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

Carlos Weston Chantor said:
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.
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Most modern films (and even TV shows like The Good Wife, vids related) are extremely guilty of this.


A comment in the latter video describes it best:
"Yes, I'm sure if such an event played out in real life it would go just like this. Love how the comment section seem to think this is somehow authentically bad arse. It's just some feminist wish fulfillment of a reality that wouldn't happen."
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For some reason, over the past 15 or so years, it seems we as a collective have forgotten that men and women fight differently from each other. Women use more covert, subtle methods like poison, and if pushed into a hand-to-hand combat situation, the woman needs to have some form of an obvious advantage, unless they're a martial artist, and even then, anyone moderately sized or older than them would still kick their shit in IRL.

I singled out The Good Wife in particular as it seemed once that show went to air, every fucking gritty show on the planet, save for maybe Breaking Bad, had at least one female character that looked like a doll but fought like a prizefighter. TGW's showrunner(s) definitely had some major underlying fetishes involving leatherclad ethnic women dominating him, I wonder what else he's made over the years out of vague interest, to see if there's a recurring pattern.
 
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DenseDeerFather said:
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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You need to watch Slaughter High.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
You need to watch Slaughter High.
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Yeah it was pretty dumb that the movie had the same thirty year olds in the movie playing the main characters playing the Teenage versions who are suppose to be the younger them.
But for me that adds to the cheese charm of the movie.

Anyways as I said in the Disney thread.

Luke Evans as the coachman in Pinocchio like just way. We all know Anthony Hopkins would have played the character better since in the original movie he's an old man.
 
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There's light at the end said:
Every single person in shitflix adaptations. Witcher, death note. There maybe more, I just can't stomach it. These two have exact and distinct description of characters. What even more fun about Witcher, that skin tone of Yennifer is described as alabaster. And Fringilla Vigo is pale.
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And Geralt shouldn't look like he wanders the land fighting monsters and downing protein shakes.
 
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There's light at the end said:
Every single person in shitflix adaptations. Witcher, death note. There maybe more, I just can't stomach it. These two have exact and distinct description of characters. What even more fun about Witcher, that skin tone of Yennifer is described as alabaster. And Fringilla Vigo is pale.
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No need to beat around the bush, you can just say you're tired of looking at niggers.
 
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Mark Wahlberg in Uncharted.

Mark Walhberg in Max Payne / Mila Kunis in Max Payne / Ludacris in Max Payne.

Marwan Kenzari as Jafar in Guy Ritchie's Aladdin.

and, as a possibly controversial choice, I think Liam Neeson is miscast in many of his actions roles and many of the films would each work better with a different actor. And the movie isn't out yet but I think he's a bad choice for Philip Marlowe.
 
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There's light at the end said:
Every single person in shitflix adaptations. Witcher, death note. There maybe more, I just can't stomach it. These two have exact and distinct description of characters. What even more fun about Witcher, that skin tone of Yennifer is described as alabaster. And Fringilla Vigo is pale.
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The only good casting in Netflix Death Note was probably Willem Dafoe but his writing brought him down. I think the only other actor that could’ve worked is Black L but the writing made him an actual autistic retard.
 
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Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-man. His voice is perfect for the role, but he couldn't properly emote to save his life. In any scene where he's required to be angry or cry, he has this dopey smirk on his face, and he just looks completely out of his depth. It's always super distracting. The Raimi Spider-man movies are still great, though, despite his sub-child-actor acting range.

Also Topher Grace as Eddie Brock/Venom. They needed a muscular, intimidating villain with anger issues, so they cast the milquetoast kid from That 70s Show. What were they thinking?

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And the movie isn't out yet but I think he's a bad choice for Philip Marlowe.
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I didn't realize they were making a new Philip Marlowe movie, and now I'm extremely salty. Thanks for that. Found a news article that says it's going to be set in the 1930s, when Marlowe would be in his 20s or early 30s. Neeson is 70 years old, entirely too goddamn old for the role.
 
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Shart Attack said:
Also Topher Grace as Eddie Brock/Venom. They needed a muscular, intimidating villain with anger issues, so they cast the milquetoast kid from That 70s Show. What were they thinking?
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Wasn't the whole movie also super rushed and the production a massive shitshow?

Anyway, I already complained about 13RW once in this thread before, and honestly, the show is ripe with bad actors.
The main actor playing Clay, Dylan Minette is just...he's like a mini Keanu without any charm to compensate for lackluster acting.

