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Badly cast movie and TV roles

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  • #52
    Crea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Crea


    DB83 wrote: »
    Except for Tom Cruise in far & away... A more authentic accent you will not hear

    "You're a corker Shannon"


  • #53
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


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

    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.


  • #54
    jimbob_jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭jimbob_jones


    Deleted User wrote: »
    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 for this, I would also add IMHO James Franco to the list..

    Watched Oz The Great and Powerful and I just thought that Franco was miscast as the lead


  • #55
    vitani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    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.

    Chris O'Dowd in 'Friends with Kids' was particularly bad.


  • #56
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Richard Thomas in All Quiet on the Western Front

    Matthew Broderick in Godzilla

    Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal

    Julia Roberts in Michael Collins

    Tom Cruise in Far & Away

    Tom Cruise in the Last Samurai

    Billy Connolly in the Last Samurai


  • #57
    fergiesfolly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    Hugh Grant in anything that doesn't require him to attend 4 weddings and 1 funeral.


  • #58
    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    major bill wrote: »
    Richard Thomas in All Quiet on the Western Front

    Matthew Broderick in Godzilla

    Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal

    Julia Roberts in Michael Collins

    Tom Cruise in Far & Away

    Tom Cruise in the Last Samurai

    Billy Connolly in the Last Samurai


    Cruise was very good in the Last Samurai imo


  • #59
    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    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.


  • #60
    mosi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭mosi


    Artful_Badger wrote: »
    Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great.

    That movie is comedy gold though!


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  • #61
    Daqster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Daqster


    thecatspjs wrote: »
    Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker.

    She was fcuking amazing in the Wicked Game video though.


  • #62
    fergiesfolly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    One for the future....
    Ben Affleck as Batman.


  • #63
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    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.


  • #64
    thecatspjs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭thecatspjs


    Radiosonde wrote: »
    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.

    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 it's quite a cool character with a lot of emotional conflict. I think someone like Heath Ledger might have been able to do the role better (not sure why exactly, but he was believable in every film I have seen him in).


  • #65
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    The lines written for the part were bad; Olivier couldn't have passed them off credibly.


  • #66
    thecatspjs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭thecatspjs


    catallus wrote: »
    The lines written for the part were bad; Olivier couldn't have passed them off credibly.

    Well, that's true enough. Those lines about the coarseness of sand make me ill.


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  • #67
    Napper Hawkins
    Registered Users Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    Tobey Maguire as Spiderman. Pathetic.

    Henry Caville as Superman. Wooden and utterly devoid of charisma, all cheekbones and not much else. Makes Keanu Reeves look like Gary Oldman.

    Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. About a foot too tall and just not a very convincing actor imo. The last two films were embarrassing.


  • #68
    Andersonisgod
    Registered Users Posts: 8,868 ✭✭✭Andersonisgod


    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.

    He certainly isn't a bad actor, Mads Mikkelsen is a really fine actor with a hugely impressive cv, I found his Hannibal to be different but at the same time entirely convincing.


  • #69
    Samsgirl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,203 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


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

    That's exactly what I was going to say. No friggen way is Tom Cruise Jack Reacher!


  • #70
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    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.
    No! No no no no! He's an absolutely terrific Hannibal, the way he plays him is very subdued, he's very believable as a manipulative serial killer. Far better than Hopkins in the latter movies, who dailed up the cheese so badly he turned his Hannibal into a pantomime villain. All he needed to do was have a twirly mustache and say "I'll get you yet! Mwuahahahaaa!"

    I'd actually rate Mads and Brian Cox the best Hannibals, both different, but far less camp interpretations of the character.


  • #71
    lillycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭lillycool


    Robert Sheehan in Love/Hate


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  • #72
    Napper Hawkins
    Registered Users Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    lillycool wrote: »
    Robert Sheehan in Love/Hate

    He's the reason I've avoided that show, looks like he should be in One Direction.


  • #73
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    mosi wrote: »
    That movie is comedy gold though!

    Miley Byrne was hilarious.


  • #74
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,191 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    For the record it is Alexander the Deadly...


  • #75
    poundapunnet
    Registered Users Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭poundapunnet


    lillycool wrote: »
    Robert Sheehan in Love/Hate

    I know, I quite like him in the role but I can certainly see how it'd be a problem. God bless his pretty seven stone wee self like, running around beating seven shades of sh1te out of people :D


  • #76
    JohnMearsheimer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭JohnMearsheimer


    Wentworth Miller cast as a young Anthony Hopkins in The Human Stain.


  • #77
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    Links234 wrote: »
    No! No no no no! He's an absolutely terrific Hannibal, the way he plays him is very subdued, he's very believable as a manipulative serial killer. Far better than Hopkins in the latter movies, who dailed up the cheese so badly he turned his Hannibal into a pantomime villain. All he needed to do was have a twirly mustache and say "I'll get you yet! Mwuahahahaaa!"

    That made me laugh - very good. :D

    I think some actors make awful villains.

    I saw a film a while back called The Minus Man, with Owen Wilson as a serial killer. Possibly the least credible villain ever. What were they thinking?

    Morgan Freeman is a disaster as a bad guy also.

    Going back into the history of miscast actors, 6'5'' white ex pro baseball player Chuck Connors played Geronimo.


  • #78
    Shane-KornSpace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    Vince Vaughan in the remake of Psycho.
    I find it very hard to take this guy seriosly. Probably because most of the films I've seen him in were comedies


  • #79
    tvercetti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭tvercetti


    lillycool wrote: »
    Robert Sheehan in Love/Hate

    100% Agree. Robert Sheehan is a very good actor and I love the show but he was painful to watch in it.
    Maybe its because I watched Misfits and he was so perfectly cast in that, I could never take him seriously in L/H as a result.


