Badly cast movie and TV roles

Howard Juneau

syklops wrote: »

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.

The first "guy" was Richard Harris & I think most people think he was not pretty bad to be honest

Froggy123

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:

I completely agree, can't emphasise with Daniel Radcliffe as Harry at all! Ron and hermione are both good though so it nearly makes up for it!!

Paramite Pie

Evelyn Cusack wrote: »

Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham in the recent great expectations

Too you, with great skin, just no

Yeah, strange casting choices these days for Miss Havisham, Helena Bonham Carter was also too pretty for the role even though she pulls off being creepy really well.

She's written as a real ugly character in the book. Although she is in her 40s, someone at that age she'd would be far more weathered looking back then.

paddyland

Tom Hanks in the Da Vinci Code.

awec

None of the Potter stars have really done anything since the last HP movie.

Artful_Badger

awec wrote: »

None of the Potter stars have really done anything since the last HP movie.

The curse of being a child star.

Rayne Wooney

Alexander is okay up to a point but then it's like someone has spiked your drink with a hallucinogen for the ending

Mister Jingles

Another one for Colin Farrell in Miami Vice. Very little charisma between him and Foxx which kind of made it hard to believe that these two were Crockett and Tubbs.

Daqster

My top three, in descending order, for dramatic effect:

3)Toby Maguire as Spiderman.

Spiderboy maybe. But Spiderman? Ask my jacksy.

2) Russell fecking Crowe as Robin Hood?

What a joke. Fat git, midlife crisis Robin Hood, perhaps.

1) Elijah Wood as a football hooligan, reluctant or otherwise, major miscasting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bzGL76JAkw

john the one

Tom Berenger in The Field, look at the camera when your acting god damn it!

major bill

Daqster wrote: »

My top three, in descending order, for dramatic effect:

3)Toby Maguire as Spiderman.

Spiderboy maybe. But Spiderman? Ask my jacksy.

2) Russell fecking Crowe as Robin Hood?

What a joke. Fat git, midlife crisis Robin Hood, perhaps.

1) Elijah Wood as a football hooligan, reluctant or otherwise, major miscasting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bzGL76JAkw

I would have said his co star more than anything with his fake utter ****e cockney accent.

grenache

Benny_Cake wrote: »

On the other hand, Colm Meaney in any role where he's playing a non-Irish character (Die Hard 2, Con Air, Hell on Wheels). If you can't do an accent, just do what Sean Connery does - don't try.

Colm Meaney did a very convincing Yorkshire accent in his portrayal of Don Revie in The Damned United.

Also has nobody mentioned Tom Hanks' awful casting as Professor Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code / Angels And Demons?? Just bloody depressing how bad he is in it. I think Richard Gere would have been perfect for the role.

major bill

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.

Ah he's just a Cook!!

Minderbinder

Steve Buscemi in The Sopranos. Not because he was bad but seemed out of place. Too big a name to bring into the middle of it. Didn't like the character or his weird kids either for that matter.

dubscottie

major bill wrote: »

I would have said his co star more than anything with his fake utter ****e cockney accent.

Its better than the fake American accent he puts on in Sons of Anarchy!

almighty1

Fooking Jack Black in King Kong :mad:

ButtersSuki

For me, the worst ever is Keanu Reeves in Dangerous Liasons:

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

Possibly because it was so close to Bill & Ted, possibly because he was surrounded by some serious acting talent in Glenn Close and John Malkovich (amongst others), possibly because the film is so serious or possibly because of all of the above, but he is just brutal in this. Horribly miscast and the only flaw in an otherwise excellent production.

[Deleted User]

[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

+1

Seth Rogan, Jason Segal and their gang making Hollywood uglier. Don't get it, rubbish actors.

Joaquin223

Not necessarily that bad of a casting choice (I thought he was actually quite good), but to add to the whole bad-accents theme: Daniel Craig just giving up on his Swedish accent midway through The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was mystifying.

Robert Sheehan and Aiden Gillen were brutal for their roles in Love\Hate, just thrown into them because they're big name actors.

