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When casting made a balls of it

  • 18-05-2019 3:21pm
    #1
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,523 ✭✭✭


    the other thread is great so i thought about the oposite.

    who is absolutely terrible or not a great fit for the character .


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  • #2
    Wheety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,512 ✭✭✭Wheety


    Aiden Gillen in everything.


  • #3
    coolshannagh28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,478 ✭✭✭coolshannagh28


    Al Pacino in Godfather 3.


  • #4
    coredev123
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 26 ✭coredev123


    Wheety wrote: »
    Aiden Gillen in everything.

    He was absolutely fantastic when he played Charles Haughey in the RTE drama. He nailed it.

    He was also brilliant as John-Boy in Love/Hate.


  • #5
    brian_t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,728 ✭✭✭brian_t


    coredev123 wrote: »
    He was absolutely fantastic when he played Charles Haughey in the RTE drama. He nailed it.

    He was also brilliant as John-Boy in Love/Hate.

    You are posting in the wrong thread.


  • #6
    coredev123
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 26 ✭coredev123


    brian_t wrote: »
    You are posting in the wrong thread.

    No, I'm replying to the user saying Aidan Gillen isn't good in anything.


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  • #7
    McLoughlin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,922 ✭✭✭McLoughlin


    coredev123 wrote: »
    He was absolutely fantastic when he played Charles Haughey in the RTE drama. He nailed it.

    He was also brilliant as John-Boy in Love/Hate.

    Plus the long forgotten but fantastic Wexford Trilogy


  • #8
    Unearthly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,047 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    Finn Jones was a very poor Iron Fist


  • #9
    Nobelium
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    Cillian Murphy in anything, one of the most overated actors ever.


  • #10
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,408 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Johnny Depp as Willy Wanka


  • #11
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,721 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Nicolas Cage in every movie he’s been in apart from Raising Arizona.


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  • #12
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    coredev123 wrote:
    He was absolutely fantastic when he played Charles Haughey in the RTE drama. He nailed it.


    And as little finger in GOT. That post is debunked


  • #13
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    Nobelium wrote:
    Cillian Murphy in anything, one of the most overated actors ever.


    Tommy Shelby! He's great


  • #14
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    John Wayne as Genghis Khan.


  • #15
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,729 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Julia Roberts in Michael Collins

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • #16
    martingriff
    Registered Users Posts: 11,067 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Johnny Depp as Willy Wanka

    Johnny Depp in the Lone Ranger


  • #17
    Cartman78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,715 ✭✭✭Cartman78


    Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan in the Walking Dead.

    He's romcom fodder at best...couldn't take him seriously at all fluting around with a baseball bat


  • #18
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    Westernyelp wrote: »
    Tommy Shelby! He's great

    No, for such good writing and such a good character, Murphy performance is as usual wooden, one dimensional, and dead.
    It would much better with a better actor. There are hundreds of actors that could play that part better.


  • #19
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    Nicolas Cage in every movie he’s been in apart from Raising Arizona.

    Ah come on,
    Nicolas cage is so bad he's good.


  • #20
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Johnny Depp as Willy Wanka
    Willie who!?


  • #21
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    amcalester wrote: »
    John Wayne as Genghis Khan.

    Really? he was excellent in that role


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  • #22
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    Keanu Reeves in Dracula


  • #23
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭valoren


    Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffanys.


  • #24
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    Fisher Stevens in Short Circuit.


  • #25
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    John Connors in anything.....


  • #26
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    Nobelium wrote:
    No, for such good writing and such a good character, Murphy performance is as usual wooden, one dimensional, and dead. It would much better with a better actor. There are hundreds of actors that could play that part better.


    I disagree. I think he nails the self involved psycopath role. Would like to hear a couple of names from the hundreds who could do better. ?


  • #27
    gordongekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    When i have the misfortune of watching fair city i despair that this is the level of actors we turn out from our colleges. All acting schools in this country should be banned


  • #28
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    John Connors in anything.....

