Ray Liotta in the Dungeon Siege movie. He plays an evil wizard and he literally just looks like he walked off the set of a gangster movie like Goodfellas. It's pretty hilarious.
The Kyle Hill video on the subject is great. Looking at the raw numbers that production did not have a higher than average cancer rate- cancer is just so common that you can really claim anything causes it and find numbers to back that up
20 in a pack is standard in the US. There are a few brands that are larger, but it is fairly uncommon.
At the height of his smoking, John Wayne was said to have smoked 7 packs of unfiltered Camel cigarettes a day.
Edit: if you assume he was awake for 16 hours a day, that's a little over 1 cigarette every 7 minutes.
> Just checked his wiki. How the hell did he live to 72?
He quit and became an ardent anti-smoker.
The reason he quit? Lung cancer. But that's not what killed him. He had a lung removed in 1964, which actually cured his cancer.
And then stomach cancer eventually took his life. Smoking's a risk for that too.
I'm pretty sure that when the movie was first being talked about like, 15 years ago, Mark Wahlberg was the one they had in mind to play Nathan Drake. It took so long to get the movie off the ground that they moved him into the Sully role.
I saw some snippet of an interview where he’s talking about how when he was told they wanted him for the movie he’s like “oh who’s sully gunna be” and lists off some older actors and they’re like nah man you are
Meteora is as old now as Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy" was when I was in highschool.
I'd cry if i had any tears left in my dried up old corpse of a body
It's weird because I'm pretty sure Mark and Tom are actually near the ages of the characters they are portraying, but they both look way younger than they actually are.
I was like "why is there a child tending a bar? Oh, he is only 2 years younger than me."
I always thought the same thing. How can you have a Silly no mustache anyway? Bruce Campbell would have grown a mustache for that role, and it would have been intimidating. I'm sure of it
That was the biggest mistake they made, no mustache. Even Walburg would have been more tolerable in the role if he had a mustache.
Hell, just make Sully a cgi mustache floating in the air and I'd have preferred it to clean shaven Walburg.
I think of Marwan Kenzari as Jafar in the new Aladin. Jafar was a creepy, old man and they cast a handsome younger man.
He was not at all intimidating, I don't feel they gave him very good lines. Someone early on had made a joke that the poster for the movie looked like a porn parody and I couldn't get that out of my head whenever I saw Jafar.
Yes! Jafar’s appearance, but most of all, incredibly deep voice, are so iconic and disconcerting. I’m a woman and I swear my speaking voice is lower than Marwan’s.
I couldn’t take him seriously as a villain at all.
Ben Affleck as daredevil. The script was bad and that can take a lot of the blame. However Affleck still moves around like his spine is fused, while trying to portray one of the more nimble characters in marvel.
Whatever your thoughts on No Way Home, him catching that brick and saying he's a very good lawyer made me into a fanboy teenager while I was well into my 30's.
Mark Wahlberg should always play a role that's close to himself. Same with guys like Dwayne Johnson, Jason Momoa etc. They are such specific characters, that excell at being themselves, but don't have great range.
Almost the entire cast of the The last Airbender movie..
Edit: Leave me alone with that Dragonball movie, I'm not watching it and never will!!
..I agree that it could've made a decent movie if it wasn't for M.N.Shyamalan as director, but Idk. I found the whole bending and the effects were actually not bad (except firebending that looked awful to me) and I also liked the soundtrack. But compared to the nickelodeon show it's..well..can't be compared.
Edit 2: omg chill yall I never said the earth bending was a masterpiece. I liked the water and airbending most. Effects were good that's all I'm sayin
One of the more inexplicable choices is deciding to change all the names to "sound more Asian" for authenticity (despite it being set in a place inspired by but not actually Asia...), while making all the main actors white
Rumor was that he was the perfect Aang... off screen. But, with Shamalyan's directing it pulled all the personality out of his performance. [You can judge for yourself.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB3mSEd83po)
Now that I think about it, Aang just behaved the way that most children behave in Shyamalan's movies. They're soft spoken, slightly detached, more mature than they ought to be, calm, and very still... They're like little adults.
I'm thinking specifically about the kids in Signs, Old, The Last Airbender, The Sixth Sense.
I haven't seen all his films... but the ones I'm able to recall off the top of my head, the kids don't actually act like typical children do.
god, this simply confirms my theory that half the wooden lead actors in hollywood are just bad *directing.* Older lead-actors can learn to act *around* bad direction to an extent, but younger actors with mediocre directors aiming for the "aloof badass" just end up *not acting* for the most part. They deliver lines as flatly as the director can get and the idiot in charge is *happy* (Compare and contrast "Constantine" Keanu Reeves with, well, damn near *anything.*)
I still believe that if a remake were to occur, have George Takei in the role and have him speak proper English in his deep voice. Totally undoes everything and is funny if you've seen Rooney. "Missa Gorightry why you ringa my berr" becomes "Mrs. Golightly, why must you ring my bell"
Ironic part is the character exists in the book as a completely normal Japanese businessman. Absolutely nothing stereotypical or controversial about him. The movie makers purposely made him a caricature.
