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Brad Pitt.....for the love of God make the man stop!!! Thank God there's a mute button on the remote!

Thank God someone agrees that Hugh Lauries accent is horrendous! Iam a Brit but to me it sounds fake and as if he were chewing his words as well as the scenery. The best American doing a Brit accent has to be Rene Zellwegger in Brigit Jones, absolutely perfect!

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Originally posted by Superpuffin:
Brad Pitt.....for the love of God make the man stop!!! Thank God there's a mute button on the remote!

He did a great Irish Gypsy accent in Snatch. I have no idea if it was at all realistic but it was entertaining.

i have heard that tv networks send people to nebraska to develop a nuetral american accent. I m not sure if this is true. I like the guy on king of the hill who has such a thick country accent you can't understand him. I know people like that and I think it is hilarious

WEll as for my top two, I'd say Viggo Mortensen in anything he does (I think he's had a few awesome and entirely believable accents, but Eastern Promises tops the bunch)...

And from (my dear, departed, favourite TV show) Jericho, there's Lennie James who plays Hawkins - I nearly fell off my chair when I found out he was actually British!

I have to put in a complaint about Americans in particular trying the Australian accent. I have yet to hear a Yank who can do the accent properly with out making us sound like where either Kiwi's, South Africans, English or some painful Americanised combination of the lot. I'd have to say that the only foreigners I have heard do our accent properly, apart form the Kiwis is the British and the only ones I can think of is Helena Bonham Carter and Kate Winslet in separate movies that I can't think of. Daniel Radcliffe did a pretty good job of it in December Boys but there were aspect of the British there.

So some of the worst Aussie accents
* Point Brake for so many reasons other than the accents but particularly the cop on the beach at the end. He didn't even make an effort.
* Meryl Streep in Evil Angels (painful)
* and lets not forget Mad Max 1 which was dubbed for American audience because it was thought they would have trouble understanding the Australian accent. (What the...?)

* But the truly worst I heard is form the 1963 John Wayne Movie "Donovan's Reef" where the Australian Navy arrives for some shore leave and you wouldn't have picked it if they hadn't have told you and rolled out every Australia cliche known to man from convict jokes to waltzing Matilda, but there were 3 or 4 main Australian: one had a horridly bastardised Irish accent, and the others were Americans with what sounded like some pretty severe speech impediments any accent was indistinguishable.