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She was the worst part of Hobbs and Shaw, I feel you.
What are the Worst Casting Decisions that have ever been made?
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You know I heard somewhere demons apparently hate the color of blood.
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Michael Keaton as Batman. It's a surprising one because I like him as an actor and as he's gotten older he's actually gotten more of a grizzled look that makes him look tougher. But he just doesn't have the physical presence to play Batman.
Now the thread is called "worst" casting decisions and no, this isn't the worst casting ever I admit. And the fact that I'm nearly 6" taller than the guy myself maybe influences it. But I can't see him as a guy whose that intimidating.
Now the thread is called "worst" casting decisions and no, this isn't the worst casting ever I admit. And the fact that I'm nearly 6" taller than the guy myself maybe influences it. But I can't see him as a guy whose that intimidating.
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While this casting is undoubtedly fucking retarded, I think you're engaging in a bit of wishful thinking if you assume that the real life Anne Bonney was some qt 3.14 redhead pirate waifu like in your picture.
I actually think Karl Urban is a good choice to play Butcher, but sadly, the writing for The Boys TV show is awful a lot of the time. I get the impression that Eric Kripke doesn't really understand the character, and so just writes him as a glowering, one-liner spouting tough guy like the Punisher, when really, that's not who Billy Butcher was ever supposed to be.
The accent is awful, though, no arguments here. I still, to this day, fail to understand how, with all that Amazon money behind that show, they couldn't hire some little bloke from the East End to be Karl Urban's fucking dialogue coach.
Sometimes, he gets it perfect, but most of the time, he sounds like a brain-damaged Australian.
George Lucas molested Jake Lloyd.
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Anakin deserved it. Although not as much as Jarjar Binks did.
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Villeneuve's Dune has one of the worst castings for main characters I think. It really seemed like he just picked people for recognizability rather than talent or matching the character. The process comes across as "What Disney films were popular" and that's as far as it went.
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Lynch Dune is best Dune.
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Nearly every casting decision in the Star Wars sequels was awful. It's not like there was a good script to work with, but these films are a sterling example of how bad casting can bring down bad movies even further.
But I really want to single out Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico. It's not just that she's an ugly, spoon-faced, flat-chested, chubby Viet who is simply unpleasant to look at. Of course, she can't act and has no emotional range, but that just makes her no different than any other cast member of these turkeys.
What makes her a truly awful casting decision is that she has absolutely no chemistry with John Boyega whatsoever. It isn't just that black/Asian pairings are weird. The two actors can barely look at each other. They're not talking to each other; they're talking to a paycheck. And because of this, their awkward kiss comes out of the blue. It's one of the most jarringly out of place moments in a trilogy of films where every moment is jarringly out of place.
Look at this shit, did they even have auditions?
But I really want to single out Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico. It's not just that she's an ugly, spoon-faced, flat-chested, chubby Viet who is simply unpleasant to look at. Of course, she can't act and has no emotional range, but that just makes her no different than any other cast member of these turkeys.
What makes her a truly awful casting decision is that she has absolutely no chemistry with John Boyega whatsoever. It isn't just that black/Asian pairings are weird. The two actors can barely look at each other. They're not talking to each other; they're talking to a paycheck. And because of this, their awkward kiss comes out of the blue. It's one of the most jarringly out of place moments in a trilogy of films where every moment is jarringly out of place.
Look at this shit, did they even have auditions?
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The guy who played Leto looked Greek, so that was cool. Paul was a twink, but Paul kind of has to be a twink because he starts the story at 15 years old.
Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho was hideous and insulting. A Duncan has to be lean, not “bodybuilder gone to pot” fat. He shouldn’t be a piggy eyed goofball. He’s supposed to be one of the best fighting men in the universe.
Woody Harrelson would’ve made a fantastic Gurney Halleck, but that’s because my brain is hacked from a version of the audiobook where the voice actor for Halleck sounds like Harrelson.
Scarlet Johansson would’ve probably made an excellent Jessica
Chani should have been played by a middle eastern or Turkish kind of girl, and failing that, Hispanic would be close enough in look not to raise eyebrows. But half nigger? There are no niggers on Arrakis or probably any other planet in the space future but possibly Geidi Prime.
