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Best/Worst southern accents you've seen in TV or movies?

Posted on 4/29/24 at 12:51 pm
Posted by CarpeCyanide
Member since Apr 2024
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Posted on 4/29/24 at 12:51 pm
Watching the great cinematic masterpiece Con-air and thought this would be a fun discussion.
Posted by Dire Wolf
bawcomville
Member since Sep 2008
36744 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 12:52 pm to
Everyone's accent in JFK is horrible
Posted by livinforgmday
Member since Dec 2014
177 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 12:57 pm to
Oops, didn't read OP
This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 1:00 pm
Posted by jvargas
Member since Feb 2019
961 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 12:58 pm to
John Malkovich in Deepwater Horizon. Cringe.
Posted by keakar
Member since Jan 2017
30152 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:02 pm to
quote:

Best/Worst southern accents you've seen in TV or movies?


NCIS new orleans definitely makes the top 5 for the worst category
This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 1:06 pm
Posted by LSUDonMCO
Orlando
Member since Dec 2003
6889 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:02 pm to
Best: Band of Brothers "Doc Roe" this actor is English but his Cajun accent is perfect

Best: TV - Nashville "Scarlet" The actress is an Aussie but her Mississippi accent is spot on.
Posted by CU_Tigers4life
Georgia
Member since Aug 2013
7548 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:08 pm to
Most of the Doc Hollywood Cast was pretty bad. Forest Gump was pretty bad as well.
Posted by dirtsandwich
AL
Member since May 2016
5210 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:17 pm to
Mourning Among the Wisterias, S4/E15 of Murder, She Wrote, is set in Savannah. A playwright is struggling with health issues and conniving family and friends.

Linda Purl plays the nephew’s wife.


She had the worst southern accent I’ve ever heard.
Posted by BabyTac
Austin, TX
Member since Jun 2008
12327 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:24 pm to
Keanu Reeves in Devil’s Advocate

Posted by coolpapaboze
Parts Unknown
Member since Dec 2006
15867 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:24 pm to
Michael Rapaport in Justified was ear shatteringly horrible.
Posted by glassman
Next to the beer taps at Finn's
Member since Oct 2008
116190 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:26 pm to
Dennis Quaid was pretty freaking bad in The Big Easy.
Posted by Aubie Spr96
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Member since Dec 2009
41237 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:29 pm to
I literally couldn't watch ConAir. Had to turn it when I heard Nick Cage speak.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
34552 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:32 pm to
Best:

Posted by MemphisGuy
Member since Nov 2023
3592 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:38 pm to
Daniel Craig in Knives Out was really, really bad.
Posted by Roaad
White Privilege Broker
Member since Aug 2006
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Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:38 pm to
North and South

Patrick Swayze

What do I win?
Posted by RoyalAir
Detroit
Member since Dec 2012
5897 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:41 pm to
Ewan McGregor's Alabama piedmont accent in Big Fish was pretty darn good.

Contrast that with Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias. Broad is from Smyrna, GA, and sounds like she's never even spent time south of Boston.
Posted by Kracka
Lafayette, Louisiana
Member since Aug 2004
40859 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:42 pm to
The "New Orleans accents in the NOLA scenes in Double Jeopardy.

Also the horrible "southern" accents in Steel Magnolias was pretty terrible as well.

I have never heard any southern accents sound good to be honest.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
142572 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 2:08 pm to
The Bonfire of the Vanities. The film version of this is the worst adaptation of a novel I've ever seen

It does however have the immortal moment when Melanie Griffith is driving through the ghetto and says: "Ah'm from the South, and Ah'm beginnin' tuh naht lahk thess."

The thread is over. You may go home now.
Posted by Madking
Member since Apr 2016
48135 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 2:14 pm to
Al Pacino in Hangman
Posted by Cleanmatt
Who Dat Nation
Member since Oct 2010
2856 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 2:16 pm to
True Blood had some bad ones
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