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Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim

EDIT: yup

He's a funny guy, his body language during this scene almost redeems his whole performance.

But he just doesn't look or sound desirable. Even Johnny Simmons would've worked, had he been a bigger name.

 

[The Beard]

Quentin Tarantino in any movie he's appeared in.

I actually really liked him in Pulp Fiction. That whole scene was hilarious.

 

[aBarreras]

Totally agree. Comic Scott was kind of nerdy and a bit socially awkward, but it came across that despite that, he had a certain effortless air of coolness about him.

Cera is the elemental embodiment of anti-cool.

yeah i mean, i loved the movie and cera was alright, but scott was supposed to be a heartbreaker, and cera, cant pass as one hahaha

 

[Slixshot]

Remove this image, please. Unless your intent was for everyone on GAF to gouge out their eyeballs!

Spoiler

Fuckin Shamalan.

 

[Mr. F]

 

[Mollymauk]

Edward Furlong is a national treasure.

He got chops too.

When The Sun Goes Down- Edward Furlong

 

[bootsthecat]

Kevin Costner in The Untouchables. He was too much of a dreamy wuss to pull off the Ness role in any convincing way. Ruined an otherwise top-tier flick for me.

 

[sn00zer]

She's supposed to be an American politician.....her accent is nowhere near American
EDIT: From Shin Godzilla

 

[Strangelove77]

Ozymandias in the Watchmen movie. Terrible casting choice.

I like the Watchmen movie, but even as a parody of 80s/90s superhero movie costumes, that's a really terrible costume.

 

[triplestation]

I heard Leonardo DiCaprio was supposed to play older Anakin. Fuck that would've been perfect. We'll never get Leonardo Vader transition.

 

[Infinite Stars]

Emelia Clark in Game of Thrones.

She's so shitty she has me scared about the Han Solo movie with her being in it. She can't act, she always has the same dissatisfied face in every scene. We don't get any of her actual character struggles because "YAS Queen".

Henry Cavill as Superman

I've created Characters in RPGs that have 0 charisma that still do better then he does. He can't properly affect the duality of Clark/Kal, with the literal only difference being clothing and glasses.

 

[Schlorgan]

Coming back to Terminator:

This whole cast was terrible.

 

[Hazmat]

I actually really liked him in Pulp Fiction. That whole scene was hilarious.

I agree, he's great in Pulp Fiction. He also gets scalped like a fucking pro in Inglourious Basterds. His terrible performance in the absolute trainwreck section of Django Unchained is borderline unforgivable though.

 

[17 Seconds]

have we all forgotten that demetri martin played a scientist in contagion?

 

[The Artisan]

justin chatwin as goku

 

[kruis]

Jack Black and Adrien Brody in King Kong. Loved the movie, hated these two. One overacts, the other one has the charisma of a peanut.

 

[lightskintwin]

I actually really liked him in Pulp Fiction. That whole scene was hilarious.

Quentin Tarantino's appearance in Pulp Fiction is awful and his character doesn't even make sense, and it seemed like the sole reason he created it so he could say "Dead Nigger Storage".

He was the worst part of an amazing film.

 

[Airola]

Pilou Asbæk as Euron Greyjoy, Game of Thrones

I quickly looked at the picture, only saw Game of Thrones mentioned and thought "wait, is Joshua Jackson on Game of Thrones?"

 

[Not]

Coming back to Terminator:

This whole cast was terrible.

Jai Courtney's face will forever bother me

 

[Skux]

One of the most boring leads i have seen in a film.

Everyone else in the film is far more interesting than this blank slate of a character, although I think that's more the writing than anything else, since no one else has heard of this actress before.

 

[Version 3.0]

Quentin Tarantino in any movie he's appeared in.

You gotta be kidding. He was perfect as the dork with a handy garage in Pulp Fiction, and stole the show telling his stupid "pissing on the bartender" joke in Desperado.

 

[Schlorgan]

Jai Courtney's face will forever bother me

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.

 

[Jerm411]

The guy who played Robocop in the reboot and was the main guy in Suicide Squad. That guy sucks.
I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a soul.

He's awesome in The Killing and House of Cards though...

 

[lightskintwin]

You gotta be kidding. He was perfect as the dork with a handy garage in Pulp Fiction, and stole the show telling his stupid "pissing on the bartender" joke in Desperado.

A dork that's married to a Black woman and derogatorily uses Nigger in front of the biggest Black gangster in his film with no repercussions.

Yeah.... no, it didn't even make sense in the Tarantino-esque universe he created in the film.

 

[Jerm411]

Emile Hirsch in Alpha Dog......just no.....

Really dig the movie though.

 

[Crixus]

Sarah Wayne Callies in The Walking Dead and Colony.
Yunjin Kim in Lost.
Tania Raymonde in Goliath.
Jennifer Esposito in Mistresses.
Cliff Curtis and Kim Dickens in Fear the Walking Dead.

 

[aerts1js]

Probably Michael Cera as Lex Luther....just thought it was an odd choice. Didn't help that he was terrible.

 

[lightskintwin]

Probably Michael Cera as Lex Luther....just thought it was an odd choice. Didn't help that he was terrible.

Jesse Eisenberg

 

[IISANDERII]

Tom Hanks, Saving Pvt Ryan.

The nasally voice which lacks any kind of bass or authority is able to suddenly command a platoon of increasingly disarrayed soldiers was beyond the limit of realism and believability.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Coming back to Terminator:

This whole cast was terrible.