But chani’s niggerishness set up the biggest betrayal of the whole thing. The one that some Hollywood financier insisted on being a poison pill for the whole movie (probably the same guy that insisted depictions of prescience look like bouts of schizophrenia), is Liet Kynes being a full blown negress. Kynes is Chani’s FATHER in the books, if someone reading my screed didn’t know, and he’s an imperial planetologist who inherited the position from his father. He’s also SECRETLY THE LEADER OF THE FREMEN. So of course they did the subversion thing where they could make a white male gone native into muh powerful black woman.
I’m surprised if they don’t break the series and have her survive because you can’t kill a powerful black woman
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Oh it's just the first sfw picture since the more time appropriately depictions of her got her tits out.
I'm not looking for a waifu but I do think it's weird that current age has such a beef against redheads.
I don't care if they make her ugly as sin but it bugs me that they blackwashed her.
Even lefties on Twitter is upset about it apparently.
ETA: Though it has been mentioned here, I have the same issue with the BBC casting a black woman as Anne Boleyn in what is supposed to be a historical drama. I can suspend my disbelief for a lot of things but shit like that just feels wrong and kinda insulting.
Further more, why Anne Bonney? They could have saved themselves a lot of ridicule if they actually just created a new character. I wouldn't otherwise have given a shit.
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Watch the new Crow trailer and cringe in despair. This may be more off the mark than Dragon Ball Evolution. I'm going to take a note from Patrice O'Neal and take a shit right in the theater.
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Nailed it
God that is an awful Janeway
Never besmirch Ryan Gosling again.
For my own contribution I'd say most of The Expanse is miscast.
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I don't know if it's been said here yet, but Beyonce as Nala in the Lion King "Live Action" remake. Like everyone in that dumpster fire was fucking awful but she was pretty fucking bad.
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They could've cast bob odenkirk and it wouldn't have made a difference
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She's right up there with John Oliver, whom I have already mentioned in the thread. Like wtf, why won't these cunts hire actual voice actors and not random celebs?
Speaking of shit voice acting; Megan Foxx as Nitara in MK1. Why? Actually why? Fucking voice acting feels more and more like a dying, underappreciated method of performance with how studies continue to give lesser shits with each year.
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It is simply astounding how Chalamet and Zendaya do not have chemistry with each other when it's a core pillar of those movies, book-tisms aside. That sort of thing should have been nipped in the bud during table reads. Between Villenueve's characterizations and his hate for dialogue, I do think he's autistic and that's why his sci-fi movies suffer. He makes fantastic visual effects at the cost of everything else: characters, plot, pacing, score. He very clearly doesn't care about any of those things and they suffer as a result. Dune and BR 2049 really is a case of "a special effect without a story is a very boring thing." Call old James Cameron a hack, but he knows how to keep a story moving and keep all aforementioned elements good enough.
It's a case where Rick Berman was right. The studio really wanted Bujold at the time, but he disagreed, and I have to agree she's too nervous and uncertain for the role. Putting her in the same room with the other cast members really hilights that performance in a negative way. I think that's what he reacted to.
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Anything that Patton Oswalt is in, ever. The only thing he should be cast in is the sea.
But a specific role I'll go with the actress doing VA for the new X-Men 97 cartoon. First episode I heard this voice and atrocious accent aside, she sounded ancient. So I looked her up and she's 65 years old.
Rogue of all characters, who is notoriously supposed to have a sexy voice, they used a 65 year old woman for.
But a specific role I'll go with the actress doing VA for the new X-Men 97 cartoon. First episode I heard this voice and atrocious accent aside, she sounded ancient. So I looked her up and she's 65 years old.
Rogue of all characters, who is notoriously supposed to have a sexy voice, they used a 65 year old woman for.
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This is why I stick to subs for anime ( yeah, yeah gimme the puzzle pieces etc.etc.), but I swear to god 99% of any dubbed voice acting nowadays feels utterly flat. Hell, even with studios that spend a fortune like Disney it's bland and barely above reading lines. When I had a Disney+ subscription I watched that Raya movie, and sweet baby jesus, in addition to a terrible plot, the voice acting felt like they were checking their watches as they were doing the lines.
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Don't worry, I also watch subs exclusively. Mainly because there's less cringe but also out of principle since I hear that the Western dubbing community is a giant fucking mess with idiots and drama everywhere. And it's not even the Vic Mignogna shit only.
There are still voice performers whose work I enjoy like Alexis Tipton, Kira Buckland, and Ray Chase just to name a few.
Also, I had completely forgotten Raya existed. Speaking of forgettable Dinsey movies, remember Wish?
Me neither.