Badly cast movie and TV roles

cantdecide

In the middle of re-watching Star Wars and the more I think about it, the more I'm dumbfounded that Mark Hamil managed to be cast as Luke Skywalker. Truly atrocious actor and face could curdle milk, IMO. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN????

Stone Deaf 4evr

cantdecide wrote: »

In the middle of re-watching Star Wars and the more I think about it, the more I'm dumbfounded that Mark Hamil managed to be cast as Luke Skywalker. Truly atrocious actor and face could curdle milk, IMO. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN????

He was in a traffic accident between the first two films.

Stone Deaf 4evr

cantdecide wrote: »

In the middle of re-watching Star Wars and the more I think about it, the more I'm dumbfounded that Mark Hamil managed to be cast as Luke Skywalker. Truly atrocious actor and face could curdle milk, IMO. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN????

He was in a traffic accident between the first two films.

krudler

Atrocious actor? His is the best version of The Joker.

Nodin

Yer man that was cast as Apollo in the remake of Battlestar Galatica was weak in comparison to the Starbuck character. Terrible mismatch.

Benecio Del Toro in "The Wolfman".....

Keanu Reeves in Coppola's "Dracula"

A famous one is John Wayne as Genghis Khan.

Nodin

krudler wrote: »

Atrocious actor? His is the best version of The Joker.

Aye. Somebody should give him a go on the big screen with that.

Pang

The actress that has been chosen to play Wonderwoman in the next film.

I know it hasn't been filmed yet but physically she is a poor choice.

Artful_Badger

Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great.

DazMarz

Bryan Cranston was totally miscast as Walter White. Atrocious acting job he put in.

James Gandolfini was a joke as Tony Soprano. A joke.

Robert de Niro couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag and ruined films like The Godfather Part II, Heat, Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Taxi Driver.

Al Pacino is pedestrian at best. The Godfather would have been better off without him. Both he and de Niro destroyed Heat.





































not really......

Nodin

Artful_Badger wrote: »

Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great.

I was warned off that one, but he wasn't mentioned specifically as one of the reasons it didn't work. Yer man that did the warning watched 3 versions in the hope they'd get it right, to apparently no avail.

Nodin

Pang wrote: »

The actress that has been chosen to play Wonderwoman in the next film.

I know it hasn't been filmed yet but physically she is a poor choice.

That's bosom snobbery that is.

Irish Guitarist

Reese Witherspoon in Walk The Line. She looks nothing like June Carter Cash. I could possibly overlook that if she was a good actress but she's terrible.

MJ23

Gerard Butler in PS I love you.

It's so bad that it's good.

Nodin

MJ23 wrote: »

Gerard Butler in PS I love you.

It's so bad that it's good.

I salute you, as you are a braver and tougher man than I.

thecatspjs

Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker. He's just a bad actor.

Sofaspud

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, whoever cast him obviously never read any of the books, or even a synopsis.

cantdecide

Sofaspud wrote: »

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, whoever cast him obviously never read any of the books, or even a synopsis.

Tom Cruise in War of the World.

WTFF like.

biko

thecatspjs wrote: »

Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker. He's just a bad actor.

+10000 lightyears (albeit a measure of distance and not acting acuteness).

ziedth

Hayden Christiensen is the obvious one alright. Aside from being a pretty piss poor actor he just didn't look the part.


I thought the "bad guy" in Rocky Balboa was terribly miscast. He looked about 40lbs too light to be a heavy weight and didn't look like some bad ass boxing champion like Carl Weathers did. I seem to remember the guy who played him is actually a boxer though.

kryogen

Hugh Jackman in everything

biko

Keuanu Reeves



Please stop "acting" Keeennnaaauuu

Henlars67

Sofaspud wrote: »

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, whoever cast him obviously never read any of the books, or even a synopsis.

I said the same thing, but then found out that Cruise more or less cast himself in the role.

It was his company that bought the movie rights to Jack Reacher.

Pegmatite

ziedth wrote: »

I thought the "bad guy" in Rocky Balboa was terribly miscast. He looked about 40lbs too light to be a heavy weight and didn't look like some bad ass boxing champion like Carl Weathers did. I seem to remember the guy who played him is actually a boxer though.

That was Antonio Tarver, I'm pretty sure he was light heavyweight champion of the world at the time.

downonthefarm

Will smiths son ...in anything

Not G.R

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Reese Witherspoon in Walk The Line. She looks nothing like June Carter Cash. I could possibly overlook that if she was a good actress but she's terrible.

I thought she was outstanding as June.

keano_afc

Anyone not Irish being cast in a role where they have to put on an Irish accent.

cantdecide

keano_afc wrote: »

Anyone not Irish being cast in a role where they have to put on an Irish accent.

You mean like Jonathan Rhys Meyers?

awec

Denise Richards in The World is Not Enough.

Completely unconvincing as a supposed highly intelligent character.

ColeTrain

keano_afc wrote: »

Anyone not Irish being cast in a role where they have to put on an Irish accent.

Sean Connery didn't even bother trying in the untouchables.

