Bad movie casting choices

Sassafras

Mark Wahlberg being cast as an actor.

rivercider

Shelley Duvall as Jack Nicholson’s wife in The Shining.

AlexC

Kevin Costner as Robin Hood. Just terrible from start to finish.

VimFuego

AlexC said:

Kevin Costner as Robin Hood. Just terrible from start to finish.

yeah, in the bridge fight with little john, Costner was upstaged by the quarter staff. 

Philly_Q

AlexC said:

Kevin Costner as Robin Hood. Just terrible from start to finish.

I knew that would come up. 

I think it's a very entertaining film.  Alan Rickman is brilliant and I actually love the fact that Costner doesn't even attempt a British accent.  It's in the spirit of films of the '40s and '50s when they didn't give a fuck about historical accuracy or who they cast so long as they put bums on cinema seats.

Of course it's ridiculous but it's a million times better than the more recent Robin Hood efforts with Russell Crowe and Taron Egerton.

Sassafras

For all we know Robin Hood could've been a clean-cut American. So little is known about him. Some fools even think he's fictional.

Sassafras

Mel Gibson as a Scot.

JezWynd

Winny_Pooh said:

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

Agreed. He pretty much managed to sink the prequel series with his performances. It amazes me they stuck with him, it must have been apparent early on that he wasn't hitting the mark, but then the script didn't help. That whole romance with the queen was very naff, can only think Lucas was going for an Oedipal vibe but there was zero chemistry between them and they both came across as curiously asexual - hardly the note you want to strive for in an empire defining romance.

They've been much more thoughtful in casting the reboot - Ridley and Boyega are great finds.

JezWynd

Funkfingers said:

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”

Actually, I watched The Greatest Story again and Wayne isn’t as bad as I’d remembered it. Max Von Sydow channelling Ming The Merciless to play Jesus though, is something else.

AlexC

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The big one for me - which film fans tend to overlook - is in Breakfast At Tiffany’s. Everyone goes on about how wonderful and iconic Audrey Hepburn is in her black dress, but rarely mention Mickey Rooney as her ‘hilarious’ Japanese neighbour.
Yes - that’s Mickey Rooney!

HAL9000

Sean Connery playing Irish cop in The Untouchables.

Cols

Has anyone done Topher Grace as Venom yet?

Just to throw a few more on the bonfire: anyone who wasn’t Schwarzenegger in Terminator: Genisys.  The whole film just made me want to go back and watch the first two in order to remind myself that it was once really good.

LastMantra

Sassafras said:

Ewan McGregor in that awful Angels and Demons film

Ewan McGregor in anything.

Cols

HAL9000 said:

Sean Connery playing Irish cop in The Untouchables.

You mean the one for which he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor?

C’mon, try harder.  Sean Connery as an Egyptian immortal?  Sean Connery as a Soviet nuclear submarine captain?  Sean Connery as King Richard?  Sir Sean as an Irish cop is at least plausible.

ICBM

AlexC said:

The big one for me - which film fans tend to overlook - is in Breakfast At Tiffany’s. Everyone goes on about how wonderful and iconic Audrey Hepburn is in her black dress, but rarely mention Mickey Rooney as her ‘hilarious’ Japanese neighbour.

Yes - that’s Mickey Rooney!

The whole character is horrifically racist by modern standards.

Sassafras

Uma Thurman as Emma Peel.
You just shouldn't mess with the classics.

Sassafras

rivercider said:

Shelley Duvall as Jack Nicholson’s wife in The Shining.

No, because halfway through the film I also wanted to hack her to death.
It would've been justifiable homicide.

Philly_Q

Cols said:

HAL9000 said:

Sean Connery playing Irish cop in The Untouchables.

You mean the one for which he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor?

C’mon, try harder.  Sean Connery as an Egyptian immortal?  Sean Connery as a Soviet nuclear submarine captain?  Sean Connery as King Richard?  Sir Sean as an Irish cop is at least plausible.

Perfect casting - Sean Connery in Zardoz.  Who better to say a word like "Zardoz"?

Cols

Philly_Q said:

Cols said:

HAL9000 said:

Sean Connery playing Irish cop in The Untouchables.

You mean the one for which he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor?

C’mon, try harder.  Sean Connery as an Egyptian immortal?  Sean Connery as a Soviet nuclear submarine captain?  Sean Connery as King Richard?  Sir Sean as an Irish cop is at least plausible.

Perfect casting - Sean Connery in Zardoz.  Who better to say a word like "Zardoz"?

I’m still waiting for an audio book narrated by Sean Connery of one of the children’s stories in my house.

It’s called “Big City Kitty”.

viz

VimFuego said:

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

Apart from Magnolia where he was utterly brilliant