Movie Marathon (Part 1)

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Terribly miscast

  1. John Wayne as Genghis Khan, “The Conqueror”
  2. Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”
  3. Kevin Costner as Robin Hood, “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”
  4. Arnold Schwarzenegger as Prince Hapi, “Around the World in 80 Days”
  5. Kenneth Branagh as Dr. Arliss Loveless, “Wild Wild West”
  6. Katie Holmes - “Batman Begins”
  7. Audrey Hepburn as Liza Doolittle, “My Fair Lady”
  8. Molly Ringwald as Fran Goldsmith, “The Stand”
  9. Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, “Superman Returns”

She was too young considering she was supposedly Margot Kidder’s Lois in Superman 4, plus a good few years.

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Terribly miscast

  1. John Wayne as Genghis Khan, “The Conqueror”
  2. Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”
  3. Kevin Costner as Robin Hood, “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”
  4. Arnold Schwarzenegger as Prince Hapi, “Around the World in 80 Days”
  5. Kenneth Branagh as Dr. Arliss Loveless, “Wild Wild West”
  6. Katie Holmes - “Batman Begins”
  7. Audrey Hepburn as Liza Doolittle, “My Fair Lady”
  8. Molly Ringwald as Fran Goldsmith, “The Stand”
  9. Mike Myers as The Cat, “The Cat in the Hat”

-“BB”-

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Terribly miscast

  1. John Wayne as Genghis Khan, “The Conqueror”
  2. Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”
  3. Kevin Costner as Robin Hood, “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”
  4. Arnold Schwarzenegger as Prince Hapi, “Around the World in 80 Days”
  5. Kenneth Branagh as Dr. Arliss Loveless, “Wild Wild West”
  6. Katie Holmes - “Batman Begins”
  7. Audrey Hepburn as Liza Doolittle, “My Fair Lady”
  8. Molly Ringwald as Fran Goldsmith, “The Stand”
  9. Mike Myers as The Cat, “The Cat in the Hat”
  10. Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates, in the Psycho remake that never should have happened.

Next: perfectly cast:

  1. Christine Lahti as Sylvie in Housekeeping
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Next: perfectly cast:

  1. Christine Lahti as Sylvie in Housekeeping
  2. Peter Lorre as Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace
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Next: perfectly cast:

  1. Christine Lahti as Sylvie in Housekeeping
  2. Peter Lorre as Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace
  3. Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca
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Next: perfectly cast:

  1. Christine Lahti as Sylvie in Housekeeping
  2. Peter Lorre as Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace
  3. Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca
  4. Ian McKellen as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy
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Next: perfectly cast:

  1. Christine Lahti as Sylvie in Housekeeping
  2. Peter Lorre as Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace
  3. Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca
  4. Ian McKellen as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  5. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Next: perfectly cast:

  1. Christine Lahti as Sylvie in Housekeeping
  2. Peter Lorre as Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace
  3. Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca
  4. Ian McKellen as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  5. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  6. David Thewlis - “Naked”

The fact is, casting is really good industry-wide, and there are few clinkers

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Perfectly cast:

  1. Christine Lahti as Sylvie in Housekeeping
  2. Peter Lorre as Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace
  3. Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca
  4. Ian McKellen as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  5. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  6. David Thewlis - “Naked”
  7. Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark in Iron Man and subsequent films.
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Perfectly cast:

  1. Christine Lahti as Sylvie in Housekeeping
  2. Peter Lorre as Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace
  3. Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca
  4. Ian McKellen as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  5. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  6. David Thewlis - “Naked”
  7. Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark in Iron Man and subsequent films.
  8. Morgan Freeman as Hoke in “Driving Miss Daisy”
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Perfectly cast:

  1. Christine Lahti as Sylvie in Housekeeping
  2. Peter Lorre as Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace
  3. Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca
  4. Ian McKellen as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  5. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  6. David Thewlis - “Naked”
  7. Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark in Iron Man and subsequent films.
  8. Morgan Freeman as Hoke in “Driving Miss Daisy”
  9. Angelica Houston and Raul Julia - Addams Family
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Perfectly cast:

  1. Christine Lahti as Sylvie in Housekeeping
  2. Peter Lorre as Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace
  3. Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca
  4. Ian McKellen as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  5. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  6. David Thewlis - “Naked”
  7. Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark in Iron Man and subsequent films.
  8. Morgan Freeman as Hoke in “Driving Miss Daisy”
  9. Jack Palance as Curly :cowboy_hat_face: in “City Slickers”
    (don’t know if it was only great casting or an impressive performance by the actor — probably both)

-“BB”-

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Perfectly cast:

  1. Christine Lahti as Sylvie in Housekeeping
  2. Peter Lorre as Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace
  3. Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca
  4. Ian McKellen as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  5. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  6. David Thewlis - “Naked”
  7. Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark in Iron Man and subsequent films.
  8. Morgan Freeman as Hoke in “Driving Miss Daisy”
  9. Jack Palance as Curly :cowboy_hat_face: in “City Slickers”
  10. Daniel Day-Lewis in, and as, Lincoln

Not quite as tall as the original, but he nailed the part.

More perfectly cast:

  1. Wes Studi as Magua in Last of the Mohicans

Intense and scary and shoulda won an Oscar, IMHO.

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More perfectly cast:

  1. Wes Studi as Magua in Last of the Mohicans
  2. Angelica Houston and Raul Julia - Addams Family
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More perfectly cast:

  1. Wes Studi as Magua in Last of the Mohicans
  2. Angelica Houston and Raul Julia - Addams Family
  3. Zachary Quinto as Spock in Star Trek (2009)
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More perfectly cast:

  1. Wes Studi as Magua in Last of the Mohicans
  2. Angelica Houston and Raul Julia - Addams Family
  3. Zachary Quinto as Spock in Star Trek (2009)
  4. Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl in Popeye
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More perfectly cast:

  1. Wes Studi as Magua in Last of the Mohicans
  2. Angelica Houston and Raul Julia - Addams Family
  3. Zachary Quinto as Spock in Star Trek (2009)
  4. Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl in Popeye
  5. Keira Knightley as Lizzie Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Smart, spunky, funny, luminously beautiful.

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More perfectly cast:

  1. Wes Studi as Magua in Last of the Mohicans
  2. Angelica Houston and Raul Julia - Addams Family
  3. Zachary Quinto as Spock in Star Trek (2009)
  4. Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl in Popeye
  5. Keira Knightley as Lizzie Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005)
  6. Tim Curry as Dr. Frankenfurter in Rocky Horror Picture Show
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More perfectly cast:

  1. Wes Studi as Magua in Last of the Mohicans
  2. Angelica Houston and Raul Julia - Addams Family
  3. Zachary Quinto as Spock in Star Trek (2009)
  4. Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl in Popeye
  5. Keira Knightley as Lizzie Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005)
  6. Tim Curry as Dr. Frankenfurter in Rocky Horror Picture Show
  7. Al Pacino as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman
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More perfectly cast:

  1. Wes Studi as Magua in Last of the Mohicans
  2. Angelica Houston and Raul Julia - Addams Family
  3. Zachary Quinto as Spock in Star Trek (2009)
  4. Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl in Popeye
  5. Keira Knightley as Lizzie Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005)
  6. Tim Curry as Dr. Frankenfurter in Rocky Horror Picture Show
  7. Al Pacino as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman
  8. Simon Helberg as Cosmé McMoon in Florence Foster Jenkins