Who do you feel was miscast in a movie you love?
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Didn't love the movie but I still don't like Ezra Miller as The Flash in Justice League from what I've seen. Sure, yeah the jokes were funny (although, the movie was so bad it made the jokes seem better than they were) but I didn't love it. I still prefer Grant Gustin as The Flash lol
Wow, beaten to the topic in the first post!
In response, I guess i'll have to go with Steven Strait's James Holden from The Expanse. It's a TV Show, but in the books, they describe Holden as essentially a Space Trucker. In the show, it seems like they aimed for "Space Jon Snow". With that said, he plays the role quite well so alls well that ends well?
I'm not much a fan of the Scott Pilgrim movie, yet I agree about Cera. If they redid it, Steve Harrington seems plucky enough for the role.
I don't think Jennifer Lawrence fit the role of Mystique very well either.
I don't think Jennifer Lawrence fit the role of Mystique very well either.
Yeah...Cera just isn't bombastic enough to pull off Scott's clueless cockiness
Not a movie but Aiden Gillen as Littlefinger in Game of Thrones, he's all right as a character on his own, but not Littlefinger, too moustache twirling. You're meant to underestimate Little finger in the books.
This is Scarlett Johansson - The Thread isn't it?
Emma Stone - Aloha
Rami Malek - Bohemian Rhapsody
Emma Stone - Aloha
Rami Malek - Bohemian Rhapsody
Have to disagree on Bohemian Rhapsod, Rami was great as Freddy.
Don Cheadle as War Machine. He's a great actor but he just seems so elderly and frail compared to Terrence Howard in the role. Idris Elba should have been War Machine instead of being Heimdall.
The original actor for the role was meant to be Sacha Baron Cohen. He looks much more like Freddie Mercury than Rami Malek.
I always thought the complaining about Orlando Bloom in Kingdom Of Heaven was a bit much. He's fine and even good in the role, Balian didn't strike me as a character that was supposed to be like Maximus (the character people always compare it to). He's nowhere near the leader that Maximus was established as in Gladiator.
I suppose the fact that the rest of the cast was so incredibly strong that he couldn't quite keep up so it stood out more. They could have clearly gotten someone with stronger acting chops but the end result isn't bad at all to me, certainly not a horrible miscast.
I'm not a fan of the films, or the books... but Tom Hanks in The Davinci Code series of films should have been played by Gabriel Byrne.
Agreed. He wasn't bad per se. He was just upstaged by better actors. Brendan Gleeson, Liam Neeson, Eva Green, Edward Norton, Jeremy Irons, Alexander Siddig etc. Bloom could have been 10 times the actor he is and still wouldn't come close.
As a fan of the comic, I surprisingly actually really liked the movie adaption of Watchmen. Sure it's flawed and got some stuff wrong, but the casting and visual direction was great!..
...except for Ozymandias.
What the hell were they thinking? What a terrible casting choice, he didn't look or act like the character at all.
...except for Ozymandias.
What the hell were they thinking? What a terrible casting choice, he didn't look or act like the character at all.
I don't think he was miscast either. He wasn't meant to be a "big" kind of character. He was a small town artisan who had suffered a great tragedy. He is the lens through which we view the "big" characters who are vying for power in Jerusalem and beyond. The DC makes this all make more sense and it remains one of my favourite movies.
Not a movie but Cuba Gooding Jr as OJ Simpson in American Crime Story missed the mark in every way possible. Physicality, voice, presence... the performance wasn't bad in a vacuum but it's hard to imagine how they could've cast someone less like OJ. The rest of the show is very well-cast imo so it's strange.
Heat is a great movie, but it's marred considerably by Al Pacino as Hanna. Primarily he hams it up throughout and is the typical shouting Pacino. Of smaller importance is that he's just not physically believable in the role. Hanna is supposed to be a younger, former marine. Pacino is too old and too small, and not physically imposing. He had to get a facelift before filming began to play the role.
