"Worst Movie Casting"
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Topic: "Worst Movie Casting"
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Subject: "Worst Movie Casting"
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 12:29
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What movie('s) feature questionable casting? I pointed out Kevin Costner as Robbin Hood and .... Jim Garten "Yes, but even he was surpassed by Morgan Freeman's Moorish warrior (what the hell was Morgan Freeman doing in that film?)"
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Posted By: diddy
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 13:59
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I'd say ALL movies with Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren, Jean Claude Van Damme and "The Rock" deserve this title. Movies with these "actors" always make me want to throw up
 You can often see such movies in the moddle of the night on third-class telestations...and "The Rock" often haunts you when you go to the so called "Sneak Preview Night"...but to be honest, no other actors could make those movies better  ------------- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... George Orwell |
Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 15:42
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Anything that is entitled as "Ernest goes...", "Ernest rides...", "Ernest does...", "Ernest needs..." is a piece of s**t! Honestly, what's the deal with this guy? (or was, think he died at the age of 50 and his real name was Jim Varney "Know whut I mean?"
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 15:59
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I think danbo was looking for films with reasonable concepts but bad choices for actors (not just bad ideas for movies in general). Like the one Jim Garten and I were just talking about, Francis Ford Coppola's remake of Dracula- with Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker, Winona Ryder as Mina kinda reminds me of the scene in the Exorcist when Detective Kinderman invites Father Karras to see a movie: KINDERMAN ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 17:17
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Well I always wondered what kind of genius would build machines in the future with Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice... Julianne Moore playing Clarice.. in "Hannibal"... she completely changed personality, looks and accent from Jodi Foster's Clarice. (Although the film itself was horribly done) I like Ewan McGregor.. but his part in "Moulin Rouge" or "Star Wars".. I just couldn't see... Actually his part in "Big Fish" wasn't there either... Michael Keaton as the first "Batman".. and then Val Kilmer... what were they thinking?
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: July 27 2004 at 01:30
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The great Robert De Niro in Cape Fear, totally over acted Jim Carey in almost every movie (except Man in the Moon) but especially in Ace Ventura, gives me nausea. Tori Spelling, daddy can't buy talent Will Smith in Wild Wild West, a terrible remake of a terrible TV show. Mr Bean, simply stupid. Iván
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Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: July 27 2004 at 01:49
He can make me burst into laughter every now and then But yes, stupid as hell...
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ivan_2068 wrote:
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: July 27 2004 at 05:58
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Ever seen Mel Gibson's 'Hamlet'??????
wooohoooohoooohooooo Mwaahahahahahahahahah Go on Mel, give us the "to be, or not to be" bit again - you know, exactly the same way you deliver your 'sensitive' lines in every other bloody film you're in! Larry Olivier rools OK? ------------- 
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Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: July 27 2004 at 19:18
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He officially sux!
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Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: July 27 2004 at 19:21
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And if you pay enough attention, you might find out Mel Gibson looks quite the same as this Ernest guy I was talking about earlier...
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Posted By: dude
Date Posted: July 28 2004 at 08:27
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HOW ABOUT JOHN WAYNE AS THE ROMAN CENTURIAN IN "THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD" "SURELY THIS MAN WUUUUUZ THE SON OF GAWWWWD"...............PILGRIM!!! MARTIAL ARTS MOVIES ARE NOT REALLY NOTED FOR THEIR ACTING SO IT IS A LITTLE UNFAIR TO TRASH THE LIKES OF VAN DAMM ETC EXCEPT WHEN THEY TRY THEIR HAND AT "LEGITIMATE"ACTING. DICK VAN DYKE IN "MARY POPPINS"(JUST TO SET JIMS TEETH ON EDGE SOMEONE FROM THE STATES MAY BE ABLE TO ANSWER THIS(WHERE ARE YOU DANBO!!!) BUT I BELEIVE JIM VARNEY STARTED OFF DOING COMMERCIALS BEFORE HE DID THE EARNEST MOVIES IS THIS TRUE? I THOUGHT TONY CURTIS WAS WOEFULLY MISCAST IN "TARAS BULBA"(YUL BRYNNER WAS GOOD THOUGH!!) BIG ARNIE AS "MR FREEZE" PERSONALLY I THINK ROBIN WILLAIMS TENDS TO OVERACT AT TIMES BUT I ACCEPT, HE HAS HIS FANS. I ALSO BELEIVE THAT NONE OF THE BATMAN MOVIES WERE CAST WELL |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: July 28 2004 at 11:32
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Jim Varney used ot do a lot of commercials where he spoke to the camera, who he referred to as "Vern." Funny enough, the "Vern thing" is still around, just like "Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis" from a stupid TV show. Proof positive that if you throw enough sh*t at a wall, some sticks. |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: July 28 2004 at 15:58
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The worst major casting weirdness I can think of is Charleton Heston as a mexican policeman in Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil". He did a pretty good job, considering he looks about as hispanic as Woody Allen. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi">
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Posted By: emdiar
Date Posted: July 29 2004 at 11:20
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Mel Gibson in Braveheart. To be fair to Mel, the script is so historically inaccurate as to be libelous, but that's Hollywood for ya! ------------- Perception is truth, ergo opinion is fact. |
Posted By: 5 minute solo
Date Posted: July 29 2004 at 12:16
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keanu reeves in almost any action film bill and ted, now that was his greatest moment ------------- You want the spoon? You can't handle the spoon! |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: July 29 2004 at 15:27
| As I've just mentioned in another thread, the Bee Gees and Peter Framton in "Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band". Is this the worst music related film ever? |
Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: July 29 2004 at 16:09
You damn right...
