Not sure if there is a thread on this already, but I just watched a film called The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, made in 1939 and starring Bet Davis and Errol Flynn.
At one point (circa 1599 and in the middle of the 9 years war) the Earl of Essex is sent to lead an army in Ireland. He met the Earl of Tyrone who spoke with an accent which was a cross between Cockney and Kerry.
Don't think the Tyrone accent can be carried off ..
brad Pitt in a devils own was suppose to be from 'outside cookstown' ... Jesus wept
Both of the Murphy brothers in Boondock Saints.....
Tam Cruise, Far and Away. Oh Sweet Jaysus.
Brad Pitt - Devil's Own
Connery - Darby O'Gill
Cameran Diaz .. gangs of New York
Julia Roberts ... Michael Collins
Gerard Butler in 'PS I love you' knocks the rest into a cocked hat.
Clever work with Kerry accent here:
Shtar Wars...The Kingdom Shtrikes Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9kLOPAusWM
Not a movie but some of the Irish accents in Sons of Anarchy are fuckin brutal.
Quote from: BennyCake on January 04, 2017, 09:50:05 PM
Tam Cruise, Far and Away. Oh Sweet Jaysus.
100% agree, awful.
Quote from: Puckoon on January 05, 2017, 03:54:03 AM
Not a movie but some of the Irish accents in Sons of Anarchy are fuckin brutal.
This
Irish man Pierce Brosnan in Evelyn.
No mention of Tommy Lee Jones in Blown away???
f**king worse than Tam Cruise by a country mile...
Heroes season 2 when they were in Ireland were awful accents and the cartoon Captain Planet in Belfast.
Not a movie, but Sam Neills accent was terrible in Peaky Blinders.
Quote from: leenie on January 04, 2017, 09:21:02 PM
Don't think the Tyrone accent can be carried off ..
brad Pitt in a devils own was suppose to be from 'outside cookstown' ... Jesus wept
I think he also said something like on the shores of Lough Neagh or near the lough. That'd be Ardboe, I suppose. Jaysus, can you imagine a real Ardboe accent in a lead role of a Hollywood movie?
Quote from: Bord na Mona man on January 04, 2017, 11:09:46 PM
Gerard Butler in 'PS I love you' knocks the rest into a cocked hat.
He has the same accent in every film, no matter the role.
Quote from: nrico2006 on January 05, 2017, 12:07:36 PM
Not a movie, but Sam Neills accent was terrible in Peaky Blinders.
Especially poor considering his early years in Omagh.
The westmeath accent
Brad Pitt wasnt that bad, Richard Gere in the Jackal well thats worth a watch for comedy value
The whole cast of Alexander!
Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on January 05, 2017, 12:48:40 PM
Brad Pitt wasnt that bad, Richard Gere in the Jackal well thats worth a watch for comedy value
Oi tink you mean "in da Jackal". He was Declan somebody from recollection - good call, he was brutal!
Julia Roberts as Kitty Kiernan in Michael Collins was no great shakes either.
Connery should get a mention for the untouchables for not even trying but because he was brilliant in a fantastic film Ill let him off.
On the flip side I thought Nicholas Clays' Irish accent in Evil under the sun to be spot on.
Paddy O'Brien, the Irish terrorist in the Austin Powers movie.
"They're always after me lucky charms".
Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on January 05, 2017, 12:49:40 PM
The whole cast of Alexander!
But a lot of them were just using their own accent.
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Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on January 05, 2017, 12:48:40 PM
Brad Pitt wasnt that bad, Richard Gere in the Jackal well thats worth a watch for comedy value
Oi tink you mean "in da Jackal". He was Declan somebody from recollection - good call, he was brutal!
Julia Roberts as Kitty Kiernan in Michael Collins was no great shakes either.
Julia has the distinction of butchering it a second time in Mary Reilly.
Kevin spacey .. ordinary decent criminal
Michael j fox .. back to the future 3
Matthew Goode ... leap year ( one of the worst films I've ever encountered )
Quote from: Tony Baloney on January 05, 2017, 12:54:12 PM
Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on January 05, 2017, 12:48:40 PM
Brad Pitt wasnt that bad, Richard Gere in the Jackal well thats worth a watch for comedy value
Oi tink you mean "in da Jackal". He was Declan somebody from recollection - good call, he was brutal!
Julia Roberts as Kitty Kiernan in Michael Collins was no great shakes either.
