“My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.” --from the “quotes” section of Wentworth Miller’s imdb page.
How did Jamie Sheridan not fit Flagg? He is exactly what I thought Flagg should look like after reading the book. I thought it was perfect casting.
I also slightly disagree with Corin Nemec. It wasn’t the same Harold from the book, but it was still a good Harold.
And someone once told me his theory for why Laura San Giacomo was cast as Nadine: “She didn’t get the part, her fantastic rack did.”
He seems to have simplified it for that quote but that your point is just as valid.
Harold has to be fat and then slowly transform. If he doesn’t that takes away a large part of his character and development. Flagg was not a white guy. He wasn’t necessarily black either. He was the Dark Man. After I saw Sheridan play him I thought he was perfect.
In all I thought most of the casting was great. San Giacomo almost ruined the entire miniseries.
I thought the guy who played Teddy Weizak was the worst.
I thought Damon was sensational in the Bourne films. Who cares if he was “too young”?
I think there’s a difference between “bad casting” and “casting a person who wasn’t the way I pictured it in the book.” John Wayne as Genghis Khan, now, that’s some bad casting.
What I can’t believe is that no one yet mentioned George Clooney as Batman.
What I can believe is that no one mentioned Burgess Meredith as a Chinese acupuncturist in The Yin and Yang of Mister Go.
I think it has to rise to the level of the casting completely changing the character (in a bad way) for it to be bad casting. I don’t think having a slightly younger actor is enough to call it bad casting.
Ah-ha! Serves me right for making assumptions (but still several degrees lighter than Lennix). :o
Thanks.
Well, that explains a lot. :rolleyes: at the producers. Nadine was supposed to be, well, the exact opposite of everything Laura SanG. was.
I think Jamie Sheridan did a fantastic job, too, but he was supposed to be the Dark Man, the Walking Dude. They could have at least dyed his hair black.
I must take exception with the horse-teethed Julia Roberts being put forward as the solution to Andie MacDowell mis-casting, but then again, I don’t like Julia Roberts much.
Yeah, that really sucked. The fact that the batsuit had nipples really pushed it over the edge.
I believe you meant “Pippin” from LOTR. Sam was played by Sean Astin.
Tom Hanks as Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan. From start to stop, nothing about his portrayal suggests that Mr. Everyman was assembled out of spare body parts and dead GIs. The script was clearly written for a Rutger Hauer/Tom Berenger-type hardcase, instead there was…Tom Hanks. The movie was good enough that the miscasting wasn’t a distraction, but I don’t think the audience was remotely surprised to learn that Hanks’ character taught English composition at Thomas Alva Edison High School.
Shirley Ujest,
Lupin was a werewolf.
The guy who played Bennet in Commando was way too flabby and a bit too dainty to be a hardened military rival worthy to go up against Arnold. And on top of that his performance was terrible(not that that movie had any “good” acting, but you know what I mean)
That’s because we prefer not to think about it. Thanks for reminding me. Another 4 years of therapy, here I come.
I can’t get behind this at all. The people over there making sacrifices for freedom were not superheros or action heroes, they were “average Americans” doing a job and surviving the horrors of war as best they could. Tom Hanks is absolutely perfect for that role. imho.
Ha ha very funny.
I thought Molly Ringwald and Gary Sinise had zero chemistry.
Regarding Scarlett (and that could be a whole 'nuther thread) she realizes at the end she never loved Ashley. He was the one beau from her childhood who wasn’t falling all over her, so of course she was interested in him. He truly loved Melanie, and only lusted after Scarlett, whereas Rhett got Scarlett’s number from the first time he laid eyes on her, and if she’d only him a reason, he would have put her on a pedastel and never let her down.
Exactly. His guys weren’t surprised at his profession because he was a superhuman killing machine, they were surprised he was an English teacher because of all the things he has to do as a Captain - like sending teenagers charging machinegun nests.
-Joe
Yeah but he was great in The Road Warrior so I gave him a pass.
As long as I’m here I’ll throw out another one, and this may be unpopular, but I always thought the worst thing about Saturday Night Fever was his love interest. Ugh.
And checking IMDb I see she wrote her own biography blurb. I’m not sure why that bothers me but it does.
Not only that, he really was a special forces guy at one point according to IMDB
Apparently he has a sense of humor about that role too.
It’s a little pathetic–she brags she has “5 new films in the can”, but that was over a year ago and I’ve never heard of any of the 5 (not one has more than 60 votes).