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Worst miscasting role

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    #182
    Mr Crispy
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    The Enbalmer wrote: »
    Anything with Idris Elba..he can't act they just shoehorn him into roles to make up the quotient of blacks in movies.

    Some fools were even talking about him being the new James Bond..fair enough,I reckon SHAFT should be played by David Hyde Pierce!

    Dear oh dear. Have a ****ing word with yourself.


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    #183
    [Deleted User]
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    Not a movie but the stage production of "The Field" had Brian Dennehy as the Bull McCabe. Hearing someone say "Go home Yank" in an American accent was pretty surreal.

    Other than the accent he was pretty good, in fairness.


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    #184
    Omackeral
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    The Enbalmer wrote: »
    Anything with Idris Elba..he can't act !

    Funnily enough, I was shocked to find out he was a Brit after watching him as Stringer Bell in The Wire. The man was phenomenal.


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    #185
    odyssey06
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    The Enbalmer wrote: »
    Anything with Idris Elba..he can't act they just shoehorn him into roles to make up the quotient of blacks in movies.
    Some fools were even talking about him being the new James Bond..fair enough,I reckon SHAFT should be played by David Hyde Pierce!

    I think you have a minority opinion on that one, as evidenced by his nominations and awards by the Screen Actors Guild, Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globes...
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252961/awards

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #186
    The Enbalmer
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I think you have a minority opinion on that one, as evidenced by his nominations and awards by the Screen Actors Guild, Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globes...
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252961/awards




    Garbage awards..and more than likely influenced by some PC bullshiit.


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    #187
    Dades
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    Didn't I hear Idris Elba is signed up to play the mermaid in Disneys new live action remake?

    More PC nonsense!


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    #188
    The J Stands for Jay
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    branie2 wrote: »
    Julia Roberts in Movies

    FYP


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    #189
    CatFromHue
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    Anyone else thin Arnold was miscast in The Terminator.

    He's a huge muscle bound mono tone guy from a post Apocalypse future who's meant to be able to blend in.


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    #190
    Dades
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    CatFromHue wrote: »
    Anyone else thin Arnold was miscast in The Terminator.

    He's a huge muscle bound mono tone guy from a post Apocalypse future who's meant to be able to blend in.
    Arnie was mean to play Kyle Reese but convinced Cameron to let him be The Terminator.

    Maybe he didn't blend in, but the movie wouldn't have spawned 5 sequels (for better or worse) without Arnies original presence and delivery as an unstoppable machine.


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    #191
    woodchuck
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    Andrew Garfield as Spiderman. I just didn't buy him as a nerdy insecure teenager. And his hair was too poofy :P


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    #192
    ItsHoggie
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    Brad Pitt in Snatch.


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    #193
    Sonics2k
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    woodchuck wrote: »
    Andrew Garfield as Spiderman. I just didn't buy him as a nerdy insecure teenager. And his hair was too poofy :P

    Weirdly enough, the same can be said about Tobey Maguire.

    AG made a fantastic Spider-Man, but a lousy Peter Parker. TM however made a great Peter Parker, but wasn't great as Spider-Man.

    As for The Enbalmer, while you can trot out the agenda stuff, please go watch season 1 of The Wire and tell us again that Idris Elba can't act.


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    #194
    speedboatchase
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    Andrew Garfield was far too cool as Peter Parker. I remember in Honest Trailers for Amazing Spider-Man they had a line that mocked how he was a good-looking, confident, skateboarding... nerd?!


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    #195
    Stop moaning ffs
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    Affleck as Batman
    Not a popular opinion but I just don’t like him in the role.
    Wasn’t served by the best writing either. And he visibly has no interest in being there in that last one (justice league?)


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    #196
    Mousewar
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    ItsHoggie wrote: »
    Brad Pitt in Snatch.
    :confused:

    He was great in that.

    There's something I read once about Brad Pitt and it's incredibly true. He's a very good character actor cursed with the looks of a leading man. Every time he plays the leading man, the good looking lead or the hero (Troy, Ocean's 11), he's dull as ditch water. But whenever he plays a supporting character, ideally an eccentric one(Snatch, 12 Monkeys), he's great. It really should be the only thing he does. He's John Turturro but he tries to be Tom Cruise.


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    #197
    Tammy!
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    Mousewar wrote: »
    :confused:

    He was great in that.

    There's something I read once about Brad Pitt and it's incredibly true. He's a very good character actor cursed with the looks of a leading man. Every time he plays the leading man, the good looking lead or the hero (Troy, Ocean's 11), he's dull as ditch water. But whenever he plays a supporting character, ideally an eccentric one(Snatch, 12 Monkeys), he's great. It really should be the only thing he does. He's John Turturro but he tries to be Tom Cruise.

    Floyd in True Romance :)


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    #198
    tusk
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    Mousewar wrote: »
    :confused:

    He was great in that.

