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Worst casting choices
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He never read the books and he is a talented actor so I never knew how much of his performance was his own doing and how much was lousy directing. You're probably right. His wardrobe didn't help matters, either.
Richard Harris also wasn't too hot. It's strange how poor Dumbledore was represented because most of the casting was aces.
A pretty, bookish woman portraying a pretty, bookish character is bad?
TangoAlphaLima
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What the fuck were they thinking
Wha? Foggy is fine. Matt's casting was the bad choice. He's lifeless.
Walter White Walker
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John Wayne as Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror".
Razgriz-Specter
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Ewan was the only one that could survive that struggle.
Even Liam Neeson couldn't do shit but he was able to get out before it got so much worse.
Although I agree with that, it's surprising how Mila Kunis didn't immediately pop into your mind first.
el_colibri
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Jesse Eisenberg: The Thread
Strangelove77
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People need to learn how to separate acting skill from shit writing.
No actor(s) could have made the Star Wars prequels work with the shit material they were given.
Ewan McGregor comes off the best in those movies and even that was a fucking miracle.
No actor(s) could have made the Star Wars prequels work with the shit material they were given.
Ewan McGregor comes off the best in those movies and even that was a fucking miracle.
Violence Jack
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Kevin Costner as fucking Robin Hood was such a dumb idea.
DON'T FIGHT IT, MY BOY.
DON'T YOU DARE FIGHT IT.
Yeah....
However, to throw January Jones a bone here...I imagine it must be pretty damn difficult to get too invested in a character who basically amounted to "Woman Who Stands Around In Her Underwear"
I'll give them both a pass for those films. Not even the best actors in the world could have salvaged those scripts.
I've never really thought about it but, yeah, that really was unnecessary.
Adam_Vania
Banned
in the making of TPM they show several auditions and they chose the worst one. some of them were way more convincing.
anyways, Lex and Joker both seemed like edgey xerox copies of Jim Carrey's The Riddler from Batman Forever
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
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.
I kinda agree, he has this very intellectual look about him, not much or a warrior type imo.
lightskintwin
Banned
Keanu was perfect as Neo.
Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone should be amongst the top.
Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone should be amongst the top.
I'll give them both a pass for those films. Not even the best actors in the world could have salvaged those scripts.
It amazes me that George Lucas managed to get married twice when he apparently has no idea how romance works
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.
Yeah, he's not very compelling.
Anthony Mackie would make a great War Machine (obviously not possible), or an actor of his charisma because he gives Falcon a lot of character and plays off of Evans so well. They seem like true friends.
I don't really buy the MCU Stark/Rhodey relationship, despite Cheadle being very talented.
TangoAlphaLima
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Lucas apparently wanted to show an anguished Anakin that had difficulty separating from his mother as a child, thus the young age for TPM. But Lucas was also terrible at his job post-1990ish.
FortuneFaded
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At least wait until the film is actually released.
Pagusas
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You dont need romance when you have money.
jack_package_200
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Eisenberg as Lex Luthor.
Jared Leto as Joker
Will Smith as Deadshot
Joel Kinnamen as Rick Flagg
Cara Delivigne in anything she is in.
Thats some quality acting there. No complaints here.
Jared Leto as Joker
Will Smith as Deadshot
Joel Kinnamen as Rick Flagg
Cara Delivigne in anything she is in.
No.
There is another.
Thats some quality acting there. No complaints here.
Kevin Costner was a big star at the time so I get why they picked him. Still didn't work out well especially since about halfway through the movie he completely abandons his English accent.
VeryGooster
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Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor and Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese in Terminator: Genisys
The first marriage was before Star Wars though
It retrospect, the entire movie was miscast, but Franco was the one the stood out the most. Kunis have been in worse roles though.
Emilia Clarke in everything.
IggyChooChoo
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January Jones didn't do a good job, but I can sympathize with a casting director thinking she'd work as a literal ice queen.
DeaconKnowledge
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No.