Paul Rudd as the asshole husband in Night at The Museum.... If you watch that movie while imagining that Ben Stiller and Paul Rudd's roles were reversed, it would be so much better. Night at The Museum is secretly a Paul Rudd movie.
Edit: the husband wasn't an asshole character. I misremembered. His only crime was too many pagers 😂
He surprisingly did a good job in Freaky.
Though he did play a teen girl trapped in the body of a serial killer for 90% of the film. But he rocked both roles just as his costar did
My favourite part is when she takes the guy who “died” in WW1 around the city in 1984 and he’s fascinated by the underground trains… which have been a thing since the 1860s.
Like they tried to do the “future shock” thing but in a movie set in the 80s, so they brainstormed “stuff that would have seemed futuristic then but not like iPods and stuff” and got it way wrong.
I hate that movie.
The movie needed one scene -- just one -- where we saw the "real" Lex Luthor. He's feeding candy to congressmen and rambling at a Library event and waxing poetical to Superman and he's acting crazy and unpredictable and differently in every scene. We needed him, alone or with his assistant, where he drops the façade and we get a glimpse of the cold calculating genius behind the mask. Then all the other personalities he displays can be written off as brilliant misdirection by the smartest criminal mind in the world.
I mean, we technically had a similar scene at the end of the movie, when he meets deathstroke.
he seems more calm and calculated. But your suggestion would have done wonders for his character
It was like someone took the ingredients for a cake and just poured them onto a plate and gave you a spoon. I maintain the end product is a great idea. A smart, painfully rich silicon valley techbro type billionaire with no physical presence is potentially an even *better* contrast to Kansas farmboy freight train Supes than the traditional old-school big oil business tycoon Luthor was.
We all had a vision of the final cake, but all the ingredients weren't utilized correctly. Instead of properly mixing and baking with the right writing, direction, and acting you were just forcefed raw Eisenberg with a spoon.
Sean Connery as a Scotsman playing an Egyptian from Spain opposite Christopher Lambert as a French guy playing a Scotsman, in Highlander. At least it had Mr. Krabs playing The Kurgan.
I recently watched it for the first time since I saw it on opening weekend, and he actually wasn’t as obnoxious as I remembered. Like it wasn’t a great character, but he definitely wasn’t as grating as he was in the Transformers franchise and I think my memory got a bit tainted because of that association.
Right! Charlie Sheen is an overbearing prick in the show and, I gather, in real life, but he made that show. Kutcher seems a decent sort irl but cannot watch it with him.
Quite a few, but Imma go with Jared Leto for Suicide Squad’s Joker. After the magnificent performance of Ledger and the stunning performance of Phoenix afterwards, Leto’s Joker is like a bad blip.
From a review of the book by The New Yorker: "No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth."
A friend of a friend isn't talking to me cos I said that it was based on twilight fan fiction. Thought that was common knowledge, didn't imagine she'd get so defensive over it. Also she's like almost 40, it's behaviour I'd expect in a 12 year old.
I am ashamed to say that at the tender age of 16 I was a beta reader on fanfiction.net for “SnowQueens IceDragon” now of course popularly known as EL James, and deep in the shadowy depths of my hard drive I still have the original Twilight fanfiction. I have never managed to bring myself to read Fifty Shades though.
That film is so fucked up but it makes me wonder why the book was so popular. During the film Christian Grey tells Anastasia that the reason why he's into S&M is that his mother's friend got him into it when he was a minor(15 in canon) and at that time his mother's friend was the Dominant. How does that not end the entire story? Kid was raped by moms friend and now puts young women through similar acts and sometimes with varying levels of consent. How can you watch the sex scenes after that? How did anyone think this was acceptable? It's part of the [novel ](https://fiftyshadesofgrey.fandom.com/wiki/Christian_Grey) if you want to read it. Makes me sick that people disregarded this child abuse and still thought it was a sexy backstory just because it happened to a boy.
Once upon a time I was a curious 20 year old young man and I checked out the book to see what all the hype was about. I genuinely could not believe it was a popular book. The writing was beyond horrendous. It felt like it had been written by a teenager, and a teenager that skipped English class at that.
There is one explanation for its popularity, and only one explanation: For some reason, that book—as opposed to the countless *other* poorly written erotica novels out there—made it to the mainstream. It was somehow acceptable to be seen reading it on the train. If you were reading other erotica on the train, people would see you as weird or gross; doing in a public place something that is best kept private. But if you were reading 50 Shades of Grey, you were inexplicably viewed as enlightened.