    There's something I read once about Brad Pitt and it's incredibly true. He's a very good character actor cursed with the looks of a leading man. Every time he plays the leading man, the good looking lead or the hero (Troy, Ocean's 11), he's dull as ditch water. But whenever he plays a supporting character, ideally an eccentric one(Snatch, 12 Monkeys), he's great. It really should be the only thing he does. He's John Turturro but he tries to be Tom Cruise.

    Nail meet head.

    He was fantastic in snatch!


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    #199
    Dades
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    Mousewar wrote: »
    :confused:

    He was great in that.

    There's something I read once about Brad Pitt and it's incredibly true. He's a very good character actor cursed with the looks of a leading man. Every time he plays the leading man, the good looking lead or the hero (Troy, Ocean's 11), he's dull as ditch water. But whenever he plays a supporting character, ideally an eccentric one(Snatch, 12 Monkeys), he's great. It really should be the only thing he does. He's John Turturro but he tries to be Tom Cruise.
    Don't forget Legends of the Fall. :pac:

    Fight Club is another one of the good ones.


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    #200
    tusk
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    Dades wrote: »
    Don't forget Legends of the Fall. :pac:

    Fight Club is another one of the good ones.

    basically any one he gets his top off in aye?


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    #201
    Stop moaning ffs
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    He’s great in burn after reading too.

    Actually acting. Believably.


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    #202
    p to the e
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    CatFromHue wrote: »
    Anyone else thin Arnold was miscast in The Terminator.

    He's a huge muscle bound mono tone guy from a post Apocalypse future who's meant to be able to blend in.

    Wasn't OJ Simpson in in line to play the terminator? Whatever happened that guy?


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    #203
    tusk
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    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    He’s great in burn after reading too.

    Actually acting. Believably.

    Couldn't get into that. Must give it another try.


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    #204
    Stop moaning ffs
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    tusk wrote: »
    Couldn't get into that. Must give it another try.

    It’s all very quirky or something. But not bad.


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    #205
    Arne_Saknussem
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    Mousewar wrote: »
    :confused:

    He was great in that.

    There's something I read once about Brad Pitt and it's incredibly true. He's a very good character actor cursed with the looks of a leading man. Every time he plays the leading man, the good looking lead or the hero (Troy, Ocean's 11), he's dull as ditch water. But whenever he plays a supporting character, ideally an eccentric one(Snatch, 12 Monkeys), he's great. It really should be the only thing he does. He's John Turturro but he tries to be Tom Cruise.

    Thought he hammed it up badly in 12 Monkeys, was the worst thing about it.


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    #206
    Gimme A Pound
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    Some of these are just "actors I don't like". The Idris Elba one especially. He wasn't brilliant as Stringer Bell - it was something to do with pc.

    Anyway, not a movie but Cuba Gooding Junior as OJ Simpson in an otherwise very well cast TV series. That actually did just seem like "This guy's perfect - he's black!" Despite nothing like the physical stature or voice. Actually Idris Elba would have been ideal.


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    #207
    Gimme A Pound
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    CatFromHue wrote: »
    I've never seen the film but I thought looks wise Kutcher was very close to Jobs

    1C5077578-tdy-121205-ashton-jobs-combo.fit-560w.jpg
    Oh the absolute spit. But it seems like that was the only reason for the casting, even though I do think similar physicality is important. Although Al Pacino looks absolutely nothing like the investigative journalist he played in The Insider.


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    #208
    Church on Tuesday
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    p to the e wrote: »
    Wasn't OJ Simpson in in line to play the terminator? Whatever happened that guy?

    Not sure of that but Lance Henriksen (who plays a cop in the Terminator) was the actor Cameron originally had in mind to play the Terminator.


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    #209
    Krombopulos Michael
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    Just saw Jack Reacher books are going to be a TV show and wont have Tom Cruise as reacher which is a blessing in a way, but wonder who will get the role.

    https://www.breakingnews.ie/showbiz/tv-series-based-on-lee-childs-jack-reacher-books-in-works-at-amazon-937275.html


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    #210
    Recliner
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    branie2 wrote: »
    Julia Roberts as Kitty Kiernan in Michael Collins

    I actually went to see that film when I was in New York, and Americans coming out of the cinema complimenting her accent.


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    #211
    Mr Crispy
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    Krombopulos Michael wrote: »
    Just saw Jack Reacher books are going to be a TV show and wont have Tom Cruise as reacher which is a blessing in a way, but wonder who will get the role.

    https://www.breakingnews.ie/showbiz/tv-series-based-on-lee-childs-jack-reacher-books-in-works-at-amazon-937275.html

    Alexander Skarsgard would be my nomination - good actor, though not too big a name for a TV role, ie he's attainable. And yes, at six four, he's hopefully tall enough for even the staunchest fans of the books :pac:


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