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: July 30 2004 at 03:34
Er - does nobody remember "The Wiz" - the woeful remake of "wizard of Oz"? -------------
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: July 30 2004 at 06:02
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It's hard to beat the Wiz and the Sgt. Pepper movie, but... what about that flaccid film Paul McCartney made- "Give My Regards to Broad Street"? or even "Xanadu" with Olivia Newtron-Bomb...I'd rather watch "The Wiz" than that one... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi">
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Posted By: dude
Date Posted: July 30 2004 at 08:11
ON BEHALF OF ALL AUSTRALAINS I MUST APOLOGIZE FOR OLIVIA NEUTRON BOMB!!!
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Posted By: dude
Date Posted: July 30 2004 at 08:16
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SPEAKING OF "THE WIZ" I THOUGHT DIANNA ROSS WAS A TAD TO OLD TO BE DORETHY, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY SHE WAS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT 25 IN THE MOVIE!!!!(SHE LOOKED AT LEAST TEN YEARS OLDER!!!) |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: July 30 2004 at 09:07
Friend of Dorothy, are we........?  -------------
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: July 30 2004 at 09:12
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I have to admit she looked pretty hot dressed in black leather at the end of Grease... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi">
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: July 30 2004 at 11:25
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Has anyone seen "Hercules" with Arnold? His English was so bad they dubbed in another guys voice. Hilarious, actually. You've got to admit, Arnold "looked" the part in the Conan movies. Too bad he had to talk! |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: July 30 2004 at 14:52
Tell me more, tell me more, did you get very far? |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 03 2004 at 06:58
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An of course, there was always Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious in 'Sid & Nancy'
Don't get me wrong, I love Oldman's work, but puuuurrrleeeeeeeze! Excrement, pure & utter Excrement! -------------
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: August 03 2004 at 17:19
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interesting- you feel Oldman didn't make the part work? If I was going to criticize S&N I'd say that Chole Webb wasn't hot enough to inspire me to become a junkie...although I did want to kill her The funniest thing to me about S&N was seeing the 'making of'...director Alex Cox looks like he should have been a character in the movie. And seeing Courtney Love watching the plot unfold you can just imagine the wheels turing in her head (hmm, punk love story + heroin overdose = worldwide publicity). ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi">
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 03 2004 at 19:37
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Any American actor trying to do an English accent always makes me cringe.There are too many examples! Also why do English actors always play Nazi's in Hollywood war films? |
Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: August 03 2004 at 22:30
They always play Roman's and Southern belle's too...hmmmm.. I guess the were the easiest Europeans to hire....Altho I have to say that Vivien Leigh did a great job of a southern accent. But Johnny Depps English accent was atrocious. ------------- THIS IS ELP
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 04 2004 at 14:20
Not to mention 'The Villain' in virtually every American film.... This has now culminated in our very own Ben Kingsley (bow, scrape, grovel, 'we are not worthy' etc etc), playing 'The Hood' (ie the bald bad-guy) in the live action version of Thunderbirds...... 
Ben - did you need the new wing on the mansion that much?? -------------
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: August 04 2004 at 19:39
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Val Kilmer as Elvis in "True Romance".
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Posted By: dude
Date Posted: August 07 2004 at 10:12
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JIM: I SEE THAT THE THUNDERBIRDS MOVIE HAS BOMBED QUITE BADLY,I AMNOT SURPRISED,GERRY AND SYLVIA ANDERSON WERE GIVEN ALMOST NO IMPUT AND I BELEIVE THE PRODUCERS "POLITICALLY CORRECTED" IT(SHUDDER!!!)
I ALWAYS SHUDDER WHEN SOMEONE ANNOUNCES A MOVIE REMAKE OR ADAPTION OF AN OLD TV SHOW,I WONDER WHAT "SOCIALLY RELEVENT" MESSAGES THEY WILL PUT IN THEM...EG WYNNONA RYDERS FEMENIST SPEECH IN A RECENT REMAKE OF "LITTLE WOMAN"..WHICH WAS NEVER IN THE ORIGINAL BOOK OR EVEN HINTED AT IN PREVIOUIS MOVIE VERSIONS.
SORRY, BUT I HAVE LITTLE TIME FOR HOLLYWOOD THESE DAYS, IT IS FULL OF BULLsh*t(PARDON ME) I AM ALSO DISSAPOINTED THAT YOU CAN SPEND 100,OOO,OOO ON A MOVIE AND STILL COME UP WITH 100,000,000 WORTH OF CRAP IN MY VERY HUMBLE OPINOIN
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Posted By: dude
Date Posted: August 07 2004 at 10:28
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one movie i did see recently(against my better judgement )was "King Arthur" it is supposedly based on a true historical account
bring on the winged pigs!!
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 07 2004 at 12:16
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That's one film I think I shall maybe, possibly.....well, defnitely miss!
I would rather stick wasps up my a*se -------------
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