To be fair to Denise Richards, she totally owns it, ["Idiots can do anything we put our minds to. I once played a nuclear psychiatrist in a James Bond movie!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVUZh2xqV1o)
(Linked to the whole thing as she as other great lines but the one above happens at about 2:10.)
So many jokes in such a short amount of time. It's the comedy I find I can just put any episode on and laugh my ass off. Think I'm gonna do that right now.
Had to do a double take, but I think she says 'James Bonk' movie lol. Which is also not inaccurate.
Also like how she uses the Harrison Ford pronunciation of new-kew-lar.
Keanu is a fine actor, he just doesn’t have the biggest range. He does both action and comedy well, and is able to nail the disaffected protagonist every time.
Examples:
* John Wick
* Speed
* The Matrix
* River’s Edge
* Bill and Ted
Just don’t cast him in Shakespeare or make him do an accent.
She was also much more high profile at that time coming off Starship Troopers and Wild Things. She was seen as one of the next big rising stars but it kind of started going downhill for her after that with her mostly being seen in C grade straight to video or TV movies.
I think all us boys who were in high school at the time did.
I was already into Neve Campbell, and that movie introduced 14-year-old me to Denise Richards.
They may not have been primarily cast for their acting talent, but most of them do an excellent job. She was an outlier. Lois Chiles as Holly Goodhead, Jane Seymour as Solitaire, Diana Rigg as Tracy Bond, Honor Blackmore as Pussy Galore, Halle Berry as Jinx, Sophie Marceau as Elektra King... Like honestly, all of them are excellent, and most of the Bond women are excellent, making their presence known outside of their sexual attraction. It's harder to find ones like Denise Richards, where it's clear they weren't interested in going beyond that physical attraction.
Not to say you can't find other examples, but I really do think that a vapid Bond woman with bad acting is the exception rather than the rule.
It annoys me that Bond women have a stereotype of being named gross things, but I at least believe they rise above that with their screen presence and importance to the films.
Yep, this was the first thought in my head. The two of them just absolutely DO NOT mix at all, they're basically oil and water, no matter how much the dialogue wants us to pretend otherwise. It doesn't help that neither one of them could muster the energy need to actually TRY to come off as anything but bored. DeHaan just simply looks too young for the role, and Delevigne had no screen presence to speak of.
The entire film sinks because the two leads are bored, boring, and spouting dialogue that is both desperately -- and futilely -- searching for chemistry and charisma.
Not to mention they look like siblings. Like it was half way through the movie and my wife (who was only barely paying attention to it by this point) asked if it was a sci-fi incest story.
And Luc Besson raised €200 million for this! The biggest budgeted European independent movie I've ever heard of. The acting was dire and the special effects were hokey. The investors really thought it was going to be The Fifth Element 2... 🤔
I was talking about this exact thing the other day. The leads in this film ruin it, I would like to see an actually older actor play the part like say Clive Owen but as the lead, it just makes the part more beleavable.
Like in the fifth element, you can believe Bruce Willis as a world weary retired soldier working a shit job, but put a 20 something in the same role and the film turns to shit
Oh yeah. Woman wakes up, finds herself with a guy positioning himself as a dreamy partner caught up in the same predicament - slowly realizing she's trapped for life in a situation of his deliberate construction... that's a role Dehaan could actually nail.
Passengers was supposed to be creepy, but was rewritten and recast so many times that the end product only superficially resembled the original script.
Yeah this theory pops up anytime Valerian is brought up on reddit, but what everybody ignores is that no matter what you did you weren't going to fix how bad of a film passengers was
Dane in particular was an absolute disaster, completly unconvincing as an adult man with a job let alone a badass space cop, instead he came across as the quiet kid telling his friend not to come to school tomorrow.
Yup. That was like: "Borderlands is a funny video game, and it has a black protagonist. Who is the most popular black comedian these days? Kevin Hart? Okay, then he play that role!"
He fits the role perfectly, except for his:
\- height
\- strength
\- lack of ability to be serious
He would've been a much better Claptrap than Roland.
Yup. They would've been my number one and two choices too. And sure, people can say "it won't be a carbon copy of the games, so Hart can fit the role", but the thing is, everything about him is so different from Roland nothing good can come out of it. He either will play the serious leadership figure we've seen in the game (and will be ingenuine in it) or play his usual self (so the character will have only the name of Roland, nothing else). There isn't a mashup of Roland's character, and Hart's acting variety that can produce an acceptable combination.
Marlon Brando as Sakini, a Japanese interpreter in Teahouse Of The August Moon.
[Yes, this is a thing that happened.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU42uHtmw7o)
Similarly, I watched another Marlon Brando movie, *Sayonara*, about US GIs stationed in Japan after WWII, which was surprisingly progressive except for the seemingly random choice to have Ricardo Montalbán play a Japanese man.
