What are the Worst Casting Decisions that have ever been made?

When they cast this horsefucker as
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This one really pissed me off and I thought French Stewart did a considerably better job.
 
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Adrien Brody in the Predators, it's odd to cast him as a bad ass but even odder when he tries to put on a bad ass voice and it just comes across as comical.

Owen Wilson in Behind Enemy Lines, he is just too comedic in his voice and mannerism.

Whole cast in Southland Tales, I don't know if one actor was cast well in that movie then again nothing was well done in that movie.

Winona Ryder in Bram Stoker's Dracula, feel like she gets a free pass because of how awful Keanu Reeves is in the movie. She has a hard time with the accent.
 
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Product Placement said:
Adrien Brody in the Predators, it's odd to cast him as a bad ass but even odder when he tries to put on a bad ass voice and it just comes across as comical.
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There's also a failed plot twist with Topher Grace playing a doctor who is so nice and hasn’t killed anyone at all and if you haven’t figured out the twist by now then you haven’t seen a movie ever.
feel like she gets a free pass because of how awful Keanu Reeves is in the movie
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"Left Beayoudapest early this morning"
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Possibly insane opinion, but Jon Hamm in anything that isn't Mad Men. He isn't funny enough to do comedy and he doesn't have the depth to do drama. He's handsomely bland and I've never seen him in a (non Don Draper) role that any other actor his age couldn't have done something more interesting with.
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I think he did a great job voicing a smart toilet in Bob's Burgers.
 
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Jennifer Lawrence in Mother! It's not a good movie and it's the only movie I'm aware of where the director wrote out an apology to the audience at a screening for it. All that said, Jennifer Lawrence is not good enough an actress or the right type to play that part. Cary Mulligan would have been a better choice at the time but it pays to be fucking the director.
 
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Rosie O'Donnell as Betty Rubble. I think that was the first time in my life I had a 'what were they thinking!?' reaction.
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You stole my thunder. Before there was Jessica Rabbit, there was Betty Rubble..Betty Rubble was a fox in cartoon form. Rosie is not a fox but a fat pig.
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Women in action movies if cast as badass action heroes who can physically overpower men. I don't want to see a "Ruby Rose" beating up dozens of Dwayne Johnsons in a fist fight. Notable entry is that latina woman who was in Lost (Michelle Rodriguez I think?) who has been playing the exact same character in every movie for decades.

Ugly women in movies. Especially ugly ethnic women. Worst case scenario being old ugly ethnic women. Great example is the recent Batman movie. The fact that we went from Michelle Pfeiffer to a 33 years old half jew half nigger ugly pale mongrel who can't act is a sign of a great cultural decline.
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Yes, this pissed me off. Of course, before Michelle you had Julie Newmar who was a sex bomb.

Some others:

Adam Driver in anything. What is his appeal exactly?

Random Blackie Black playing Anita Radcliffe in that abomination Cruella... Lovely Englosh blondes should not be supplanted by blackies, ie replacement theory is all too real.

Tom Cruise as Col Stauffenberg in Valkyrie. Still a good movie, but Stauffenberg needed to be played by an obscure actor, preferably a German .

Seth Rogen is all around awful,, never understood his appeal, ever.

The cast in the Irishman. That movie was terrible, but De Niro and Peaci are just too old, and the CGI efforts to make them look younger were terrible. Film was probably dog shit regardless, but maybe not...
 
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It's funny, Community had Abed make a joke about how nobody liked the female Inspector Spacetime. Not because she's a woman but because she sucked.

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And here we are a decade later.


She's such a Minerva.


Huge spike in interest before 13's debut, but no one stayed.

DW just wasn't her gig. Jo Martin turned Chib's writing into something fun, but Jodie just looked like a headless chicken. Even Capaldi couldn't overcome bad scripts, and he's an Oscar-winning actor. Someone once described 13 as being like a mum at the school gates trying to be "down with the kids',' and it seems so fitting.
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So I will admit that I am a broadway fag. So naturally, I watched the Dear Evan Hansen movie. Well, it was absolute shit to put it shortly but this is the bad casting thread, not a shitty movie thread.

