movies defeated by poor casting

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the house of mirth
two people (by all accounts)
anything with anthony hopkins

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― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Grease 2

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that could have been a masterpiece

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~davidj2/neo.jpg

― Ted Theodore Logan (nickalicious), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

british movies.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The Professional, or The Specialist, which everone had Stallon and Stone. The other is grebt.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

fire walk with me

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

hopkins is grebt in bram stoker's dracula which is however very def defeated by poor casting

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.posterplanet.net/pictures/images/Kr1c3.jpg

― Ted Theodore Logan (nickalicious), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

which is the poor casting in dracula mark? (i haven't seen it. no actually i have but i remember nothing of it.)

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Refer to the post directly above yours.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

???

the bad casting in fire walk with me was the "new" donna yes?

sheryl lee is grebt

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

also:

http://imagesource.allposters.com:80/images/128/039_b71213.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't see images for some reason what are you all posting?

i hope they are not pictures of bill bellamy

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

wynona

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I can see how you could get Wynona Ryder and BIll Bellamy confused, though.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

am: yes, among kiefer, bowie, isaak.

also (not really related): lyle lovett in the player/short cuts has to be among the worst acting imaginable.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm always surprised to remember that Winona Ryder has TWO Oscar nominations under her belt.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

no andie macdowell was worse to my reckoning.

lovett had the appeal of a nonprofessional in a hyperprofessional context.

winona sigh i must admit you are all right but she is so lurvely

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

andie macdowell is of course worse but has she ever actually been in a film which wd have been any good w.anyone else?

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"Four Weddings And A Funeral" would have been cute if practically anyone else had played Andie MacDowell's role. And I mean ANYONE. It could have been Bruce Villanch.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

this is true i've forgotten the purpose of my own thread. "short cuts" would never have been a good film.

"the house of mirth" was beautifully made and written but the casting was just terrible. i'm mixed about ms anderson but eric stoltz and laura linney were wrong for their parts, not to mention dan ackroyd.

of course jodhi may is always perfect.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

once you start making actor-switches in 4 weddings the auction never ends

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't mind any of the British actors in 4WaaF but then again I also think that most people in the UK are accurately represented by Dick Van Dyke's character in "Mary Poppins".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

andie macdowell is of course worse but has she ever actually been in a film which wd have been any good w.anyone else?

Groundhog Day is, of course, indisputably classic, but can you imagine how good it could've been without Horse-Face MacDowell??

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

fugitive fr.the kinky thread!!

http://bcn.bi.org/issue37/simon.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

sam raimi's the gift is chock full of v. poor (the worst possible?) casting but I still liked it!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked it too. Keanu will never be a believable badass though.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

mark s.! that reminds me of the man/woman that answers the question of where the apt. supervisor is in (ans: "catorce") on the first page of love and rockets #3!!!!!!!!!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

3 the comic or 3 the book, gygax!?

(also did you ever see the L&R q i put on that thread where custos and kingfish were blitering on abt something to do w.antman or somesuch...?)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Horace Mann and I demand representation, mark.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i felt yr contribution was insightful yet heartfelt leee

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I give thanks to the talented and lovely mark s.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

it was the comic, i will do an ILE search on "antman" post haste.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i have the booXors but they are all out of order i think

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax! please make a contribution to Hank "Ant Man" Pym in Marvel Comix Sex Scandal SHOCKA!

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

lordy, that's gonna have to be tonight/tomorrow.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Payback :
http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9902/04/payback.ter/gibson.jpg should have been played by http://images.toronto.com/feature/478/216.jpg

Planet of the Apes :
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/showbiz.today/images/2001/07/scene.wahlberg.jpg should have been played by http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38119000/jpg/_38119642_rhys160.jpg

Alien 4 :
http://www.tassie.net.au/~jaherne/alienhost/xenomorph/alienchild.jpg should have been played by http://www.alluvium.com/~wes/siflolly/pics/siflolly16.jpg

― Herbstmute (Wintermute), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Every movie ever should have starred me.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 November 2003 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

come on ama you know you loved hopkins in The Edge!

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

he was good in Titus too

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Mary Fucking Reilly. Is there a less appropriate actress for this role besides Julia Roberts? Maybe Tara Reid?

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

What the fuck is up with Tom Cruise being cast as Phil Spector in a rumoured Cameron Crowe biopic? WHAT THE FUCK?

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

^Cameron Crowe-directed biopic, I meant.

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

What the fuck is up with Nicholas Cage being cast as Superman in a rumoured Kevin Smith action flick? WHAT THE FUCKNUGGET!?

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

what is "the edge"?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"Total Recall" would've been so much better without Arnie: imagine some good actor playing a guy who comes to realize he isn't who he thought he was.

"The Cube's" basic flaw were the characters, though that had as much to do with the script than with the bad actors.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

amateurist you MUST see the edge

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

All American movies about foreign people casted with only Americans.

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"casted"

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Gone in 60 Seconds

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

why should i see "the edge"?

the problem dominique (i think that's your name) is that means practically half of the hollywood films ever made, including some of the very best ones.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

the Razor's Edge?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess so. Mostly I'm referring to blatant mis-castings of big stars as foreigners, like Nick Nolte in that Barbara Streisand movie or Keanu Reeves in Dracula. This also refers to non-Southerners as Southerners. It's not like I was going to like this anyway, but every single person in Steel Magnolias except Dolly Parton made me cringe.

Bad accents will ruin the performance of even the best actor IMO.

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

What the fuck is up with Michael Keaton being cast as Batman? Bruce Wayne looking like he sucked on the citrus section throughout the whole movie! Kim Basinger? Nicholson (he was ok, but too squat). Vat der fonk?!!

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

people should only play themselves. anything else is a sham.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean neither joan fontaine nor louis jourdan are viennese...

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

people should only play themselves. anything else is a sham.

You want more unemployed actors on the breadline, Horace?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

then someone could make a movie about unemployed actors and the hard times befallen them by the harsh rule of World President Mann

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

until foreigners learn their own accents properly they'll just have to accept that brad pitt is going to portray them

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

he puts the poor back in portray, har har

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(note: "har har" is Horace Mann shorthand for "i know it's not funny")

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

oh oh i have one (don't shoot me)

"paris, texas"

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(thinking of natassja kinski, dean stockwell's wife and a host of passing characters. stockwell and harry dean stanon are great.)

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the weird kid from Invaders From Mars is weird in that too

amateurist i think you might hate the edge :(

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

aside from kinski the worst part about "paris texas" is the german doctor. which i guess isn't *that* far fetched along the mexican border but it just reminds you that you're watching this weird europudding coproduction made by a german director, when it's supposed to be some kind of archetypal american story.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

judy davis in 'absolute power'. no classic for sure but filled with all the good good people (ed harris, scott glenn, dennis haysbert etc.) doing a lot with very little. judy davis however seems to think she's in the muppet show. how the scene at the party where she dances with gene hackman hasn't become a legend of so-bad-it's-good-ness is a mystery.

putting her name and 'absolute power' in google and i came up with
'she overacts so much she could have been replaced by martin short' !

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Cronenberg's "Scanners" has the most blah, lousy performance by lead Stephen Lack. Not as bad as Leigh McCluskey in Argento's "Inferno" who wanders around the entire film as if waiting for someone to tell him what to do.

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

c'mon, the coppola dracula rules!

a friend of mine convinced me that keanu's shittiness works in the film's benefit: john IS a clod, right? (wynona's shittiness complicates the theory)

― g--ff, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Coppola's Dracula was a laugh, and no the Reeves shittiness wasn't a benefit

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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