Them in Destination Wedding is a consolation prize.
One of the bigger surprises last year for me. Would've never given that a try if it wasn't at someone else's behest but they're the best in it.
Her performance is often panned alongside Keanu's and I'll never understand why. Her delivery of "I love you, God forgive me, I do" is downright incredible, I don't think it could have been delivered any better. And I say this as someone who *cannot* take that movie seriously, it's so ridiculously excessive in every way that to me it's often an unintentional comedy (a beautifully shot and scored unintentional comedy, I'll give it that), but Winona's performance makes for some genuinely touching moments. I think people got hung up on her English accent being flawed, if I remember correctly, but she still manages to deliver her lines very well, unlike Keanu who was obviously trying so hard to get the accent right that it made his performance extremely wooden.
And the whole film was her idea - she'd seen the script lying on a table when it was planned to be a TV film directed by Michael Apted - and she brought it to FFC's attention. I think her performance was fine. She's had better roles but I enjoy what she does. And her accent's fine as well, I say that as an Irish guy who grew up in the UK.
Keanu was also miscast in Much Ado About Nothing, but in retrospect the blame for his performance should be on Kenneth Branagh for letting him play the ‘baddie’ part with a dude-esque swagger. He definitely needed a bit of “would that it ‘twere so simple” coaching.
Reeves also did a production of Hamlet around this time and drew mostly favourable reviews, though swooning girls in the audience was a bit of a problem!
I’m a big fan of the movie (Keaton entirely steals the show, and Branagh/Thompson were fantastic together), but yeah. Imagine the difference if they had someone like Ian McShane playing Don John.
Their performances aren’t good (particularly Keanu’s) but almost anyone would look bad when having to act alongside Gary Oldman and Sir Anthony Hopkins at the peak of their powers.
Depends on the role. His take on Constantine was not true to the comics but was fascinating in its own right. I also think his performance in The Matrix doesn't get enough credit, especially the scene in which he freaks out after Morpheus shows him the truth. People get hung up on the understated "whoa" even though that delivery made perfect sense; Neo had already seen a bunch of unbelievable shit up to that point, so Morpheus leaping from one building to the other wasn't that much of a surprise anymore.
Keanu's a limited actor but he has a downright inexplicable amount of natural charisma so he can be quite compelling to watch. Plus he has more range than he's given credit for; he's played confident characters, dumb characters, fish-out-of-water characters, etc. He doesn't vary his appearance or accent (I think Devil's Advocate was the closest he ever came to doing that successfully), but he does vary his energy and demeanor in subtle ways.
His performance in Dracula is absolutely indefensible, though. Absolute disaster.
There’s an alternate reality that, sadly we don’t live in, where those key roles were performed by British actors and Bram Stoker’s Dracula is held up as a near-perfect film.
Marky Mark in The Lovely Bones always stood out to me as being impressively bad. I wonder why they dropped Ryan Gosling....surely he would have been MUCH better
Yeah same here. At the very least I can understand casting Tom Holland if they were going for a young Drake from Uncharted 3 but the Wahlberg casting choice was horrible. He would've been a horrible Drake 10 years ago and he's a horrible Sully now
What's funny is people saying it's supposed to be young Nathan Drake and that Tom Holland would grow in to it. Tom Holland is in his mid 20s, he's not growing anymore. Glenn Powell would have killed it. Any other actor than Mark Whalberg would have been an improvement.
Yeah it was very weird. It's like they went with a hybrid of young Drake from U3 and adult Drake from the U1. Horrible choice imo because it lessened the impact of Sully being a guardian/father figure to Nate. If they really wanted to cast a mid 20s Tom Holland, they shouldn't have done an origin story and just started off with Nate and Sully already familiar with each other.
I think they went with Tom Holland because the project was in development hell for too long and Holland was their best option as soon as he showed interest.
I thought it through and separately came up with Miles Teller and JK Simmons, completely forgetting they were in Whiplash together. Don't know if that makes it better or worse.
22-year old Kate Bosworth as seasoned, Pulitzer Prize-winning Lois Lane in Superman Returns. She was like a kid playing dress-up in mom’s work clothes.
I don't think of this as a casting problem. More of an overall creative direction problem.
He's a fine choice to play an Evil Tech Bro Riddler version of Lex Luthor. But why go with THAT version of Lex Luthor?!
That whole movie is basically a “I guess I can see where he’s coming from” in his ideas. Granted he was up against the gravitas of Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey who knew how to be lex
Weird but full in line with the times they were made in. Nobody cared if the actors were looking anything like the people in past times. The Wayne example might be especially bizarre because of the race switch.
