Coral

What accent was she trying? I don't remember an accent coming and going.

Coral

No, it just wasn't a well done accent. A co-worker of mine from S. Africa thought it was bad.

Daytripper

No shit. When I saw this post first thing I thought of was "MAN someone dug up an old thread!". Or Life cereal? The game of Life? Had no idea Life magazine was still in publication.

And Leonardo DiCaprio in "Blood Diamond"!? He was fantastic in that film.

hasslein

I can never find anyone that agrees with me, but I though Jody Foster in Silence of the Lambs was the worst ever...

Daytripper

What about Drew Barrymore in that Cinderella movie. Was it called "Ever After"?

Quatermass

Robert DeNiro in "Cape Fear"

hasslein

I forgot about that one.. That should've been top...

Daytripper

Huh!? What was wrong with his accent in that film? Never heard that one before.

paradicelost

Colin Farrell in "Daredevil" .
I agree with the Drew Barrymore in "Ever After" and Zellweger's accent to me wasn't that bad but her character just annoyed me overall.

Daytripper

Having not seen "Daredevil", I didn't even know Colin Farrell was in it. And I swear I don't even remember seeing him in the trailer. But yeah, agree with you 100% that Zellweger's accent was not the problem with her performance in "Cold Mountain". It was just an annoying character.

Thrush

He tries to pull of a southern accent and its an unmitigated disaster. It completely takes you out of the movie.

Drexl

The OP missed it, but if you go to the site, you'll see that she is on the list. It's right after Costner. Keanu Reeves for The Devil's Advocate is there too.

Daytripper

Really? And yet he managed to get an Oscar nomination for his performance.

And FWIW, it never took me out of the movie.

Rypro 525

i think they put did the list because of that bad accent

SkullOrchard

I'll agree with you. It was awful.

Rypro 525

thats actually his real irish accent in Daredevil

naitram

Christina Lindberg in "Sex and Fury"

devilshalo

Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart

Ash Ketchum

But Jodie Foster was great in it.

paradicelost

yeah I believe it was the first film where he used his real accent, at least according to the trivia on the Daredevil dvd. Kinda a response to someone who mentioned James Marsters in a thread about actors who had good fake "american" accents

foofighters7

I think it's more of the fact people do not hear the accent often, especially Americans, therefore when they hear it coming from Leo they pull back and think it's comical.

I know someone from South Africa and his accent is even more ridiculous sounding than Leo's did.

I think he did a very good job with pulling off such a goofy sounding accent to begin with. It's a tough one to do while keeping a dramatic tone.

Shouldn't be on the list.

Anubis2005X

Julianne Moore's accent in 30 Rock, yeesh...

Giles

Danny Nucci's over-accenting his Italian in Titanic- "whaaza you meana the spageetee is not aladentee?"

obscurelabel

Like Heston in Touch of Evil.

For all the criticism of his casting (see Ed Wood) plenty of people in Mexico are of Northern European ancestry (there were many, many German immigrants to Mexico) and it isn't far fetched that Heston's character had ties to the U.S. either through a parent or being schooled there, and thus spoke English without a Mexican/Spanish accent. It isn't in the script, but I'm sure Welles thought his audiences could figure this out without stating it explicitly.

My favorite is Jeff Bridges in The Vanishing. I don't know if it's an accurate Dutch (??) accent or not, but it sure sounds weird and out of place, and not in a way that helps the film.

Ash Ketchum

Yeah, and that was the one episode of 30 Rock I've seen and it turned me off of ever watching the series again.