BabysCoffee

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Reese Witherspoon in Walk The Line. She looks nothing like June Carter Cash. I could possibly overlook that if she was a good actress but she's terrible.

She was brilliant in this.....and won an Oscar for her performance

blindside88

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Reese Witherspoon in Walk The Line. She looks nothing like June Carter Cash. I could possibly overlook that if she was a good actress but she's terrible.

But that accent, love it to bits. And she makes for a bit of eye candy as well

Sofaspud

keano_afc wrote: »

Anyone not Irish being cast in a role where they have to put on an Irish accent.

Except for Brad Pitt in Snatch.

xXxkorixXx

keano_afc wrote: »

Anyone not Irish being cast in a role where they have to put on an Irish accent.

brad pitt was brilliant in snatch

Hande hoche!

Feel that Predators might have benefited from having someone other than Adrien Brody.

sydthebeat

ColeTrain wrote: »

Sean Connery didn't even bother trying in the untouchables.

Worse in the hunt for red October

ColeTrain

Sofaspud wrote: »

Except for Brad Pitt in Snatch.

xXxkorixXx wrote: »

brad pitt was brilliant in snatch

Yeah but that wasn't really an Irish accent. As the line in the film goes..


American actors usually struggle when asked to do an Irish accent. It's like they try too hard.

mojesius

Andy McDowell in Groundhog Day. She ruins what is an otherwise perfect film.

xXxkorixXx

tommy lee jones as twoface in batman forever was awful casting, as was val kilmer

vitani

Russell Crowe in Les Mis. Good actor and a convincing Javert, but when he opened his mouth to sing, he sounded like a foghorn.

ColeTrain

mojesius wrote: »

Andy McDowell in Groundhog Day. She ruins what is an otherwise perfect film.

How so? I thought she was beautiful in that.

Pegmatite

ColeTrain wrote: »

Yeah but that wasn't really an Irish accent. As the line in the film goes..


American actors usually struggle when asked to do an Irish accent. It's like they try too hard.

If you want to hear his Oirish accent watch The Devils Own

catallus

Andy McDowell is probably one of the finest and graceful actresses to grace any screen in the last 150 years.

To say that she was miscast in a film which was probably the pinnacle of cinema is simply wrong.

And she was excellent in Groundhog Day aswell.

Crea

catallus wrote: »

Andy McDowell is probably one of the finest and graceful actresses to grace any screen in the last 150 years.

To say that she was miscast in a film which was probably the pinnacle of cinema is simply wrong.

And she was excellent in Groundhog Day aswell.

She was brutal in Four Weddings & a Funeral. "Is it raining? I hadn't noticed" BARF!

And she was stilted and wooden in Groundhog Day.

Archeron

Every single person in the tv shows Arrow and Sinbad. Of course the ads made them out to be the greatest tv shows ever but they are unbearable. I've pooed things that could act better.

catallus

"is it raining? I hadn't noticed" is probably one of the best lines to be uttered by any actor of the stage/screen in about 200 years, apart from anything in Under Siege or Under Siege 2 Dark Territory.

Pang

Pang wrote: »

The actress that has been chosen to play Wonderwoman in the next film.

I know it hasn't been filmed yet but physically she is a poor choice.

This is going to sound psychotic, but....

In general whenever I do a Google search of inexplicable casting choices in Hollywood, I nearly always discover the actor/actress in question is of Jewish extraction.

Examples of actors Hollywood is inexplicably trying to manufacture into "stars" by giving them every decent role going:
Jonah Hill
Shia Lebouf
This new Wonderwoman actress, among others

Hande hoche!

Deleted User wrote: »

This is going to sound psychotic, but....

In general whenever I do a Google search of inexplicable casting choices in Hollywood, I nearly always discover the actor/actress in question is of Jewish extraction.

Examples of actors Hollywood is inexplicably trying to manufacture into "stars" by giving them every decent role going:
Jonah Hill
Shia Lebouf
This new Wonderwoman actress, among others

Seems a popular career for those of the Jewish faith. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/19/opinion/oe-stein19

MJ23

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Feel that Predators might have benefited from having someone other than Adrien Brody.

He looks like an ironing board with a massive nose. What the hell were they thinking? Every character in Predator was brilliant.
Best line of the film, Mac to Dillon
"You're ghosting us muthafcuka, I don't care who are back in the world, you give up our position one more time, I'll bleed you, real quiet, leave ye here. Got that"

DB83

keano_afc wrote: »

Anyone not Irish being cast in a role where they have to put on an Irish accent.

Except for Tom Cruise in far & away... A more authentic accent you will not hear

Radiosonde

thecatspjs wrote: »

Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker. He's just a bad actor.

Popular opinion, BUT while Christensen is a mediocre actor at best he was handed one of the worst written roles in a major Hollywood movie ever. Nobody could have done anything with that character; the part is un-miscastable 'cause there's no such thing as good casting for such a poor part.

cantdecide

DB83 wrote: »

Except for Tom Cruise in far & away... A more authentic accent you will not hear

t'be shoor t'be shoor.