You know you've fucked up when Arnold is acting circles around the other leads.

 

[Lazy vs Crazy]

What the fuck were they thinking

Wait what? I thought he played the character really well. What was your issue with him?

 

[Mollymauk]

Tom Hanks, Saving Pvt Ryan.

The nasally voice which lacks any kind of bass or authority is able to suddenly command a platoon of increasingly disarrayed soldiers was beyond the limit of realism and believability.

Sorry, but I disagree. I feel the whole point is that they are citizen soldiers. They aren't career military. He reaches them because he was a teacher, not through force of will.

 

[Back-In-Black]

Tom Hanks, Saving Pvt Ryan.

The nasally voice which lacks any kind of bass or authority is able to suddenly command a platoon of increasingly disarrayed soldiers was beyond the limit of realism and believability.

Now you're just talking nonsense.

 

[Vaenyr]

Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker

Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor

Kit Harrington as Jon Snow

Donald Trump as the POTUS

 

[bobeth]

Holy shit, this thread is designed for fucking Highlander

Let's see - we'll cast a fucking Frenchman as the Scotsman Connor McLeod, hero of the piece

Then we will cast as Scotsman who has only a single accent in all movies as a fecking Spaniard Conquistador

We will then cast an American as The Kurgan (russian roots).

An Englishwoman as the main characters scottish love interest...


Yeah, regardless of any indivdual misteps, Highlander takes the biscuit for an ensemble, it's hilarious!

I mean look at him, he looks French even before you here the accent!

Everything you say is true, yet you are so, so wrong!

 

[Dysun]

Wait what? I thought he played the character really well. What was your issue with him?

There's a contingent that has disliked Elden Henson from the start for some reason.
He seems fine to me as well

 

[Alavard]

Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker

Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor

Kit Harrington as Jon Snow

Donald Trump as the POTUS

Tobey made a great Peter. Just not a good Spider-Man.

 

[pashmilla]

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.

Well... let's just say there's a reason the detractor nickname for show!Dany is Deadpan Stormborn.

 

[SpartanN92]

Denise Richards in The World is Not Enough.

So hot but a Nuclear Physicist she is not.

 

[GoutPatrol]

Coming back to Terminator:

This whole cast was terrible.

The sun must be right off camera. Squint city.

 

[Urishizu]

Denise Richards in The World is Not Enough.

So hot but a Nuclear Physicist she is not.

You spelled it wrong...

https://youtu.be/wK9l3m47dH4

 

[Slaythe]

Here's the thing.

Either you're a casual, and you thought they were mostly okay and their music theme was great, plus they're gorgeous.

Or you're a fan.

If you're a fan, you fucking watched the bonus on the Dvd/blurays.

You SAW George Lucas, literally showing Hayden the way to perform a scene, then have Hayden do it the same way, and then George says "Perfect, cut !" .

There is virtually nothing Hayden or Portman could have done to save this debacle.

The dialogues, overall writing, the actor direction, and the editing, they had EVERYTHING against them.

Nobody would have survived that "sand" line, not even Christian Bale or Dicaprio.

So Hayden did a good job given the circumstances.

Portman, one of the best actresses around, barely did any better than him.

Also, as a whole, with all the side stuff (comics, clones wars etc...), their legacy is great. So it's a good casting IMO.

 

[Helmholtz]

This guy as Moriarty in Sherlock. He's awful.

Yup. Absolutely terrible, cringe worthy acting.

 

[CreeperBlocks]

Cuba Gooding Jr as OJ Simpson in American Crime Story,He was great in the role, but I still think he was a miscast for OJ.

 

[magnifico]

Halle Berry, James Marsden and Anna Paquin as Storm, Cyke and Rogue. So miscast. Especially when most of the others were so near perfect.

 

[Schlorgan]

Tobey made a great Peter. Just not a good Spider-Man.

I identified (and still identify) so much with his Peter that I won't take any trash-talking about him.

 

[Peter Ian Staker]

Wow. Yeah. And I usually like her in most of her roles, too.


It's kind of telling that the CGI versions of Anakin on The Clone Wars and later Rebels don't even look like him. With every other character, you can at least see the resemblance, despite the stylistic difference, but Anakin looks like a completely different person.

Most Clone Wars/Rebels characters are so stylized they barely resemble their movie counterparts(Just look at Dooku).
The only character from these shows that I can think of that actually like an actor was a senator character from Season 1 of Rebels that looked like David Niven(who was never in any of the movies).

 

[lamaroo]

I see a lot of mentions for Eisenberg as Luthor, and Leto as Joker but I think both of those examples fall on the writing.

If Eisenberg were the Joker, I don't think anyone would have had a problem with the character, or his acting. I can't see anyone saving that Luthor.

Okay Leto sucks as Joker, but the writing for that character was awful anyway.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Halle Berry, James Marsden and Anna Paquin as Storm, Cyke and Rogue. So miscast. Especially when most of the others were so near perfect.

Halle Berry and James Marsden we're terrible in these films.

I actually liked Anna Paquin as Rogue but it always bothered me she never had a southern accent.

As for bad casting, I'll never forget how ridiculous Colin Farrel looked as Alexander with that blonde hair.

 

[Big-E]

The guy who played King Arthur in that cancelled series with Eva Green. So bad the show was cancelled because of it.