The other way around--well, Bob Hoskins in ROGER RABBIT and Kenneth and Emma in DEAD AGAIN were pretty good.
There are actually a lot of Brits (and Irish) that do great American accents. Colin Farrell's is good, Minnie Driver, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter come first to mind, and I have a teeny suspicion that Monty Python was taking the piss. Can't speak for offscreen accents, 'cause I don't watch much theatre. But onscreen? US doing UK? It's not all
Robin Hood,
but still.
points at JM and AD.
Love JM, I do, but his accent is flaky.
I rarely notice if someone is doing a bad USian accent.
I don't think
Mel Gibson
can do a convincing American accent...
AD actually is one of the few times I noticed a
bad
USian accent attempt. FWIW.
There are actually a lot of Brits (and Irish) that do great American accents.
Glenn Quinn.
And here I thought Minnie Driver was doing an atrocious Brit accent on Will and Grace a few weeks back. Fake or not, it was painful to listen to and sounded very affected.
But JM's UK accent is better than his US one. What the
hell
is that?
Bad American accents tend to have too much R.
"Ah'm a friend of Xanderrrr's, here."
I'm with ita. No offense to the Californians on the board, but some SoCal speak--the sorta mumbly bland type--bugs me after a while.