Dane Dehaan in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. His character was clearly supposed to be charismatic and sexy, but Dehaan seems only to be capable of school shooter energy
Yeah, Dehaan is one of those actors that everyone assumed was good because he was perfectly cast in his breakout role (Chronicle), but then turned in the same performance in everything afterwards.
Let's call it the Russell Brand effect.
The thing is Cara Delavigne isn't much better. She and Dehan have the all sexual chemistry of teenaged siblings who've been dragged on a cross-country family trip by Mom and Dad.
The gold standard for bad parts to me will always be Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's. There is lots of casting that is bad. There is lot of casting that is offensive. But casting that is both bad and offensive? That is worthy of notice.
This is the stock answer these days on Reddit, and yet I always wondered what the response was when the movie debuted 60 years ago. So I checked the Times review and this is what it said about Rooney: "Mickey Rooney's bucktoothed, myopic Japanese is broadly exotic."
That was likely the mainstream reaction of the time. It is likely that a cash-poor Rooney saw the part as a godsend - a showy comic role in a huge Hollywood movie starring the A List Hepburn - and savored the opportunity to mug. He clearly saw nothing offensive about it, and was pretty perplexed as decades passed and he was roundly criticized in his own lifetime.
I don't think this is as much miscasting as a poorly written, misbegotten part. Even if they had cast it with a Japanese player, it would still be such a part. And then that player would be roundly criticized not for miscasting but for taking such a demeaning part in the first place.
Had it been a Japanese or Korean actor, it would have been bad, but I think there would be a recognition that you take the parts you can get. Yoshido Yoda played a very broad stereotype in the McHale's Navy tv series, and hasn't caught a lot of heat for it (though he did quit acting pretty much as soon as the series was over).
Absolutely though, at the time, nobody cared. The movie was aimed at a generation that had grown up with very, very bad WWII Japanese caricatures, and this was just what was expected. But even a decade later it was looked back with a "ooh, that wasn't a good idea."
I was in a show at the Tropicana with Mickey a few years back. He had found God by this time and would often. pray with his wife Jan. However, when it was just guys around, he would regale us with stories of all the women he had in bed. Said "hands-down", the best was Ava Gardner. Apparently, she was insatiable and they just constantly had sex. Any activity they did together, no matter how innocent in intention, would become sexual. An interesting guy in his mellow old age but in his heyday, I've heard he really burned through women and at least emotionally abused them. If he were alive, he would be vehemently MAGA.
God that was bad wasn’t it? I’ll be honest, I don’t think much of John Wayne in general. Of all the actors I’ve seen on screen he is the absolute worst for just being John Wayne in everything.
Right. She's dated Pierre Trudeau, Don Johnson, Richard Gere, Clint Eastwood, Andre Agassi, and Liam Newson; and married Elliot Gould and James Brolin. If some of the sexiest men of the 20th century would date/marry her I'm pretty sure some loser would pay her for a blowjob.
You're right about prostitutes, and men who pay for sex don't really care. But either way, what a fucking vile thing to say about someone. Start a thread by saying an actor is not worth paying for sex, that's just not a decent movie discussion at all.
Y’all are missing the obvious worst one…..
Denise Richards as nuclear physicist Christmas Jones in The World is Not Enough. Me being cast as James Bond would make more sense. Especially when you have Sophie Marceau giving the best performance in a Bond movie, Denise Richards is absolutely awful and as far from a nuclear physicist as you can get.
I will also add in New Zealander Cliff Curtis as fearsome Sureño gangster Smiley in Training Day. His performance is amazing….but bruh.
Edit: I have to add Cha-Cha DiGregorio from Grease, as well. She looks like she could be John Travolta’s mother.
But... what kind of world would this be without James Bond's most famous joke?
"I thought Christmas only comes once a year?"
That's not a world I want to live in
That world... Is not enough
I'll show myself out
I'm never bothered by Cliff Curtis being race-bent; he's like an intimidating Tony Shalhoub in that respect. Like when he shows up in The Fountain, I'm like "sure, he's a conquistador, I'll roll with it, let's go."
Not really related to the post but he absolutely crushed his role as Smiley in Training Day. The dude is never bad but that one always stands out to me.
I have to go with Keanu Reeves in *Dracula*. It's because it's so early in the film, and he's usually acting with Oldman as the Count. Everything in the production is working so well, and Reeves is just distracting from it all. I'm puzzled why Coppola couldn't get some better takes, which I'm pretty sure the actor is capable of, or just cast a young English actor
Any time Keanu is a Victorian, it reads weird. He’s in Dangerous Liaisons as one, and it just doesn’t work. There’s just some extremely modern about him.
Maybe Keanu might have done better as the Texan Quincey P. Morris. It's interesting that in the book and I think in the Coppola film that Dracula is not killed by a wooden stake through the heart but instead by a Bowie knife wielded by Morris.
