Badly cast movie and TV roles

beno619

Barman & Robin.

mikemac1

John Wayne as Genghis Khan

Birneybau

Canis Lupus wrote: »

He was just Ross in a uniform.

HE WAS ON A BREAK! from comedy

krudler

Jake Gylennhal in Prince of Persia, looks wise he was ok, but what was with the faux-British accent? why do so many historical set films give people non descript British twangs which wouldn't have been around back then?

the entire cast of Enemy At The Gates playing Russians with cockney accents was another one.

Birneybau

2 people that can't do American accents, Michael Fassbender and Ewan McGregor. Jesus, make my ears weep.

beno619

krudler wrote: »

Jake Gylennhal in Prince of Persia.

Another example of an awful film, No actor could have saved that pos.

Plazaman

sydthebeat wrote: »

ColeTrain wrote: »

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

Worse in the hunt for red October

They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. - UT

Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only ... - HFRO



Hard not to recall Connery quotes without putting a few sh's into the middle of the sentence.... Why hello Mish Moneypenny..

Haven't seen Gravity yet, but George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts.... please. (Book, cover, I know).

OldNotWIse

Leonardo di Caprio in Titanic. Should have put a more mature actor in.

Titzon Toast

Leonardo do Caprio in Gangs of New York too.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Speaking of Love/Hate, Aidan Gillen was awful in his role.

osarusan

Orlando Bloom in Kingdom of Heaven.

Not tough enough at all.

sydthebeat

John Malkovic in
Being John malkovic



Bo-ya!

strobe

RobbingBandit wrote: »

For the record it is Alexander the Deadly...

To be fair to Collin Farrell, he is actually one of the more capable actors when it comes to accents. When he got the roll in Alexander he was all for learning a Macedonian accent but Stone insisted he play the role in his native accent as he liked the sound of it and thought it would fit well because '****ing derp, I'm Oliver Stone, so there...'.

My vote is for Oliver Stone cast as director for Alexander actually. That genuinely could have been a great movie if it wasn't for a couple of retarded choices made by Stone, like the above.

Sunglasses Ron

lillycool wrote: »

Robert Sheehan in Love/Hate

Too right. Not as such a bad actor, just didn't look the part.

Another mention would be AJ in The Sopranos. Doesn't look even remotely Italian for a start. I swear Carmela was having an affair with Comic Book Guy in the mid 80's.

Sunglasses Ron

Controversial one.

I thought Julia Roberts did a fairly good Irish accent in MC (as flawless as foreign tryers go anyway!)

burnhardlanger

Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum in Phantom of the Opera.

You spend millions on a lavish musical production then cast two leads who can't sing.

Darkglasses

krudler wrote: »

the entire cast of Enemy At The Gates playing Russians with cockney accents was another one.

Disagree, I thought Fiennes did a great job, sure the accent was there but he was very believable. Same with Perlman and Hoskins. Jude Law and yer wan were crap though, belonged in a different movie.

krudler

Darkglasses wrote: »

Disagree, I thought Fiennes did a great job, sure the accent was there but he was very believable. Same with Perlman and Hoskins. Jude Law and yer wan were crap though, belonged in a different movie.

Oh their actual acting was fine, it was the bizarre choice to have them all speaking with full blown British accents, although in some cases better that than a bad attempt at a different one.

krudler

strobe wrote: »

To be fair to Collin Farrell, he is actually one of the more capable actors when it comes to accents. When he got the roll in Alexander he was all for learning a Macedonian accent but Stone insisted he play the role in his native accent as he liked the sound of it and thought it would fit well because '****ing derp, I'm Oliver Stone, so there...'.

My vote is for Oliver Stone cast as director for Alexander actually. That genuinely could have been a great movie if it wasn't for a couple of retarded choices made by Stone, like the above.

Colin Farrell can do a good American accent, his one in Minority Report was spot on and he's supposed to be Irish American as he mentions his father was shot in Dublin so it has just the right mix of both accents.

errlloyd

Owen Wilson in behind enemy lines, I can't take anything he says seriously

Welsh Megaman

Bob Hoskins as Mario in 'Super Mario Brothers'!