Finally, I'd add Travolta in The Taking of Pelham 123, Andrew McCarthy in Less Than Zero and Guy Pearce in Prometheus (Still confusing to me. Bar a few teaser trailers for the movie, he was wearing old-man prosthetics for the entire film! Why not just get an old actor to play the part!?)

wilkie2006

ColeTrain wrote: »

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

I have a theory that American actors actually could do a convincing Irish accent (I mean, they have accent coaches) but because most American film-goers think Irish people speak in that affected, fiddly-dee, Leprechaun way, US films have to reflect this - that is, so American audiences don't think "what a shit Irish accent".

120_Minutes

Brien wrote: »

When i read the thread title one actor came straight to mind: Linda Fiorentino in Dogma

Same here. It's alleged that the part was written for Joey Lauren Adams (of mallrats and chasing amy) who was kevin smiths girlfriend at the time, but had broken up by the time filming started.

If you watch the movie again you can imagine adams in the role very easily.

Meangadh

kryogen wrote: »

Hugh Jackman in everything

Hugh Jackman is a brilliant actor. He's been in a few sh1t films but he's a great actor. I think he's a great Wolverine but besides that, in more "serious" acting roles he was amazing in Les Mis (I think people often dismiss acting in musicals, quite wrongly) and his best of all was Prisoners. He was so good in it.

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

Controversial one.

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

Her accent was as awful as her acting in that film! She should never ever have gotten the part- typical Hollywood pandering to the whole "big name on the poster" crap. It wasn't even a huge part so they could have easily given it to an Irish actress- and whilst it wasn't a huge part it was still important enough to be treated with respect. I hated Julia Roberts in it, made it hard to have sympathy for her at the end.

My choice is Kate Bosworth in Superman Returns. I know Brandon Routh wasn't great either, but Bosworth was a terrible Lois Lane. She was so dull and disinterested, there was no spark or moxy in her at all- Lois is supposed to have drive in her yet still be slightly vulnerable. I saw neither of those things in Bosworth.

I also didn't really like Carey Mulligan in the Great Gatsby. I can't really put my finger on exactly why but I just didn't believe her in the part.

eVeNtInE

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ButtersSuki

Joaquin223 wrote: »

Not necessarily that bad of a casting choice (I thought he was actually quite good), but to add to the whole bad-accents theme: Daniel Craig just giving up on his Swedish accent midway through The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was mystifying.

Well at least he made some effort in TGWTDT; in Defiance, none of the main cast (Craig, Liev Schrieber, Jamie Bell) make any effort at Belarussian/Russian accents at all. They could have said it an English war story and it would have made no difference.

cantdecide

How do we feel about Hugh Laurie's American accent in House?

ButtersSuki

cantdecide wrote: »

How do we feel about Hugh Laurie's American accent in House?

I was actually speaking to an American colleague about this and they were shocked to the point of disbelief that he was English. I showed him some old Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster clips and he still couldn't get his head around it. So to Yanks away it must be convincing!

syklops

cantdecide wrote: »

How do we feel about Hugh Laurie's American accent in House?

How do you feel about it?

cantdecide

syklops wrote: »

How do you feel about it?

I'm a massive J&W and Blackadder fan and maybe it just grates on me but I always felt like it's not him speaking. Tbh, I can't get a feel for the accent but I definitely feel like his pitch is to high. It just doesn't go well in my brain!

Aside from that, he's great as House.

TheIrishGrover

Ellen Paige in "Inception". I know she's a good actress and all but, because of the heavyweight calibre of the rest of the cast I thought she looked like a confused 12-year-old.

Stephen Lang in "Avatar": I mean basically he was playing Michael Beihn. So why not get Michael Beihn (I know. Cameron said he didn't want to put Weaver and Beihn in a film again.)

Katie Holmes in Batman Begins": See Ellen Paige in "Inception" above.

Phil Hartman's voice-over of Jij in "Kiki's Delivery Service" The cat was changed from a generally quiet but funny and cute female kitten to a brash and annoying male cat.

John Voigt in "The General". His accent straight from "Darby O'Gill". Terrible choice and only in there for financial reasons.

DEFTLEFTHAND

almighty1 wrote: »

Fooking Jack Black in King Kong :mad:

That's actually the only role I ever liked him in. :pac:

kylith

Keanu Reeves in everything since Bill and Ted.
Mos Def in Hitchhiker's Guide. Most of that film was miscast, imo.
David Jason in The Colour of Magic. I think he cast himself in that though, or got himself cast anyway.

