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Worst casting choices
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DrForester
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Pilou Asbæk as Euron Greyjoy, Game of Thrones
This man is a murderous but also mysterious character with dark motivations, supposedly in line with the worst villain one could possibly imagine. And keep in mind this show has had some truly sadistic fuckers.
But what we get is Theon's drunk uncle who apparently equates building ships on a a deforested island with the ultimate power play. He has no menace and comes across as one of the blandest villains in the show's run. Alfie Allen himself could have probably played a better Euron.
I don't see how this is the actors fault. The writers decided to take Euron and instead of making him this mysterious threat, they decided to make him "just some guy".
This guy as Moriarty in Sherlock. He's awful.
I can't believe what I'm reading. Easily the best TV villain performance of the last several years. I don't even remember the last time someone nailed "creepy" that well.
She has the looks but everything else from performance to writing did a real disservice to Frost.No.
There is another.
Both were bad.No.
There is another.
This guy as Moriarty in Sherlock. He's awful.
Da fuck
He nails the creepy villain role better than anyone I've seen in a long long time.
One was worse.
This is actually one of the few roles he can get away with basically not acting, thought it worked fine for the first Matrix.
This guy as Moriarty in Sherlock. He's awful.
Say what?
TacticalHotdog
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Tell that to this Canadian soldier who sounds almost exactly like him, particularly at the end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wQ0BXExYkg&t=23s
Ninja Scooter
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They named her Christmas Jones, probably for the sole purpose of making a double entendre at the end. I don't think that era of Bond was meant to be take seriously.
BlueBadger
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Russell Crowe as Javert, Les Miserables
I came here to post this. Seriously not good. At all. Especially as a singer myself, the vocal was pretty damn sub-par, IMO.
Soltype
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Venom in Spiderman 3
They never had him say "we" either, terrible movie.
That's not Bones.
You are a crazy person. He was great as Bones.
nhlducks35
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Ozymandias in the Watchmen movie. Terrible casting choice.
Yeah, you arguably have some of the best casting choices in the movie with the Comedian and Rorschach (and Dr. Manhattan too), then they screw up for Silk Spectre and Ozymandias
It's even worse as they had a great Kyle Reese in Salvation (Anton Yelchin). No idea why they couldn't just bring him back, maybe age him up a bit.
Didn't he die before the movie came out?
No, that was Green Room. Salvation came out years ago
Nemesis121
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That's not Bones.
WTF is this shit? Karl Urban was perfect...
FairFriend
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Well, going by hollywood stereotypes, you would be right. Scientists can't possibly be as attractive as a playboy playmate, can't they? But if you think about it objectively is not really a valid criticism.
How many real MI6 agents are as attractive as any of the Bond actors? Hollywood frequently casts actors and actresses better looking than their real-life counterparts.
Seduction was a very common tactic, probably quite a few hotties in real life.
That was Stephen King's objection to the Kubrick movie, he said Jack Torrence was supposed to be a normal man who went insane, the mere choice of Nicholson made him seem like a man with a precarious grip on sanity who went completely bonkers.
Damn, first post does it again. Why did anyone think Jesse Eisenberg would be a good fit? Casting director should be fired.
Ninja Scooter
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A new challenger:
A new challenger:
Not sure that was more a problem with the actor but the writing for the character and the direction he was given.
Ninja Scooter
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That probably applies to like 90% of the choices in this thread though. His two face was terrible. It felt like a bootleg Nicholson Joker. He was the wrong actor if they were going for an over the top Two Face.
Back-In-Black
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Stop lyin. He was perfect for that role. His character is someone who acts like he shouldn't be taken seriously and the whole military is just one big game that he's bored of. Then he gets put through some real shit that tests him and shows he's a real soldier after all.
How have I not seen this?
RustyNails
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He's better than original Bones.
That's not Bones.
Reading this thread has been infuriating, but I cannot stop. Why am I doing this to myself. I'm just waiting for someone to say Tom Hanks was miscast as Forrest Gump.
Who would have been a better fit for that character?
RustyNails
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Bryan Cranston?
David Bateson as a serious Lex would be pretty good.
Psychoward
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nhlducks35
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Bitch Pudding
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A new challenger:
The entire movie was a gigantic clusterfuck. The first one in my life where I went to the ticket office and demanded my money back.
-Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux.
Yeah, this choice was really, REALLY bad. They should have had at a look at Admiral Tarkins (Peter Cushing) perfomance (and looks) in IV, THAT's how the most important Military Leader of an evil empire has to look like.
Tangled Up in Blue
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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.
Oh, that was hardly the worst casting choice in Watchmen:
Ozymandias in the Watchmen movie. Terrible casting choice.
This guy gets it.
On the flipside, casting Jeffrey Dean Morgan as The Comedian was almost too perfect:
Maximus P
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Jack Reacher.
Massive fan of the Lee Childs books and was excited to hear they were making a movie.
Jack Reacher is described in the novels as a mountain of a man.
Here is a quick description from Wikipedia
And who do they get to play him?
Tom Cruise. A guy famous for being short.
Massive fan of the Lee Childs books and was excited to hear they were making a movie.
Jack Reacher is described in the novels as a mountain of a man.
Here is a quick description from Wikipedia
And who do they get to play him?
Tom Cruise. A guy famous for being short.
no, everytime Foggy came on screen I felt like punching him in the face (the actor). My partner would scream out in frustration with him. It was better for us to give up on the show early on than endure any more of him. It's harsh, but he is someone that fits into that irrational hatred.
Mark Strong
You guys are all thinking of a different character. Imagine any of those guys reading the same lines as Eisenberg and tell me they'd be noticeably better.
The casting wasn't the problem here, it was the writing and character. Eisenberg didn't show up on set and start acting crazy. He probably could have been a good Lex Luthor too.
Tangled Up in Blue
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This.
I mean, Venom is almost always portrayed as a brick shit-house:
Topher Grace is probably the last person imaginable who would have fit this character. And the parts where he was supposed to sound crazy/insane just came off as whiny.
SM3 was awful, but the version of Brock they were going for was the version from the Ultimate Comics universe where Brock is just an sociopathic college kid a few years older than Peter with a normal physique. I thought Grace did a pretty convincing version of evil Peter Parker. But the movie was still shit.
Or, you know, everything Prophet just said in a much more eloquent way than I ever could. Bravo.
Buba Big Guns
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Foreman as Venom is probably one of the worst.
And other than Alfred and Batman, every single character in BvS. Zack Snyder is a terrible director.
And other than Alfred and Batman, every single character in BvS. Zack Snyder is a terrible director.
Ray Wonder
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Yeaah that's one of my biggest problems with the prequels is how weird it was seeing him 11 or so, with Padme, and then seeing him romantic with her.
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