Ok, Connery's accent is just getting ridiculous now

[SweetZombieJesus]

I just saw this commercial for some networking company with Connery doing the voiceover, and his accent was fucking INSANE. I can't remember it EVER being that bad before, even in The Untouchables. It's gotten to the point where he no longer sounds like Sean Connery, but more like someone doing a bad impression of Sean Connery.

[joeybee12]

1. Some group named his "the world's worst accent"

They slammed Meryl "Over-rated" Streep for a lot of her phony accents as well.

[roguevalley]

2. Maybe if he could just whisper it into my ear,

oh, say for a couple of hours, I could decide if I agree. :)

Sigh. Scotsmen have such nice ... accents. :)

[Richardo]

4. "What d'ya have under that kilt, Angus?" "A blue ribbon, lassie!"

:D

[Richardo]

3. Perhaps they should get Darryl Hammond to dub his voice...

:D

"Trebek, you great fairy!"

[impeach the gop]

5. Lord, I hope that really wasn't Sean

I would still have his baby, somehow, if it wasn't really him doing that silly ad. Please say it ain't so.
Hair or not, this could be the end of a wonderful crush.

[FlashHarry]

7. Sad to say, it was. Level 3 Communications.

Story here.

[TrogL]

6. But that really is his accent

He has to tone it down for the movies.

[soothsayer]

8. The first time I heard his real accent, i told everyone he must have...

...had a stroke. I was serious! I had no idea he really talked that way.

[BigMcLargehuge]

9. He sounds like a slowed down record of Willie the Groundskeeper

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[Enraged_Ape]

10. I think he sounds like Scrooge McDuck

I think it's kinda cool. I wish I sounded like Scrooge McDuck.

[AnnabelLee]

11. OK, SZJ, now you've gone too far!

Leave Sean Connery alone, damn it! Leave me my one little fantasy intact!x(
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[democracyindanger]

12. Haven't heard it but

I think as people get older, whatever accent they may have becomes thicker as they age. I base this on an unscientific survey of my grandmothers. And my abiding appreciation of Connery, despite "First Knight."

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. Sean Connery trivia

One of his first major roles was that of the daughter's boyfriend in Darby O'Gill and the Little People.

I saw it so long ago that I no longer remember what he sounded like, but the thought of someone with a heavy Scottish accent doing an Irish accent is something to ponder.

I do know, however, that he can't pronounce Japanese worth a damn, judging from his baffling mispronunciations of simple words in Rising Sun.

"'Ka-RET-soo'? Oh! He must mean 'KAY-ret-soo.'"

"'bedda-KOO'? Oh! He must mean BET-tah-koo.'"

And he was supposed to be this hotshot expert on Japanese society.

[Pert_UK]

14. Yesh, hish plansh & accent hash gone weird, but his martini is still dry

:-)

P.

[BiggJawn]

15. Yeah, but he still gets more voice work than I do...

Tough market to break into. I haven't had a gig since I re-located. good thing I still have my day job...Funny thing is, I can sound just like him...

[Boudicea]

17. Please say Missss Muuneypenny

[Bake]

16. It just doesn't FIT the company

And that makes it really annoying. When I hear Connery, I think of an old Scottish king, not a high tech company, James Bond's gadgetry notwithstanding. I think Bond always had kind of an amused tolerance for Q's gadgets.

Here, the voice just doesn't fit. I have been wondering if anybody else besides me didn't like it!

Bake

[supernova]

18. Scotland

has a great high tech business, so I hear. So the juxtaposition of Old Scottish Kings and high tech is not so far-fetched as it may sound.

Leave Sean C alone. He is a real Scottsman. Besides being from NC, I definitely have a thing for kilts.