Links234

kylith wrote: »

David Jason in The Colour of Magic.

God I hated him in that, almost unwatchable

kylith

Links234 wrote: »

God I hated him in that, almost unwatchable

I couldn't watch it, even though I'm a huge Pratchett fan. The newer couple have been pretty good though.

Howard Juneau

cantdecide wrote: »

I'm a massive J&W and Blackadder fan and maybe it just grates on me but I always felt like it's not him speaking. Tbh, I can't get a feel for the accent but I definitely feel like his pitch is to high. It just doesn't go well in my brain!

Aside from that, he's great as House.

He's generally regarded as having the best American accent on tv, many Americans believe he is one of them...poor buggers

LOSTfan57

Nicolas Cage in any Nicolas Cage movie

jigglypuffstuff

Anyone else think Will Smith would have been a far better Neo that Keanu Reeves??

I read previously he was offered the role but turned it down in favour of Wild Wild West

Links234

pone2012 wrote: »

Anyone else think Will Smith would have been a far better Neo that Keanu Reeves??

I read previously he was offered the role but turned it down in favour of Wild Wild West

he might have made a better Neo in the way that he's a better actor, but I can't quite imagine anyone else in the role?

LOSTfan57

Dan Radcliffe and Vinnie Jones and Taylor Kitch

120_Minutes

John Turturro in transformers. I could not believe Barton Fink or The Jesus was acting so badly.

Green Hornet

God, I loved Barton Fink. Turturro IS Barton Fink.

ButtersSuki

120_Minutes wrote: »

John Turturro in transformers. I could not believe Barton Fink or The Jesus was acting so badly.

Maybe he was doing an Edward Norton in "The Italian Job" and doing it out of contractual obligation (i.e. basically forced) rather than a desire to make an interesting piece of cinema? I love Norton's mustache in that as his "F_ _ _ You" to Marky Mark, the studio and the film in general.

I like Turturro (esp. in any Spike Lee movie), can't recall him ever being bad. That said, I will never watch any Transformers movie……

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

Similar to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMqMIc0699Y

Skylinehead

LOSTfan57 wrote: »

Nicolas Cage in any Nicolas Cage movie

Sigh...

Skylinehead wrote: »

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

Bad Lieutenant and Kick Ass are good too.

Green Hornet

Actually saw 'The Frozen Ground' last night. Cage and John Cusack starred in it and Cage is actually pretty good in it to be fair.

120_Minutes

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Maybe he was doing an Edward Norton in "The Italian Job" and doing it out of contractual obligation (i.e. basically forced) rather than a desire to make an interesting piece of cinema?

Then why was in the the second and (was he in the)third? (i cant remember?)

thats one ****ty contract.

bnt

Maid in Manhattan was one of those movies that I didn't actually watch, but which happened to be on the TV while I was on the computer. But Ralph Fiennes stood out like a sore thumb in what was supposed to be a romantic role. His attempts to woo Jennifer Lopez had me reaching for the phone to call 911. To be fair, this was not long after I'd seen him tearing up the screen in Red Dragon, Coriolanus, and one of the Harry Potter movies ... :eek:

edit: Renee Zellweger as Bridget Jones. What the hell were they thinking?

Mousewar

Johnny Depp playing a Native American in The Lone Ranger. He does alright but it's a bit weird. Plenty of native American actors around.

DoesNotCompute

SimonTemplar wrote: »

Jack Black in King Kong.

On one hand, Peter Jackson was absolutely correct that that character is a film director not an action hero, so casting an actor known for action roles would have been a mistake. KK is a frustrating movie because it has absolutely brilliant positives but a lot of negatives, and Black's casting is one of the negatives. 8 years later, and I still think Paul Giamatti would have nailed that role.

Jack Black nailed that role IMO.

ButtersSuki

120_Minutes wrote: »

Then why was in the the second and (was he in the)third? (i cant remember?)

thats one ****ty contract.

I did say maybe, and it could have been a multi-picture deal! But then again, my eyes will never be tainted by Transformers so he'll always be cool to me.

BlurstMonkey

Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing. Absolutely ridiculous.

syklops

bnt wrote: »

edit: Renee Zellweger as Bridget Jones. What the hell were they thinking?