You must hate Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League, where Clark is built like a linebacker, but still comes across as meek and mild-mannered.
I have never seen Superman portrayed in the comics as anything other than a big, buff guy. But I also certainly don’t think Johnny Depp should have played him. Johnny Depp is a good actor but he is SO popular now, SO hyped and SO iconic that having him play Superman would automatically make it all about “JOHNNY DEPP! JOHNNY DEPP! JOHNNY DEPP!”
They should go with another unknown, except one that can actually act.
I hate how he’s drawn there, yes, though it’s a little muted since while he’s one of the biggest, even the smaller men are drawn fairly hefty. Timm’s style is pretty awesome, but not exactly filled with a plethora of body types.
On the other hand, his character in those series is one of my favourite portrayals of him.
What’s wrong with casting Cruise as an experienced Civil War, and Indian fighter, veteran?
Marc
Bruce Campbell in 1992, right on the heels of the moderate success of Army of Darkness, would have been spot-on perfect. He had the perfect matinee idol looks, especially the chin – and he’s great at playing awkward dorks for the Clark Kent parts as well.
However he builds the muscle mass he DOES have. I mean, if he built muscles the way normal people do, he really ought to be emaciated.
Alexander with Colin Farrel. When they were talking about how he was greater than Achilles I couldn’t help but think of Brad Pitt in Troy and think, “No, no way.”
Unfortunately the only actors I could think of to play Alexander were both in Troy. 
Be glad Baz Luhrmann’s version of Alexander never got made – he was all ready to use Leonardo DiCaprio!
You probably don’t remember EGR in Soylent Green , but I thought he was pretty good.
Sorry, it was one of two things, a coincidence on the order of Leibniz and Newton simultaneously inventing the calculus, or inadvertent plagiarism. That, or you have programmed computers with a model of my mind to steal my very thoughts before I have them, like Jeffrey Goines. So I guess that’s three things. In any event, I yield to your prior publication.
As far as the Spunky Girl Reporter, If you could have gotten Jennifer Jason Leigh to dial back the Amy Archer character from The Hudsucker Proxy , she could have handled it.
And for Sue Storm I’d have certainly auditioned Danica McKellar ,who I would have found believable as an astronaut and easy on the eyes in spandex. Not a natural blonde, but I think she could have pulled it off.
My vote is for Talia Shire in Godfather III. Not that it was the best of the 3 by a long shot, but she was just awful.
Gretchen Mol all the way for Sue Storm.
Shire was just reprising the role she played in the previous two Godfather movies. If they’d cast anyone different (which was absolutely never going to happen), the result would’ve been too jarring.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the obvious bad casting move in Godfather III.
… and yet Julia Roberts would have been perfect in the two otherwise-great movies that Andie McDowell walked though without leaving a trace: Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Green Card. I guess for movies made by not-born-here directors in the early 90s, she had the right combination of price and name-recognition factor. Or something.
Bokeem Woodbine in The Breed, 'nuff said
Keanuuuuuu REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVES
in pretty much every film ever but the matrix, I cant even watch that movie because of him.
Yeah, I caught a few minutes of that on TV the other day and was shocked at how comically mis-cast Alba was. Sue Storm is not mexican, kthx What’s worse is that there was a cute blonde in the film that would have been a perfect Sue Storm but was instead some side character!
Cutthroat Island. I watched it recently, and it’s not quite as bad as its reputation suggests: it might even have been pretty good if it hadn’t had the chipmunk-cheeked all-American Geena Davis as a swashbuckling pirate queen. It’s a role that Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie or Gina Gershon could have nailed to the wall, but Davis always looked on the verge of going to pick up the kids from soccer practice, and it sank the movie. Casting some anonymous blonde drip as a devil-may-care rogue didn’t help much, either.
Unlike the actual movie, I’d have totally watched Danny Kaye as The Godfather by now.
I know, I know. It’s on my list of ‘things to watch one day’. Danny Kaye would have been a bizarre enough choice that I’d have seen it by now, though!
Superhero movies always have this problem.
X-men: I didn’t buy Jackman as Wolverine. He was okay, but he lacked something in the voice and delivery. Anna Paquin was a terrible choice for rogue, boring. Ditto that for Cyclops and Jean Grey, though they were merely neutral. Halle Berry’s performance was as usual, forgettable. Ian Mckellan’s Magneto was good, but he seemed to old to me for some reason. I know that the character may be that age, but he never appears that way. Lastly, Tyler Mane as Sabretooth was absolutely abysmal. Probably the most iconic Wolverine nemesis, and they just made him a punk. The design was bad, and the casting worse. I’m all for hiring a wrestler to play him, but hell there are plenty of seven-footers out there who have the look better than Mane. Sabretooth should not only be tall, but massive, and ugly to boot. Mark Calloway (the Undertaker) would have owned that part easily.
