolie in Alexander?

He's so good i don't even know what his actual accent sounds like.

He has a typical english accent.

Pretty much the whole cast of All the King's Men. I had no idea of what Sean Penn said for a 5th of the movie.