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Worst casting choices
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habithipster
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I hate it when actors pretend to be something they're not.
TangoAlphaLima
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Huh? She absolutely had a light Southern drawl, at least in X1. Don't remember the others for sure.
Looking and sounding absolutely nothing like the main character in a biopic is a bit of a problem for me as well.
It's like casting Michael Cera to play Babe Ruth.
tearsintherain
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Eliza Dushku as the main character in Dollhouse.
Crazy hot but could not act to save her life. On the plus side the show brought to many viewers attention some absolutely fantastic side actors who have gone on to bigger and better things like Enver Gjokaj and Dichen Lachman.
Movie wise yeah Terminator Genisys was the epitome of horrible casting, every single one besides Arnold did not belong in their roles.
Crazy hot but could not act to save her life. On the plus side the show brought to many viewers attention some absolutely fantastic side actors who have gone on to bigger and better things like Enver Gjokaj and Dichen Lachman.
Movie wise yeah Terminator Genisys was the epitome of horrible casting, every single one besides Arnold did not belong in their roles.
RustyNails
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Rick from the Walking Dead
Can't watch the show because of this casting. Loved the comic, can't stand the show.
What the fuck.
bodyofanamerican
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This guy as Moriarty in Sherlock. He's awful.
Couldn't disagree more. Andrew Scott is a goddamn genius.
shadow_shogun
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Honestly I believe Van Damme has got range the pull off the nebbish character of neo in the first act.
TheRedSnifit
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lightskintwin
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Van Damme would've been awful in the role. Not to mention the Wachowski action scenes with REAL actors are better choreographed and shot than any Van Damme film and I grew up loving Van Damme.
Salty Rice
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I never bought Don Cheadle as War Machine. He really feels out of space. Too bad, he's a good actor, but miscast he is.
#NotMyWarMachine
Terrence Howard was a great choice. Such a shame he got kicked out.
I can't decide if I dislike Clooney Batman or Cage Ghost Rider more.
I know I'm like 400 hours late on this, but I watched the Director's Cut the other day and it totally makes his quiet, sullen performance make sense. His 'pump up the defenders' speech is still remarkably 'eh', but everything else really gelled much better.
Oh man, and this made me go look at Eva Green's IMDB page and get depressed on how she only has 20 acting credits, with an incredible rate of "better than or the best part of the thing she's in"
I know I'm like 400 hours late on this, but I watched the Director's Cut the other day and it totally makes his quiet, sullen performance make sense. His 'pump up the defenders' speech is still remarkably 'eh', but everything else really gelled much better.
Oh man, and this made me go look at Eva Green's IMDB page and get depressed on how she only has 20 acting credits, with an incredible rate of "better than or the best part of the thing she's in"
ZackieChan
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In a causal sense?
Wow. This is a surprise. I think he's perfect.
Rick from the Walking Dead
Can't watch the show because of this casting. Loved the comic, can't stand the show.
Tracy Spiridakos in Revolution tv series.
2nd season put her in the backseat often but I guess it was too late at that point.
The show isn't that good, but good god her acting made it 10 times worse. Doesn't help she play this childish, reckless, rebellious teenager that for some reason always in the right in service to the story and her being the main character.
2nd season put her in the backseat often but I guess it was too late at that point.
Holy shit, this thread is designed for fucking Highlander
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cj_iwakura
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Whoever thought casting someone like Malin Akerman as Silk Specter 2 in Watchmen was smoking some strong shit. Her strongest acting gig was that shitty Ben Stiller movie the Heartbreak Kid.
I wanted to like that movie, but god, she was TERRIBLE. Ozymandias, too.
Hell, arguably the only spot-on actors were Rorschach and The Comedian.
I've known people in person who have said he is great in it.
This edgy "but it was the writing" shit needs to go. Yeah the writing was bad but the other auditions were actually pretty decent. The PT are a perfect storm of infamous shitiness but Jake pushed things into overdrive. He's the worst child actor I've seen in a blockbuster.
Horrifically miscast. Especially when you consider Lucas easily could have went with someone infinitely better.
No one had heard of Academy Award nominee Felicity Jones?
autumnleaf
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DrForester
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Unpopular opinion time.
Emma Watson as Hermione Granger. She was fine in the first three films, but after that, she pretty much stopped being Hermione and became "Emma Watson, phoning it in."
He just stood out like a sore thumb. Everyone else in that film seemed to be cast to look like the comic character. Hell, Rorschach's therapist looked like the character from the comics. Everyone looked like the comic, except him.
Emma Watson as Hermione Granger. She was fine in the first three films, but after that, she pretty much stopped being Hermione and became "Emma Watson, phoning it in."
Ozymandias in the Watchmen movie. Terrible casting choice.
He just stood out like a sore thumb. Everyone else in that film seemed to be cast to look like the comic character. Hell, Rorschach's therapist looked like the character from the comics. Everyone looked like the comic, except him.
CaviarMeths
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As a Canadian, her accent sounded pretty southern to me. Not the exaggerated drawl of the 90s animated series, but definitely someone from a warmer climate.
Mega Caprison
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what..
as much as love those actors but no way they have the coolnes vibe like keanu
noe for my pick for worst casting is lex luthor guy in BvS
stupid..stupid decision
CaviarMeths
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Well to be fair if they found an actor who is roughly the size of a barge, it would be difficult to film indoors.
Yea the Euron choice and Vince Vaughn in True' s2. Just terrible.
The Euron actor plays the role so not sinister or intelligent. Barely menacing. Almost cartoonish.
