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

[The Lawgiver]

Everyone in Netflix War For Cybertron. They got some former Vine guy voicing Prime. Guy couldn't act himself out of a paper bag.

You had a lotof weirdnonsense there. Most stuff was imitations of g1 voice but then you had shockwave who sounded like asssss and then you had shit like a guy doing a dinobot voice for BW megatron for some reason and then dinobot sounds like nobody really. Couple that al lwith the bizzarely paced voice direction and it's just super fucking weird. It got pitched as a prequel to g1 but then it fucking becomes some garbled mess where most of the cast dies offscreen.

Speaking of netflix series basedon action figures them making mark hamill do the joker voice for skeletor on top of HAVING THE GUY THAT'S KNOWN FOR BEING SKELETOR NOT BEING THE GUY THAT VOICES SKELETOR BUT VOICES A BUNCH OF OTHER SMALLER CHARACTERS IN THE FUCKING SHOW really fucking cements the insanity.

 

[Preferred Penne]

He's a natural narrator. Thus, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Everything else...meh.

Don't you mean

 

[Overly Serious]

He's a natural narrator. Thus, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Everything else...meh.

He has Received Pronunciation and a mildly eccentric delivery. So basically yes - he's a narrator and presenter. He shouldn't be put on screen next to actual actors. You can put him on screen with comedians or theatre comedy. IMO, that's it. Whoever made the remark about him being "an idiot's idea of a smart person" hit the nail dead centre.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Interview With The Vampire the movie, basically exactly backwards of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt for the duo

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Woody Harrelson as Carnage. It's not that he's bad, it's more that I was hoping for a less widely known guy to be Cletus Kasady. The hair doesn't suit him, either.

@XYZpdq Jr. Lestat in the series is the most suitable depiction of him. And I never liked short arse Tiny Tom Cruise in the film, anyway, so I'm also glad it's not him again.

@Overly Serious Agreed. I love to watch his QI episodes. Sandi Toksvig, I can take or leave. Also, I think he's really good as a voice actor, and I'm bringing this point of mine up because of the Cheshire Cat in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I will say Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon as while this could be attributed to Ridley Scott being dogshit at portraying Napoleon.

Joaquin's Napoleon performance comes across as a deranged incel rather than a charismatic leader, the fact the one scene to show him being a charismatic leader is awkwardly giving bread out to his soldiers really doesn't help. He also is way too old for the part and feels like a 50 year old man playing someone decades younger than him, like a grown adult playing a highschool student while still looking like an adult

 

[xXEddie.DurellXx]

That ugly bug eyed black lady that is everything all the time

 

[Samuel Fuller]

To repeat what I recently said in the Marvel thread, Topher Grace as Venom in Spiderman 3. Would've been a better Carnage.

Topher was cast because Raimi preferred the Ultimate universe Venom, and honestly was a good choice for that version of the character. In that universe, Eddie was Peter's only friend prior to the spider bite, and was jealous of Peter becoming confident, finding a girlfriend and leaving Eddie behind, which honestly is a better origin than the main continuity version, and gives you a Venom that is much more plausibly being mistaken for Spidey when he starts his rampage.

He was cast partially because Raimi wanted him as Spidey initially, but Sony wanted an established name as the star. Venom in part 3 was a make-good for that.

 

[attractive_pneumonia]

Jamie Bower definitely ranks up there as a massive miscast for the show he was on. He comes across like one of those Sci-Fi level actors on a low budget tv show but he is surrounded by top notch actors and actresses that just show him up over and over. The guy was competing against Joseph Fiennes, Eva Green and James Purefoy and got exposed as extremely weak on top of the bad script and plots he was given. It was amazing that this show was somehow out spending Game of Thrones and Spartacus per episode and did so poorly on every front even though it had top notch talent to hold it together in spite of the weak lead.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

Idris Elba as Knuckles
He just never came across as a nigga to me.

 

[Los Pollos Hermanos]

That ugly bug eyed black lady that is everything all the time

Debra Wilson was funny in MadTV. Also she is significantly less bug-eyed in real life (but just as bald) so why every face scan of her has the eyes set to 175% is beyond me.

And I know it’s been said but still can’t get over how wrong almost every single person in the Borderlands movie was.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

The baby-face they got to play Azula in the ATLA Netflix remake. Now, Azula is actually 14 so she's really a child but what the fuck, why does Elizabeth Yu look fucking 9?