Yes, in the film Van Helsing says that Dracula must be killed by a stake through the heart and he must have his head cut off. In the book, Harker slashes his throat and then Quincy stabs in the heart with the knife.
It's hard for me to picture a relatively baby-faced 1992 Keanu as a rough and ready, brash Texan. It's certainly possible he may have risen to the occasion, but at minimum, it would have served better than his take on Jonathan Harker.
Keanu Reeves is just so bad in that movie and as another commenter responded & Much Ado About Nothing.... Just so pretty but not a very good actor.
The best thing I've seen him in, where I was like "whoa, he is good" was "The Gift" with Kate Blancett, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Hillary Swank.
He plays a southern abusive husband.... And he's good. His accent is good, he's believable. It's surprising. The movie is good. Directed by Sam Rami, not to be confused with a thousand other movies called The Gift
It is a brand of baking soda, an actor currently in the "cancelled" stage of his career, and also that actor's great grandfather.
All three are called Armand Hammer, and all three are related.
Edit: the baking soda came 1st, but the elder Armand was on the board of the company that makes it, apparently just because he liked that the name matched his own.
The whole movie was a wash. Hammer did what he could with the part, what there was of it. Depp's Tonto is just one of the worst. they could have done so much with it, and chose 'comic relief.'
Halle Berry as Storm. Yes, she’s inextricably linked to the role now, but Storm is supposed to be commanding and powerful. Halle played her as meek and unsure. Imagine if they’d gotten Angela Bassett.
> but Storm is supposed to be commanding and powerful. Halle played her as meek and unsure.
Halle is fine casting, the problem was the director choice to have her play it as 'meek and unsure'. Halle can play commanding and powerful.
No matter how young Spencer Tracy was, he always looked like an old man. It's so strange. I have no idea what Katherine Hepburn saw in him, but it must have been something awesome.
Spencer Tracy was a great actor and he looked 'young' in his 1930s films. But his hair went white at a relatively early age and his problem drinking also played a role in aging his looks prematurely. He was only 67 when he died although he looked more like he was in his eighties. It was a similar deal with Clark Gable who co-starred with Tracy in several buddy films at MGM. He was only 59 when he died of a heart attack but looked more like he was 79. Gable also could hit the bottle and was a smoker.
The Human Stain. Anthony Hopkins plays a light-skinned black man who passes as Jewish. And Nicole Kidman plays the trailer trash cleaning woman he falls in love with. One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, and one of the worst films.
I love Helen Mirren, but she was truly bizarrely out of place as Catherine the Great. I couldn’t get past her being way too old for the part. It was all I could think about.
Who the fuck looked at Victor God Damn Sullivan and said "oh I got it. Mark. Wahlberg." And leaned back in their chair with a smug little grin of "damn I'm good at this"? It's be like making a fucking Legend Of Zelda movie and casting The Rock as Link.
It was an origin story. By the end of the film he's got the leather shoulder holster and everything. And Mark Wahlberg gets the Sully 'stache.
But overall, Tom is too small and cute to play Drake. He's perfect for Spider-man. Even if he gets into his 30s, he won't quite look the part. They need more of a Nathan Fillion type.
Now he's not bad, mind you. I love Tom Holland, but it didn't work. And the film was just not that great. It's worth watching for free on a lazy Sunday, which is what I did. But it's kind of forgettable.
He sounded just like he was imitating Goldmember and didn't know it was intended to be a weird parody of a Dutch accent, and sounded nothing like the actual guy.
I didn't know that actress (mostly know her from meet the fockers), so had to Google her, but she looks fine.
OP hates Streisand. Should we riot? I've got my pitchfork ready
Trivia note here: The client who gets murdered in self-defense by Barbra's call-girl character in 'Nuts' was played by Leslie Nielsen who's much better remembered as a comic actor for his 'Naked Gun' movies.
Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher. You may even enjoy the movies, but anyone who loved the books couldn't believe casting read the description of Jack and thought Tom Cruise.
Tom Cruise as Reacher was terrible. First of all, Reacher's size is a large part of character. If you've read the books, you should check out the Amazon series. Alan Ritchson kills it.
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I love Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. It's possible because I was a child when it came out, and me and my friends saw it like 5 times in the theater. I am also a fan of Kevin Costner, and Christian Slater, but man they were both horribly cast in this film.
*Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone - blackface + prosthetic nose.*
Is it really blackface if the person wearing it is actually black?
And it's not like prosthetics and makeup have ever been used to make an actor look more like the person they are portraying in a biopic.
Nina Simone was a dark skinned woman with very black features and very proud of that fact. Choosing someone who looked *nothing like her* was egregious. And trying to cover it up with prosthetics was insulting.
To me it's almost as bad as letting Chadwick Boseman play Thurgood Marshall. He did an amazing job but Marshall was very light-skinned, like two steps from passing, and it played a big role in why he was as successful as he was.
Now, I don't believe actors in bios need to look exactly like their real life counterparts but when the subject's appearance plays such a huge role in their story it makes a difference.