Van Damme as Guile in 'Street Fighter'!

Links234

Brien wrote: »

Shia laboef is on boards!!!

You did not just call me Shia LeBeouf :eek: I have never been so insulted in my entire life! :mad:

Skylinehead

Skerries wrote: »

can't believe nobody hs mentioned Nicolas Cage, he hasn't made anything good since Face/Off

Yes he has, Lord of War is a stunning film.

Bad Lieutenant and Kick Ass are good too.

syklops

Canis Lupus wrote: »

David Schwimmer ruining a good chunk of Band of Brothers.

Totally disagree. I thought he was excellent as Sobel. The character was a bastard, but there was nothing wrong with the acting.

Napper Hawkins

I watched that Alexander film to see if it was as crap as people were making it out to be, it was.

But Oliver Stone was to blame for that, not Colin Farrell, who was only doing what he was told and is a much better actor than people give him credit for.

He has been in some awful ****e, though.

tvercetti

Skylinehead wrote: »

Yes he has, Lord of War is a stunning film.

Bad Lieutenant and Kick Ass are good too.

I'd add Matchstick Men to that list.

Gmol

cantdecide wrote: »

Tom Cruise in War of the World.

WTFF like.

He was great in that but that's probably not a popular thing to say.

Hande hoche!

Gmol wrote: »

He was great in that but that's probably not a popular thing to say.

I like Tom Cruise. He's seems completely bonkers but is a good actor. Somewhat similar to Mel Gibson.

reginaflange

Every single role in Fair City!

Mousewar

Orlando Bloom in Kingdom of Heaven is the quintessential example for me. In all other aspects the film is decent and on a par with Gladiator. But take out Russell Crowe and put in the frail boyish Orlando Bloom and he becomes a blackhole of awfulness into which the rest of the film is sucked.

major bill

reginaflange wrote: »

Every single role in Fair City!

Think Fair City gets some unfair criticism on here....Home and Away imo is equally as ''bad'' but yet Irish Audiences love it.

reginaflange

Ah Fair City is rubbish.

Paramite Pie

xXxkorixXx wrote: »

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

I think Jones was hired to play a more serious Twoface but his ego got in the way and he didn't want Jim Carey to have all the fun. I saw an interview with him on youtube and apparently he improvised alot of stuff trying to keep up with Carey.

Val Kilmer could've been a better Batman if there was a better script/story in my opinion.

thecatspjs wrote: »

I'm not quite sure what you mean tbh. I haven't studied and don't know much about acting or film-making so I might be missing something?

I think he meant that the scripts in the newer Star War films were pretty lousy. The story had great potential but the script hampered that potential. Basically an actor cannot take all the blame for a bad performance.

Canis Lupus wrote: »

He was just Ross in a uniform.

He played the role very well, he was a whole other person in that show.

The Narrator

tvercetti wrote: »

I'd add Matchstick Men to that list.

Adaptation also. Played two identical twin brothers who are vastly different characters. One of his best films imo. Immense performance.

Hande hoche!

The Narrator wrote: »

Adaptation also. Played two identical twin brothers who are vastly different characters. One of his best films imo. Immense performance.

The Wickerman remake is a comedic masterpiece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOpsbAUEe90

Evelyn Cusack

Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham in the recent great expectations

Too you, with great skin, just no

ceadaoin.

major bill wrote: »

Think Fair City gets some unfair criticism on here....Home and Away imo is equally as ''bad'' but yet Irish Audiences love it.

In fairness, home and away seems to produce a relatively high number of actors who later go on to have successful Hollywood careers. Can't imagine that happening for any of the stars of fair city.

My name is URL

mikemac1 wrote: »

John Wayne as Genghis Khan

That film was shot close by to a nuclear test site. They even used truckloads of dirt from the test site itself to use in other locations.

