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Worst Boston accents in movies?
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:24 am
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:24 am
I saw Catch Me if You Can again the other night. I really enjoy the movie but holy shite is Hanks's accent terrible. I think it's the worst Boston accent I've ever heard.
"KNAWCK KNAWCK" Just awful.
There are plenty of people from there that talk like a normal person, and I think it makes the movie less authentic if someone tries and can't do it correctly.
Anyone else have any candidates?
"KNAWCK KNAWCK" Just awful.
There are plenty of people from there that talk like a normal person, and I think it makes the movie less authentic if someone tries and can't do it correctly.
Anyone else have any candidates?
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Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:28 am to Sheriff Brackett
Are we restricted to Boston?
Dennis Quaid's Nola accent in the Big Easy is pretty bad
Dennis Quaid's Nola accent in the Big Easy is pretty bad
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:30 am to Sheriff Brackett
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are tied. Honorable mention goes to Marky Mark.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:32 am to sqerty
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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are tied. Honorable mention goes to Marky Mark.
Aren't all three of them actually from Boston?
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:58 am to Sheriff Brackett
Forest Whitaker in Arrival
Posted on 6/27/25 at 12:04 pm to Sheriff Brackett
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There are plenty of people from there that talk like a normal person, and I think it makes the movie less authentic if someone tries and can't do it correctly.
I listen to too much Bill Simmons and exhausted of any complaints about the Boston accent in movies. At least the bad attempts are in the ball park to what the Boston accent sounds like
There has never been a movie that even remotely sounds like a New Orleans accent. At this point, i just want one movie to have a real yat in there just to confuse the rest of the country
Posted on 6/27/25 at 12:09 pm to Sheriff Brackett
Kevin Costner in Thirteen Days. I love the movie, but the accent grates me a little.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 12:22 pm to sqerty
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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are tied. Honorable mention goes to Marky Mark.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 12:27 pm to Sheriff Brackett
funny you bring this up now. "The Perfect Storm" was on the other night and Diane Lane's fake NE accent was almost comical in its awfulness.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 12:31 pm to Sheriff Brackett
Jack Nicholson going in and out of his Boston accent in the departed.
His “what can I use you fah” was like hearing nails on a chalkboard.
Leo’s wasn’t that good either come to think of it.
His “what can I use you fah” was like hearing nails on a chalkboard.
Leo’s wasn’t that good either come to think of it.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 12:34 pm to Dire Wolf
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There has never been a movie that even remotely sounds like a New Orleans accent. At this point, i just want one movie to have a real yat in there just to confuse the rest of the country
Hollywood has gotten New Orleans and Cajun accents so wrong for so long that the well is kind of poisoned at this point. Most people think New Orleanians speak with a Georgia drawl because that's how it's often portrayed in film and the 1981 film Southern Comfort is one of the few off the top of my head that actually got Cajun accents right.
As said, most audience members would be thoroughly confused if a movie used actual yat accents in a film set in New Orleans. There'd probably need to be some sort of expository scene early on where an out-of-owner asks someone something like "Why does everyone here sound like they're from Brooklyn?" and it gets explained to them.
(Here's a fun clip I came upon recently of a young Will Clark telling the story of his first big league at bat and home run off of Nolan Ryan ( LINK). Most people hearing him talk would think he was from the Northeast, not born and raised in New Orleans/ Old Metairie.)
Posted on 6/27/25 at 12:46 pm to IggyReilly
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As said, most audience members would be thoroughly confused if a movie used actual yat accents in a film set in New Orleans. There'd probably need to be some sort of expository scene early on where an out-of-owner asks someone something like "Why does everyone here sound like they're from Brooklyn?" and it gets explained to them.
Confederacy of Dunces had to put it in the prologue
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“There is a New Orleans city accent … associated with downtown New Orleans, particularly with the German and Irish Third Ward, that is hard to distinguish from the accent of Hoboken, Jersey City, and Astoria, Long Island, where the Al Smith inflection, extinct in Manhattan, has taken refuge. The reason, as you might expect, is that the same stocks that brought the accent to Manhattan imposed it on New Orleans.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 12:47 pm to Sheriff Brackett
Rob Morrow Quiz Show. Brilliant movie, but he tried too hard.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 12:57 pm to Sheriff Brackett
George Jung's mom in Blow, played by Rachel Griffiths. I'm not sure if her accent was that bad, or I just hated the character.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 12:57 pm to Sheriff Brackett
Not a movie, but no one will ever top Michael Rappaport in Justified.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 12:58 pm to SCLSUMuddogs
quote:Yes. I went to college in Boston and their accents are spot on.
Aren't all three of them actually from Boston?
Posted on 6/27/25 at 1:13 pm to TheFonz
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Kevin Costner in Thirteen Days.
Came to post this. It’s just flat awful.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 1:14 pm to boston vol
Diane Lane in The Perfect Storm deserves a mention.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 1:19 pm to coolpapaboze
quote:That’s funny, I used to be a janitor at a college in Boston.
Yes. I went to college in Boston and their accents are spot on.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 1:31 pm to SCLSUMuddogs
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Aren't all three of them actually from Boston?
And they talk like regular vanilla toast folk unless they are playing a character from Boston...then they speak in Limericks.
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