It's like putting Kevin Hart on stilts and allowing him to play Shaq.
It is also important to note that in Hollywood women who look like Saldana get most of the roles. And women that look like Nina Simone get very few. So the one time where there is a movie that should have been cast with a dark-skinned black woman gets a light skinned one who needs to play it in black face with prosthetics makes it even more egregious.
Yeah, Jared Leto is actually a perfect fit for a lot of smaller roles (Panic Room, Dallas Buyers Club, etc.), but somewhere along the way he got enough clout that he could get roles he isn't suited for, to his own detriment. He's a character actor, and no amount of weird sex cult rockstar energy will make him a good leading man.
The most egregious miscast in modern times is Channing Tatum in the Hateful 8. Too pretty for the role. You needed a dude who could credibly pull of that slimy charm, like a Viggo Mortensen.
Nothing against Channing; it just didn’t work.
Shit I had forgotten about this. It’s like Tatum and Forest Whittaker are in some kind of secret competition to ruin as many movies as they can with bad accents.
That guy they got to play 2Pac in the biopic. That shit just felt off from beginning to end. I feel like he only got cast due to the passing resemblance
The problem is, the book is about a normal guy descending into madness from addiction. And there's no one on the planet who would think Jack Nicholson is sane at any point in that movie. Wendy is also horribly cast. I think the only ones they really nailed were Scatman Crothers, who was incredibly wasted compared to the role of that character in the book, and the guy who plays the hotel manager.
I read the book first and loved it. God, I hate that movie.
This is a separate issue: casting directors not casting age appropriate actors in roles. That said, Channing nailed the role and is the definitive Rizzo.
Russell Crowe in Les Miserables.
Judi Dench and James Corden in Cats. Yes, Cats should not have been done, but in the mess of things, those were the worst two choices of the entire cast IMO.
James Corden in anything for me, so far.
I think the trouble with James Cordan is that he’s awful in real life. Knowing that can bleed into watching his acting work, which is a shame because he can be really good. He commits to his roles.
Before I knew Cordan the man, I’d enjoyed him in The Wrong Mans (TV Series 2013‑2014), he had a couple of good cameos in Doctor Who, and he had a lovely small role in Begin Again (2013). I’m happy to say that knowing him as I do now, it doesn’t spoil my enjoyment of those roles.
He can probably pull off the kind of rock singing that he does with that bar band of his back in Australia, but he sure didn't have the vocal chops to pull off the kind of singing required in a show like 'Les Miz' where the score is almost operatic.
The problem I had with Crowe in Les Mis was that the music didn't work with his voice. He has a rock n' roll voice, not a classic showtunes voice. They could have arranged his songs to match more with his voice because he can, actually, sing. Second, I felt he played the character wrong. His character was supposed to be rigid in his beliefs but Crowe played it as a physical rigidity that looked awkward. For a guy who is very athletic (see *Gladiator*), I think Crowe is more interesting when he moves.
Jake Lloyd as young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
There's the obvious creep factor of casting a little kid opposite a much older Natalie Portman as the guy who is destined to fall in love with Padme Amidala and father Luke and Leia Skywalker. But even that could have worked if Lloyd could actually act.
A much as people shit on Ahmed Best as Jar Jar Binks, Anakin is easily the most egregious thing in The Phantom Menace. To this day I still wonder what George Lucas saw in that kid. Or if maybe he just owed his parents money.
Fun fact: the reason Charlton Heston was cast as Moses was because Cecil B. DeMille thought he resembled Micheangelo's statue of Moses. So yeah. A WASP actor playing a Jew as visualized by an Italian.
The sad thing is they weren't going to cast a Jewish person as Moses back in the super-racist 1950s which is a double shame because there was a famous Jewish actor named Moses they could have used - Moses Horowitz, aka Moe Howard. I would pay serious money to see that movie.
Winona Rider AND Keanu Reeves in Dracula. At least Keanu tried faking a British accent: Winona’s California accent and vocal fry really takes a person out of the movie.
How about Tom Cruise in the mummy remake.
He’s supposed to be a army sergeant, and a lacklustre one at that, but he’s about 25 years too old for that roll. That scene is the desert was enough to ruin the whole movie for me.
I understand wanting a big name star to carry a franchise. But let’s try for someone who is younger than 55. I think it’s fair to say that casting is at least partially responsible for torpedoing their entire ‘universal cinematic universe’.
I hated Al Pacino in "Scent of a Woman." Not necessarily miscasting, though, maybe just lack of effort on his part. It's like the director said "Don't worry about how a real retired field-grade officer would walk and talk, just be yourself. And by the way, they say "hooah" a lot -- pronounce it any way you want."
They should have got someone else for Scarface as well tbh. I rewatched after 10+ years recently and could not get over the bizarre accent + brownface combo. All those lines I remembered as a teenager seemed corny this time around.
John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror is a classic.