    Give it over, he is a fine actor he stole the show in love/hate


  • #29
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    Charlie Schlatter in the woeful TV version of Ferris Bueller's Day Off


  • #30
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Ursus Horribilis wrote: »
    Charlie Schlatter in the woeful TV version of Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    I'm glad I missed that, anyway! Sacrilege!


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  • #31
    quickbeam
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    Ursus Horribilis wrote: »
    Keanu Reeves in Dracula

    And Dangerous Liaisons.


  • #32
    Patser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,081 ✭✭✭Patser


    Katie Holmes in Batman Begins


  • #33
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Ursus Horribilis wrote: »
    Keanu Reeves in Dracula

    And Dangerous Liaisons.
    Ah, in fairness he was playing a 'nice but dim' character in that. Perfect casting there, IMO.


  • #34
    i71jskz5xu42pb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭i71jskz5xu42pb


    Sexy Beast, ½ a great movie.

    Ben Kingsley, Ray Winstone - tense, well acted first half.

    Then Ray meets the top boss - Lovejoy!
    All downhill from there (not all Lovejoy's fault granted)


  • #35
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Jonathan Rhys Meyers in The Tudors. Looked nothing like Henry VIII.

    Not quite as bad but also worth mentioning Maria Doyle Kennedy as Catherine of Aragon in the same show.


  • #36
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,465 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing.


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  • #37
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,808 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Not aware of the film but films generally are not filmed in the order you see it.


  • #38
    Eymmuroutraged Danu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 42 ✭Eymmuroutraged Danu


    Liv Tyler – The Lord of the Rings
    Georgr Clooney in Batman
    Colin Farrell in Alexander
    Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs
    Nicholas Cage was offered the role of Aragorn but pulled out................. Christ, that would have been up there on top of list if he took it up .


  • #39
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    Chris O'Donnell in Circle of Friends. A truly anaemic romantic lead.


  • #40
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Linda Hunt, a woman, playing Billy Kwan a man, in The Year of Living Dangerously


  • #41
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    Andie McDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral.


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  • #42
    blade1
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    Kevin Costner as Wyatt Earp.
    Much preferred Kurt Russell in Tombstone.


  • #43
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,886 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Patser wrote: »
    Katie Holmes in Batman Begins

    Two things made that the perfect casting.


  • #44
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    Cate Blanchett in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It didn't help that the film was a stinker but she was awful. And they shouldn't have let Shia LaBeouf within a 100 mile radius of the set.


  • #45
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Linda Hunt, a woman, playing Billy Kwan a man, in The Year of Living Dangerously
    She was fantastic in that role!


  • #46
    martingriff
    Registered Users Posts: 11,067 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    What's the film where the actor paid back people who went to see it allegedly


  • #47
    Buddy97mm
    Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Buddy97mm


    Tom Cruise as the 6 foot 5 Jack Reacher


  • #48
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Guys, it's the TV forum, at least try and keep things to that medium?

    Gotta agree on Finn Jones in Iron Fist; and the producers knew it too cos season 2 made pains to downplay his presence in the story...


  • #49
    Eymmuroutraged Danu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 42 ✭Eymmuroutraged Danu


    pixelburp wrote: »
    Guys, it's the TV forum, at least try and keep things to that medium?

    Gotta agree on Finn Jones in Iron Fist; and the producers knew it too cos season 2 made pains to downplay his presence in the story...

    Ah, here. What about films that are shown on tv??

    Not exactly committing crimes against humanity by discussing films as well!!


  • #50
    dirkmeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭dirkmeister


    Buddy97mm wrote: »
    Tom Cruise as the 6 foot 5 Jack Reacher

    This is who I was going to list.

    Reacher is built like a brick sh!t house in the books.

    Tom Cruise is not.


  • #51
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Euron Greyjoy and Shae in GoT. Awful.


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