It's hypothesised that it's actually responsible for a number of deaths

Dr. Robert Pendleton, professor of biology at the University of Utah, stated, "With these numbers, this case could qualify as an epidemic. The connection between fallout radiation and cancer in individual cases has been practically impossible to prove conclusively. But in a group this size you'd expect only 30-some cancers to develop. With 91, I think the tie-in to their exposure on the set of The Conqueror would hold up in a court of law." Indeed, several cast and crew members, as well as relatives of those who died, considered suing the government for negligence, claiming it knew more about the hazards in the area than it let on

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_%28film%29#Cancer_controversy

Such a bad movie that it literally killed people!

amdublin

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Leonardo di Caprio in Titanic. Should have put a more mature actor in.

I don't neccessarily think di Caprio was the problem. I think it was the pairing of him and Winslet.

Get off that little boy you big woman!!!!!!

I think they either needed a more mature (looking) actor as Jack or a younger (looking) / smaller Rose.

major bill

ceadaoin. wrote: »

In fairness, home and away seems to produce a relatively high number of actors who later go on to have successful Hollywood careers. Can't imagine that happening for any of the stars of fair city.

Fair point but for every Heath Ledger you get a Darryl Braxton x10

bodhrandude

Sofaspud wrote: »

Except for Brad Pitt in Snatch.

Julia Roberts in Michael Collins or in anything really, Eric Roberts is much better though, think Runaway Train (1980).

blade1

Steven Seagal in everything.
The most entertaining he ever was, was in Executive Decision, where he flew out of the plane near the start.

Aidric

Hande hoche! wrote: »

I like Tom Cruise. He's seems completely bonkers but is a good actor. Somewhat similar to Mel Gibson.

Unfortunately his persona clouds him in the minds of some people. His performance in Magnolia is right up there with the best. Also thought he was strong in Eyes Wide Shut.

Ryan Reynolds on the aftershave ads.

Every time I see it I think it's a p*ss take

syklops

blade1 wrote: »

Steven Seagal in everything.
The most entertaining he ever was, was in Executive Decision, where he flew out of the plane near the start.

Two words. Under Siege.

syklops

amdublin wrote: »

I don't neccessarily think di Caprio was the problem. I think it was the pairing of him and Winslet.

Get off that little boy you big woman!!!!!!

I think they either needed a more mature (looking) actor as Jack or a younger (looking) / smaller Rose.

I think thats the problem. She was 21 when titanic was filmed but she could have easily passed for 25 or more. She didnt match Leo's boyish good looks. Considering she was the young girl being married off, it would have made more sense if she was 17.

BluesBerry

I didnt read all of the thread so forgive me if it has been mentioned already..


Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter just ruined it he has no charisma and cant fecking act they should have recast him :mad::mad:

Artful_Badger

BluesBerry wrote: »

I didnt read all of the thread so forgive me if it has been mentioned already..


Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter just ruined it he has no charisma and cant fecking act they should have recast him :mad::mad:

Dont think they could have gotten away with recasting the role tbh. They were stuck with whatever kid they took a punt on.

I thought David Schwimmer was good as Sobel in Band of Brothers. He did initially come across a Ross in the first scene (to be expected given we all know him as Ross) but didnt take long to see it as a different character and he played it very well.

One I havent seen mentioned is Liam McIntyre taking over from Andy Whitfield in Spartacus. He was a terrible choice and it took him until the show was effectively over after 2 series with him as Spartacus to actually make the character his own.

FreshKnickers

Jaysus this thread is making me realise how many movies I haven't seen!

syklops

BluesBerry wrote: »

I didnt read all of the thread so forgive me if it has been mentioned already..


Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter just ruined it he has no charisma and cant fecking act they should have recast him :mad::mad:

The first couple of movies were crap but I dont think Daniel Radcliffe is to blame. The first guy playing Dumbledore was worse. Emma Watson in the first one was pretty bad too but did well later on. Radcliffe is great in "A Young Doctors Notebook". One of my favourite shows.