Marvel Cinematic Universe

"Yer a corkah Shannon, ye really arrrr".

Terrific

I've always had a soft spot for when actors just give up on accents halfway through a film. I always wonder why they never get them to ADR it. Someone mentioned Connery starting Untouchables with a bit of an Irish lilt which is quickly discarded in favour of "Sean Connery's accent". But Fassbender in X-Men starts off German, morphs sort-of into English, and occassionally sounds Irish. Meanwhile in Robin Hood, clearly Ridley Scott asked which region of England Russell Crowe's accent was going to be from, and Crowe replied "yes".

It's weird though, because they often don't shoot films chronologically.

Connery is one of those actors where I'm fine if he doesn't really bother with the accent... I actually think that a hint of Irish or Russian at the start, and then just being Connery was fine in those movies. I mean, he's Sean Connery, you don't want him to sound like anyone else.

It's when the serious actors try and do proper accents and fail that it stands out.

His accent in Silent Hill is more disturbing than anything else in the film.

Fassy Fassbender was the victim of reshoots and a director changing his mind about what accent he should do, which is why he veers around from his own accent to all sorts.  They could've ADRed it, but First Class was a rush job all the way.

Do you know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightning?

She can be blamed for the accent so bad they just plain didn’t bother in the sequels though.

Surely Aiden Gillen's schizophrenic accent in GoT gets a mention

Aiden Gillen at the start of Batman too.

In fact just Aiden Gillen. He's rubbish.

Yeah it's down to Wesley Snipes, who for any flaws he possessed as an actor, at least in the '90s possessed an uncanny ability to deliver extremely cheesy lines in a way where he utterly believed them and they sounded amazing as a result - and for me are now stuck in my head permanently. Another example is Passenger 57 and "Always bet on black", which is is a cheesy-as-fuck line but he made it sound great.

It also helps that it was just such a great summary of Deacon Frost's intense try-hard attitude through the whole movie.

He was right though. Always bet on black, because he was a black man playing a black man who saved the day and most of the baddies were white, which is the opposite to black.

We may be talking at cross-purposes because I edited my post in a confusing way lol, I was referring to the original line mentioned ("Some motherfuckers are always ice-skating uphill") not "Always bet on black". Deacon Frost is the badguy in Blade, not the main character in Passenger 57 (who the internet tells me is called John Cutter).

I'm well aware that this conversation has veered wildly off the alleged thread topic (the MCU), onto a conversation about shit accents, and now is talking about cheesy kiss-off lines in movies, but I do want to flag up what is perhaps the worst example of this artform. I talk, of course, about the can't-decide-if-it's-actually-terrible-or-genuinely-quite-good I, Robot, from I dunno, let's say 2010.

Will Smith scales this giant weird-ass looking AI supercomputer and has to inject it with some kind of virus-thing (I think by plugging in an outrageously over-designed USB stick). And what does he say to commemorate the act? "Game over"? "Time to log off"? Oh god no, it's even worse.

"You have so got to die."

I mean, Jesus Christ. The struck by lightning thing is WAY better than that.

"Die, Robot" is the only acceptable line. Because it sounds like "I, Robot". Which is the name of the movie. And I'm definitely not overexplaining things.

Or "Bye, Robot".

OK I'll stop.