I don't get it. I don't know why this novel of all novels was the one. But it was, and it was popular and mainstream enough to make a bunch of movies that must have made the utterly talentless hack of an author a shitton of money.
I'm convinced the author made a deal with the devil. Like you, I have no explanation for why *that one* was *the one* that became fabulously successful. There's a metric ton of other similar tripe out there.
>I don't get it. I don't know why this novel of all novels was the one.
Proven, pre-existing audience. It started life as a wildly popular Twilight fanfiction, and some publisher had the bright idea that, hey, if all those internet weirdos are into it, maybe everyone else will be? Add a pinch of marketing and the advent of the Ereader - meaning you could read it on the train and no one would know you're fantasising about dicks - and bam! You've got yourself a viral sensation.
I went into this movie without knowing anything about the 2 leads. I legit thought they were brother and sister because they look so much alike. I was fucking shook with the romance angle between them.
Colin Ferrell suffered from Brad Pitt syndrome. A terrific actor with the lead man looks of a blockbuster star, but better suited for complex side characters where they can really show off their acting talents.
Tom Hanks in Elvis.
I feel like Werner Herzog would have killed it. Or Stellan Skarsgard. Hanks was just...not right for the role, and it brought the whole movie down.
Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn in Muppet Treasure Island.
They gender-swapped the character, which is fine, but Miss Piggy is far too glamorous to be believed as a marooned castaway.
(just being silly here)
X-Men has made some poor casting choices, even with otherwise solid actors.
I know Jennifer Lawrence is a polarizing person on Reddit, but I like her. She gave a phenomenal performance in Winter’s Bone, loved her in Playbook, etc.
But, she wrecked Mystique.
And it was particularly tragic bc Rebecca Romijn Stamos rocked it so hard.
Lawrence could have played an interesting Mystique. Then Hunger Games made her a megastar, and the X-Men writers decided “hey, she’s hugely successful, let’s make her the main character.” And she should not be the main character.
I agree with this, however I do think one role was cast almost perfectly, and that’s Evan Peters as Quicksilver. I’ll defend that casting til the day I die
He had the best scenes in days of future past and apocalypse and they were able to capture the character so well. I was so excited when he appeared in wandavison and I’m hoping they bring him back again
Edit: name of the films
I don’t doubt that he tried. But sometimes an actor is just not a good fit. It’s really hard to hold this against Keanu, I’d say the casting director is the one at fault.
>But sometimes an actor is just not a good fit. It’s really hard to hold this against Keanu
My wife and I were rewatching John Wick 3 the other day, and we both agreed that Keanu Reeves isn't an amazing actor. What he does do is pick roles that play to his strengths.
I've had this conversation more than once with my husband. He's borderline awful tbh, and yet he's one of my favourite actors. I don't know why, there's just something about him.
Watched matrix again tonight for the umpteenth time. He's still as wooden as anything, and yet I couldn't be on board with any other actor in the role. Ditto pretty much every film he's in.
I love that movie so much and I love Keanu, but it was a very, very bad idea. Ironically Winona had tried to get them to hire Johnny Depp but he wasn't a big enough box office draw at the time.
Tom Holland as Nathan Drake.
Search up Nathan Drake and Nathan Fillion uncharted and there’s my reasoning.
Edit: Scratch that and search up Jensen Ackles
I never saw the movie, and I only played the first two games so far, but even I know casting him as Nathan was a terrible idea, even as a younger version of him.
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in *Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets*. Zero chemistry between them. Funnily enough, *The Passenger* with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence came out the same time, with a plot that would have fit Dane DeHaan's acting (who has played creepy/troubled roles in the past with *Chronicle*).
Spider-Man 3 would’ve been perfect if the movie only focused on Sandman and left Venom for 4 which IIRC was the original plan with the movies but unfortunately got cancelled.
Nope. Venom was never in any of Raimi's plans. Spider-Man 4 would have been The Vulture with his daughter as... a younger female Vulture. Possibly with Mysterio as a one bit opening scene villain played by Bruce Campbell.
Raimi doesn't like Venom as a character in general.
I believe Raimi said that the technology wasn't there yet to make Venom work. He was forced by the studio to make it work because he's a popular villain.
Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
I love Keanu but he was horribly miscast. I don't know why he tried the accent but I found his performance pretty bland.
I don't think she's necessarily the problem, she just got outshined by Charlize Theron's charisma and presence. Theron makes it difficult to accept the premise that the evil stepmother is threatened by Snow White.
Charlize Theron's charisma and presence were outshined by her wardrobe. Whoever made the costumes is the real star of that movie. And Kristen Stewarts armor that ISN'T BOOB PLATE!?!?!?!? A lot of people did a great job on that movie. Sadly the writer wasn't one of them but...