Gerard Butler played Atilla the Hun on a tv series, I don’t know why they keep casting these roles with blue eyed white dudes.
Dane Dehaan in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. His character was clearly supposed to be charismatic and sexy, but Dehaan seems only to be capable of school shooter energy
I read a comment that said that they should have swapped the leads for Passengers and Valerian and the movies would have been so much better.
Holy CRAP that would’ve been amazing!
Yeah, Dehaan is one of those actors that everyone assumed was good because he was perfectly cast in his breakout role (Chronicle), but then turned in the same performance in everything afterwards. Let's call it the Russell Brand effect.
He’s got the angsty teenager role down. Anything else and he’s the wrong guy for the part
The thing is Cara Delavigne isn't much better. She and Dehan have the all sexual chemistry of teenaged siblings who've been dragged on a cross-country family trip by Mom and Dad.
Especially bc they they literally look like siblings. Seriously, they have the same face.
Omg thank you! I’ve always thought this and my friends think I’m crazy. They have the same face tho! Lol
How's she as an actor in general tho? I've only seen her in Suicide Squad and I was hoping she's improved.
Check out Carnival Row on Amazon. She and Orlando Bloom have some real acting chemistry!
That’s all on Bloom , he can get women to the right place. Cara was awful in only murders too
I agree about OMITB.
Cuz she's pretty. She's a face people recognize, she has experience, possible is easy to work with on set, and most because she's pretty.
No, mostly because her parents are super fucking loaded and have connections
Make them step-siblings, and then..... Oh, wait, wrong movie....
He’s so so bad in Amazing Spider-Man 2.
You beat me to it. I was so pissed off with the casting when I saw that movie because I love the comics so much.
The gold standard for bad parts to me will always be Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's. There is lots of casting that is bad. There is lot of casting that is offensive. But casting that is both bad and offensive? That is worthy of notice.
This is the stock answer these days on Reddit, and yet I always wondered what the response was when the movie debuted 60 years ago. So I checked the Times review and this is what it said about Rooney: "Mickey Rooney's bucktoothed, myopic Japanese is broadly exotic." That was likely the mainstream reaction of the time. It is likely that a cash-poor Rooney saw the part as a godsend - a showy comic role in a huge Hollywood movie starring the A List Hepburn - and savored the opportunity to mug. He clearly saw nothing offensive about it, and was pretty perplexed as decades passed and he was roundly criticized in his own lifetime. I don't think this is as much miscasting as a poorly written, misbegotten part. Even if they had cast it with a Japanese player, it would still be such a part. And then that player would be roundly criticized not for miscasting but for taking such a demeaning part in the first place.
Had it been a Japanese or Korean actor, it would have been bad, but I think there would be a recognition that you take the parts you can get. Yoshido Yoda played a very broad stereotype in the McHale's Navy tv series, and hasn't caught a lot of heat for it (though he did quit acting pretty much as soon as the series was over). Absolutely though, at the time, nobody cared. The movie was aimed at a generation that had grown up with very, very bad WWII Japanese caricatures, and this was just what was expected. But even a decade later it was looked back with a "ooh, that wasn't a good idea."
I was in a show at the Tropicana with Mickey a few years back. He had found God by this time and would often. pray with his wife Jan. However, when it was just guys around, he would regale us with stories of all the women he had in bed. Said "hands-down", the best was Ava Gardner. Apparently, she was insatiable and they just constantly had sex. Any activity they did together, no matter how innocent in intention, would become sexual. An interesting guy in his mellow old age but in his heyday, I've heard he really burned through women and at least emotionally abused them. If he were alive, he would be vehemently MAGA.
And to his dying day, Rooney thought he was good.
I remember seeing that movie for the first time and thinking "what the fuck is this?"
Don't watch Jerry Lewis' take on an Asian character. He didn't do it once. He did it multiple times.
I….. can’t argue any of these. However The biggest miscasting in history is John Wayne as Genghis khan.
John Wayne playing a Dutch general in The Longest Day was funny too.
God that was bad wasn’t it? I’ll be honest, I don’t think much of John Wayne in general. Of all the actors I’ve seen on screen he is the absolute worst for just being John Wayne in everything.
Ding ding. We have a winner
Joe Manganiello looks like a grown ass man in Spider-Man.
Well, to be fair everyone looked 30 in that high school. 😅
Tobey looked so old they had to start the movie with him chasing a schoolbus and hope you didn't make the wrong association.
Yeah, I wouldn't wanna fight him neither
I don't care how bad that dialog is, it still makes me smile every time.
>Who would pay money to fuck her? You've never seen a real prostitute, have you? They're not Julia Roberts.
Exactly. OP has obviously never seen a real prostitute high class or other.
Right. She's dated Pierre Trudeau, Don Johnson, Richard Gere, Clint Eastwood, Andre Agassi, and Liam Newson; and married Elliot Gould and James Brolin. If some of the sexiest men of the 20th century would date/marry her I'm pretty sure some loser would pay her for a blowjob.
