WORST MOVIE CASTINGS

[JunkMonkey]

Having just watched Highlander 2 with Daughter Number One -

Me: "Trust me it's comedy gold"
Her: (45 minutes in) "Dad, this is comedy aluminium!"

- I have to wonder (not for the first time) how Christopher Lambert got to make more than two films. EVERYTHING I have seen him in he has been miscast

 

[Frost Giant]

Henry Cavill, Man From UNCLE. As an actor he is a boring, flat, cardboard cut-out.

 

[2DaveWixon]

Henry Cavill, Man From UNCLE. As an actor he is a boring, flat, cardboard cut-out.

Maybe that's why he makes a good Superman? I mean, Supes has always been kind of stiff...

 

[Frost Giant]

Maybe that's why he makes a good Superman? I mean, Supes has always been kind of stiff...

Yes, I thought the exact same thing. I didn't mind him in Man of Steel, but he fit into that role much better than UNCLE.

 

[Boneman]

Not sure I've mentioned this one before, but Steve Martin in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'. Used to be one of my favourite films, one I'd watch every year or so, but each viewing makes me squirm more and more at his pathetic overacting. Granted he's playing a clown, but there's such a word as finesse... Now I can't watch it anymore, despite Michael Caine's brilliance. It's ripe for a re-make...

 

[BAYLOR]

Henry Cavill, Man From UNCLE. As an actor he is a boring, flat, cardboard cut-out.

I did like Henry Cavill as Napoleon Solo .

 

[Frost Giant]

I guess I couldn't help but compare him to Robert Vaughn and in that respect I thought he did not measure up.

 

[BAYLOR]

I guess I couldn't help but compare him to Robert Vaughn and in that respect I thought he did not measure up.

Henry Cavill id a goo job in the role . But your right , No one will be able match Robert Vaughn in the role.

 

[Khuratokh]

The new CG Jungle Book.
With Christoper Walken as gigapithecus King Louie.
Why miscast? Because while the new ape king of the jungle is certainly intimidating as a King Kong sized maffia boss, it's hard to take him seriously when he starts to sing that jolly "I just wanna be like you" song.

 

[SilentRoamer]

Yep, but name one of Val Kilmer's films where he wouldn't have been.

Hm, tough one.

I really like Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone.

 

[Frost Giant]

Kilmer was a great Doc Holliday. He was also good as Jim Morrison.

 

[2DaveWixon]

Dean Martin as Matt Helm, in Murderer's Row and several others from Donald Hamilton's counterespionage series -- they raped that great series by playing it for laughs (and, I suppose, as a parody of the James Bond movies), and I've often wondered what Hamilton thought about it...

 

[Ajid]

Bridget Moynahan as Susan Calvin in I, Robot. Just one of the many many things wrong with this film. Susan Calvin is prominent in so many Asimov short stories and there was such a depth of description that there is simply no excuse for how far they strayed here.

 

[paranoid marvin]

I agree , It's definitely a fun film to watch.

Dredd wasn't a bad film. It got a bad press from 2000ad fans due to him taking his helmet off, but the look and the feel of Mega City 1 was spot on (more so than the later film). As for humour, 2000ad is full of it.

 

[paranoid marvin]

It always makes me laugh when I see Sean Connery in a film; great actor and I enjoy most of his movies, but there never seems any attempt to hide his Scottish accent. Whether hes a Russian sub captain, Irish cop or English king, his accent remains Scottish - there's never even an attempt to change it. I guess it's a measure of the man that we just accept that Sean Connery speaks like Sean Connery whatever film he's in, yet we are still able to suspend our disbelief.

 

[BAYLOR]

Bridget Moynahan as Susan Calvin in I, Robot. Just one of the many many things wrong with this film. Susan Calvin is prominent in so many Asimov short stories and there was such a depth of description that there is simply no excuse for how far they strayed here.

I liked her in that role.

 

[Null_Zone]

Scott Pilgrim vs the World.

I wasn't the lead would hold a door open for his love interest much less fight for her.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Ewe Boll 'film'? I stood 10 minutes of it before ripping it out of my DVD player.

He's no longer making movies.

 

[RX-79G]

Virtually everyone in Star Wars 1, 2 and 3. The famous actors bring too much baggage ("It's the lightsaber that says BAMF on it!") and the new actors were terrible.

Toby Maguire was almost as bad a Peter Parker as Kirsten Dunst was an appalling MJ Watson, "supermodel".

The squeaky sounding guy who played Zod in the newer Superman movies was ridiculous.


Honestly, there have been so few interesting sci fi or fantasy films to have strong feelings about.

 

[BAYLOR]

What about Carey Elwes?

His Robin Hood poked fun at the Kevin Costner film .