And the winner of the worst Scottish accent is

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Worst Scots film accents decided
Christopher Lambert
Owner of the least convincing on-screen Scottish accent
Scottish filmgoers have voted Christopher Lambert, in the film Highlander, as the owner of the least convincing Scottish on-screen accent.

The actor was a resounding winner with 42% of the vote.

Mel Gibson came in second place with 27%, for his portrayal of William Wallace in the film Braveheart.

Several people in the online survey voted for Sean Connery, but these were discounted as the actor is Scottish.

The survey of 1700 film-goers in Scotland was undertaken by a film memorabilia website, AsWornIn.com.

WORST SCOTS FILM ACCENTS
Christopher Lambert - Connor MacLeod in Highlander
Mel Gibson - William Wallace in Braveheart
Robin Williams - Mrs Doubtfire
Jessica Lange - Mary MacGregor in Rob Roy
Michael Caine - Alan Breck in Kidnapped

The company’s director, Jeremy Angel, said: "An American audience is typically unaware of just how wide of the mark many of these attempts at Scottish accents are.

"For some of our Scottish staff - and customers - these are source of irritation and amusement in equal measure. "

Highlander, released in 1986, was the saga of immortal Scotsman Connor Macleod, one of a race of immortals who could only die when beheaded with a sword.

Other nominees just shy of the top five included: Alec Guinness in Tunes Of Glory; Eric Stoltz in Rob Roy; Mike Myers in Shrek; Richard Attenborough in Jurassic Park, and Robert Duvall in A Shot at Glory. [/quote]

(I bolded my favourite part)

I wonder if there’s a similar one for the worst Irish accents.

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Whatever. :unamused: All Brits sound funny.

:wink:

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Natascha McElhone’s Northern Irish accent in “Ronin” is truly awful, as is Richard Gere’s in “The Jackal”.

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Brad Pitt’s accent is terrible in The Devil’s Own, but he more than makes up for it in Snatch.

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Christopher Lambert in Highlander wasn’t supposed to be doing a Scottish accent, he had travelled a lot and picked up lots of accents.
Robbin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire wasn’t supposed to be doing a good accent either. The bad accent was part of the character.

Fail on those two.

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I once saw an episode of the Hulk Hogan classic TV show “Thunder in Paradise”, where are hero took on the might of the Scottish army and their leader McHadrian. If you believe the show, (and who wouldn’t, its on TV see?), the Scottish army train by tossing cabers and stuff.

Anyway, I’m pretty sure there would have been some awesome Scots accents in there.

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James Doohan got robbed!

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[quote=“Big Fluffy Matthew”]Christopher Lambert in Highlander wasn’t supposed to be doing a Scottish accent, he had travelled a lot and picked up lots of accents.
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Not before he finds out he’s immortal and he’s still hanging about with his Clan MacLeod. He should just have a Scottish accent there.

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Sandman does a really bad imitation too.

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That’s nonsense.
I’ve got the worst Scottish accent. As me gran does not hesitate to remind me.
Same with the damn Geordies, which is the other half to play off.
Linguistic lineage is the mother of all payback.

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Christophe Lambert: “Ahh, ma bonnie wee Heathirrr.” Dude! I was all like, “Yo, dude, like lose the fake Scotch, holmes!” when I saw that one.

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Idea - Couldn’t we have a Scottish accent competition at the Comedy Club?

By the way - Brad Pitt’s attempt at an Austrian accent in Seven Years in Tibet was really awful - as was the whole film, actually. (Arnold Schwarzenegger does a much better one :wink: )