  • #80
    Engine No.9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭Engine No.9


    SimonTemplar wrote: »
    8 years later, and I still think Paul Giamatti would have nailed that role.

    +1 but......

    Philip Seymour Hoffman maybe??? Could you imagine his delivery of the "beauty killed the beast" line? Would have been classic.


  • #81
    shane9689
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭shane9689


    Kristin Stewart in 100 days of summer


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  • #82
    The Narrator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭The Narrator


    Shane-KornSpace wrote: »
    Vince Vaughan in the remake of Psycho.
    I find it very hard to take this guy seriosly. Probably because most of the films I've seen him in were comedies

    Vince Vaughan is badly cast in most things.

    He has been phoning it in for years now making terrible films and pocketing massive paycheques.

    Fred Claus - $20 million
    The Dilemma - $17.5 million

    And he was doing well (Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball, Starsky & Hutch, Old School) up until he realised he could get massive amounts of cash.


  • #83
    The Narrator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭The Narrator


    shane9689 wrote: »
    Kristin Stewart in 100 days of summer

    There are numerous things wrong with this sentence guy. ;)


  • #84
    GoAheadCaller
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭GoAheadCaller


    I think Brian cranston didn't suit the role of Walter white in bb. Someone like Henry winkler or chevy chase would have suited the role much better


  • #85
    Brien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭Brien


    Links234 wrote: »
    No! No no no no!

    Shia laboef is on boards!!! I cannot hear / see all those no's without thinking of Shia. terrible actor in every way.

    When i read the thread title one actor came straight to mind: Linda Fiorentino in Dogma and ordinary decent criminal.


  • #86
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    cantdecide wrote: »
    You mean like Jonathan Rhys Meyers?

    Exactly. He was pish in Bend it Like Beckham


  • #87
    danoriordan1402
    Registered Users Posts: 701 ✭✭✭danoriordan1402


    Clooney as Batman... Cruise as Lestat in Interview with the Vampire, oh and Ben Affleck in Daredevil but that was just crap movie no matter who played the part


  • #88
    Howard Juneau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    Brien wrote: »
    Shia laboef is on boards!!! I cannot hear / see all those no's without thinking of Shia. terrible actor in every way.

    When i read the thread title one actor came straight to mind: Linda Fiorentino in Dogma and ordinary decent criminal.

    You pick Linda Fiorentino fro dogma, yet have no problem with little miss "one hand in my pocket" as god? :)


  • #89
    burnhardlanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭burnhardlanger


    Richard Pryor in Superman 3.


  • #90
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,366 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    tvercetti wrote: »
    100% Agree. Robert Sheehan is a very good actor and I love the show but he was painful to watch in it.
    Maybe its because I watched Misfits and he was so perfectly cast in that, I could never take him seriously in L/H as a result.

    The guy that replaced him is far better. I always thought the character was supposed to be a charming pr*ck, where he seemed to be too unlikable to pull it off


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  • #91
    gabsdot40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭gabsdot40


    I watched the mini series. 'Death comes to pemberly', over Christmas and the actress who they got to play Elizabeth Bennett was too old and too plain to be convincing.
    Pity because it was a good series.


  • #92
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    David Schwimmer ruining a good chunk of Band of Brothers.


  • #93
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    danoriordan1402 wrote: »
    Clooney as Batman... Cruise as Lestat in Interview with the Vampire, oh and Ben Affleck in Daredevil but that was just crap movie no matter who played the part

    Cruise was brilliant as Lestat though


  • #94
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,068 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    David Schwimmer ruining a good chunk of Band of Brothers.

    He played totally against type and nailed that role.


  • #95
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »
    He played totally against type and nailed that role.

    Indeed, he's meant to be completely unlikeable like the real Sobel and he's one of the most memorable characters in it


  • #96
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »
    He played totally against type and nailed that role.

    He was just Ross in a uniform.


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  • #97
    Oafley Jones
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    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    He was just Ross in a uniform.

    Not a fan, but he was perfect in the role. Completely different characters.

    Anyways... Orlando Bloom in Kingdom of Heaven. And to think, Scott wanted Paul Bettany. What a loss.


  • #98
    Brien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭Brien


    Howard Juneau wrote: »
    You pick Linda Fiorentino fro dogma, yet have no problem with little miss "one hand in my pocket" as god? :)

    God is only two minutes at the end of the film, LF is planking it up for 90 minutes beforehand. honestly if it wasn't for my Alan rickman man crush i couldn't watch that film at all.


  • #99
    Howard Juneau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    Brien wrote: »
    God is only two minutes at the end of the film, LF is planking it up for 90 minutes beforehand. honestly if it wasn't for my Alan rickman man crush i couldn't watch that film at all.

    I'd genuinely like to know what others think on this as I thought she was almost perfect for the role


  • #100
    Skerries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,557 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    krudler wrote: »
    Cruise was brilliant as Lestat though

    No, he wasn't

    can't believe nobody hs mentioned Nicolas Cage, he hasn't made anything good since Face/Off
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  • #101
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    MJ23 wrote: »
    Miley Byrne was hilarious.

    Still, to this day, the biggest, unintentional laugh a movie got in the cinema was some fella shouting "Well Holy God" when Miley was trying to flog the horses.

    +1 for Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher for me, though the additional casting of the charisma void that is Rosamund Pike is up there too, breathing between every word doesnt cut it as sexy. But that stands for any film she's in.

    John Cleese as Q is another one for me.


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