How could you forget Dick Van Dyke!!?!
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Spike: You pissed in the Big Man's Chair? That's fantastic! Gunn: Spike, can you please turn off that warm fuzzy? Spike: What, the Lorne thing? Worn off. I just think that's bloody fabulous.
'Life of the Party'
Spoilage Lite - The Return
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Jon B. - Jun 20, 2006 7:07:13 pm PDT #587 of 3639
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2006 8:23:58 pm PDT #588 of 3639
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Off the top of my head I add Colin Farrell on the faking Brit side, and know there are others but my mind is completely blank right now. I think I've heard Liam Neeson be decent too.
Is there a generic British accent, in the way that there is (you know, Des Moines) in the States?
There's the old school BBC accent (received pronunciation, I think), but British TV uses a wider range of accents than US TV does.
Scrappy - Jun 21, 2006 7:10:49 am PDT #589 of 3639
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Renee Zellweger both got props from the British for their accents, as I recall.
Jesse - Jun 21, 2006 12:08:07 pm PDT #590 of 3639
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't think I've heard Colin Farrell do a great US accent yet.
Scrappy - Jun 21, 2006 1:18:24 pm PDT #591 of 3639
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
He does an excellent Southern accent in Tigerland and a good NY/Queens accent in Phone Booth.
Narrator - Jun 21, 2006 2:22:55 pm PDT #592 of 3639
The evil is this way?
Wonder how he'll sound in "Miami Vice"
Jesse - Jun 22, 2006 3:09:23 am PDT #593 of 3639
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think I thought the accent wasn't great in Phone Booth, but I don't really remember. Have never seen Tigerland.
§ ita § - Jun 22, 2006 3:55:27 am PDT #594 of 3639
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think I saw him first in either Tigerland or the cowboy movie, and had no idea he wasn't American. Then I started liking him in Minority Report and in the course of normal research found out his nationality.
sumi - Jun 22, 2006 4:51:40 am PDT #595 of 3639
Art Crawl!!!
I thought his accent was pretty good in Tigerland but it did slip here and there.
arby - Jun 22, 2006 8:53:04 am PDT #596 of 3639
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)
You know who's terrible at doing an American accent? Cary Elwes. His accent in The X-Files was so bad it stuck out like a sore thumb. Although he must have gotten better at it because for the most part it wasn't so bad in Saw. (What? The BF dragged me to that movie and in a moment of temporary insanity I agreed.)