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As for the Lynch version, Sting wasn’t a good choice for Feyd Rautha, even if seeing him in that role was a trip. …
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It was still worth it just for the flying underpants scene.
Oh - alright; I take back the stutter. But he was still nowhere near how Ellis Peters described Cadfael. I never felt he had the “presence” Cadfeal has in the books.
ps Did your namesake ever meet our hero? 
On second thoughts she’d be a bit young!
Sean Connery as Allan Quartermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Granted, that whole movie was an abomination unto God that should be smited multiple times with a lightning bolt and fried off the face of the earth, but that choice grated most of all.
Yes! Yes! That is my main complaint with the TV version of “The Stand”. When I read the book in the late 80’s I thought of Robin Wright Penn as Frannie, and I can’t remember who I saw as Nadine. I think I wanted a latter day Lois Smith , maybe Patricia Kalember, I just don’t know, but Laura Iko Iko all Day wasn’t it.
BTW - I never knew how to pronounce her name til I heard the song.
[QUOTE=Askance]
Andie McDowell in Everything She’s Ever Done Since Sex, Lies and Videotape. Especial thanks for almost destroying Four Weddings and a Funeral and Green Card, if I had a billion dollars I would remake both films exactly identically to their original except substitute Julia Roberts for the wooden Dowell.
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C’mon. She wasn’t that bad in Groundhog’s Day.
Lee Horsley as Archie Goodwin in the 1981 version of Nero Wolfe on ABC. William Conrad had few assets as Nero, besides his weight, but Horsley was absurd.
Not to be confused with the more recent A&E series, in which Timothy Hutton as Archie is perfect.
Dick Van Dyke as a cockney in Mary Poppins,Kevin Costner as a bodyguard (Im sorry with that high pitched voice of his I just cant find him menacing) and Nicholas Cage in films or plays .or t.v programmes or anything that requires acting really.
[QUOTE=Terrorcotta]
I still cringe at Christopher Walken as Johnny Smith in Dead Zone. The movie is pretty sad compared to the book but crazy-evil Walken as the gentle-teacher-come-victim-of-tragic-destiny is just jaw dropping. What WERE they thinking?!?
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I thought he was perfect. Maybe because I saw Dead Zone before I saw his crazy-evil movies. If you don’t have those other movies in your head, it works quite well.
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn]
I love this film but can’t recall- was it really necessary for him to be Mexican, plotwise?
As for John Wayne in The Conqueror, I can’t picture any other actor delivering these lines with such skill 
“I feel this Tar-tar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tar-tar woman.”
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More crap dialogue form “THE CONQUERER”: ..'the woman, she is like the second pressing of the grape"!-indeed-who wrote this crap?? 
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]
Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes-too old, too ugly, and way too wooden.
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IIRC, Howard didn’t want the part. He thought he was too old. But Cukor et al enticed him with the offer to direct a movie, and he caved.
Speaking of GWTW, not that I’ve ever seen it (I refuse on moral grounds) but who the hell thought a brown-eyed Joanne Whaley-Kilmer would be a good person to play Scarlett in Scarlett? At least get that woman some colored contacts! Come ON!!!
Regards Sossamyn in A Knight’s Tale…that whole movie is one delightful anachronism, so I don’t mind the casting.
Billy Boyd, “Sam” from LOTR, playing Barret Bonden in Master and Commander.
The Coxswain who was a prize fighter, and who pulled the stout Jack out of the water.
Has Matt Damon in The Bourne Identity already been mentioned? Way too young…
Nicole Kidman & Anthony Hopkins in “The Human Stain”.
Nicole Kidman’s character was an emotionally disturbed, ex drug adict, working as a janitor. Put all the dirty coveralls on her you want, she still looked and talked like Nicole Kidman.
Anthony Hopkins’ character was a light complected, black college professor, who had lived most of his adult life as white! The younger version of his character, was played by a light complected black actor.
I may be in the miniority here but I find Leslie Howard way more sexy than Clark Gable. Scarlett was a damn fool.
[QUOTE=SaintCad]
You spend 12 years in Askaban or change into a wolf every 29.5 days and see how great YOU look.
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Sirius is not a werewolf. He’s an animagus. He can change into a dog anytime he wants.
Shirley , I think SaintCad meant both Sirius and Remus.
[QUOTE=Lemur866]
To be fair, the Constantine movie was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the Constantine comic book.
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I didn’t know that Sirius Cybernetics had moved into film production.
[QUOTE=Askance]
…If I had a billion dollars I would remake both films exactly identically to their original except substitute Julia Roberts for the wooden Dowell.
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You know, that is a great idea. Four Weddings with Julia Roberts would be marvellous. (Macdowell is like a big blank spot at the center of the picture.)
I thought this was going to be a chess thread.
I’ve seen some bad castling in my days.
[QUOTE=Batsinma Belfry]
Anthony Hopkins’ character was a light complected, black college professor, who had lived most of his adult life as white! The younger version of his character, was played by a light complected black actor.
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Harry J. Lennix didn’t play Coleman as a young man, the very white Wentworth Miller did.
[QUOTE=Abby_Emma_Sasha]
Scarlett was a damn fool.
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In what way, not continuing to pursue Ashley when Melanie died? I believe she determined that he was goofy at that point.
Or weak, a wuss, whatever.