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What are the Worst Casting Decisions that have ever been made?
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Remember when Clark and Diana f*cked so hard, it caused natural disasters all over the world?
Remember when Bruce ripped Dick's head off and threw him into Hell?
Miller's talent seems to have disappeared and been replaced with Rorschach's journal.
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Jennifer Lawrence in X: Men Days of Future Past. She was fine as Kid Mystique because First Class was about a first generation, but at DoFP, she's supposed to be not just an adult, but have the sex appeal of Rebecca Romjin too. So whenever anyone said JLaw was beautiful, it broke my immersion because she's not a model.
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I guess it isn't my night to roast on Frank Miller then. As for bad acting. Amber Heard.
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Chloe Moretz in the 2013 remake of Carrie. That entire movie was a train wreck (Julianne Moore was decent as Margaret though) but it’s like they missed the entire point of the novel. Carrie was fat, pimply, socially awkward and incredibly naive. They get this blonde bimbo cheerleader looking sort to play her? She looks like one of the girls that would have been tormenting Carrie. Sissy Spacek from the original isn’t the ugly weirdo Carrie was in the book, but she was able to pull off that mousy introvert role well and it worked. I didn’t buy Moretz’s performance for a second
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Watch Godfather III Coda, the offical re-edit. Suddenly it all makes sense: her role was cut to ribbons and left on the cutting room floor, presumably to preserve all the other great performances during the trim, and to duck accusations of nepotism at the time. Her character now comes across as a sheltered, overly-naive rich girl flirting with danger, and she's very naturalistic as such. Everything about the rushed, garbled ending of the theatrical cut is resolved too, so now everyone can enjoy it and not just opera buffs who know what's going on on-stage in the background. I'm not a fan of overly-long films, yet this one is an exception; it needs that extra time to pace everything evenly. The Godfather's confession scene now appears perfectly in the flow of events instead of sticking out and feeling like a forced set peice, for example.
As for miscasting that broke the suspension of disbelief, I'd go with Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins, she's just unbelievable as a tough public prosecutor. Chloe Annett replacing Clare Grogan in Red Dwarf didn't work at all, there was no spark between Kochanski and Lister any more, removing the core reason to have Kochanski reappear in the first place. Obviously Jodie Whittaker as Dr Who, a competent enough TV actress given a poisoned chalice who then took it all three steps over the line by not bothering to research the role at all, it seems. And Stephen Fry in almost anything he's been in since the end of Jeeves and Wooster, phoning in the same performance an nauseum and dragging everything around it down to its level of banality, for example his performance as Master of Laketown in The Hobbit was just awful. Shame, he was genuinely talented once, as talented as Hugh Laurie. Oh, and pretty much anything Ricky Gervais is in that he didn't write himself; he is not an actor that takes direction well at all, he sticks out like a sore thumb in other people's stuff. That was the best take? That was the best take, oh dear...
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Steve Buscemi in Boardwalk Empire. Nucky Thompson (or Johnson, the real guy) was a charismatic, physically imposing political boss who ran Atlantic City for 30 years. He was a boisterous back-slapper who was "on" all the time and scared the ever loving shit out of anyone who crossed him. Real captain of the football team, BMOC energy. Buscemi's a good actor but had no business in that role; Bundy-era Ed O'Neill would have been ideal but given the time the show was made Brendan Gleeson would have been a good choice.
I disagree with the Eisenberg takes as Lex Luthor. I'm not a comics fan but being the contrarian jizzbag that I am I like a lot of what Snyder did in those movies. I thought the Eisenberg casting was inspired as his most famous role is obviously Mark Zuckerberg and the modern day Lex Luthor would be someone exactly like Zuckerberg. Been a while since I saw that movie so it could be much shittier than I recall but I remember being pleasantly surprised by his performance.
I disagree with the Eisenberg takes as Lex Luthor. I'm not a comics fan but being the contrarian jizzbag that I am I like a lot of what Snyder did in those movies. I thought the Eisenberg casting was inspired as his most famous role is obviously Mark Zuckerberg and the modern day Lex Luthor would be someone exactly like Zuckerberg. Been a while since I saw that movie so it could be much shittier than I recall but I remember being pleasantly surprised by his performance.
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John C Riley in Kong: Skull Island.
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Steve has real difficulty conveying anger, doesn't he? He reminds me a little of Tom Hanks in The Ladykillers.
It was obvious from the pilot that he wasn't carrying this.
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Apparently Chandler as Benny in New Vegas. I dont think its too bad but people tard rage about it online.
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He's supposedly a massive Fallout fan, which is why he's in it. His performance feels a bit phoned-in. On the flip-side, Ron Perlman apparently hates working on videogames and he does an awesome job utilizing his normal speaking voice!
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Devilman live action movie (2004) :Akira and Ryo characters
How about we pick the two protagonists as male idols brothers who never acted before in their life.
Yeah, sure they acted in other things after that, but protagonists for the first fucking movie?
And it is still better than the travesty that is devilman crybaby
How about we pick the two protagonists as male idols brothers who never acted before in their life.
Yeah, sure they acted in other things after that, but protagonists for the first fucking movie?
And it is still better than the travesty that is devilman crybaby
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He was the news anchor in the pre-war section. Brian Delaney narrated this time, so we were denied Perlman's openings and closings.
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Maggie Q as Mai in the King Of Fighters movie, hell anyone in that movie for that matter.
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I like Will Yun Lee (he's on The Good Doctor now), but nobody was interested in seeing that movie. Everyone in it looked miscast.
Say what you want about Dead or Alive: that flick has problems, but the cast isn't one of them.
The problem is that CEO Luthor doesn't work to the same, insane degree. I could never enjoy anything he does because the writers thought it was a good idea to replace scientific genius with infinite money and lawyers.
Neil Gaiman was right, he's just a skinny Kingpin.
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CEO Luthor can work if it balances out his scientific mind and can handle it well since the idea can work. The issue can be that a bad version can easily just make him “evil generic CEO villain”
The DCEU version of Superman however is bad casting because he acts like a bumbling retard who tries too hard to be quirky and spouts random religious nonsense because Snyder is obsessed with Superman being some sort of god.
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He killed it as Khruschev in The Death of Stalin, though. That was more sarcasm than anger, though.
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He attempts to snarl at Jimmy, and even Michael Pitt seems astonished at how Steve's performance suddenly plummets. It is well beyond his dramatic range. A shame because he is such an interesting actor.
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