What? I never heard that.
I can’t help but love Pacino in Heat, his line deliveries are hilarious. I actually think if his performance was as internal and somber as De Niro’s the movie would be weighed down by its own solemnity. You need his energy in the mix.
There is a universe out there where Ryan Reynolds was the Flash or Booster Gold instead of Green Lantern.
THis is more of a "Casting What-If" but the guy who played Clemenza (Richard Castellano) in the Godfather, was supposed to be in Godfather Part II and be the role that ended up being Pantangelli. Pantangelli is still great in Godfather II, the actor Michael Grazzo was nominated for an Oscar for the role, BUT... Pantangelli's betrayal of Michael would have been so much more impactful if it were Clemenza doing it. Castellano, the actor, read the part but refused to do it. The reason he refused to be in the movie has been reported as a disagreement about money, a disagreement about losing weight, differences between him and Copolla, and that Castellano argued that his Clemenza would have never turned his back on the Corleone family.
Grazzo was great of course, he delivered some lines in a way that you wonder whether Clemenza could have ... the way he plays the bumbling oaf in the senate hearings when his brother shows up, his final monologue about generals taking a hot bath and opening their veins, the way the band makes fun of him for being a true Italian during the opening party. Grazzo does them so well, owns the character, but it's also so out of sync with the YOung VIto storyline, which is all about Vito and CLemenza; Clemenza is one of the heroes from The Godfather, a loyal capo when others have differences with Vito's choice to annoint Michael as Don.
It's just sad that you never got to see it.
No matter what kind of Joker they were going for, it just didnt fit.
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Im not sure why you cast someone in a musical movie that cant really sing that well.
maybe, but I don’t think he would have done as good of a job as malek.
I'm not nearly as enamored with this movie as most people seem to be but I absolutely agree that Jared Leto was the worst part.
I know it’s his own film, but John Krasinski in A Quiet Place. He pulls off the loving family man side of the character well, but not so much the grizzled survivalist.
Actually feel like this applies to many directors who insert themselves into stuff. Quentin Tarantino‘s characters would almost always be better played by someone else—his role in Django is especially distracting. Same with M Night Syamalan.
Actually feel like this applies to many directors who insert themselves into stuff. Quentin Tarantino‘s characters would almost always be better played by someone else—his role in Django is especially distracting. Same with M Night Syamalan.
Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Jared Leto in Blade Runner 2049
Halle Berry as Storm in X-Men and X2
Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique
Jared Leto in Blade Runner 2049
Halle Berry as Storm in X-Men and X2
Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique
yeah this is a good one. It’s like insult to injury from the books where it’s like what you go for that and not Hermoine.
damn I didn't know that, that would have made part II a lot better
THis is more of a "Casting What-If" but the guy who played Clemenza (Richard Castellano) in the Godfather, was supposed to be in Godfather Part II and be the role that ended up being Pantangelli. Pantangelli is still great in Godfather II, the actor Michael Grazzo was nominated for an Oscar for the role, BUT... Pantangelli's betrayal of Michael would have been so much more impactful if it were Clemenza doing it. Castellano, the actor, read the part but refused to do it. The reason he refused to be in the movie has been reported as a disagreement about money, a disagreement about losing weight, differences between him and Copolla, and that Castellano argued that his Clemenza would have never turned his back on the Corleone family.
Grazzo was great of course, he delivered some lines in a way that you wonder whether Clemenza could have ... the way he plays the bumbling oaf in the senate hearings when his brother shows up, his final monologue about generals taking a hot bath and opening their veins, the way the band makes fun of him for being a true Italian during the opening party. Grazzo does them so well, owns the character, but it's also so out of sync with the YOung VIto storyline, which is all about Vito and CLemenza; Clemenza is one of the heroes from The Godfather, a loyal capo when others have differences with Vito's choice to annoint Michael as Don.
It's just sad that you never got to see it.