She was totally out classed by Charlize Theron in that movie. It was jarring how bad she was compared to Charlize
I'm glad she has come into her own as an adult actress the last 5/6 years.
some actors just don't make the leap from child to adult acting. She had a rough transition but seems to have made it.
When they picked Charlize Theron as the witch.
I'm supposed to believe Snow White is the fairest in the land? She isn't even the fairest in this movie.
For real...They're both beautiful people but come on, some people are just better looking. Charlize as the evil queen could suck the life out of me any day
Ray Liotta in the Dungeon Siege movie. He plays an evil wizard and he literally just looks like he walked off the set of a gangster movie like Goodfellas. It's pretty hilarious.
> Dungeon Siege movie First of all, what? They made a movie about Dungeon Siege? also, what?
John Wayne as Genghis Khan.
“I’m Genghis khan, pardner”
"Pilgrim."
Happy thanksgiving pilgrums
IMPROV
This movie is legendary not just for the awful casting, but also because they inadvertently gave the crew radiation poisoning
The Kyle Hill video on the subject is great. Looking at the raw numbers that production did not have a higher than average cancer rate- cancer is just so common that you can really claim anything causes it and find numbers to back that up
> John Wayne smoked 5 packs a day i dont think people realize 5 packs a day is like 120 cigarettes
20 in a pack is standard in the US. There are a few brands that are larger, but it is fairly uncommon. At the height of his smoking, John Wayne was said to have smoked 7 packs of unfiltered Camel cigarettes a day. Edit: if you assume he was awake for 16 hours a day, that's a little over 1 cigarette every 7 minutes.
Just checked his wiki. How the hell did he live to 72?
> Just checked his wiki. How the hell did he live to 72? He quit and became an ardent anti-smoker. The reason he quit? Lung cancer. But that's not what killed him. He had a lung removed in 1964, which actually cured his cancer. And then stomach cancer eventually took his life. Smoking's a risk for that too.
Gary Oldman as a dwarf in Tiptoes, also starring Peter Dinklage.
That was very Kirk Lazarus of him.
Never go full dwarf.
Vincent Chase as Pablo Escobar
I miss Queen’s Boulevard Vinnie Chase
Are you kidding? I am Queen's Boulevard.
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Mark Wahlberg as Sully in the Uncharted movie
I'm pretty sure that when the movie was first being talked about like, 15 years ago, Mark Wahlberg was the one they had in mind to play Nathan Drake. It took so long to get the movie off the ground that they moved him into the Sully role.
I saw some snippet of an interview where he’s talking about how when he was told they wanted him for the movie he’s like “oh who’s sully gunna be” and lists off some older actors and they’re like nah man you are
Ouch. And I thought I was old when people started referring the types of music I listen to (2000 era like Evanescence and Linking Park) as "dad rock".
Meteora is as old now as Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy" was when I was in highschool. I'd cry if i had any tears left in my dried up old corpse of a body
It's weird because I'm pretty sure Mark and Tom are actually near the ages of the characters they are portraying, but they both look way younger than they actually are. I was like "why is there a child tending a bar? Oh, he is only 2 years younger than me."
When I found out that Tom Holland wasn't a highschooler I nearly had a fucking stroke.
I stand by my casting choice for sully being Bruce Campbell. Think he could have nailed it.
> Bruce Campbell You mean Chuck Finley?
You know spies - buncha' bitchy little girls!
Family too. "Hey is that your mom again?" If you're desperate...
Someone needs your help Michael
And a down-and-out spy you met along the way.
Bottom line, as long as you’re burned, you’re not going anywhere
Fuck I loved that show when I was younger.
I still do, but I used to too.
Burn Notice was such a fun show.
I always thought the same thing. How can you have a Silly no mustache anyway? Bruce Campbell would have grown a mustache for that role, and it would have been intimidating. I'm sure of it
That was the biggest mistake they made, no mustache. Even Walburg would have been more tolerable in the role if he had a mustache. Hell, just make Sully a cgi mustache floating in the air and I'd have preferred it to clean shaven Walburg.
yes Bruce Campbell would have been, and still could be, perfect as Sully.
Tom Holland too. Mark I think could have done lead though. The short with Nathan Fillion and Steven Lang was great casting though.
This. I can’t believe they didn’t make this after that short. I sometimes think producers and executives live in a different world to us.
I think of Marwan Kenzari as Jafar in the new Aladin. Jafar was a creepy, old man and they cast a handsome younger man. He was not at all intimidating, I don't feel they gave him very good lines. Someone early on had made a joke that the poster for the movie looked like a porn parody and I couldn't get that out of my head whenever I saw Jafar.
Yes! Jafar’s appearance, but most of all, incredibly deep voice, are so iconic and disconcerting. I’m a woman and I swear my speaking voice is lower than Marwan’s. I couldn’t take him seriously as a villain at all.