But more acclaimed movies were similar:
Sinuhe the Egyptian? Not a single Egyptian in it.
The ten commandments? Heston as israelite. Yul Brynner does the race switch almost vice versa to John Wayne. He, originating from far east asia, plays an ancient middle east pharaoh.
The funny thing is, I do think he's a good actor and there's multiple roles in the DC universe that he would be awesome at. Lex Luthor is not one of them. I get that they were trying to make him into a more modern tech industrialist instead of the traditional businessman that we typically see, but it was such an unnecessary change for such an iconic character.
He would have nailed The Riddler, and possibly even the Joker if he was written to Eisenberg’s strengths. Heck, I could even see him do a heavily reimagined Mr. Freeze. But Lex? Just doesn’t work.
She's good at playing the English rose type characters in romantic films like Last Christmas or Me Before You. I just never buy her in dramas or action films. I think Comedies and Romantic films are where she feels more comfortable in.
Agreed. She always comes across very well in interviews but I think that natural charisma lends itself better to more lighthearted romance/comedy roles rather than tough action heroines.
I realise this is an odd thing to say because I also really liked her in Game of Thrones, though she had lots of time to make that part her own.
He can be good at times when he's not shoehorned into the main guy role. He was one of the few bright spots of Suicide Squad and was great in Spartacus. But yeah, white meat babyface isn't the role for him.
"Who should we cast as Lex Luthor?"
"I haven't watched it but, I think that guy from Breaking Bad would good!"
"What was his name?"
"Jesse? Heisenberg?"
The worst part about that one for me is that I think it was actually a pretty good *villain* performance, it was just a terrible *Lex Luthor*. Keep everything the same and just change Jesse's character name to Thaddeus Killgrave the Mad scientist and it works great.
Carrie isn’t ugly or a freak, she’s just kinda chubby and plain and she wears hand me down clothes but in the book when she puts on her prom dress she’s described as quite pretty.
Yesssss. She can't act, and putting her against Michael Fassbender who can act anything no matter how bad the film is... is worse, because her lack of charisma is even more obvious.
Jessica Chastain was also horrible in Dark Phoenix.
Yes! We will dye her hair blonde and she will be Marilyn Monroe. Who thought that would fly?
Ana de Armas is a gorgeous woman and a good actress, but her portraying Marilyn makes 0 sense.
This goes into spoiler territory, but...
Mila Kunis and Rachel Weisz in "Oz the Great and Powerful". Now, I love both of these actresses, and I fully believe that they would've done super-well in that movie...if the characters they cast as were flipped--with Kunis as Evanora and Weisz as Theodora.
Why? Because, as a supposed prequel to the 1939 "Wizard of Oz", Kunis does not have the facial structure or personality similar enough to Margaret Hamilton's "Wicked Witch of the West". Weisz would have.
They could even have kept the whole introductory scenes in which Theodora meets Oz, shows him around and then introduces him to Evanora. Evanora immediately becomes infatuated with Oz, but he does not reciprocate and repeatedly rebuffs Evanora. Evanora could then fly into a fit of jealous rage and become the Wicked Witch of the West. Weisz's Evanora/Wicked Witch of the West would have done far better, in my opinion.
Tom holland and mark Wahlberg in uncharted
Nathan drake is bulkier dude in his 30s and sully is a gristle old guy with a fun side
Tom and mark DO NOT fit this at all first they got the most baby face actor for Nathan drake. Mark just doesn’t have the personality to play sully and he committed a couple of hate crimes I can’t let that slide.
Ralph Feinnes in 'Maid in Manhattan as Jennifer Lopezs love interest. I love him as an actor, but my impression of him is more Red Dragon quiet serial killer and less love interest.
The worst I’ve ever seen is Arnold in the movie Sabotage. Literally ANY competent middle aged actor would have made this movie awesome. But instead they use a 70-something year old man and even give him a sex scene.
He wasn't miscast. They wanted someone to do a racist "comedy" portrayal of an Asian stereotype, and he did what he was supposed to do flawlessly. He did what he was supposed to do - the problem was what he was supposed to do was horrible.
In another universe with no Schumacher or bat nipples, and if Clooney played it a bit more morose and serious, less himself, put on a few pounds of muscle etc, then I think it could kinda work.. A lot of ifs though.
Kristen stewart as snow white (supposed to be the fairest of them all) and charlize theron as evil queen who was way beyond prettier than snow white, dont get me wrong, I do love charlize here, its just that shes just too pretty compared to the snow white lols.
Oh that’s right up there. She was like a nuclear scientist? And she delivered her lines puckering her lips, just like all scientists would do. Worst Bond girl in history.
Tara Reid was a scientician in Alone In the Dark.
A… scientician? Edit: TIL what that a scientician is a valid way to refer to a scientist
Just ask this scientician.