There is another.
I gotta disagree. January Jones is PERFECT casting for a literal Ice queen.
Perhaps it happened like in the movie ???
Jesse Eisenberg: The Thread
You mean "that guy from the Social Network"?
I don't mind her in Game of Thrones. But Game of Thrones usually has pretty solid casting as far as I'm concerned so maybe she just gets an AOE to her acting stat while around the rest of the cast.
I'll admit that I haven't seen her artsy movies, but Portman definitely dragged down the Thor movies too. Especially Thor 2
Psychoward
Banned
I'd only seen him in mediocre comedies before Hacksaw Ridge and I was stunned at how good he was.
……forgetit
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I agree actually
Jesse Eisenberg: The Thread
Uhhh he was fine in the Social Network, The Squid and the Whale, and even Cafe Society, which are the films I've seen him in. Definitely hasn't been shit in every movie he's been in.
Default answer: Keanu in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Jake Lloyd in TPM.
Atomic Playboy
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I could never buy David Schwimmer in Band of Brothers. He does a fine job with it, but all I can think is "nice uniform Ross."
Septimus Prime
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Winner.
Bad writing aside (and it's pretty impressive to write in such a way where even Liam Neeson and Samuel L. Jackson come off crappy), Jake Lloyd's acting just made things far more unbearable. Like, if they'd plugged Haley Joel Osment in there, it would still be bad, but maybe it wouldn't be worse-than-Jar Jar bad.
CopperPuppy
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The Michael Gambon posts are positively blowing me away. I adore Gambon as Dumbledore.
On the other hand, Pilou Asbæk as Euron Greyjoy was laughably awful and, for a moment or two, made me sincerely entertain the notion that the person responsible hadn't read the relevant source material for the character. Euron's importance in the novels is only going to grow and, I mean, wow, they fucked him up bad.
On the other hand, Pilou Asbæk as Euron Greyjoy was laughably awful and, for a moment or two, made me sincerely entertain the notion that the person responsible hadn't read the relevant source material for the character. Euron's importance in the novels is only going to grow and, I mean, wow, they fucked him up bad.
DarkestHour
Banned
Oh oh oh how could I forget the worst villain of the year, Erik Laray Harvey was just incredible bad as Stryker.
He was playing the same character as in Boardwalk Empire it seemed like.
shiftplusone
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Henry Cavill i thought looked the part, but everything about him in Man of Steel and BvS was the confirmation that the look is about 1% of it.
Writing is shit too but he doesn't do anything right outside of the look, and even then he's starting to look like the gas fumes are from Lex's great discovery are affecting him as well
Writing is shit too but he doesn't do anything right outside of the look, and even then he's starting to look like the gas fumes are from Lex's great discovery are affecting him as well
ebullientprism
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I could never buy David Schwimmer in Band of Brothers. He does a fine job with it, but all I can think is "nice uniform Ross."
I thought he was great in it.
Androidsleeps
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She was perfect for her role in Mad Men.
Ghost is Bad
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TangoAlphaLima
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I could never buy David Schwimmer in Band of Brothers. He does a fine job with it, but all I can think is "nice uniform Ross."
But Schwimmer is perfect in the role of the superior officer everyone hates.
Henry Cavill as Superman.
Hollow, zero presence, can't act, no charisma. Fake Man from Uncle doesn't count, he is so dull in real life too. Seen him in enough films to judge he is a very bad choice and visually only barely just passes but still think he looks average because he brings nothing. The script, direction is not a pass for him.
Hollow, zero presence, can't act, no charisma. Fake Man from Uncle doesn't count, he is so dull in real life too. Seen him in enough films to judge he is a very bad choice and visually only barely just passes but still think he looks average because he brings nothing. The script, direction is not a pass for him.
Being 25 explains the first marriage and the second....
I agree. He was surrounded by a good movie and did he part.
Who would you have cast?
Would have been shit regardless, much like the prequels. The casting was just icing on the shit cake.
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