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

neverendingmidi said:
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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There's a French film titled Le Pact des Loups which I like a lot. Maybe slightly early CGI if that bothers you but to me a remarkable movie with a great cast - Monica Belluci, Vincent Cassell, Samuel Le Bihan. Even Mark Dacascos gets to take a little break from out and out Kung Fu and schlocky action to try his hand at a slightly more serious role (spoiler: he's not bad!). I saw this film when it came out in French and enjoyed it enormously. I have occasionally recommended it to people but I'm hesitant to do so because what you nearly always find is the English dub and I say to people beyond clearly - only watch it in French. Watch it with subtitles, that's fine. But only in French.

It has one of the most miscast set of voice acting for the English dub that I have ever heard. Samuel Le Bhian's character who is a rough and rogueish chronicler who has spent the last few years living in the near wilderness and with French colonial soldiers at war with Native Americans or in African wilderness, gets the most delicate, foppish posh twit sounding VA and it drives me beserk. I hate hate hate what they did to that movie with the casting of the VA. And it's absolutely on topic for this thread.

My words to the last person I recommended it to years ago were basically "This is one of my favourite flims, but only in French. You will look for it and you will find the English dub. You will think 'Well I can't find the French version, this will do' and you will decide to watch the English version. And you will think 'oh, he's not serious' and you will ignore me. I am serious, I 100% mean it, I am telling you do not watch the English dub. Only the French original"

And you know what she did? She came to me a few days later with her bare face hanging out and says "Oh, I couldn't find the French version so I watched the English. It was okay."

And that's how I knew this girl was too stupid for me to date.

I FUCKING HATE THE ENGLISH DUB OF THAT MOVIE.
 
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Casting Will Smith as Cypher Rage in After Earth.

You take an animated actor that is best suited to lighthearted lively emotive roles with lots of energy, movement, charisma and charm, and you cast him as an emotionally retarded catatonic with a paralyzed face that can only speak in monotone.

The fact that it was a vanity project BY will smith only makes the whole thing 10 times more retarded because you'd think the man would know his own strengths, but I guess if he did it wouldn't be a vanity project.
 
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Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne?

Mila Kunis as Mona Sax?

LUDACRIS AS INTERNAL AFFAIRS INVESTIGATOR JIM BRAVURA WHAT THE FU

Chris O'Donnell's appearance is a surprise, but as the film wears on, you can see why his role and B.B.'s should have been put together. I dunno why B.B. was made into a father figure when he's clearly a villain from the jump. Nelly Furtado also appears briefly and doesn't contribute anything other than embarassment.
 
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Captain Syrup said:
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Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne?

Mila Kunis as Mona Sax?

LUDACRIS AS INTERNAL AFFAIRS INVESTIGATOR JIM BRAVURA WHAT THE FU

Chris O'Donnell's appearance is a surprise, but as the film wears on, you can see why his role and B.B.'s should have been put together. I dunno why B.B. was made into a father figure when he's clearly a villain from the jump. Nelly Furtado also appears briefly and doesn't contribute anything other than embarassment.
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Must've been huffing Uwe Bolls fumes when they did that one
 
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Dane De Haan and Cara Delevigne as Valerian and Laureline respectively in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

Luc Besson returning to futuristic space opera for the first time since The Fifth Element had the potential to be amazing. Unfortunately, the lack of chemistry between the woefully miscast lead actors means that it ended up being merely watchable instead of the eternal classic that The Fifth Element is.
 
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Just watched Ghostbusters Frozen Empire, not a good movie, but the acting from the British scientist played by James Acaster was shockingly bad and really stood out. Looked him up he is just a unfunny stand up guy and this is his 3rd acting role.
 
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Whoever that guy was who played whatever the main dwarf was called in The Hobbit.

Second worst is Sylvester McCoy as Tom Baker as Radagast the Brown also in The Hobbit.

Honourable mention to the black guy they cast for diversity reasons to play a white supremacist character in Bonfire of the Vanities.

Not Keanu in Dracula though, watching him try to act alongside Oldman, Grant, Ryder and Hopkins was pure kino.
 
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Captain Syrup said:
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Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne?

Mila Kunis as Mona Sax?

LUDACRIS AS INTERNAL AFFAIRS INVESTIGATOR JIM BRAVURA WHAT THE FU

Chris O'Donnell's appearance is a surprise, but as the film wears on, you can see why his role and B.B.'s should have been put together. I dunno why B.B. was made into a father figure when he's clearly a villain from the jump. Nelly Furtado also appears briefly and doesn't contribute anything other than embarassment.
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Such a strange movie. They made it before Quantum of Solace came out so poor Olga Kurylenko plays Mona's doomed sister instead of Mona herself, which is even worse than casting Mila. Fox was retarded back then.
 
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Let's see:

Everyone in Dragon Ball: Evolution
Almost everyone in the God awful Machinima/Netflix Transformers shows
Jesse Eisenberg Lex Luthor
Pedro Pascal Reed Richards
Halo TV show Master Chief
Everyone in the Uncharted movie
Ezra Miller Flash
Live action Starfire
The Hugo Weaving/Laurence Fishburne replacements in the latest shitty Matrix movie
 
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I'm surprised so many posts in this thread are about the horribly miscast Laureline and Valerian movie. I know it's one of the classic Franco-Belgian BD series, but I didn't think people would be so invested in it to be upset over a shitty movie adaptation.
 
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Garret dillahunt in the terminator tv series as chromartie. He's alright in some roles but holy shit as a terminator he comes off as borderline retarded and acts in a way that should be setting off alarm bells with everyone he encounters. Especially when he's supposed to be posing as an FBI agent
 
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