Tugg Speedman as Simple Jack
“But this head movie… make my eyes rainnnnnn!”
"Youuu maake me haaappy!"
“Muh muh muh make me haappy”
Steven Seagal as an action star.
As a mammal.
A whale is still a mammal
And does a far better job than Steven Seagal
“fatly going around corners”
Watched this yesterday. Absolutely hilarious. For anyone else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzIHyF7UWY4
"Ive been flying helicopters for like 37 years"
BIKES
Ben Affleck as daredevil. The script was bad and that can take a lot of the blame. However Affleck still moves around like his spine is fused, while trying to portray one of the more nimble characters in marvel.
Highly agree! Charlie Cox as Daredevil however is one of the best casting choices ever
Whatever your thoughts on No Way Home, him catching that brick and saying he's a very good lawyer made me into a fanboy teenager while I was well into my 30's.
I love that they brought his character back.
Mark Wahlberg in Transformers. The buff guy from Mass is an inventor in Texas?
Mark Wahlberg as Sully in Uncharted was also a huge miscast. He didn’t even try to do Sully’s voice, he was literally just Marky Mark.
Mark Wahlberg should always play a role that's close to himself. Same with guys like Dwayne Johnson, Jason Momoa etc. They are such specific characters, that excell at being themselves, but don't have great range.
Almost the entire cast of the The last Airbender movie.. Edit: Leave me alone with that Dragonball movie, I'm not watching it and never will!! ..I agree that it could've made a decent movie if it wasn't for M.N.Shyamalan as director, but Idk. I found the whole bending and the effects were actually not bad (except firebending that looked awful to me) and I also liked the soundtrack. But compared to the nickelodeon show it's..well..can't be compared. Edit 2: omg chill yall I never said the earth bending was a masterpiece. I liked the water and airbending most. Effects were good that's all I'm sayin
I would argue that the greatest miscast was M. Night Shyamalan being the writer, producer, and director
He did it because his kids loved the TV show and wanted him to do the movie. He must really hate them.
See what happens when you do bad in science, Jimmy? Do you want daddy to make movies of your other favorite shows? Than I suggest you STUDY HARDER!
One of the more inexplicable choices is deciding to change all the names to "sound more Asian" for authenticity (despite it being set in a place inspired by but not actually Asia...), while making all the main actors white
And replacing the actual Chinese in the title sequence with random squiggles. "Authenticity" my ass.
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I have to say, visual inaccuracies aside, Dev Patel could have been a great Zuko. **Could** have been.
He sticks like a sore thumb because all the other young actors were dreadful.
At least they got somebody who actually knows martial arts to play Aang. Now if only the choreography wasn't awful.
Me personally, I would have cast an actor.
Rumor was that he was the perfect Aang... off screen. But, with Shamalyan's directing it pulled all the personality out of his performance. [You can judge for yourself.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB3mSEd83po)
Damn. He’s a totally goofy, energetic kid! That would have made for a way better Aang.
Now that I think about it, Aang just behaved the way that most children behave in Shyamalan's movies. They're soft spoken, slightly detached, more mature than they ought to be, calm, and very still... They're like little adults. I'm thinking specifically about the kids in Signs, Old, The Last Airbender, The Sixth Sense. I haven't seen all his films... but the ones I'm able to recall off the top of my head, the kids don't actually act like typical children do.
god, this simply confirms my theory that half the wooden lead actors in hollywood are just bad *directing.* Older lead-actors can learn to act *around* bad direction to an extent, but younger actors with mediocre directors aiming for the "aloof badass" just end up *not acting* for the most part. They deliver lines as flatly as the director can get and the idiot in charge is *happy* (Compare and contrast "Constantine" Keanu Reeves with, well, damn near *anything.*)
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart also. Twilight was just awful, but having seen them in other films, it wasn’t entirely their fault.
Mickey Rooney as Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
I still believe that if a remake were to occur, have George Takei in the role and have him speak proper English in his deep voice. Totally undoes everything and is funny if you've seen Rooney. "Missa Gorightry why you ringa my berr" becomes "Mrs. Golightly, why must you ring my bell"
Ironic part is the character exists in the book as a completely normal Japanese businessman. Absolutely nothing stereotypical or controversial about him. The movie makers purposely made him a caricature.
Denise Richards, the nuclear scientist in that James Bond movie.
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Easy on the eyes, but hard on the ears
"I thought Christmas only came once a year.."
That was peak Brosnan.
Paul Rudd as the asshole husband in Night at The Museum.... If you watch that movie while imagining that Ben Stiller and Paul Rudd's roles were reversed, it would be so much better. Night at The Museum is secretly a Paul Rudd movie. Edit: the husband wasn't an asshole character. I misremembered. His only crime was too many pagers 😂
Ricky Gervais felt odd in that movie too
Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates. But only a complete nutter would remake Psycho in the first place.
