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No, it didn’t. The character was a law school student/dropout.
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The unbelievable part for me was that someone that young would be that skilled at poker and would or could easily run in the circles he did.
That opinion has changed now that Hold 'Em is so popular and you see young guys in the tournaments all the time, but I hadn’t seen a single televised poker tournament when the movie first came out.
Some of mine:
Harvey Keitel as a Napoleonic Cavalry officer in ‘The Duellists’. “He nevah luvd Napoleeun. He nevah luvd th’Empor’er”.
Jeremy Irons, Gerard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne, John Malkovitch, and Leonardo Dicaprio in The Man in the Iron Mask. Individually, these actors are some of the finest you can find. In this film, their assorted accents (two different British, two different American, and one French) collide like mating skyscrapers.
140ish posts in and I still get to be the one who points out Kevin Costner in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves? Wow. Everyone must’ve been distracted by horrible-ness that is Keanu and Andie. Though she didn’t ruin *Groundhog Day * for me thankfully.
[QUOTE=Hampshire]
Jake Lloyd as Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace.
Granted the movie was a disaster, the script had embarassing lines, and Lucas has no idea or a care in the world about directing actors but you think they would have cast a young Darth Vader to look at least somewhat mischievous, dark, menacing. At least a kid with dark hair and dark eyes or a deeper than normal voice or something.
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Why? Do you think all evil people start out looking and acting like Damien Thorne? I think casting someone who looks and acts carefree, or even, dare I say it, normal, is a perfectly legitimate choice.
We know that. But what you didn’t understand was that the post you were referring to was NOT trying to describe a single person as being both in Azkaban and a werewolf, but TWO people, the two being referred to in the post that post was referring to: Black AND Lupin.
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
Tell the truth, I never could buy the character of Nadine in the book. Her conversion to the Dark Side was just too facile and too inconsistent with her character up to that point. And her subsequent regret/defiance made it worse, not better.
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Now that you mention it, I think the Nadine Cross story could be a novel all on its own (well, novella, maybe), with all the back story about how she came to be promised, and all that.
[QUOTE=Mr. Miskatonic]
collide like mating skyscrapers.
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snerfle
Great visual there…
[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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Phew, that is what I came here to say. Her and Helena Boring-Carter. Always awful.
Holding back the puke, I offer you this
[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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Bolding mine.
Seems perfectly clear to me. He was talking about two people.
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One of my favourite books is Stephen King’s “The Stand,” and I’ve watched the mini-series at least twice, and most of the cast (and casting) were very (even surprisingly?) good, except for Molly Ringwald and Laura San Giacomo (as Fran Goldsmith and Nadine Cross, respectively). Those two are just clunkers in the mini-series, Molly because Gary Sinise is head and shoulders a better actor than her, and Laura because she just wasn’t the right actress for that part.
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Jamey Sheridan was surprisingly good in the extremely difficult role of Randall Flagg.
[QUOTE=featherlou]
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.
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I agree - a lateral move there, not an improvement at all.
While reading this thread has given me more to think about, my favorite bit of bad casting is still Gary Oldman (b. 1958) and Matthew McConaughey (b.1969) playing TWIN brothers in Tiptoes. I get that twins do not necessarily look alike, really, I get that. I tried to talk myself into believing that the age difference was a conscious choice to underscore some of the medical difficulties faced by Oldman’s character that perhaps would prematurely age him. Still didn’t find it plausible.
Catherine Zeta Jones in Chicago. She cannot dance. She is clomped all through the dance scenes. It was painful to watch(well the whole movie was painful to watch)
I’ve just been watching Dark Victory. The casting of Humphrey Bogart as an Irish stable-hand was… um… interesting.
[QUOTE=gwendee]
I agree - a lateral move there, not an improvement at all.
While reading this thread has given me more to think about, my favorite bit of bad casting is still Gary Oldman (b. 1958) and Matthew McConaughey (b.1969) playing TWIN brothers in Tiptoes. I get that twins do not necessarily look alike, really, I get that. I tried to talk myself into believing that the age difference was a conscious choice to underscore some of the medical difficulties faced by Oldman’s character that perhaps would prematurely age him. Still didn’t find it plausible.
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I’m not sure if TV shows are allowed here, but try buying Roseanne Barr and Laurie Metcalf (she was funny before she became a buffoon though) as sisters on Roseanne.
Any any of the Cosby kids as sisters and brothers (except maybe Rudy and Vanessa).
Alison Lohman in Where the Truth Lies completely underwhelmed me. I had a very hard time believing this woman who looked 14 years old and constantly had a deer in the headlights demeanor was a famous celebrity reporter.
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]
Harry J. Lennix didn’t play Coleman as a young man, the very white Wentworth Miller did.
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:smack: I’m suprised I rembered the title of that piece of crap.
Tony Curtis in “Black Shield of Farnsworth”
“Yonda lies da cassle of my fadda.”
Robert Redford in The Natural has got to take the prize for worst age mismatch in a bad casting role. The man was born in 1936, and this movie expects me to believe that in 1984, forty eight years later, he was playing a young baseball prodigy in the first third of the movie. BULL SHIT.
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47]
Robert Redford in The Natural has got to take the prize for worst age mismatch in a bad casting role. The man was born in 1936, and this movie expects me to believe that in 1984, forty eight years later, he was playing a young baseball prodigy in the first third of the movie. BULL SHIT.
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I totally agree. They should have simply gotten a different actor to play the part of “young Roy Hobbs.” Hell, it was a stretch for him to play the 37 year old or whatever he was supposed to be in the main part of the movie.
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train]
I think Kirsten Dunst is pretty bad as Mary Jane Watson . . .
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Sir, you and I must meet upon the field of honour. Death rays at 1,920 paces.