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Badly cast movie and TV roles

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  • #202
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,191 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    My whole point about Alexander the battle scenes sound like a punch up in Dublins inner city, "ah here leave it out" wouldn't be too far off some of the battle crys heard in the movie. Reminded me of intermission, Angelina Jolie was a ****e choice for role of his mother. Stone has a lot to answer for.


  • #203
    grenache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    TheIrishGrover wrote: »
    Jon Voight in The General. I mean straight from "Darby O'Gill". Terrible choice and only in there for financial reasons.
    Thought Voight did one of the few decent Irish accents in movies.


  • #204
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    BlurstMonkey wrote: »
    Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange.
    Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing. Absolutely ridiculous.

    I can't comment on the above, but Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness

    I really like him as an actor, but I think the only reason he was considered for Khan is because he had a pre-established air of superiority given his familiarity in Sherlock. Everything else about him was wrong for Khan Noonien Signh


  • #205
    MonaPizza
    Registered Users Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭MonaPizza


    Didn't Tommy Lee Jones play some plastic Paddy in a movie with Jeff Bridges? Some escaped IRA bomber living in Boston and plotting some crap. His accent was fairly pathetic too.


  • #206
    dexter647
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭dexter647


    almighty1 wrote: »
    Fooking Jack Black in King Kong :mad:

    Jack Black in the holiday...No way he could pull the gorgeous Kate WinSlet:mad:


  • #207
    elfy4eva
    Registered Users Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elfy4eva


    Dick van dyke in mary poppins. a cockney chimney sweep was a bit beyond his vocal range.


  • #208
    Diemos
    Registered Users Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭Diemos


    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
    Christ no,Will Smith as Neo.......would have ruined the thing.
    Keanu was perfectly wooden.


  • #209
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    MonaPizza wrote: »
    Didn't Tommy Lee Jones play some plastic Paddy in a movie with Jeff Bridges? Some escaped IRA bomber living in Boston and plotting some crap. His accent was fairly pathetic too.

    That may not have been him, that could have been the director. Maria Doyle Kennedy's accent in Dexter was atrocious. Real plastic paddy and she's Irish.

    I can just imagine a poor director saying, "You know Tommy, I'm not hearing the oirish-ness, can you paddy it up a bit?"


  • #210
    Sam Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,227 ✭✭✭Sam Mac


    Green Hornet wrote: »
    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.

    +1 this film was really good, all performances were superb also, Cage in particular.


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  • #211
    Sam Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,227 ✭✭✭Sam Mac


    syklops wrote: »
    The guy who plays Hannibal in Hannibal the TV series. Im not saying he is a bad actor, but he is just totally wrong. I find it very difficult to believe that this guy is the same Hannibal.

    Really? I thought Mads Mikkelson did a great job as Hannibal. Same goes for his minor role in Casino Royale and his major one in The Hunt. He is simply a superb Danish actor.


  • #212
    Sam Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,227 ✭✭✭Sam Mac


    lillycool wrote: »
    Robert Sheehan in Love/Hate

    Anyone in Love/Hate.


  • #213
    biketard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 540 ✭✭✭biketard


    cantdecide wrote: »
    How do we feel about Hugh Laurie's American accent in House?
    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    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!

    Even Bryan Singer (director/producer) thought he was American.

    From http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2004-11-15-hugh-laurie_x.htm:
    Initial casting efforts failed to deliver the "quintessentially American person" producers were looking for, so they cast a wider net, House creator David Shore says. That eventually yielded Laurie, who auditioned via video shot in a hotel bathroom ("It was the only place with enough light," the actor says) in Namibia, where he was shooting the upcoming film Flight of the Phoenix. He was persuasive, if not exactly a household name.
    Shore says that director Bryan Singer, one of the executive producers, said, " 'See, this is what I want: an American guy.' Brian was completely unaware of the fact that Hugh was English."


  • #214
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,841 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    TheIrishGrover wrote: »
    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.



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

    .

    Damn. I was very impressed with her in Batman Begins. Hadn't seen any of her earlier stuff bar Phone Booth but thought she was great. Maybe added to why I find Begins the best of the Dark Knight trilogy.


  • #215
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Matthew Broderick as Captain Robert Gould Shaw in the movie Glory

    he was too small & boyish looking for the part imo

    (great movie though)


  • #216
    Howard Juneau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    fryup wrote: »
    Matthew Broderick as Captain Robert Gould Shaw in the movie Glory

    he was too small & boyish looking for the part imo

    (great movie though)

    He was probably the perfect choice Gould was killed when he was 25


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  • #217
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Howard Juneau wrote: »
    He was probably the perfect choice Gould was killed when he was 25

    And he looks like him too, one of the better roles in Broderick's career tbh.


  • #218
    RoboRat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭RoboRat


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

    I thought the same until I seen it and they are both brilliant in it.

    For me the worst casting has to be Cruise as Jack Reacher. I saw the film and then a year later got one of the books and I couldn't believe they cast him. You need somebody built like a brick sh!thouse and about 6'6"...

    Kevin Costner in Waterworld was terrible

    Tina Turner in Mad Max

    Adrien Brody in Predators

    Toby Maguire in Spiderman, pleaaassseee

    Channing Tatum in anything... the new Keanu Reeves

    Christopher Lambert in the Sicilian - great book but he is not right for the part

    Joel Edgerton in Warrior, he is just not right for the part, I liked Hardy though

    Elijah Wood in Green Street was absolutely shocking

    Not a fan of David Schwimmer but I thought he was excellent in The Iceman.


  • #219
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    LOSTfan57 wrote: »
    Dan Radcliffe and Vinnie Jones and Taylor Kitch

    In what?


  • #220
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    John malkovich in being john malkovich.


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