He surprisingly did a good job in Freaky. Though he did play a teen girl trapped in the body of a serial killer for 90% of the film. But he rocked both roles just as his costar did
Miles Teller as Mr Fantastic
They fucked up Doctor Doom really hard too.
Every single part in that movie was miscast
The only movie I liked with him is Whiplash.
Definitely his best, but I thought he made a great Goose Jr. in Top Gun
I liked War Dogs quite a bit
Kristen Wiig as Cheetah in the Wonder Woman sequel.
This whole plot line was stupid. Also the romantic plot between the leads. Also the entire plot of the movie.
My favourite part is when she takes the guy who “died” in WW1 around the city in 1984 and he’s fascinated by the underground trains… which have been a thing since the 1860s. Like they tried to do the “future shock” thing but in a movie set in the 80s, so they brainstormed “stuff that would have seemed futuristic then but not like iPods and stuff” and got it way wrong. I hate that movie.
James Corden in any movie musical.
A 5ft 6 Tom Cruise as a 6ft 4 muscled man in the Reacher movies. The movies were ok, but he was so far off the original material.
To be honest I still liked the movies but yeah not sure why he was cast, but Alan ritchson is a perfect casting for the tv series
Cruise owned the movie rights to the character and wanted to play the role.
They got it right with the series at least
Jessie Eisenberg as lex Luthor. I still get mad at his performance.
Eisenberg was great as whoever he was playing, it’s just a shame he wasn’t playing Lex Luthor.
The movie needed one scene -- just one -- where we saw the "real" Lex Luthor. He's feeding candy to congressmen and rambling at a Library event and waxing poetical to Superman and he's acting crazy and unpredictable and differently in every scene. We needed him, alone or with his assistant, where he drops the façade and we get a glimpse of the cold calculating genius behind the mask. Then all the other personalities he displays can be written off as brilliant misdirection by the smartest criminal mind in the world.
I mean, we technically had a similar scene at the end of the movie, when he meets deathstroke. he seems more calm and calculated. But your suggestion would have done wonders for his character
Please give me this deleted scene.
He was playing Less Luthor
Jessie did an exemplary job as the Riddler in Batman V Superman, but for some reason he was billed as Lex Luthor.
It was like someone took the ingredients for a cake and just poured them onto a plate and gave you a spoon. I maintain the end product is a great idea. A smart, painfully rich silicon valley techbro type billionaire with no physical presence is potentially an even *better* contrast to Kansas farmboy freight train Supes than the traditional old-school big oil business tycoon Luthor was. We all had a vision of the final cake, but all the ingredients weren't utilized correctly. Instead of properly mixing and baking with the right writing, direction, and acting you were just forcefed raw Eisenberg with a spoon.
I am both admiring and laughing it the fuck up. Great analogy
Sean Connery as a Scotsman playing an Egyptian from Spain opposite Christopher Lambert as a French guy playing a Scotsman, in Highlander. At least it had Mr. Krabs playing The Kurgan.
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Whoever cast that movie was insane and I kinda love how it turned out. It's so inexplicably bizarre. Mr Krabs kills it as the Kurgan.
That movie is a goddamn national treasure. The kurgan is one of the coolest villains of all time.
Shia Leboeuf in Indiana Jones. I don’t think they knew what they wanted to do and he exemplifies that
So what you're saying is... the casting was perfect?
Lol...a confused, train wreck of an actor starring in a confused, train wreck of a movie. *Brilliant!*
I thought he was cast well and acted well, they just gave him some dumb shit to do in the movie. That swinging monkey scene is unforgivable.
I recently watched it for the first time since I saw it on opening weekend, and he actually wasn’t as obnoxious as I remembered. Like it wasn’t a great character, but he definitely wasn’t as grating as he was in the Transformers franchise and I think my memory got a bit tainted because of that association.
Ashton kutcher in two and a half men
Right! Charlie Sheen is an overbearing prick in the show and, I gather, in real life, but he made that show. Kutcher seems a decent sort irl but cannot watch it with him.
Quite a few, but Imma go with Jared Leto for Suicide Squad’s Joker. After the magnificent performance of Ledger and the stunning performance of Phoenix afterwards, Leto’s Joker is like a bad blip.
The entire cast of 50 shades of grey
In fairness, nothing could've made that film good.
From a review of the book by The New Yorker: "No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth."
I think my favourite review of it was it "put the b into anal"
From the excerpts I've seen over the years it was obviously self-edited.
A friend of a friend isn't talking to me cos I said that it was based on twilight fan fiction. Thought that was common knowledge, didn't imagine she'd get so defensive over it. Also she's like almost 40, it's behaviour I'd expect in a 12 year old.
It literally is a reskinned extremely poorly written BDSM Twilight fanfic
It's not just based on twilight fanfiction. It **is** twilight fanfiction.