In comparison, book Clay is just meant to be this good-natured geeky kid dealing with regret, not an outright robot.

Also, possibly unpopular opinion but Kristen Stewart in fucking everything she's been in. I'm sorry, I cannot get behind her acting at all.
 
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Any time you cast women as soldiers or warriors without giving an unbelievably strong reason as to why they are even allowed to be.

This happens everywhere now, but its doubly absurd when it happens in stories that try to take themselves seriously or build a world.

Like yeah sure whatever, one off action movies just want a quick buck and don't actually care, but you also see this happen in scenarios where the writers are (trying) to write a story that is to be taken seriously.

"This nation is composed of bloodthirsty warmongers, their entire culture revolves around fighting and conquest and have been at war with at least 2 other nations for the past 300 years." ~This is the kind of nation where women would be kept the furthest away from the frontline imaginable. Sending your women to the frontline when you're imperialists is the quickest way to go extinct.

Charr from guild wars and Noxus from league of legends are both guilty of this.

This is a greater problem with the homogenization of fantasy in general, all fantasy feels the same because its basically neoliberal wish fulfilment that doesn't care about consistency, cause and effect, or just common sense in general.

I just miss stories where you could get lost in the built worlds and explore every single detail with autistic prejudice.

The whole joy of worldbuilding is being able to ask "But why is X so?" and getting the asnwer "Because of Y." not asking "But why is X so?" and getting the asnwer "stfu its made up who cares".
 
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The dude they got to play Ser Loras in GoT.

Loras was supposed to be hot and at least slightly ripped.

I see what they were going for and no lie, Michael Phelps or someone like that would have been a way better casting choice.
 
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Oats12345 said:
I'm convince Amy Schumer only continues to get roles because she's fat and related to a powerful Democrat senator.

Any ways Seth Rogan in anything that's not a stoner comedy
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Looking up Amy Schummer doesn't get many roles anymore, least when it comes to movies. Since 2018 she has only been in three.

The Humans, which is labeled as a psychological drama. Has a 6.2 on imdb, odd to cast her in a movie like that, as from what I've seen of her she really can't act.

Bros, that gay comedy that flopped just this year. Was cast as Eleanor Roosevelt, not seen the movie so no idea how the hell that works.

And last movie listed is Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story a movie by Jerry Seinfeld for netflix. Cast is full of bad comedians
 
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PeterMannion said:
Laurie Holden as Andrea in The Walking Dead. No fuckin clue what they were thinking casting a 40yr old actress to play a 24/25yr old but in the end it was mainly the writers that butchered the character, same with Tyreese.
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To add to this, Steven Ogg's character which they obviously wrote in since JDM had already taken the role of Negan, but they still wanted him in due to the ongoing hype from his GTA V appearance.

They bring in this psycho, and for most of his run until the final episodes he's in, we hardly ever see him used in any significant capacity. Absolutely wasted.
 
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Bros, that gay comedy that flopped just this year. Was cast as Eleanor Roosevelt, not seen the movie so no idea how the hell that works.

And last movie listed is Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story a movie by Jerry Seinfeld for netflix. Cast is full of bad comedians
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I remember seeing trailers for Bros recently and it was some of the most cringe shit I've ever had the misfortune of laying eyes on.

Also does that Unfrosted have other shitty comedians such as Brendan "Daisy, Daisy, Daisy" Schuab and Jimmy "Drumpf" Kimmel?

Speaking of shitty comedians, does voice acting count as terrible casting? Because John Oliver as Zazu was absolutely awful.

Never mind the fact that he's taking on the legacy of Rowan Atkinson, who set an extremely high bar and could no doubt do the voice again, Oliver sounds like a robot.

He's not an actor, he's an annoying famous guy who's just reading lines with no effort.

And the casting for Scar was dog shit. I don't mind Chiwetel Ejiofor but fucking, he pales in comparison to Jeremy Irons. Why didn't they cast Jeremy Irons? He could probably also do the voice for Scar.

To avoid this coming out as nostalgia sperging, James Earl Jones sounded... Not good. I like the guy and his voice work but he sounded so old and unfit as Mufasa in the remake. He sounded moments away from asking the whippersnappers to get off his lawn.

He lacks the majestic presence that he had in the original.

But alas, even if they did the proper casting, it wouldn't change the fact that the remake and pretty much all Disney remakes are shit.
 
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