This brings me to Ben Platt. I know he played Evan in the musical but what the fuck, who thought it was a good idea to take this dude and put him in the movie like this?
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He looks too old and that, added with the "soft sad boy, uwu I'm a guilty sociopath" portrayal he's trying to pull, makes him come across as a creep or some kind of hunched-over manchild.

His singing is terrible in the movie too. It's like he was forcing himself to be the awkward teenager with voice cracks and balls dropping and whatnot but it just comes off as a neurotic molester. Note that he didn't even do that in the musical so I don't know what the fuck he was trying to accomplish.

He can sing so it just baffles me.

Platt being so old (pushing 30) subsequently makes his love interest look like a child in comparison. which is weird because they are both supposed to be in high school. It's also not helped that they have zero chemistry either.

The only fucking reason why Platt got the role was nepotism and I will die on that hill. Sure helps when daddy is the producer, eh? The irony here is that the focus on Platt was to "immortalize Platt's performance as Evan Hansen" but they just ruined it for him.

And me for that matter.

In short, Platt is one of the biggest reasons why I am extremely weary of grown adults playing teenagers.

Edit: Phrasing because ranting about the shitshow that is the movie (nevermind that they fucking ruin the dynamic of the characters, then fish for woke points while they remove vital songs and interactions but make room for some twat singing about how she's a "neurodivergent POC" or whatever) is fucking with my wording.
 
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Cuba Gooding Jr. is ludicrous as OJ Simpson in American Crime Story. Simpson: tall, chiselled, retired star athlete with the commanding presence of a charming sociopath; Gooding: 5'10'' at most, chubby cheeked, raspy-voiced and has zero smirk. Wrong energy pictured.
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For the most part the casting ranges between freaking amazing (Sarah Paulson, Sterling K Brown, Courtney B Vance), and kitschy fun (Nathan Lane, John Travolta, David Schwimmer), so it's particularly jarring every time the small black guy whines and you remember who he's supposed to be.
 
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No replacing Hamilton, but Clarke looks like someone who'd get punched out by Summer Glau. She's tiny, bought no intensity to the role and (with due respect) has plainly never held a gun or done a pull-up in her life. She's not even the best Sarah Connor from GoT.

We went from a police station massacre to almost a romantic comedy.

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While The Boondock Saints is watchable, it is perhaps saved by Willem Dafoe. Take away Dafoe (as BS2 does), and you're left with crap.

It's the exact same cast minus Dafoe. No Dafoe = no crossdressin' headshots. And, yeah, Troy Duffy uncreatively has Benz do the same shit Dafoe did. I actually like Julie Benz, but she is the most annoying character here by far. "I make smart people look retarded", is an actual line.

She has the most over-the-top "Texan" drawl which makes her sound like a dying baby. They might as well have dressed her up like Annie Oakley and had her twirling a six-shooter. Oh, wait, they did.

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The sequel is terrible until the last 3 minutes when Dafoe shows up to mince around again.
 
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I was positive this is going to be on par with Eisenberg Luthor or Leto Joker: a giant misstep. Could have been the awful script, but I just wasn’t buying what they were selling.

From Barb's introduction scene to her whole motivation for becoming the 'villain,' I felt like she wasn't supposed to be there—like somebody at WB added her in later. Again, Kristen was supposedly a good friend of Gal’s so maybe that was the reason behind her casting. Wiig and Gadot were the ones who came up with that idea to do a virtual cover of “Imagine” and that was f*cking lame, too.

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For a character who's supposed to be really fast, she's moving as fast as...well, Kristen Wiig. (Remember all those rumors about how she was just gonna be a normal criminal in cheetah-print clothes?) In fact, the whole Cheetah aspect felt tacked-on at the end. Like, I was expecting a reason or explanation for why a cheetah? She mentioned being a zoologist once. Other than that and her commenting on Diana's heels, I can't think of a good reason.

Jesus, there isn't even a transformation scene. Barbara turns up looking like an angry extra from Cats and swinging on electricity, but then when it’s in water, it affects her—while Diana (who's wearing metal) is unaffected? Cheetah is so useless in this movie it hurts; they utterly failed at making her cool or having it make any sense at all.

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