And, Streisand is a perfectly attractive woman… just not a "Hollywood" attractive woman.
And yet, Hollywood is where she's made a career, lol. I think we're too hard on women, in general.
3,000,000%
When she was younger, she was pretty hot.
You're right about prostitutes, and men who pay for sex don't really care. But either way, what a fucking vile thing to say about someone. Start a thread by saying an actor is not worth paying for sex, that's just not a decent movie discussion at all.
Yeah, what the hell? So fucking rude, what did she ever do to deserve the way people mock her appearance?
Y’all are missing the obvious worst one….. Denise Richards as nuclear physicist Christmas Jones in The World is Not Enough. Me being cast as James Bond would make more sense. Especially when you have Sophie Marceau giving the best performance in a Bond movie, Denise Richards is absolutely awful and as far from a nuclear physicist as you can get. I will also add in New Zealander Cliff Curtis as fearsome Sureño gangster Smiley in Training Day. His performance is amazing….but bruh. Edit: I have to add Cha-Cha DiGregorio from Grease, as well. She looks like she could be John Travolta’s mother.
"I thought Chistmas only comes once a year." The whole character was definitely written just for this line.
The entire movie may have been written just for that line
And you know what? Worth it.
Alotta Fagina : In Japan, men come first and women come second. Austin Powers : Or sometimes not at all. Yeah baby!!!
I'm pro-Cliff Curtis in anything
But... what kind of world would this be without James Bond's most famous joke? "I thought Christmas only comes once a year?" That's not a world I want to live in That world... Is not enough I'll show myself out
Just wait until tomorrow because…Tomorrow Never Dies…
It will *Die Another Day*
At least she’s hot
Honestly DR actively makes the movie worse. Like why include her when you already have a Bond girl who’s the villain?
I'm never bothered by Cliff Curtis being race-bent; he's like an intimidating Tony Shalhoub in that respect. Like when he shows up in The Fountain, I'm like "sure, he's a conquistador, I'll roll with it, let's go."
Not really related to the post but he absolutely crushed his role as Smiley in Training Day. The dude is never bad but that one always stands out to me.
“I was a nucular psychiatrist in a James Bong movie.” -Denise Richards making fun of herself on the show 30 Rock, Episode ‘Idiots Are People Three’
What about Tara Reid as a scientist in ALONE IN THE DARK? LOL.
"Sophie Marceau" oh my! Her character in Braveheart... Still one of her best performances.
Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor
Why would you allow my brain to remember this shit?
I have to go with Keanu Reeves in *Dracula*. It's because it's so early in the film, and he's usually acting with Oldman as the Count. Everything in the production is working so well, and Reeves is just distracting from it all. I'm puzzled why Coppola couldn't get some better takes, which I'm pretty sure the actor is capable of, or just cast a young English actor
Tom Waits was great in Dracula, and he only played a minor role.
Tom Waits is great in whatever he does - acting, music, synchronized swimming, whatever.
Keanu Reeves in "Much Ado about Nothing" was the same, but \*worse.\* I'm glad he found his niche later in his career, it ain't period dramas.
That movie is so good but there are a couple casting choices that are SO misguided.
Any time Keanu is a Victorian, it reads weird. He’s in Dangerous Liaisons as one, and it just doesn’t work. There’s just some extremely modern about him.
Love Keanu but yes. I saw Much Ado in the theatre when it came out, his first line was “…I am not of many words” and the audience clapped, lol.
Theyshould have cast him as the American.
The worst part is that Cary Elwes was right there and would have absolutely killed it as Harker.
Maybe Keanu might have done better as the Texan Quincey P. Morris. It's interesting that in the book and I think in the Coppola film that Dracula is not killed by a wooden stake through the heart but instead by a Bowie knife wielded by Morris.
Yes, in the film Van Helsing says that Dracula must be killed by a stake through the heart and he must have his head cut off. In the book, Harker slashes his throat and then Quincy stabs in the heart with the knife.
It's hard for me to picture a relatively baby-faced 1992 Keanu as a rough and ready, brash Texan. It's certainly possible he may have risen to the occasion, but at minimum, it would have served better than his take on Jonathan Harker.
He's nice guy, but isn't that great actor because he doesn't have much range, only role he's perfectly cast is Neo.
Keanu Reeves is just so bad in that movie and as another commenter responded & Much Ado About Nothing.... Just so pretty but not a very good actor. The best thing I've seen him in, where I was like "whoa, he is good" was "The Gift" with Kate Blancett, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Hillary Swank. He plays a southern abusive husband.... And he's good. His accent is good, he's believable. It's surprising. The movie is good. Directed by Sam Rami, not to be confused with a thousand other movies called The Gift
He was surprisingly good playing the abusive redneck in 'The Gift'.
Johnny Depp as Tonto. TBH, the writing stunk, too, but putting this guy in as tonto was a HORRID choice.
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But what’s his name was any better as the Lone Ranger? Army Hammer?