Vaughn was the least believable gangster I think I've ever seen on a TV show. Larry David pretending to play a gangster while pretending to be the parody of himself on Curb' was more believable.
The Euron actor plays the role so not sinister or intelligent. Barely menacing. Almost cartoonish.
Vaughn was the least believable gangster I think I've ever seen on a TV show. Larry David pretending to play a gangster while pretending to be the parody of himself on Curb' was more believable.
Voysa Reezun
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Maybe (not so) controversial, the movie is still a masterpiece but a better actor for the role would make it even better.
Mmm, you know, I don't think so. This is one of my favorite movies of all time mostly because it is the prettiest thing I've ever seen on film, but definitely also because O'Neal pulls off sleazy hustler so well. I mean, on the surface, yeah, the casting seems absurd, but as it is, he turns in the performance of a lifetime. Kubrick made serious chicken salad out of O'Neal as an actor in that movie.
Halle, I agree with.
James Marsden is a better comedic actor than anything, but that character was written to be as milquetoast and uncharismatic as I thought Cyke was as a kid, so I don't know if different casting saves that part.
Anna Paquin is probably not the right casting for Rogue, but man, they fucked up a lot of the other casting too. Shawn Ashmore is a shitty Iceman (though I think Iceman is written to be boring as hell in those movies, too). Famke Janssen is a weird choice for Jean Grey.
I just caught The Wolverine and X-Men: Days of Future Past for the first time on cable the other week, and it strikes me that except for Wolverine and older Professor X, I don't like the casting for pretty much any of the rest of the characters in these movies. Jennifer Lawrence is fucking dreadful as Mystique, and at this point, I think Winter's Bone is an outlier because I do not enjoy her at all whenever I see her on screen. For that matter, that's enough casting James McAvoy in parts where charisma is required. There's a reason that he's often cast as the dull everyman in movies where actors who are far more interesting than him carry the load (Wanted, The Last Station, The Last King of Scotland, etc.).
old manatee
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It's Gary Oldman in Tiptoes. It's a movie about the challenges that people with dwarfism face, and then they cast Gary Oldman as a dwarf and leave Peter Dinklage in a supporting role. His casting subverts everything else about the movie, turning it into a 2 hour sketch comedy bit at the expense of people with dwarfism. Gary Oldman looks absoludicrous in every frame of the movie, and they constantly have to hide half of him in couches, or out of frame.
What the fuck were they thinking
Oh god, now I am going to have nightmares. I only watched 2 or 3 episodes before I had to stop because of this guy. So hammy.
StrawberryJam
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I'd honestly rather they switched him and Chiwetel Ejiofor round. Much prefer him to Sherlock.
obin_gam
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The worst part of the Star Wars prequels casting choices, is that you see right in front of you when they are casting young Anakin, another boy doing a so much better audition than Jake Lloyd. It's heartbreaking to see Lucas' inability to see what is good acting.
Just watch the blonde kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZSnB7yGylc
Just watch the blonde kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZSnB7yGylc
Totally Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. Absolutely terrible casting choice. Leto and Eisenberg are miscasted but at least they're actual actors. Gal Gadot on the other hand is not even an actress, she's a model with zero range whose most relevant acting work is some irrelevant pretty girl "character" in some dumb car movies.
I don't even care that she doesn't look like the strong, imposing Wonder Woman portrayed in 90% of her stuff, the most important thing is that she's absolutely HORRIBLE at acting.
Embarrassing. The fact that the first movie portrayal of Wonder Woman was given by someone –100% sure it was Snyder– to this potato of an actress is infuriating. We're stuck now with some Miss with the acting range of a wooden table when there are plenty of actual actresses out there who would kill for being Wonder Woman, a character this person didn't even know she was doing the casting for.
It's quite ridiculous that every amazonian in the WW's movie trailers look like an actual hardened strong woman warrior and Wonder Woman herself looks like Taylor Swift in costume trying to make faces.
I don't even care that she doesn't look like the strong, imposing Wonder Woman portrayed in 90% of her stuff, the most important thing is that she's absolutely HORRIBLE at acting.
Embarrassing. The fact that the first movie portrayal of Wonder Woman was given by someone –100% sure it was Snyder– to this potato of an actress is infuriating. We're stuck now with some Miss with the acting range of a wooden table when there are plenty of actual actresses out there who would kill for being Wonder Woman, a character this person didn't even know she was doing the casting for.
It's quite ridiculous that every amazonian in the WW's movie trailers look like an actual hardened strong woman warrior and Wonder Woman herself looks like Taylor Swift in costume trying to make faces.
Tilda Swinton's performance was by far the best thing about Doctor Strange by a thousand country miles...so it's really hard for me to share this opinion.
I never bought Don Cheadle as War Machine. He really feels out of space. Too bad, he's a good actor, but miscast he is.
Man, Don Cheadle as War Machine always kills me. He's just not a good fit for the role at all. I think it's made worse by the fact that I think Terrence Howard was, and would have been, perfect as War Machine.
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obin_gam
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She played a celtic person.
That's not Bones.
No, it's a fun, charismatic actor who looks an awful lot like Bones playing Bones.
Hispanic! At the Disco
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I hadnt heard of it till recently but Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates!? Seriously??
So bad it was painful to watch.
You could make the argument that she's actually a good fit as the film is rather bad overall.
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Vince Vaughn in anything is a mistake.
Edit: Okay, he was fine in Into the Wild, but only because he was a bit part.
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