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Badly cast movie and TV roles

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    #32
    Sofaspud
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    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.


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    #33
    xXxkorixXx
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    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


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    #34
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users Posts: 7,462 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


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


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    #35
    sydthebeat
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    ColeTrain wrote: »
    Sean Connery didn't even bother trying in the untouchables.

    Worse in the hunt for red October


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    #36
    ColeTrain
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    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.


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    #37
    mojesius
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    Andy McDowell in Groundhog Day. She ruins what is an otherwise perfect film.


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    #38
    xXxkorixXx
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    tommy lee jones as twoface in batman forever was awful casting, as was val kilmer


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    #39
    vitani
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    Russell Crowe in Les Mis. Good actor and a convincing Javert, but when he opened his mouth to sing, he sounded like a foghorn.


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    #40
    ColeTrain
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    mojesius wrote: »
    Andy McDowell in Groundhog Day. She ruins what is an otherwise perfect film.

    How so? I thought she was beautiful in that.


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    #41
    Pegmatite
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    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


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    #42
    catallus
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    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.


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    #43
    Crea
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    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.


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    #44
    Archeron
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    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.


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    #45
    catallus
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    "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.


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    #46
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    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


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    #47
    Hande hoche!
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    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


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    MJ23
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    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"


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    #49
    DB83
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    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


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    #50
    Radiosonde
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    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.


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    #51
    cantdecide
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    DB83 wrote: »
    Except for Tom Cruise in far & away... A more authentic accent you will not hear

    t'be shoor t'be shoor.


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    #52
    Crea
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    DB83 wrote: »
    Except for Tom Cruise in far & away... A more authentic accent you will not hear

    "You're a corker Shannon"


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    #53
    Benny_Cake
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    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.


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    #54
    jimbob_jones
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    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


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    #55
    vitani
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    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.


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    #56
    major bill
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    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


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    #57
    fergiesfolly
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    Hugh Grant in anything that doesn't require him to attend 4 weddings and 1 funeral.


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    #58
    ColeTrain
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    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


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    #59
    SimonTemplar
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    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.


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    #60
    mosi
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    Artful_Badger wrote: »
    Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great.

    That movie is comedy gold though!


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    #61
    Daqster
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    thecatspjs wrote: »
    Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker.

    She was fcuking amazing in the Wicked Game video though.


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