Uhhhhh....
It's a Simpsons joke.
It's a perfectly cromulent word
“When I grow up I’m going to bovine university!”
S M R T
Unpossible!
To be fair to Denise Richards, she totally owns it, ["Idiots can do anything we put our minds to. I once played a nuclear psychiatrist in a James Bond movie!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVUZh2xqV1o) (Linked to the whole thing as she as other great lines but the one above happens at about 2:10.)
God this makes me want to rewatch 30 Rock.
So many jokes in such a short amount of time. It's the comedy I find I can just put any episode on and laugh my ass off. Think I'm gonna do that right now.
She was great as White She Devil in Undercover Brother. Can’t take that away.
“That’s right! I’m an idiot. Surprised?” Soooo much respect for this lol. Love it when people make fun of themselves
Had to do a double take, but I think she says 'James Bonk' movie lol. Which is also not inaccurate. Also like how she uses the Harrison Ford pronunciation of new-kew-lar.
It sounded like “James Bong” to me.
Everybody always mentions Keanu in Dracula but Keanu in Dangerous liaisons is painful to watch.
Have you seen Keanu in *Much Ado About Nothing*?
could you imagine Jeremy Irons or Willem Dafoe in that role? How did they hit bullseye on every other casting choice but miss that one so badly??
Man, the John Wick series really did wonders for Keanu’s reputation. I love the guy in select roles but he really isn’t a very good actor overall.
He is an action star. Speed, The Matrix, John Wick. Those movies are his wheelhouse.
Keanu is a fine actor, he just doesn’t have the biggest range. He does both action and comedy well, and is able to nail the disaffected protagonist every time. Examples: * John Wick * Speed * The Matrix * River’s Edge * Bill and Ted Just don’t cast him in Shakespeare or make him do an accent.
Him acting next to John Malkovick and Glenn Close is embarrassing 😬
To be fair, I don't think Denise Richards was cast for her acting talent. Like most women in the (older) Bond movies, really.
She was also much more high profile at that time coming off Starship Troopers and Wild Things. She was seen as one of the next big rising stars but it kind of started going downhill for her after that with her mostly being seen in C grade straight to video or TV movies.
Oooh wild things. My friend and I probably burned that VHS from all the rewinding
I think all us boys who were in high school at the time did. I was already into Neve Campbell, and that movie introduced 14-year-old me to Denise Richards.
It’s where a younger me discovered the A->B loop function on my DVD player.
Yeah her career really suffered once people figured out she couldn't act
She was hilarious in Blue Mountain State as the coach’s bitter ex wife
Party at the Goat House!
They may not have been primarily cast for their acting talent, but most of them do an excellent job. She was an outlier. Lois Chiles as Holly Goodhead, Jane Seymour as Solitaire, Diana Rigg as Tracy Bond, Honor Blackmore as Pussy Galore, Halle Berry as Jinx, Sophie Marceau as Elektra King... Like honestly, all of them are excellent, and most of the Bond women are excellent, making their presence known outside of their sexual attraction. It's harder to find ones like Denise Richards, where it's clear they weren't interested in going beyond that physical attraction. Not to say you can't find other examples, but I really do think that a vapid Bond woman with bad acting is the exception rather than the rule. It annoys me that Bond women have a stereotype of being named gross things, but I at least believe they rise above that with their screen presence and importance to the films.
Both the leads in valerian
Yep, this was the first thought in my head. The two of them just absolutely DO NOT mix at all, they're basically oil and water, no matter how much the dialogue wants us to pretend otherwise. It doesn't help that neither one of them could muster the energy need to actually TRY to come off as anything but bored. DeHaan just simply looks too young for the role, and Delevigne had no screen presence to speak of. The entire film sinks because the two leads are bored, boring, and spouting dialogue that is both desperately -- and futilely -- searching for chemistry and charisma.
And they look like fraternal twins.
I think that was the biggest issue. You see them and you immediately think brother and sister.
Not to mention they look like siblings. Like it was half way through the movie and my wife (who was only barely paying attention to it by this point) asked if it was a sci-fi incest story.
Didn't help that the script didn't do them any justice. I don't think it wrote those characters well ON TOP of them having zero chemistry.
And Luc Besson raised €200 million for this! The biggest budgeted European independent movie I've ever heard of. The acting was dire and the special effects were hokey. The investors really thought it was going to be The Fifth Element 2... 🤔
I was talking about this exact thing the other day. The leads in this film ruin it, I would like to see an actually older actor play the part like say Clive Owen but as the lead, it just makes the part more beleavable. Like in the fifth element, you can believe Bruce Willis as a world weary retired soldier working a shit job, but put a 20 something in the same role and the film turns to shit
I've read the opinion that if you swapped the lead actors between **Valerian** and **Passengers** we would have actually got two decent movies....
