I really think he nails it if you take away the size factor. Movie reacher was a believably charismatic dick, with only a couple of writing mishaps that they should have accounted for. ("I'm looking for someone who can kill this woman in one punch" and the bar brawl.)
Kevin Costner in anything. The man has the acting range of a plank of wood. His movies work in spite of him, largely because he surrounds himself with talented casts and crew. I get he tries to be the stoic Gary Cooper type, but Costner just isn't charismatic enough to pull it off.
Not the first time a irish red head gets turned into a nigger, which would be my choice: Morgan Freeman in Shawshank Redemption. Just ill-fitting and race-swapped nonsense
Costner’s problem is he is a character actor trying to be a movie star. Whenever he plays a schlub just trying to get by, he’s great. The second he tries to radiate Sigma Male Energy, it falls apart. The Postman is basically a case study in this. The first act is genuinely good, he’s a scruffy con artist who accidentally inspires hope while looking for dinner. Then he decides he’s the Chosen One, and the movie turns into Waterworld, but with mail.
This thread is filled with questionable takes, but... I kind of agree with this. He's a better director than an actor, though I don't dislike him as an actor. I just think it's weird that he's considered a great actor when he has very limited range.
Costner directs himself in everything. That said, Open Range is good. It’s basically Shane with more mud. If you think Costner was miscast, it’s probably because he’s not doing the haunted gunslinger thing. He’s just a plain and battered guy.
She showed up at the tail end of Brosnan's run. The rule is every Bond gets two decent movies before the wheels fall off. (Brosnan barely got one, so he was doomed from the start.) Like Teri, Denise was there to get paid, and fans could smell it. This was also around the time people started noticing that Bond was maybe a fossil. GoldenEye flirted vaguely with that idea, then promptly dropped it.
Her character was named Christmas Jones (iirc) purely so that the writers could shoe-horn in a puerile quip about "I thought Christmas only came once a year". I don't know what you imagined her to do with the role, beyond looking sexy - which she did well.
Drop Dead Gorgeous says hi. No she was amazing in that honestly.
I doubt that many people here have seen Magic Mike. I had to look up who you meant. This person? Seems to be named Cody Horn.
Interestingly, Topher might’ve made a halfway decent Cletus Kasady.
I don't see it. Cletus is supposed to look unhinged, having a demented grimace and strong facial features. His normal appearance reminds me of an unbleached Joker.