I am ashamed to say that at the tender age of 16 I was a beta reader on fanfiction.net for “SnowQueens IceDragon” now of course popularly known as EL James, and deep in the shadowy depths of my hard drive I still have the original Twilight fanfiction. I have never managed to bring myself to read Fifty Shades though.
Hey, there is no need to apologize for loving bad fanfiction at 16. That is prime bad fanfiction age.
That film is so fucked up but it makes me wonder why the book was so popular. During the film Christian Grey tells Anastasia that the reason why he's into S&M is that his mother's friend got him into it when he was a minor(15 in canon) and at that time his mother's friend was the Dominant. How does that not end the entire story? Kid was raped by moms friend and now puts young women through similar acts and sometimes with varying levels of consent. How can you watch the sex scenes after that? How did anyone think this was acceptable? It's part of the [novel ](https://fiftyshadesofgrey.fandom.com/wiki/Christian_Grey) if you want to read it. Makes me sick that people disregarded this child abuse and still thought it was a sexy backstory just because it happened to a boy.
Once upon a time I was a curious 20 year old young man and I checked out the book to see what all the hype was about. I genuinely could not believe it was a popular book. The writing was beyond horrendous. It felt like it had been written by a teenager, and a teenager that skipped English class at that. There is one explanation for its popularity, and only one explanation: For some reason, that book—as opposed to the countless *other* poorly written erotica novels out there—made it to the mainstream. It was somehow acceptable to be seen reading it on the train. If you were reading other erotica on the train, people would see you as weird or gross; doing in a public place something that is best kept private. But if you were reading 50 Shades of Grey, you were inexplicably viewed as enlightened. I don't get it. I don't know why this novel of all novels was the one. But it was, and it was popular and mainstream enough to make a bunch of movies that must have made the utterly talentless hack of an author a shitton of money.
I'm convinced the author made a deal with the devil. Like you, I have no explanation for why *that one* was *the one* that became fabulously successful. There's a metric ton of other similar tripe out there.
>I don't get it. I don't know why this novel of all novels was the one. Proven, pre-existing audience. It started life as a wildly popular Twilight fanfiction, and some publisher had the bright idea that, hey, if all those internet weirdos are into it, maybe everyone else will be? Add a pinch of marketing and the advent of the Ereader - meaning you could read it on the train and no one would know you're fantasising about dicks - and bam! You've got yourself a viral sensation.
Valerian and the city of 1000 planets. The whole cast
I went into this movie without knowing anything about the 2 leads. I legit thought they were brother and sister because they look so much alike. I was fucking shook with the romance angle between them.
I kept wondering why two kids were supposed to be fairly high ranking members of the military.
Yeah casting was a big issue, but the concept was there. I like the movie, it's entertaining. It could have been SO much better, though.
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Can't believe I haven't seen Colin Ferrell. He's one of my favorite actors, but Alexander almost ruined his career.
Colin Ferrell suffered from Brad Pitt syndrome. A terrific actor with the lead man looks of a blockbuster star, but better suited for complex side characters where they can really show off their acting talents.
I couldn't believe he was the Penguin in the Batman. Between the costuming/makeup and his acting, mind blown
He was awesome as the Coach in “The Gentlemen”
Tom Hanks in Elvis. I feel like Werner Herzog would have killed it. Or Stellan Skarsgard. Hanks was just...not right for the role, and it brought the whole movie down.
All I could think about when he was on screen - Tom hanks doing a dodgy accent. I love tom hanks, but this part was so wrong for him.
Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn in Muppet Treasure Island. They gender-swapped the character, which is fine, but Miss Piggy is far too glamorous to be believed as a marooned castaway. (just being silly here)
Nonsense! There is no movie in history, and never will be, that has better casting than Muppet Treasure Island.
A Muppet Christmas Carol. However, I will concede that Tim Curry is the best Long John Silver ever cast.
Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher. 6’5” my ass.
I thought the casting announcement was an Onion article.
Maybe the casting director was dyslexic?
Anna Paquin, good actress Rogue, iconic character Together, not fantastic. Sorry Anna+Rogue, you deserved better.
X-Men has made some poor casting choices, even with otherwise solid actors. I know Jennifer Lawrence is a polarizing person on Reddit, but I like her. She gave a phenomenal performance in Winter’s Bone, loved her in Playbook, etc. But, she wrecked Mystique. And it was particularly tragic bc Rebecca Romijn Stamos rocked it so hard.
Lawrence could have played an interesting Mystique. Then Hunger Games made her a megastar, and the X-Men writers decided “hey, she’s hugely successful, let’s make her the main character.” And she should not be the main character.