It would have certainly made passengers a lot creepier...
Oh yeah. Woman wakes up, finds herself with a guy positioning himself as a dreamy partner caught up in the same predicament - slowly realizing she's trapped for life in a situation of his deliberate construction... that's a role Dehaan could actually nail.
Passengers was supposed to be creepy, but was rewritten and recast so many times that the end product only superficially resembled the original script.
Their dynamic comes off as siblings which makes it even more disturbing.
if they change the plot and characters of both movies we would have actually got two decent movies
Yeah this theory pops up anytime Valerian is brought up on reddit, but what everybody ignores is that no matter what you did you weren't going to fix how bad of a film passengers was
Dane in particular was an absolute disaster, completly unconvincing as an adult man with a job let alone a badass space cop, instead he came across as the quiet kid telling his friend not to come to school tomorrow.
He was supposed to be a badass cop archetype?!?
Yup. The original comic was a badass manly space cop dude.
Not helped by the fact Clive Owen was in the movie. Someone who absolutely can play a badass cop.
You just knew this would be one of the top answers.
I think Cara was ok, but the guy just absolutely dragged the whole show down.
Tom Hanks in Elvis. I love Tom Hanks but I just didn't think this was a great role for him.
I never stopped seeing Tom Hanks.
Felt as forced into that role and he was forced into that fat suit. Just cast a heavier guy with an accent.
thing is the guy didn’t even talk like that 😭 the accent was more rural in real life
He had a sort of weird eastern European accent like Gru in the minions, it was such a twist to learn he was Dutch.
someone on twitter said the role should have gone to Stephen Root and they were right
I am still baffled about Kevin Hart as Roland from Borderlands.
Yup. That was like: "Borderlands is a funny video game, and it has a black protagonist. Who is the most popular black comedian these days? Kevin Hart? Okay, then he play that role!" He fits the role perfectly, except for his: \- height \- strength \- lack of ability to be serious He would've been a much better Claptrap than Roland.
Exactly. An actor like Idris Elba or Dennis Haysbert would have been more fitting, likable authority figure type.
My choice would be Mike Colter from the Marvel Luke Cage TV series
Good choice, I would love to see that!
Yup. They would've been my number one and two choices too. And sure, people can say "it won't be a carbon copy of the games, so Hart can fit the role", but the thing is, everything about him is so different from Roland nothing good can come out of it. He either will play the serious leadership figure we've seen in the game (and will be ingenuine in it) or play his usual self (so the character will have only the name of Roland, nothing else). There isn't a mashup of Roland's character, and Hart's acting variety that can produce an acceptable combination.
It's extra odd when I compare it to the spot-on castings of Cate Blanchett as Lilith and Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis
Yes indeed, i can't wrap my head around that!
JLC as Tannis is the reason I’m looking forward to this movie.
Marlon Brando as Sakini, a Japanese interpreter in Teahouse Of The August Moon. [Yes, this is a thing that happened.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU42uHtmw7o)
Honestly I thought Glenn Ford gave the best performance in that movie.
Similarly, I watched another Marlon Brando movie, *Sayonara*, about US GIs stationed in Japan after WWII, which was surprisingly progressive except for the seemingly random choice to have Ricardo Montalbán play a Japanese man.
Also similarly, Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany’s!
Love them both as actors but Keanu and Winona in **Bram Stoker's Dracula** were...not great.
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Them in Destination Wedding is a consolation prize. One of the bigger surprises last year for me. Would've never given that a try if it wasn't at someone else's behest but they're the best in it.
I loved Winona Ryder in Dracula. Her chemistry with Gary Oldman alone.
Interesting. I love Winona in that film. But I agree on Keanu.
Everyone agrees on Keanu for that film. First time I’ve ever heard someone complain about Winona.
Her performance is often panned alongside Keanu's and I'll never understand why. Her delivery of "I love you, God forgive me, I do" is downright incredible, I don't think it could have been delivered any better. And I say this as someone who *cannot* take that movie seriously, it's so ridiculously excessive in every way that to me it's often an unintentional comedy (a beautifully shot and scored unintentional comedy, I'll give it that), but Winona's performance makes for some genuinely touching moments. I think people got hung up on her English accent being flawed, if I remember correctly, but she still manages to deliver her lines very well, unlike Keanu who was obviously trying so hard to get the accent right that it made his performance extremely wooden.
And the whole film was her idea - she'd seen the script lying on a table when it was planned to be a TV film directed by Michael Apted - and she brought it to FFC's attention. I think her performance was fine. She's had better roles but I enjoy what she does. And her accent's fine as well, I say that as an Irish guy who grew up in the UK.
