After being spoiled by such a terrifying, emotionally haunting villain in 'The Dark Knight', this 'Dark Knight Rises' baddie is a bit of let-down. It's hard to be truly invested in a villain you can't understand. The mask doesn't only relieve Bane's pain — it separates him from the audience. Shame.
Benicio del Toro (Dr. Gonzo) in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'
Any inaudible list would be incomplete without the king of mumbles, Benicio del Toro. Del Toro has taken incomprehensible speech and turned it into an award-winning acting style. It's really quite an accomplishment. His accent as the mescaline-addled Dr. Gonzo is wonderfully bizarre, and fitting for a film that chronicles the adventures of Hunter S. Thompson and his right-hand man, Oscar Zeta Acosta.
Okay, okay — so Bridges earned an Academy Award nomination for this one. His version of the weathered, taciturn Cogburn (first played by John Wayne in 1969) is undoubtably magnetic, but the character's signature drunken drawl can be maddeningly difficult to decipher.
Johnny Depp (Captain Jack Sparrow) in 'Pirates of the Caribbean'
Sparrow's drunken slurring is actually one of the things people love about this strangely endearing character. Just focus on the pretty people and big swords, and you won't even notice that most of the things Depp says are completely inaudible.
Just like Troy Barnes from 'Community', I too didn't really "get" 'Inception.' (Damn you, impossibly ambiguous ending!) Watanabe's slurring didn't make things any easier.
Yes, Benicio del Toro is also in this movie, and he is also very inaudible. But that's basically del Toro's acting style, and it's Pitt's character — an Irish gypsy thief that no one can understand — who takes the cake in this one. In the DVD commentary, Pitt says he came up with the gibberish on his own, and even he has no idea what he's saying.
Tor Johnson (Daniel Clay) in 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'
Director Ed Wood was notorious for making big, fat turkeys, and not in the Paula Deen sense. His worst offender may have been 'Plan 9 From Outer Space', and his decision to cast the Swedish wrestler Johnson as a police inspector-turned-zombie was due to Johnson's large stature — and nothing else. Johnson is silent once he's zombie-fied, and it's one of the film's few blessings. You can't hear a word the guy says when he's "acting."
Dick Tracy runs into trouble when he finally nabs Big Boy's trusted lieutenant — Mumbles' speech is so garbled that it's nearly impossible to hear his confession. Thank God for tape recorders!