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I can never watch him in a movie without seeing an old schoolmate of mine who is the spitting image of him. Makes it pretty funny since his roles are a lot like the phases this mate goes through too. :))
What about Gwyneth Palthrow in Sliding Doors? I mean I know her accent is a million times better than mine, but I'm not sure it passes for 'local'. Did it? (I don't think I have the ears to judge)
Slack, that was in that Dracula movie with Gary Oldman and Winona and Anthony Hopkins. Maybe directed by Coppola? It was the first thing I thought of when I read the title of this thread. His accent would go away, come back, go away...It was really annoying.
I remember reading a review of Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing which featured this gem: "As for Keanu Reeves, he takes off his shirt really well. Shame about the acting, though". I think that holds true to this very day.
Slightly off-topic, but it was fun watching Christopher Lambert impersonate a Scotsman with a thick French accent while Sean Connery played an Egyptian by way of Spain with a brogue in the original Highlander film. Linguistic borderline personality disorder, that one.
...anyone remember shitty-shitty-bang-bang? I think I can still sing all of those songs!
I think Dick Van Dyke's Mary Poppins accent wwas my barometer for British accents when I was little. REAL British accents sounded fake to me for a few years.
I think James Coburn has to be the master of terrible accents.
I've probably seen The Great Escape about a hundred times and yet I only realised a few months ago that he was playing an Australian.
If I remember correctly he also plays an Irishman in Fistful of Dynamite. Dear oh dear.
Talking about Gwyneth: I've never really liked her in anything I've seen her in because she's always seemed so stiff. After seeing Iron Man I think the stiffness might come from doing that bloody accent all the time. I found American Gwyneth to be much more likeable.
IIRC, Winona F. Ryder does a crappy English accent in Dracula, too, though it may have paled next to Keanu's. All through that movie I remember thinking that perhaps he thought he was in Bill and Ted's Transylvanian Adventure.
bmarkey, that quote made me laugh and laugh. Thank you.
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