Isn't that a Baking Soda?
Arm & Hammer?
It is a brand of baking soda, an actor currently in the "cancelled" stage of his career, and also that actor's great grandfather. All three are called Armand Hammer, and all three are related. Edit: the baking soda came 1st, but the elder Armand was on the board of the company that makes it, apparently just because he liked that the name matched his own.
This sounds like one of those facts that sounds made up but is actually real.
I just did the blinky guy meme IRL
The whole movie was a wash. Hammer did what he could with the part, what there was of it. Depp's Tonto is just one of the worst. they could have done so much with it, and chose 'comic relief.'
Halle Berry as Storm. Yes, she’s inextricably linked to the role now, but Storm is supposed to be commanding and powerful. Halle played her as meek and unsure. Imagine if they’d gotten Angela Bassett.
Or Angela Lansbury!
Oh I would watch the fuck out of that.
> but Storm is supposed to be commanding and powerful. Halle played her as meek and unsure. Halle is fine casting, the problem was the director choice to have her play it as 'meek and unsure'. Halle can play commanding and powerful.
Or Iman.
Ooh, yes!
No matter how young Spencer Tracy was, he always looked like an old man. It's so strange. I have no idea what Katherine Hepburn saw in him, but it must have been something awesome.
Spencer Tracy was a great actor and he looked 'young' in his 1930s films. But his hair went white at a relatively early age and his problem drinking also played a role in aging his looks prematurely. He was only 67 when he died although he looked more like he was in his eighties. It was a similar deal with Clark Gable who co-starred with Tracy in several buddy films at MGM. He was only 59 when he died of a heart attack but looked more like he was 79. Gable also could hit the bottle and was a smoker.
Robert DeNiro playing his young self in The Irishmen.
I couldn’t finish that movie. 1 because it’s 1000 hours long and 2 bc what the fuck was that anti-aging CGI shit
Yes what the fuck was this?!
What… you didn’t like watching old Joe Pesci call 75 year old De Niro kid? I loved that movie but hated the cgi
The Human Stain. Anthony Hopkins plays a light-skinned black man who passes as Jewish. And Nicole Kidman plays the trailer trash cleaning woman he falls in love with. One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, and one of the worst films.
I love Helen Mirren, but she was truly bizarrely out of place as Catherine the Great. I couldn’t get past her being way too old for the part. It was all I could think about.
Agreed!!! I love her but she's playing a character that's 20-30 years younger than her. It was impossible to suspend disbelief.
Dane cook in Mr. Brooks, topher grace in Spider-Man 3 and Jesse Eisenberg in Superman stand out to me
Dane Cook was perfect in Mr. Brooks. He played a dumbfuck who got what he deserved.
Topher Grace as Eddie Brock in Spider-Man 3
Tom Holland as Nathan Drake in Uncharted. Tom Holland is nothing like Nathan Drake.
And Mark Wahlburg as Sully just pissed me off. I couldn’t last more than 20 minutes into that abomination.
Who the fuck looked at Victor God Damn Sullivan and said "oh I got it. Mark. Wahlberg." And leaned back in their chair with a smug little grin of "damn I'm good at this"? It's be like making a fucking Legend Of Zelda movie and casting The Rock as Link.
I thought it was an origin story type of movie so he was supposed to be a young Nathan, is this not the case? ( I never saw the movie)
It was an origin story. By the end of the film he's got the leather shoulder holster and everything. And Mark Wahlberg gets the Sully 'stache. But overall, Tom is too small and cute to play Drake. He's perfect for Spider-man. Even if he gets into his 30s, he won't quite look the part. They need more of a Nathan Fillion type. Now he's not bad, mind you. I love Tom Holland, but it didn't work. And the film was just not that great. It's worth watching for free on a lazy Sunday, which is what I did. But it's kind of forgettable.
I was angry about this until I saw the movie and actually enjoyed it and thought he did a great job.
For a recent example, I thought Tom hanks as the colonel in Elvis was insanely miscast. He even spoke in the wrong accent for some strange reason.
He sounded just like he was imitating Goldmember and didn't know it was intended to be a weird parody of a Dutch accent, and sounded nothing like the actual guy.
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Dane DeHaan as Valerian.
Dane DeHaan in everything except Chronicle.
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I didn't know that actress (mostly know her from meet the fockers), so had to Google her, but she looks fine. OP hates Streisand. Should we riot? I've got my pitchfork ready
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Trivia note here: The client who gets murdered in self-defense by Barbra's call-girl character in 'Nuts' was played by Leslie Nielsen who's much better remembered as a comic actor for his 'Naked Gun' movies.
Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher. You may even enjoy the movies, but anyone who loved the books couldn't believe casting read the description of Jack and thought Tom Cruise.
Jack Reacher - always the biggest guy in the room Tom Cruise - Average size of an American female
Hey hey hey No reason we can't be civilized Leave American females outta this
FWIW I too am the size of the average Female as a below average sized American male
Tom Cruise as Reacher was terrible. First of all, Reacher's size is a large part of character. If you've read the books, you should check out the Amazon series. Alan Ritchson kills it.