Keanu was also miscast in Much Ado About Nothing, but in retrospect the blame for his performance should be on Kenneth Branagh for letting him play the ‘baddie’ part with a dude-esque swagger. He definitely needed a bit of “would that it ‘twere so simple” coaching. Reeves also did a production of Hamlet around this time and drew mostly favourable reviews, though swooning girls in the audience was a bit of a problem!
I’m a big fan of the movie (Keaton entirely steals the show, and Branagh/Thompson were fantastic together), but yeah. Imagine the difference if they had someone like Ian McShane playing Don John.
The material is inherently campy so it hardly sinks the movie. Francis still directs the hell out of it.
Their performances aren’t good (particularly Keanu’s) but almost anyone would look bad when having to act alongside Gary Oldman and Sir Anthony Hopkins at the peak of their powers.
I also kind of had problems with Anthony Hopkins' accent.
Lets be honest here, keanu is a great guy but he's a horribly wooden and unexpressive actor
Depends on the role. His take on Constantine was not true to the comics but was fascinating in its own right. I also think his performance in The Matrix doesn't get enough credit, especially the scene in which he freaks out after Morpheus shows him the truth. People get hung up on the understated "whoa" even though that delivery made perfect sense; Neo had already seen a bunch of unbelievable shit up to that point, so Morpheus leaping from one building to the other wasn't that much of a surprise anymore. Keanu's a limited actor but he has a downright inexplicable amount of natural charisma so he can be quite compelling to watch. Plus he has more range than he's given credit for; he's played confident characters, dumb characters, fish-out-of-water characters, etc. He doesn't vary his appearance or accent (I think Devil's Advocate was the closest he ever came to doing that successfully), but he does vary his energy and demeanor in subtle ways. His performance in Dracula is absolutely indefensible, though. Absolute disaster.
There’s an alternate reality that, sadly we don’t live in, where those key roles were performed by British actors and Bram Stoker’s Dracula is held up as a near-perfect film.
Keanu agrees with you.
Marky Mark in The Lovely Bones always stood out to me as being impressively bad. I wonder why they dropped Ryan Gosling....surely he would have been MUCH better
Marky Mark is miscast in everything
He will always be Marky Mark. Thank you.
Whaaat??.. Noooo…
I hated everyone in Uncharted
Yeah same here. At the very least I can understand casting Tom Holland if they were going for a young Drake from Uncharted 3 but the Wahlberg casting choice was horrible. He would've been a horrible Drake 10 years ago and he's a horrible Sully now
What's funny is people saying it's supposed to be young Nathan Drake and that Tom Holland would grow in to it. Tom Holland is in his mid 20s, he's not growing anymore. Glenn Powell would have killed it. Any other actor than Mark Whalberg would have been an improvement.
Yeah it was very weird. It's like they went with a hybrid of young Drake from U3 and adult Drake from the U1. Horrible choice imo because it lessened the impact of Sully being a guardian/father figure to Nate. If they really wanted to cast a mid 20s Tom Holland, they shouldn't have done an origin story and just started off with Nate and Sully already familiar with each other.
I think they went with Tom Holland because the project was in development hell for too long and Holland was their best option as soon as he showed interest.
I thought it through and separately came up with Miles Teller and JK Simmons, completely forgetting they were in Whiplash together. Don't know if that makes it better or worse.
Not my temple
National Treasure is the best Uncharted movie and nobody can change my mind.
Say hi to your mother for me.
22-year old Kate Bosworth as seasoned, Pulitzer Prize-winning Lois Lane in Superman Returns. She was like a kid playing dress-up in mom’s work clothes.
With a 4 year old child, that she doesn't remember conceiving with Supes.
Dane Dehaan, totally not believable in any way as a grown up human being in “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”
They both look like a couple of 18yo.. it was a really weird choice of actors.
Him, and Cara Delevigne were both miscast in this. Zero chemistry between them.
Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor... What in the world did Zack Snyder smoke to hire him in that role?
I don't think of this as a casting problem. More of an overall creative direction problem. He's a fine choice to play an Evil Tech Bro Riddler version of Lex Luthor. But why go with THAT version of Lex Luthor?!
Lex Eisenberg is basically Mark Zuckerberg, who was brilliantly portrayed in The Social Network.
That whole movie is basically a “I guess I can see where he’s coming from” in his ideas. Granted he was up against the gravitas of Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey who knew how to be lex
John Wayne as Genghis Khan One of the most inappropriate and bizarre casting choices ever and it completely fails.
It's rare to see casting so bad it gives the actors cancer.
