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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 8/6/2006 7:58:51 PM   
BurtreynoldsII


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ORIGINAL: Duderino

Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face in Batman Forever. Wasted opportunity.


Yeah, they totally shoulda brought back Billy Dee Williams for the part!

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Anything Geena Davis had ever been cast for. Except maybe The Fly in which she isn't badly cast but can't act anyway so didn't matter.


Have you seen Earth Girls Are Easy or Beetlejuice? Shes AWESOME!!
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Margot Kidder in the superman movies...


Are you nuts? She was great as Lois.....much better than Stockard Channing could ever have been!!


Add Long Kiss Goodnight and A League of Their Own to that list, she's quality. And used to be smokin' hot!

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 10/6/2006 1:08:48 PM   
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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 10/6/2006 6:19:19 PM   
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You have a point but Michael Clarke Duncan was still great as The Kingpin.


I personally thought he was pretty poor in it.  He had the look but the rest seemed lacking, then again that may have just been due to a poor script.

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 14/2/2007 7:06:08 PM   
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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 14/2/2007 11:29:59 PM   
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Bah, none of these compare to the Mac-Daddy of all Bad Casting Decisions!

John Wayne is GENGHIS KHAN!





Wasn't this film cursed?


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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 14/2/2007 11:47:03 PM   
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I mean, I would who wouldn't? BUT, cast as the Devil??
And she does a 'sexy' walk like a Giraffe who's just stood in shit.


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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 14/2/2007 11:57:37 PM   
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More recently I thought Djimoun Hounsou wasn't quite the kind of man you'd expect to be seeing Leo DiCaprio bitchslap around like a little poofter in Blood Diamond. Good for the relentless screaming in the trailers, but they could've thrown in, you, Chris Rock or Chris Tucker instead  

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 15/2/2007 12:53:53 AM   
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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 15/2/2007 1:17:11 AM   
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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 19/5/2007 2:26:00 PM   
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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 19/5/2007 10:46:54 PM   
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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 19/5/2007 11:32:07 PM   
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And I can't see Tom Hanks as Prof. Langdon in Da Vinci Code...


Yeah my sister and I both thought it should have been this guy



Noah Wyle

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 20/5/2007 12:49:24 AM   
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Yeah I agree that Hanks just didn't work at all. And there really are tons of actors who would have been far better.

Noah Wiley looks a bit young for my taste but he would have been better then Hanks and his weird hair. Personally I would have gone with...





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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 21/5/2007 2:23:27 PM   
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 Andie McDowell in pretty much everything.

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 21/5/2007 9:16:27 PM   
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 Mr Smith as an elf. Travesty. No true fan would have done this atrocity.  

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 22/5/2007 4:38:55 PM   
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Didn't Dan Brown say in the novel that Langdon had the look of Harrison Ford about him?
So why not cast him?
Too old?
Then go with Quaid.

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 12/7/2008 1:46:18 PM   
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 Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 12/7/2008 1:48:27 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Mason Verger

Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes


Seconded. And in a Guy Ritchie version? God, it's going to be excrutiatingly 'hip'....


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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 12/7/2008 1:51:15 PM   
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Mr Smith as an elf. Travesty. No true fan would have done this atrocity.  


True fan of what?


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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 12/7/2008 1:52:51 PM   
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Mr Smith as an elf. Travesty. No true fan would have done this atrocity.  

True fan of what?


Indeed, I thought he suited the role totally myself. Hugo Weaving isn't just Agent Smith you know Bozo...

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 12/7/2008 3:19:13 PM   
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Any casting decision involving eva mendez, and especially making hayden christenssen play as anakin skywalker, really big mistake

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 12/7/2008 3:27:06 PM   
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...like a little poofter


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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 12/7/2008 4:18:54 PM   
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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 12/7/2008 5:41:09 PM   
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I agree with the Keanu Reeves opinions. Hes been miscast in everything apart from Bill and Ted. He was good in the Matrix but only because the character of Neo was meant to be a blank slate sort, but then anyone could have done it.

Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire. And old gripe but still a good one.

I never liked Rene Zelleweger as Bridgit Jones.

Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy. Just awful.

Most of Woody Allens casting decisions of late.

All people who just dont belong in period dramas yet end up in them all the time, Winona Ryder, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Kiera Knightly etc

Pretty much everything Jason Lee does outside of Kevin Smith films.

Julia Roberts in Closer.

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 12/7/2008 5:44:16 PM   
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 Nicholas cage as Johnnyblaze/Ghost rider.He was too old for the part and was..well,crap.

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 12/7/2008 5:45:23 PM   
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Michael Caine as Alfred - stands out like a sore thumb.

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 12/7/2008 6:21:43 PM   
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Jason Statham....thats it.

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 12/7/2008 7:11:13 PM   
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ORIGINAL: kdawg

Jason Statham....thats it.



All of the "so-and-so in anything" posts in here are so generic and boring. And I see Darth Silas put in his redundant opinion about Daniel Craig in twice. Good going there.

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 14/7/2008 3:45:33 PM   
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 Will Smith- I Am Legend, I love a smudger movie, he's great for event films but he couldn't have been further from the character in the book if he tried!!!!

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RE: Worst casting decisions ever - 14/7/2008 3:50:20 PM   
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