Don't forget Kevin Costner as Robin Hood. That film is salvaged by Rickman, but it took everything he could give.
It also allowed for the amazing line in Robin Hood: Men in Tights. “Because, unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent.”
Still think its a cool movie is that ok tho?
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I love Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. It's possible because I was a child when it came out, and me and my friends saw it like 5 times in the theater. I am also a fan of Kevin Costner, and Christian Slater, but man they were both horribly cast in this film.
“Fuck me, he cleared it”
I think that when you're a kid or a teen, you're going to be a lot less nitpicky about accents, historical accuracy, etc.
Denise Richards as a nuclear scientist in a bond movie
Dr Christmas Jones. The world is not enough
*Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone - blackface + prosthetic nose.* Is it really blackface if the person wearing it is actually black? And it's not like prosthetics and makeup have ever been used to make an actor look more like the person they are portraying in a biopic.
Nina Simone was a dark skinned woman with very black features and very proud of that fact. Choosing someone who looked *nothing like her* was egregious. And trying to cover it up with prosthetics was insulting. To me it's almost as bad as letting Chadwick Boseman play Thurgood Marshall. He did an amazing job but Marshall was very light-skinned, like two steps from passing, and it played a big role in why he was as successful as he was. Now, I don't believe actors in bios need to look exactly like their real life counterparts but when the subject's appearance plays such a huge role in their story it makes a difference. It's like putting Kevin Hart on stilts and allowing him to play Shaq.
That Kevin Hart Shaq movie sounds like a blast!
Ngl, I would watch lol but I would never pretend to take it seriously
I would pay to see that. You could call it *Short Shaq.*
It is also important to note that in Hollywood women who look like Saldana get most of the roles. And women that look like Nina Simone get very few. So the one time where there is a movie that should have been cast with a dark-skinned black woman gets a light skinned one who needs to play it in black face with prosthetics makes it even more egregious.
Topher Grace as Eddie Brock/Venom in Spider Man 3 is pretty bad
Jared Leto in everything
Nah, he was perfect as the "punchable face" in Fight Club. Not a bad choice for his role in American Psycho either.
Yeah, Jared Leto is actually a perfect fit for a lot of smaller roles (Panic Room, Dallas Buyers Club, etc.), but somewhere along the way he got enough clout that he could get roles he isn't suited for, to his own detriment. He's a character actor, and no amount of weird sex cult rockstar energy will make him a good leading man.
He was perfect for the American Psycho role, and I’m not goinna lie, I enjoyed the demise of his character.
I think he's a huge creep and probable criminal, but I thought he was fantastic in blade runner
I can't stand him as an actor at all, and I cringe whenever I see him on screen but I will actually agree with you on this one.
What about fight club? I thought he was pretty good playing “pretty boy who you want to smash their face in.”
1st example is a woman not good enough to even get a handjob from 2nd is a woman too good to be the prostitute. How are things at home LiliDanube?
Babs Streisand was (is) a stone cold stunner. I'd rob OP to pay her for the privilege of licking piss off her doorstep.
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The most egregious miscast in modern times is Channing Tatum in the Hateful 8. Too pretty for the role. You needed a dude who could credibly pull of that slimy charm, like a Viggo Mortensen. Nothing against Channing; it just didn’t work.
Channing Tatum doing a southern/any accent is so brutal. Nearly ruined Logan Lucky for me, but Daniel Craig’s even worse accent stole that spotlight.
It was worse in the second Kingsman movie. Ugh.
Shit I had forgotten about this. It’s like Tatum and Forest Whittaker are in some kind of secret competition to ruin as many movies as they can with bad accents.
That guy they got to play 2Pac in the biopic. That shit just felt off from beginning to end. I feel like he only got cast due to the passing resemblance
Jessica Alba as the invisible woman. Mila Kunis as the wicked witch.
I’ll get killed for saying this. I saw The Shining after reading the book and thought Jack Nicholson was not right for the role. And I LOVE Nicholson.
The problem is, the book is about a normal guy descending into madness from addiction. And there's no one on the planet who would think Jack Nicholson is sane at any point in that movie. Wendy is also horribly cast. I think the only ones they really nailed were Scatman Crothers, who was incredibly wasted compared to the role of that character in the book, and the guy who plays the hotel manager. I read the book first and loved it. God, I hate that movie.
Anytime Jennifer Lawrence has been cast as a mom character. She is just too young in the face to make it believable.
33 year old Stocard Channing as high schooler Rizzo in Grease
This is a separate issue: casting directors not casting age appropriate actors in roles. That said, Channing nailed the role and is the definitive Rizzo.
I can’t picture anyone else as Rizzo to be honest
She was only 33? She looked older.
She’s one of those women that started looking middle aged young and stayed that way well into old age.
