10 Most Embarrassing Fake Accents In Movie History

1. Keanu Reeves - Bram Stocker's Dracula

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moaW8LRusak Keanu Reeves is generally regarded as an actor of little worth and depth. He's a member of that special Hollywood club that pertains, no matter what you do, people will still refer to you as "wooden" or "that guy who is incapable of acting well." The point is, Keanu Reeves is not the best actor in the world. The man even seems to have trouble playing characters that are exactly the same as him. That's to say, all the characters he's ever played, because they are all the same (this paragraph is me saying that Keanu Reeves is a bad actor). If there happened to be a rule associated with "doing accents," it would be this: if you are a bad actor, don't attempt to do any accent but your own. It's the acting equivalent of driving a snow-mobile off the edge of a dam: all things considered, it's probably not a very good idea. That didn't stop Keanu from attempting an old-fashioned English accent for Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, though - one which he seems to have studied for about fifteen minutes before deciding he'd mastered it completely, "and now it's lunch." Seriously, what's going on here? Not only is Keanu acting like there's a stick wedged up his ass (and he's having to talk extra carefully in case it jams itself up there any further), but his pronunciation and delivery is awful: he sounds like a drugged fairy. To make matters worse, he's been put next to Gary Freakin' Oldman, King of Accents, which was probably the worst idea in the history of making movies, 'cause the comparison is embarrassing. Anyway, just watch the clip above and prepare to die of shock at Reeves' delivery of the line "Bloody wolves, chasing me through some blue inferno!" It's like a failed audition for an amateur production of Peter Pan at your closet youth centre. Where the kids are all on crack. Which accent did we miss? Let us know in the comments section below.
 
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