OK, two movies where he played English characters. And IIRC, he didn't exactly have a good accent in CCBB, either.

Hot Fuss isn't doing well?

I guess that's not the point. It's arguable that Reeves's accent in Dracula isn't recognizable as human speech, but I haven't seen Mary Poppins in a while.

I saw both Sin City and Upside of Anger during the weekend. I enjoyed Sin City, although I was perhaps not as transported by it as other people have. The sheer pulpiness of it all got to be a bit too much after a while, and the Bruce Willis segment had me going "eww! She was friggin' 11 years-old when you last saw her, you perv!". I didn't find the gore that bothersome because it was so stylized--much less than the extent I was bothered by Kill Bill anyway. What I liked the best were the flashes of ultra-morbid humor, which was why I liked the Marv segment and the whole give-and-take between Clive Owen and Benicio Del Toro's characters.

Upside of Anger had some terrific performances, but it kind of fell apart at the end due to its dubious conceit. NYT review had said that the main "romance", such as it is, was like Crash Davis from Bull Durham (gone to seed) and Joan Allen's character from Ice Storm got together, which I thought was very apt.

To put it in perspective, while Reeves' hypothetical British accent was pretty bad, it got lost amidst Anthony Hopkins' fits of maniacal laughter, Gary Oldman's facial transformations, and Sadie Frost sailing about trailing yards of cloth like one of the martial artists in Hero.

Whereas in a move that had flying merry-go-round horses, kids jumping into chalk paintings, and Julie Andrews smacking down her nanny competition with a wind tunnel, people would overlook all the fantastical scenes to wince and say "Wow, is that accent BAD!"

I watched A Tale of Two Sisters last night. It's a Korean horror/psychological thriller. It was intriguing (is that right?). I liked it much better than Ringu or Ju-On (then again, I didn't really care for either of those). I thought this one was better because there was an actual story, and an interesting one at that.

Tsk. They don't mention one of my Best Accents of All Time: Miranda Richardson in The Prophet. She is indistinguishable from a Louisiana girl.

I think one of the better accents from someone whom you would not expect it is in Tomorrow Is Forever, where Natalie Wood, in her first credited film role, does an excellent Austrian accent at the age of eight.

Saw Sin City the other night and I enjoyed it, but it was a good deal darker than my tastes normally run. While it would have been worse if the violence hadn't been stylized, I still have an active enough imagination that certain scenes still turned my stomach.

I do have to wonder what is up with Frank Miller and guys getting shot/stabbed/etc in the crotch though, because it seemed to happen every five minutes.

And I actually kind of liked Marv, despite him being responsible for most of the really grotesque stuff.