Also, Keanu fucking Reeves in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Jesus H. I’d never heard of him before that came out, and thought he absolutely destroyed something that could have been passable. He was appalling.
It’s a rare woman who could not to succumb to such wooing.
Very, very rare.
Shannyn Sossamon in A Knight’s Tale, she looks so…exotic, seemed a little out of place for the setting.
OK, so the thread consensus so far appears to be that Keanu Reeves in any role he’s* ever* played, other than a surfer or metalhead, is an appallingly bad casting choice.
Nice. :D:D
I thought Brian Dennehy did a lousy job of playing Bob Knight in Season On The Brink. He really did not capture the anger and intensity properly. He didn’t really even look that much like him either.
I don’t know who should have played Knight, but Dennehy was the wrong man for the job.
It always amazez me when Tom Cruise is cast in any movie at all.
You mean you don’t think the cops in the future will be dwarves?
Just a nod for Sophia Coppolla in Godfather III. I don’t know if that movie was good or not. I couldn’t stop dreading her appearance onscreen long enough to pay attention to anything else. Urgh.
There are whole categories of bad casting. You shouldn’t step into a role made famous by other people, or even do a bad spin-off from it. Ted Wass in Curse of The Pink Panther. Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in The Long Goodbye. (David Soul as Rick in Casablanca? Never seen it; can’t imagine it.)
You shouldn’t play a role so far out of your ethnic type that it becomes offensive. Rooney may be worst, but he was typical of Hollywood in those decades. What about Swedish Warner Oland, who made a career of playing “Orientals” including Charlie Chan and Fu Manchu. The wonderful but red-haired Myrna Loy was cast as Fah Lo See in The Mask of Fu Manchu. Peter Lorre played the Japanese Mr. Moto.
So the best of the worst has to be somebody who combined these horrible don’ts: Peter Ustinov as Charlie Chan in Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen.
We’ve made it this far without mentioning Michael Keaton as Batman?
With over 20 posts in this thread so far, I knew someone would beat me to this.
Except for casting Ian McNeice as Baron Harkonnen, and maybe, MAYBE Saskia Reeves as Jessica, the entire cast of the SciFi miniseries version of Dune was terrible. I take particular issue with how they cast Paul and Leto Atreides. The book gives few details of characters’ appearance, but they could have at least cast people with black hair for those two, like the book states explicitly. Children of Dune was especially egregious with the cast of 17 magazine as 9 year olds. :rolleyes:
As for the Lynch version, Sting wasn’t a good choice for Feyd Rautha, even if seeing him in that role was a trip. And as much as I like Dean Stockwell’s work, that’s just not how I pictured Yueh.
I think he did a great job, and a hell of a lot of people agree with me. But I’ll acknowledge that it’s all a matter of opinion - Daniel Craig’s Bond made me want to puke, but it seems to have made a lot of other people want to beat off.
Please do not nod. It will just encourage her to think that people noticed.
But…he IS charasmatic! And he’s attractive to lots of women, trust me. I’m one of them, and I know several others.
I have said before that Brad Pitt gets overlooked as an actor - he has impressed me many times in difficult roles…but Achilles? Yikes.
And as much as I enjoyed the movie Rounders, I simply refused to believe that Matt Damon was the least bit believable as a hardened, wizened poker genius. That role screamed for someone older and scruffier.
The David Bowie songs, on the other hand, were entirely authentic.
I had a huge problem with him as Louis in Interview with the Vampire. I’m not sure who would have been better, but I hated him in that role. Not as much as I hated Tom Cruise as Lestat, of course.
Keanu Reeves as Buddha.
Ohhh, man. That was really the weirdest one out of all of his weird, bad casting history.