Declan Mulqueen if I remember correctly. "He's after da feeerst laydee"
Quote from: Puckoon on January 05, 2017, 03:54:03 AM
Not a movie but some of the Irish accents in Sons of Anarchy are fuckin brutal.
100% agree. The worst I have ever heard.
Personally, didn't think Brad Pitt's accent was the worst in Devils Own ( a hugely underrated film imo)
Saw a movie there over the Christmas with Mickey Rooney in it playing an Irishman . Dirty Dozen type war movie with Stuart Granger in it. Rooney's accent was awful.
Quote from: leenie on January 05, 2017, 02:22:41 PM
Kevin spacey .. ordinary decent criminal
Michael j fox .. back to the future 3
Matthew Goode ... leap year ( one of the worst films I've ever encountered )
Thats because you're a man.
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Kevin spacey .. ordinary decent criminal
Michael j fox .. back to the future 3
Matthew Goode ... leap year ( one of the worst films I've ever encountered )
Thats because you're a man.
I quite enjoyed that film and watched it twice. Leenie, would you have fallen for the "heads I win tails you loose line?
What's a loose line.?
Being FEMALE ... I wouldn't fall for heads I win , tails you lose ...
Oops!
I thought women would lap that sort of film up.
Well, and some macho, knuckle dragging, low-brow, street fighters like myself.
R2D2 was apparently from Swatragh. Nailed it I thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUc2fsZDZZk
Quote from: theticklemister on January 05, 2017, 06:48:32 PM
Yip Tommy Lee Jones in Blown Away.
Think at wan stage he blows up a wall in his prison cell and then just walks out free. Some boy, must have been all the knowledge he had in the FBI with the Fugitive.
What about Sean Bean in that film Ronin. Love him but a shit accent.
He played a brit and used his own accent in Ronin.
Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on January 05, 2017, 12:49:40 PM
The whole cast of Alexander!
Ha, including Colin Farrell ..
Still cant understand why the feck everyone had an Irish accent in Ancient Greece :o
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Quote from: leenie on January 05, 2017, 02:22:41 PM
Kevin spacey .. ordinary decent criminal
Michael j fox .. back to the future 3
Matthew Goode ... leap year ( one of the worst films I've ever encountered )
Thats because you're a man.
I quite enjoyed that film and watched it twice. Leenie, would you have fallen for the "heads I win tails you loose line?
What's a loose line.?
Being FEMALE ... I wouldn't fall for heads I win , tails you lose ...
Oops!
I thought women would lap that sort of film up.
Not at all stereotyping ...
Are you joking orior ?
If anyone hasn't seen this film .. here's the premise.. American doll decides to come to Ireland to propose to Boyfriend on the 29th feb hence leap year but plane is diverted to wales cause there's a wile storm and obviously there no flights at all to Ireland so the American hires a boat ( which can withhold the storm) anyway thon Doll was looking to get to Dublin but sure didn't she land in dingle. At this point I ask you to bear in mind wales and dingle and how far apart they are.. so this Doll is in dingle which happens to also have the cliffs of mohair has a back drop.. she goes to the local and there's 5 drunk men in it . She's looking a bus to Dublin but the last bus from dingle to Dublin was 1987 anyway the barman ( Matthew Goode) is all hostile and stuff , gives her a room for the night but being Ireland the electrics are from the 1940's , she goes to charge her blackberry and the whole town goes dark .. anyway the next day the barman in his banger car starts to take her to Dublin .. they come across cows blocking the road .. she has to chase them , car ends up in river .. now are you still with me , she tries to hitch a lift and the dudes steal her cases which are Luis vouton , ( this is recurring joke throughout that she has named her suitcase) anyway the get to bus station and miss the only bus that goes .. and have to stay in a b&b but have to pretend to b married ... cause u know the whole living in sin .. anyway the next day they go to get a bus , but being a Sunday there's no buses .. they head off walking and it's hail stoning so they run into church and there's a wedding which they get invited to and the reception is in a marquee up a mountain in Wicklow on the 28thfeb ( bearing in mind it's winter ) Anyway she gets to Dublin but the twist is he proposes , she says yes , goes home but realises she doesn't love him but the Irish barman (played by an Englishman )
I have to see this film after reading this review. The cliffs of mohair alone....
TL Jones in Blown Away and Tom Cruise in Far and Away. Woeful acting and both terrible films. Blown Away was the first movie, I saw in a cinema, that I left in the middle of. Leap year is also atrocious
Colin Farrell - The Recruit
Brendan Gleeson - Green Zone