Max Von Sydow as Evil Commandant Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told!
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
I second that. Also, George Clooney in the Batman flick. What was so dark about that knight?
I’m with you; I didn’t actually see that movie. I understand he also played a stoned teenager in My Own Private Idaho, Which I also did not see and in which I’ve heard he was good. If ever a guy needed permanent typecasting, it’s him.
This one I just remembered:
Tom Cruise as Lestat in Interview With the Vampire! Ack!
I’m sorry to have to be the one to tell you.
They cast James Marsden (the dude who played Cyclopes) as Preacher. Having never read the comics, I think I can still safely say this was a BAD choice.
Crouching Tiger: Chow Yun-Fat shouldn’t have been in the film; Jet Li woulda been soooo much better.
Don’t get me wrong; I love Chow Yun-Fat. I just don’t think he’s the right type for flying-swordsman movies.
Brad Pitt. Achilles.
Or Storm. Halle Berry.
Sorry Ororo should look slightly exotic. Think Iman in her prime. Halle looks far too American. I really got the impression that she was only cast because she was the only black actress who they could think of.
I was really hoping that now that she is an Oscar winner, they will stop miscasting Halle Berry in these comic roles and actually look for actresses who fit the part.I’ve read and enjoyed the comic, and it IS a bad casting.
Marsden just doesn’t have the nads for the role.
Alexandra Paul in Christine.
The exact opposite of the character as described in the book.
You know, beautiful.
Bonnie Bedilia as Bruce Willis’ wife in Die Hard.
Everybody in Star Wars:Episode 1
It was a pretty neat story, but the acting was so stiff!
I always pictured Stephen Root as Ignatius. He would be perfect with his Milton voice.
This is a whoosh, right? I mean, they wouldn’t do that. No one in their right mind would do that. So it can’t have happened. Right? Right?
Oh fuck.
Yup, does not bode well. Now, who are they going to get to play Cassidy braces self for worst.
I originally heard Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I thought how totally fucking perfect…which just compounds my current disappointment.
Stephen Root’s rather too old but I see your point :).
Meg Tilly as Madame de Tourvel in Valmont
Minnie Driver as Mabel in An Ideal Husband
An irritating role in a forgettable movie, but I’ll nominate Shannyn Sossamon as the love interest in A Knight’s Tale. Ms. Sossamon is a perfectly lovely young woman, but she’s lovely in a slim, modern, multi-ethnic way. I didn’t find her at all believable as an overbred medieval European noblewoman, and couldn’t help thinking that most men of the era probably would have thought she was too scrawny and foreign-looking to be worth marrying. A roll in the hay, sure, but I don’t see competing for her hand unless she had huge…tracts of land…to sweeten the deal.
Of course, it didn’t help matters that the hair/costume/makeup department was determined to do her up as a strange hybrid of 1960s Audrey Hepburn and 1980s David Bowie.
The casting in Harry Potter has ruined the movies for me.
The kids are perfect but the adults are all so old! Snape shouldnt be a senior citizen. If he was 15 years younger he would have been perfect for the part but now hes too old and jolly.
And when I saw Sirius ands then Lupin it was devestating.
Neurotik writes:
> It was just a bit part and maybe 30 seconds of screen time, but it was so
> jarring that it took me out of the show for the remainder of the episode. Just
> terrible casting. Who made that decision? Hadn’t they seen Fallon’s attmepts
> at acting before?
It could have been worse. It could have been both Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz in the jeep. They could have had them ad lib their lines.
It was his big screen debut according to the IMDB.