Actors can be brilliant at times - wonderful performances that leave a last impression on us for the rest of our lives. However they can also have terrible, terrible moments. Accents can be kind of important but sometimes they go horribly wrong.
Ray Winstone in The Departed [What is this? I mean really? Ray Winstone has one accent, he's like a London Sean Connery]
Tom Cruise in Far And Away ["I've got a pot of gold, diddley dee" - Cruise channels the spirit of a leprechaun]
Robert Duvall in A Shot At Glory [Scottish accents seem to cause trouble...]
Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own [Actually, Irish accents do as well. At least he improved in Snatch]
Other notable ones:
Sean Connery in just about everything.
Quentin Tarantino's, erm, Australian/South African hybrid in Django Unchained.
Gerard Butler's Irish accent in P.S. I Love You is quite something.
Don Cheadle's cockney in the Ocean's franchise is hilarious.
I'm not a fan of Mike Myers' Scottish accent in Shrek - it sounds like a terrible parody.
John Malkovich's Russian accent in Rounders is pretty bad.
Post your own. There must be many more that I've not seen or have slipped my mind.
Ray Winstone in The Departed [What is this? I mean really? Ray Winstone has one accent, he's like a London Sean Connery]
Tom Cruise in Far And Away ["I've got a pot of gold, diddley dee" - Cruise channels the spirit of a leprechaun]
Robert Duvall in A Shot At Glory [Scottish accents seem to cause trouble...]
Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own [Actually, Irish accents do as well. At least he improved in Snatch]
Other notable ones:
Sean Connery in just about everything.
Quentin Tarantino's, erm, Australian/South African hybrid in Django Unchained.
Gerard Butler's Irish accent in P.S. I Love You is quite something.
Don Cheadle's cockney in the Ocean's franchise is hilarious.
I'm not a fan of Mike Myers' Scottish accent in Shrek - it sounds like a terrible parody.
John Malkovich's Russian accent in Rounders is pretty bad.
Post your own. There must be many more that I've not seen or have slipped my mind.