I apologise that this has nothing at all to do with the topic of this blog. But I'm a movie buff, a huge movie buff.

While in Beechworth, hanging out with a few likely lads, I believe it was Donal, Brent, Eugene, and Vince at the time, somehow the conversation got to movies and bad accents.

There's some terrible, terrible ones over the years, many perpetrated by Australians making futlie attempts at American accents. The Australian twang is really something that's hard to shake and part of the reason why I think Cate Blanchett is so talented. That woman is an accent machine. But I'll come back to Australians.

Anyway, during our discussion in Beechworth, Donal quite rightly pointed out Tom Cruise's effort at an Irish accent in Far and Away. Being an Irishman himself, who better to pick out a bad apple. We covered a lot of accents and had general agreement over dodgy ones over the years.

So, today a friend sent me an article at Entertainment Weekly that covered the 16 worst accents in movie history . I wasn't surprised by most of the entries, Dick Van Dyke's abysmal Cockney accent was of course in there, as was Kevin Costner's turn as Robin Hood. To make Donal happy, Tom also made the cut with his attempt at an Irish accent.

But here's the thing, I made 3 calls at beecworth that were all agreed upon unanimously, and they all starred Sean Connery. Now don't get me wrong, I love Sean Connery. One of my all time favourite movies is The Man Who Would Be King. But let's be honest, his thick Scottish brogue is not something he can shake.

I hereby submit these 3 examples of worst accents in movie history. Highlander - A spaniard that souds Scottish, The Untouchables - an Irish beat cop that sounds Scottish, and The Hunt For The Red October - a Russian submarine captain that sounds Scottish. You know I'm right, just picture in your head Sean Connery delivering his lines from any of those movies and you know I'm right. How any of those could be overlooked in a list featuring bad accents is beyond me.  

The defense rests.