Then again, it could be worse. It could be fucking Erika Ishii. Who the shit is she again and why is she everywhere?

Also Corina Boettger as the English voice of Paimon from Genshin Impact. I'd make the argument that a good handful of the English voices are ass and misunderstand the characters they are playing.

Nevermind that she's a leftie with political brainrot who tried to push the character whose writing she has no influence over as nonbinary and genderfluid or whatever the fuck.

She does the horrid sin of playing an English speaking anime character very straight. Now Paimon's voice is annoying in pretty much all languages although less so in Chinese but Idk about you, I cringe hard when someone who's an English speaker tries to imitate a high-pitched uwu kawaii desu anime voice.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

I'll help keep this thread going, so another one from me: Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate (who was way more attractive, RIP). Margot Robbie is pretty much, like, The blonde girl in films/movies/pictures/cinema. It's getting annoying. I, Tonya was quite good, however.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

The Invisible Woman in Fox Fantastic Four films. Yeah, have half Mexican Jessica Alba bleach her hair blonde and pass her off as The Human Torch's presumably full-blooded sister.

 

[The Lawgiver]

She does the horrid sin of playing an English speaking anime character very straight. Now Paimon's voice is annoying in pretty much all languages although less so in Chinese but Idk about you, I cringe hard when someone who's an English speaker tries to imitate a high-pitched uwu kawaii desu anime voice.

The only saving grace that's made me less kill mode towards paimon is the fact they leaned more into the "piece of shit annoying ""helper guide"" that doesn't really know everything they brag about knowing" characterization now instead of paimon at the start just being "haha cute little helper character woah wholesome!" She's like this in all languages from what I've seen and it's funny seeing the occasional optional dialogue where you can just insult her for her bullshit. her being paimon here, not the english VA. You don't need dialogue trees to do that to her lmao.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker. Didn't he sound noticeably Dutch in the Elvis film? And by noticeably Dutch, I mean an American putting on a mildly exaggerated sounding lilting Germanic accent. Colonel Parker was supposed to have all but lost, or learned to disguise his original Dutch accent years before he met Elvis, so by the time he became his manager, he might have sounded 89% (I pull percentages out of my arse, I know) good ol' boy.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

The Invisible Woman in Fox Fantastic Four films. Yeah, have half Mexican Jessica Alba bleach her hair blonde and pass her off as The Human Torch's presumably full-blooded sister.

Could be worse, could have an actual white woman and a nigger supposedly being twin brothers like the 2015 reboot.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Could be worse, could have an actual white woman and a nigger supposedly being twin brothers like the 2015 reboot.

True. True. Wasn't Mara-Sue adopted, thinking on it? Jordan-Johnny was black, and so was his dad.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker.

I’ve seen four Baz Luhrmann films now. He’s clearly aiming for this exaggerated, cartoonish version of real history. He’s determined to make Tom Parker seem as pathetic as humanly possible. But here's the thing: despite all of Luhrmann’s grand intentions—apparently, to show that while Elvis’s legacy lives on, Parker has been forgotten—there’s a real problem. The truth is, Tom Parker got exactly what he wanted: to die owing a fortune to the IRS. That’s his legacy. He showed up in a Hawaiian shirt to Elvis’s funeral, spent the rest of his days getting hammered and feeding his gambling addiction in Vegas. It’s a grim story, and there’s no way to spin that positively. So, by the end of it, all we really get is this fake victory that does a poor job of capturing a guy who was, at his core, actually pretty cunning.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

I’ve seen four Baz Luhrmann films now. He’s clearly aiming for this exaggerated, cartoonish version of real history. He’s determined to make Tom Parker seem as pathetic as humanly possible. But here's the thing: despite all of Luhrmann’s grand intentions—apparently, to show that while Elvis’s legacy lives on, Parker has been forgotten—there’s a real problem. The truth is, Tom Parker got exactly what he wanted: to die owing a fortune to the IRS. That’s his legacy. He showed up in a Hawaiian shirt to Elvis’s funeral, spent the rest of his days getting hammered and feeding his gambling addiction in Vegas. It’s a grim story, and there’s no way to spin that positively. So, by the end of it, all we really get is this fake victory that does a poor job of capturing a guy who was, at his core, actually pretty cunning.

I read that the bloke murdered a guy for his money, too, which is how he was able to reinvent himself as a jovial, Southern businessman. It's got to be true.