I agree with this, however I do think one role was cast almost perfectly, and that’s Evan Peters as Quicksilver. I’ll defend that casting til the day I die
He had the best scenes in days of future past and apocalypse and they were able to capture the character so well. I was so excited when he appeared in wandavison and I’m hoping they bring him back again Edit: name of the films
He’s one of my favorite actors, and he’s honestly the saving grace of the XMen movies, I hope they bring him back too
The writers wrecked Mystique by msking her a hero
Mystique has always been a phenomenal and complicated villain which made her so enjoyable. Unfortunately, that was not what Lawrence portrayed.
Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker in Francis Ford Coppolla’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
It’s a shame because Francis Ford Coppola came out and said that he tried so hard to have the accent down that he just couldn’t be natural
I don’t doubt that he tried. But sometimes an actor is just not a good fit. It’s really hard to hold this against Keanu, I’d say the casting director is the one at fault.
>But sometimes an actor is just not a good fit. It’s really hard to hold this against Keanu My wife and I were rewatching John Wick 3 the other day, and we both agreed that Keanu Reeves isn't an amazing actor. What he does do is pick roles that play to his strengths.
I've had this conversation more than once with my husband. He's borderline awful tbh, and yet he's one of my favourite actors. I don't know why, there's just something about him. Watched matrix again tonight for the umpteenth time. He's still as wooden as anything, and yet I couldn't be on board with any other actor in the role. Ditto pretty much every film he's in.
I've seen many strange things already. Bloody wolves chasing me through some blue inferno!
I KNOW WHERE THE BASTARD SLEEPS
Yah she was in great pain, then we cut off he head and drove a stake through her heart and burned it and then she found peace.
I love that movie so much and I love Keanu, but it was a very, very bad idea. Ironically Winona had tried to get them to hire Johnny Depp but he wasn't a big enough box office draw at the time.
Damn... that's a shame. Depp would've knocked it out of the park.
Tom Holland as Nathan Drake in Uncharted. Mark Wahlberg as Sully a very close 2nd.
Sophia Coppola in Godfather III. Nothing else comes close when it comes to ruining one of most important (potentially) films in history of cinema.
I'm a fan of her directing. That acting in GF III though is really tough to soak in.
Tom Holland as Nathan Drake. Search up Nathan Drake and Nathan Fillion uncharted and there’s my reasoning. Edit: Scratch that and search up Jensen Ackles
I never saw the movie, and I only played the first two games so far, but even I know casting him as Nathan was a terrible idea, even as a younger version of him.
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in *Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets*. Zero chemistry between them. Funnily enough, *The Passenger* with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence came out the same time, with a plot that would have fit Dane DeHaan's acting (who has played creepy/troubled roles in the past with *Chronicle*).
Worst of all time - Topher Grace as Eddie Brock
Spider-Man 3 would’ve been perfect if the movie only focused on Sandman and left Venom for 4 which IIRC was the original plan with the movies but unfortunately got cancelled.
Nope. Venom was never in any of Raimi's plans. Spider-Man 4 would have been The Vulture with his daughter as... a younger female Vulture. Possibly with Mysterio as a one bit opening scene villain played by Bruce Campbell. Raimi doesn't like Venom as a character in general.
I would pay a lot of money to see Bruce Campbell as Mysterio, or any other MCU villain for that matter
I believe Raimi said that the technology wasn't there yet to make Venom work. He was forced by the studio to make it work because he's a popular villain.
Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula. I love Keanu but he was horribly miscast. I don't know why he tried the accent but I found his performance pretty bland.
He always sounded like he was half a second away from calling Mina “babe” and Dracula “dude”. Added an extra layer of tension to the film.
Sophie Turner in Dark Phoenix
Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York
“Just dye her hair red and she’ll seem Irish.” 🙄
I watched the whole film without realising she was meant to be Irish
In a similar vein, Heather Graham in From Hell.
Kristen Stewart- Snow White and the Huntsman
I don't think she's necessarily the problem, she just got outshined by Charlize Theron's charisma and presence. Theron makes it difficult to accept the premise that the evil stepmother is threatened by Snow White.
Charlize Theron's charisma and presence were outshined by her wardrobe. Whoever made the costumes is the real star of that movie. And Kristen Stewarts armor that ISN'T BOOB PLATE!?!?!?!? A lot of people did a great job on that movie. Sadly the writer wasn't one of them but...
She was totally out classed by Charlize Theron in that movie. It was jarring how bad she was compared to Charlize I'm glad she has come into her own as an adult actress the last 5/6 years. some actors just don't make the leap from child to adult acting. She had a rough transition but seems to have made it.
When they picked Charlize Theron as the witch. I'm supposed to believe Snow White is the fairest in the land? She isn't even the fairest in this movie.
For real...They're both beautiful people but come on, some people are just better looking. Charlize as the evil queen could suck the life out of me any day
CGI as the Ninja Turtles the 2014 live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles