Bad movie casting choices

HAL9000

Sean Connery as Bond
George Lazenby as Bond
Timothy Dalton as Bond
Roger Moore as Bond
Pierce Brisbane as Bond

octatonic

Russell Crowe in Les Misérables.
Ashton Kutcher in Jobs.
Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell.
Emma Stone in Aloha.

Sassafras

Charlton Heston as Ben Hur.
Kirk Douglas as Spartacus.
Victor Mature as Samson.
There's a theme developing here.

VimFuego

Tom Cruise in, well, anything he's ever been in really. 

Philly_Q

BigBearKris said:

Clooney as Batman
Keaton as Batman
Bale as Batman
Affleck as Batman.

Most Batmen.

You're a big Val Kilmer fan then?

Fuengi

Russell Crowe in The Insider. Decent performance but I felt he was a certain strange choice.

Brilliant film still.

Funkfingers

BigBearKris said:

Keaton as Batman

Buster would have been excellent in the role.

JezWynd said:

John Wayne as the Centurian in The Greatest Story Ever Told - “Truly this man was the son of gaad”.

Director: “Say it with awe, Duke.”

Marion: ”Aw. Truly this man was the sarn of gahd.”

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My nomination, Tony Hancock in The Rebel. 

Nunogilberto

Tom Cruise as Reacher - I didn’t find his acting the issue, just the fact that a bloke who’s meant to be big and hard was played by a 5 foot 4 fella...

Winny_Pooh

Leonardo Dicaprio in The Aviator (sent a boy to do a man's job)

Anne Hathaway in Interstellar ( -0 chemistry)

Daniel Craig in Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. (Wooden, and a bruiser playing a journalist?)

Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl
(yea academy award blah, but a beautiful olive skinned woman married to an ugly Danish man is too much a suspension of disbelief) 

Domhnall Gleeson in About Time (either he's too weedy or Rachel Mcadams is unrealistically good looking) 

Hayden Christanson on the Star Wars Prequels (awful awful actor)

Tom Hiddleston in Kong Skull Island (just felt like the wrong guy in the wrong place. Ewan Mcgregor instead) 

Philly_Q

Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes.

Sassafras

Philly_Q said:

Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes.

Better than Benadryl Bumberclart.
I actually thought Jude Law was wrong for Dr Watson.

King85

Sassafras said:

Matt Damon in the Martian.
I found him unconvincing as a botanical boffin.
Even if he does look very potato-like.

I think the biggest problem with the Martian was how much was left out compared to the book and its this that made the whole science side of it seem so shallow really.

Amazing book, sub par film.

I can't for the life of me understand why they made the genies face look like Smith though it looks awful. Why couldn't he have voiced a genie character that looked more like the cartoon genie.

lovestrat74

John Malkovich in "Being John Malkovich"

Fuengi

Winny_Pooh said:

Leonardo Dicaprio in The Aviator (sent a boy to do a man's job)

Anne Hathaway in Interstellar ( -0 chemistry)

Daniel Craig in Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. (Wooden, and a bruiser playing a journalist?)

Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl
(yea academy award blah, but a beautiful olive skinned woman married to an ugly Danish man is too much a suspension of disbelief) 

Domhnall Gleeson in About Time (either he's too weedy or Rachel Mcadams is unrealistically good looking) 

Hayden Christanson on the Star Wars Prequels (awful awful actor)

Tom Hiddleston in Kong Skull Island (just felt like the wrong guy in the wrong place. Ewan Mcgregor instead) 

Good point on Daniel Craig. I've not read the book but he didn't fit the part somehow. 

Sassafras

Ewan McGregor in that awful Angels and Demons film

Sassafras

Daniel Craig as James Bond.
Isn't Bond supposed to be suave and sophisticated, able to infiltrate all strata of society, not a slab-faced pub brawler?

Sassafras

I think a lot of film producers just take on whichever actor they perceive as having box office draw regardless of whether they're suited to the part or not.

VimFuego

I actually like D Craig as Bond, the thing about Bond was he was a killer and a ''blunt instrument'', I think he fits that role really well. 

matdotcodot

Colin Farrell as Arturo Bandini in John Fante's Ask the Dust, John Fante is one of my favourite writers and probably a bit unheralded compared to other depression era writers. This film really does not do him any favours.

crunchman

Several of the supporting characters in the Lord of the Rings.  Don't know the names of the actors, but Denethor, Faramir, and Eowyn were nothing like I imagined them from the book.  Liv Tyler didn't fit the Arwen part as is it is in the book either.

Viggo Mortenson and Sean Bean are good actors, and weren't dreadful, but they again they weren't like they were in the book.  I do look on the bright side there though.  At least Peter Jackson didn't cast Tom Cruise as Aragorn.

To be fair, I thought that Gandalf, the hobbits, and Gimli were cast well, and some of the other roles like Hugo Weaving as Elrond, Kate Blanchett as Galadriel, and Christopher Lee as Saruman were cast well.