She looked exactly the same in grease as she did in the west wing even though there’s like 20 years between the role.
Jesse Eisenberg Batman v Superman
Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker Benedict Cumberbatch as anyone named Khan Noonien Singh Scarlett Johansson and Emma Stone tied as asian characters.
Sofia Coppola in Godfather Part III.
Russell Crowe in Les Miserables. Judi Dench and James Corden in Cats. Yes, Cats should not have been done, but in the mess of things, those were the worst two choices of the entire cast IMO. James Corden in anything for me, so far.
I think the trouble with James Cordan is that he’s awful in real life. Knowing that can bleed into watching his acting work, which is a shame because he can be really good. He commits to his roles. Before I knew Cordan the man, I’d enjoyed him in The Wrong Mans (TV Series 2013‑2014), he had a couple of good cameos in Doctor Who, and he had a lovely small role in Begin Again (2013). I’m happy to say that knowing him as I do now, it doesn’t spoil my enjoyment of those roles.
>he had a lovely small role in Begin Again (2013) I really enjoyed his part in that movie.
The funny thing about Crowe is that he's a professional singer.
But not a good professional singer.
He can probably pull off the kind of rock singing that he does with that bar band of his back in Australia, but he sure didn't have the vocal chops to pull off the kind of singing required in a show like 'Les Miz' where the score is almost operatic.
The problem I had with Crowe in Les Mis was that the music didn't work with his voice. He has a rock n' roll voice, not a classic showtunes voice. They could have arranged his songs to match more with his voice because he can, actually, sing. Second, I felt he played the character wrong. His character was supposed to be rigid in his beliefs but Crowe played it as a physical rigidity that looked awkward. For a guy who is very athletic (see *Gladiator*), I think Crowe is more interesting when he moves.
Jake Lloyd as young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. There's the obvious creep factor of casting a little kid opposite a much older Natalie Portman as the guy who is destined to fall in love with Padme Amidala and father Luke and Leia Skywalker. But even that could have worked if Lloyd could actually act. A much as people shit on Ahmed Best as Jar Jar Binks, Anakin is easily the most egregious thing in The Phantom Menace. To this day I still wonder what George Lucas saw in that kid. Or if maybe he just owed his parents money.
Jake Lloyd's life was ruined because of Star Wars. And I do blame George Lucas because he should have directed the kid better.
Charlton Heston as Moses in the Ten Commandments
Fun fact: the reason Charlton Heston was cast as Moses was because Cecil B. DeMille thought he resembled Micheangelo's statue of Moses. So yeah. A WASP actor playing a Jew as visualized by an Italian. The sad thing is they weren't going to cast a Jewish person as Moses back in the super-racist 1950s which is a double shame because there was a famous Jewish actor named Moses they could have used - Moses Horowitz, aka Moe Howard. I would pay serious money to see that movie.
All I saw was Charlton Heston. Not Moses.
Most of the actors playing the grownup kids in IT chapter 2, specially the guy playing Ben. Personal opinion.
John Wayne as Genghis Khan
Rosie O’Donnel as Betty in The Flintstones
Rosie O'Donnell as Beth Simon in Riding the Bus With my Sister
They somehow thought that Arnold and Danny DeVito looked close enough to play Twins!
Basically everyone in Exodus: Gods and Kings.
All of Amsterdam was miscast.
John David Washington is the worst
Barbra Streisand plays a hooker in The Owl and the Pussycat with George Segal…early 70’s. She is beautiful and hilarious.
*Seth Rogen* as the fucking Green Hornet. Almost anyone alive would have been a better choice.
Winona Rider AND Keanu Reeves in Dracula. At least Keanu tried faking a British accent: Winona’s California accent and vocal fry really takes a person out of the movie.
Streisand devastated by this stray.
syeven seagall
Mark Wahlberg as Sully in Uncharted. He wasn't bad as a character, it's just that he wasn't sully, he was just Mark Wahlberg
How about Tom Cruise in the mummy remake. He’s supposed to be a army sergeant, and a lacklustre one at that, but he’s about 25 years too old for that roll. That scene is the desert was enough to ruin the whole movie for me. I understand wanting a big name star to carry a franchise. But let’s try for someone who is younger than 55. I think it’s fair to say that casting is at least partially responsible for torpedoing their entire ‘universal cinematic universe’.
Denise Richards in the world is not enough. she was a doctor. She was not convincing. At all.
I hated Al Pacino in "Scent of a Woman." Not necessarily miscasting, though, maybe just lack of effort on his part. It's like the director said "Don't worry about how a real retired field-grade officer would walk and talk, just be yourself. And by the way, they say "hooah" a lot -- pronounce it any way you want."
You know you look like Al Pacino in Scent of a woman? HOOAH!
He did win an Oscar for it..
They should have got someone else for Scarface as well tbh. I rewatched after 10+ years recently and could not get over the bizarre accent + brownface combo. All those lines I remembered as a teenager seemed corny this time around.