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brainee 03-22-22 01:32 PM
Re: Worst accent fail?
 
Originally Posted by Noonan (Post 14077980)
Basically anyone not from Boston trying to sound like they are from Boston. Not literally everyone from the city sounds like the "your cousin, from Boston" guy. See: most actors from Departed and The Town.
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt (being a smart self-aware comedy and the actress being a great one) that it was intentionally done bad ... but Julianne Moore doing a Boston accent on 30 Rock was awful:



I liked the show, but True Blood had a number of questionable Southern accents. Though it kind of worked for the show, with exaggerated over-the-top accents fitting in with all the other ways the show was over-the-top (with sex, violence, melodrama).

rocket1312 03-22-22 09:07 PM
Re: Worst accent fail?
 
Originally Posted by Traxan (Post 14077137)
Who in your opinion blew it the worst on their character's accent? For me it was David Ogden Steirs' non-Bostonian accent on MASH. I mean it was a repeated plot point that he was from Boston but the accent was nowhere near it.
Winchester's accent wasn't supposed to be the stereotypical South Boston accent. It was supposed to be the upper crust Brahmin accent, which is much closer to an English accent.

Edit: Sorry, didn't notice this had been pointed out multiple times already!

Traxan 03-22-22 11:47 PM
Re: Worst accent fail?
 
Originally Posted by rocket1312 (Post 14078406)
Winchester's accent wasn't supposed to be the stereotypical South Boston accent. It was supposed to be the upper crust Brahmin accent, which is much closer to an English accent.

Edit: Sorry, didn't notice this had been pointed out multiple times already!
Winchester,a Southie? I beg your pardon, suh!

Coral 03-23-22 08:00 PM
Re: Worst accent fail?
 
Winchester may have been wicked smaht, but you wont find him at a Dunkin' Donuts.

Julianne Moore in 30 Rock is an excellent example. That was horrible.

jpcamb 03-24-22 09:12 AM
Re: Worst accent fail?
 
has anyone mentioned Inventing Anna? It's pretty close to a fail aside for the fact the real Anna more or less had a garbage accent as well.

Michael Corvin 03-24-22 08:00 PM
Re: Worst accent fail?
 
Originally Posted by Jay G. (Post 14077326)
Gabrielle Anwar's Irish accent on Burn Notice. I think it didn't survive past the pilot.
I started a rewatch recently and holy crap that threw me for a loop. I had forgotten all about it. It was... not good.

tanman 04-02-22 11:57 PM
Re: Worst accent fail?
 
Originally Posted by BuckNaked2k (Post 14077800)
I just learned about that. I had no idea that it was so deliberate.

tanman 04-02-22 11:58 PM
Re: Worst accent fail?
 
I know we're talking TV accents but others have brought movie accents up.

Isn't Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent in Mary Poppins considered one of the worst ever? Hasn't he had to apologize for it multiple times?


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