Weird but full in line with the times they were made in. Nobody cared if the actors were looking anything like the people in past times. The Wayne example might be especially bizarre because of the race switch. But more acclaimed movies were similar: Sinuhe the Egyptian? Not a single Egyptian in it. The ten commandments? Heston as israelite. Yul Brynner does the race switch almost vice versa to John Wayne. He, originating from far east asia, plays an ancient middle east pharaoh.
Eisenberg as Lex Luthor is an all timer
The funny thing is, I do think he's a good actor and there's multiple roles in the DC universe that he would be awesome at. Lex Luthor is not one of them. I get that they were trying to make him into a more modern tech industrialist instead of the traditional businessman that we typically see, but it was such an unnecessary change for such an iconic character.
He would have nailed The Riddler, and possibly even the Joker if he was written to Eisenberg’s strengths. Heck, I could even see him do a heavily reimagined Mr. Freeze. But Lex? Just doesn’t work.
Tyler Perry as Alex Cross
Ruined the franchise. Needed more Morgan Freeman
I remember seeing the poster for that movie and even Tyler was looking confused that he was in it.
I was wtf, Alex has a lisp?
I will always answer Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York. Just didn't work for me.
Emilia clarke as Sarah Connor
She’s very charismatic but completely wrong for that kind of role.
She's good at playing the English rose type characters in romantic films like Last Christmas or Me Before You. I just never buy her in dramas or action films. I think Comedies and Romantic films are where she feels more comfortable in.
Agreed. She always comes across very well in interviews but I think that natural charisma lends itself better to more lighthearted romance/comedy roles rather than tough action heroines. I realise this is an odd thing to say because I also really liked her in Game of Thrones, though she had lots of time to make that part her own.
Jeez, I skipped Genysis. She plays Sarah Connor? I love her, but I'm glad I didn't watch that movie
Jai Courtney is Kyle Reese in it and he's probably the worst casting choice in the movie.
You mean, Charisma Black Hole Jai Courtney.
He can be good at times when he's not shoehorned into the main guy role. He was one of the few bright spots of Suicide Squad and was great in Spartacus. But yeah, white meat babyface isn't the role for him.
Yup, Daenerys Targaryen and Cersei Lannister have both been Sarah Connor.
Oh yeah, this was really bad. The whole film was cast awfully. Even Jason Clarke who I think is a great actor completely phoned it in.
Jessie Eisenberg as Lex Luthor
"Who should we cast as Lex Luthor?" "I haven't watched it but, I think that guy from Breaking Bad would good!" "What was his name?" "Jesse? Heisenberg?"
Oh damn we were robbed of Peak Bald Cranston as Lex.
Zack would've asked Cranston to play Lex as Malcoms dad
This is probably a lot closer to the truth of what happened than anyone will admit.
The worst part about that one for me is that I think it was actually a pretty good *villain* performance, it was just a terrible *Lex Luthor*. Keep everything the same and just change Jesse's character name to Thaddeus Killgrave the Mad scientist and it works great.
Not sure if it's the worst casting ever, but it's the worst I can think of off the top of my head for a recent movie... Uncharted
Mila Kunis “Oz: The Great and Powerful”. Dreadful imo.
That whole fucking movie as far as I'm concerned. Then again, I'm an old Book Oz fan so that movie irritated me on principle.
Basically everyone cast in Home Alone 3
Including the home.
Chloe Grace Moretz as Carrie isn’t the worst but it’s impossible to buy her in that role
I don't even think she did a terrible job. She was fine. It's the fact that carrie is supposed to be this "ugly freak" and she's just... not
No it’s not her fault. It’s just she’s not right for the role
Carrie isn’t ugly or a freak, she’s just kinda chubby and plain and she wears hand me down clothes but in the book when she puts on her prom dress she’s described as quite pretty.
If she had only taken off her glasses and let down her ponytail the whole scenario could have been avoided.
"No, not Janey Briggs! She's got glasses. And a ponytail. Ugh, she's got paint on her overalls! What is that?"
Will Smith as Satan in Winter’s Tale
Sophie Turner as Jean Grey.
Yesssss. She can't act, and putting her against Michael Fassbender who can act anything no matter how bad the film is... is worse, because her lack of charisma is even more obvious. Jessica Chastain was also horrible in Dark Phoenix.
J-Law as Mystique was also a complete waste.
That they forcibly fixed by crowbarring Mystique into big story beats to better utilize their A-list star hot off Hunger Games fame.
Cameron Diaz in *Gangs of New York* was a really bad choice. I fast forward through any scenes with her.
She’s very annoying to watch. Her scenes make me cringe. Awful casting.
Steven Segal as a tough guy in everything.
I loved what they used him for in Executive Decision
He's pretty much always playing himself, and he's terrible at it.
Here he comes again, fatly rounding corners.
Ana de Armas playing Marilyn Monroe with her natural Cuban accent.
Yes! We will dye her hair blonde and she will be Marilyn Monroe. Who thought that would fly? Ana de Armas is a gorgeous woman and a good actress, but her portraying Marilyn makes 0 sense.
Tom Holland as Nathan Drake. Nathan Fillion is right there
Firefly era Nathan Fillion would have been perfect
Jared Leto as the Joker
Sophia Coppola in Godfather 3
I saw this in the movies. She was on screen for about 1.3 zeptoseconds before the guy behind me loudly announced “she’s terrible.”
Upvote because zepto
She is SO bad. It’s kind of unbelievable
Tom Cruise in Far and Away You recast that with an unknown English/Irish actor and it's a way better movie.
This goes into spoiler territory, but... Mila Kunis and Rachel Weisz in "Oz the Great and Powerful". Now, I love both of these actresses, and I fully believe that they would've done super-well in that movie...if the characters they cast as were flipped--with Kunis as Evanora and Weisz as Theodora. Why? Because, as a supposed prequel to the 1939 "Wizard of Oz", Kunis does not have the facial structure or personality similar enough to Margaret Hamilton's "Wicked Witch of the West". Weisz would have. They could even have kept the whole introductory scenes in which Theodora meets Oz, shows him around and then introduces him to Evanora. Evanora immediately becomes infatuated with Oz, but he does not reciprocate and repeatedly rebuffs Evanora. Evanora could then fly into a fit of jealous rage and become the Wicked Witch of the West. Weisz's Evanora/Wicked Witch of the West would have done far better, in my opinion.
Tom holland and mark Wahlberg in uncharted Nathan drake is bulkier dude in his 30s and sully is a gristle old guy with a fun side Tom and mark DO NOT fit this at all first they got the most baby face actor for Nathan drake. Mark just doesn’t have the personality to play sully and he committed a couple of hate crimes I can’t let that slide.
Topher Grace as Eddie Brock nearly killed Spider-Man
see ya chump \*fart noise\*
Alan Ritchson was born to play Eddie Brock
Ralph Feinnes in 'Maid in Manhattan as Jennifer Lopezs love interest. I love him as an actor, but my impression of him is more Red Dragon quiet serial killer and less love interest.
YOU'RE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT
Feinnes is almost always a creep. Him AND his brother. They don't do well as sympathetic characters- I just never trust them.
Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates in Psycho (1998). Topher Grace in Spiderman 3.
The worst I’ve ever seen is Arnold in the movie Sabotage. Literally ANY competent middle aged actor would have made this movie awesome. But instead they use a 70-something year old man and even give him a sex scene.
If you think that's bad you would see the weird fully clothed sex scenes that Steven Segal puts himself in in his produced movies.
Look, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood they cast John Wayne as Genghis Kahn, so there's no real use in trying.
I mean, Mickey Rooney as Yunioshi was probably more racist. Also, wasn’t there a film where Marlon Brando played a Japanese man?
He wasn't miscast. They wanted someone to do a racist "comedy" portrayal of an Asian stereotype, and he did what he was supposed to do flawlessly. He did what he was supposed to do - the problem was what he was supposed to do was horrible.
Joss Stone as Anne of Cleaves in The Tudors. Not a movie but I hate it so much I had to say it.
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James Corden as a likeable person.
George Clooney as Batman
In another universe with no Schumacher or bat nipples, and if Clooney played it a bit more morose and serious, less himself, put on a few pounds of muscle etc, then I think it could kinda work.. A lot of ifs though.
Brad Pitt in 12 years a slave. His appearance took me out of it. He also used the same accent as Inglorious Bastards lol.
Shia Labeouf on Indiana Jones and the Crystal skull
Kristen stewart as snow white (supposed to be the fairest of them all) and charlize theron as evil queen who was way beyond prettier than snow white, dont get me wrong, I do love charlize here, its just that shes just too pretty compared to the snow white lols.
Oh that’s right up there. She was like a nuclear scientist? And she delivered her lines puckering her lips, just like all scientists would do. Worst Bond girl in history.
Unpopular opinion that will possibly get me downvoted, but I didn't like Halle Berry as a Bond girl either.
For what it’s worth that was a shitty Bond movie overall, but I agree. Them casting her was like a last ditch effort to try and salvage it.
I haven’t the slightest thing against Halle Berry, fair play to her, but I think she’s incredibly overrated as an actor.
Fred Armison on SNL said it best as the mentally challenged kid re-enacting a scene from Gigli
Olivia Munn as a genius software engineer in Christmas Office Party, followed by a genius evolutionary biologist in The Predator.
I stayed away from both those films, but from her acting in the show The Newsroom I can buy her in expert/genius roles.
She was great in The Newsroom, it's the first role of hers I ever watched. Superb casting all around.