Least Appropriate Casting in Films

[Arkaign]

What's your votes? Sometimes bad casting is fun, like Sean Connery as a Russian Sub Captain (I think he was actually supposed to be Lithuanian, but that's not exactly a match for a Scottish Brogue!), sometimes it's just painful.

Some that come to me :

Liam Neeson as a Southern US hillbilly in 'Next of Kin'. Not only does he look completely impossible to be Patrick Swayze's brother, but Liam's great Irish presence just seems bizarre in context.

Timothy Olyphant in Hitman. He just totally wasn't Agent 47. Really they probably needed an unknown in that role, very pale, very tall, and very malevolent in feeling. The IMDB boards are full of other people that have noticed this crazy casting. Olyphant has been fine in other stuff before, but this was terrible casting.

Edward G. Robinson in The Ten Commandments. Hahaha, awesome. Super old school gangster actor playing a Hebrew slave? Does not compute, although it was pretty funny.

and my personal favorite :

Tom Selleck as the King of Spain in Christopher Columbus. I remember watching it and it was bad all the way through, but seeing poor Tom in that role just made me squirm in my seat. Sigh.

 

[zinfamous]

Orlando Bloom in Kingdom of Heaven.

what about Harrison Ford in that other sub movie?

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Michael J Fox in Casualties of War. C'mon Doc... you can't be raping girls like that!

 

[Anubis]

Orlando Bloom in Kingdom of Heaven.

what about Harrison Ford in that other sub movie?

k19 the widowmaker

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

darth vader. hayden c.

 

[Arkaign]

Orlando Bloom in Kingdom of Heaven.

what about Harrison Ford in that other sub movie?

Good call on Orlando Bloom. He was definitely too effiminate (sp?) to play a crusader/hand to hand warrior. He's not a half-bad actor (I've seen him pop up in the occassional indie flick), but the closest he should get to action is shooting arrows as an elf.

Harrison Ford in K19 I thought was actually sort of okay, mainly because he didn't have nearly as crucial a role as Connery did in THRO, nor as distinct an accent. I do think that it would have been cooler if they had cast a real Russian lead in it though, but I guess studios are scared of failing at the box office if they don't have a 'draw'. The joke was on them with that one though. I saw it and was entertained, but I think I'm one of 11 people that saw that movie, and 5 of us are now dead.

Can you imagine if instead of Jürgen Prochnow in Das Boot, they had cast hmm, 1981 ... William Shatner? It would be a classic for a whole other less awesome reason if that had happened.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Tobey Maguire in Spiderman.
I just can't stand his acting, he's more annoying than the kid in Terminator 2.
Also, he seems like much too much of a wuss for that part.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

Tobey Maguire in Spiderman.
I just can't stand his acting, he's more annoying than the kid in Terminator 2.
Also, he seems like much too much of a wuss for that part.

eric foreman as venom.

 

[Numenorean]

Good call on Orlando Bloom. He was definitely too effiminate (sp?) to play a crusader/hand to hand warrior. He's not a half-bad actor (I've seen him pop up in the occassional indie flick), but the closest he should get to action is shooting arrows as an elf.

Harrison Ford in K19 I thought was actually sort of okay, mainly because he didn't have nearly as crucial a role as Connery did in THRO, nor as distinct an accent. I do think that it would have been cooler if they had cast a real Russian lead in it though, but I guess studios are scared of failing at the box office if they don't have a 'draw'. The joke was on them with that one though. I saw it and was entertained, but I think I'm one of 11 people that saw that movie, and 5 of us are now dead.

Can you imagine if instead of Jürgen Prochnow in Das Boot, they had cast hmm, 1981 ... William Shatner? It would be a classic for a whole other less awesome reason if that had happened.

Bloom did well in the Pirates movies...well at least the first one and second one. The third one just sucked.

 

[joesmoke]

justin timberlake being cast in anything is least appropriate

 

[Numenorean]

Tobey Maguire in Spiderman.
I just can't stand his acting, he's more annoying than the kid in Terminator 2.
Also, he seems like much too much of a wuss for that part.

I don't think he was that bad, but they totally fucked his character up in the last movie. The whole emo-Parker shit was just fucking lame. Not much he could do about it - it was the writers and shit. But if it was me, I would have looked at that script and tossed it in a fire and told them to go fuck themselves. So I guess he sucks for going along with it.

 

[Gibson486]

justin timberlake being cast in anything is least appropriate

but but...he's bringing sexy back

 

[dainthomas]

What?!? Connery in Red October was freakin' awesome. I couldn't even imagine anyone else in that movie.

And who even noticed anyone besides Olga Kurylenko in Hitman? Crazy hot!

 

[surfsatwerk]

Yoda in star wars. Srsly who is going to believe a little green troll is some bad ass jedi. Too much CGI needed to make his role believable.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible or Knight and Day or anything else in that genre. Seeing him as an action hero is funnier than anything Seth Rogen has ever done.

 

[IcePickFreak]

Nicolas Cage in every movie he has showed up in. Except for "Bad Lieutenant", but I think that was more of "a day in the life of Nick Cage" than a movie.

 

[surfsatwerk]

Nicolas Cage in every movie he has showed up in. Except for "Bad Lieutenant", but I think that was more of "a day in the life of Nick Cage" than a movie.

Bullshit, Raising Arizona required him to work.

 

[spacejamz]

Tom Hanks in Davinci Code/Angels and Demons

 

[Arkaign]

What?!? Connery in Red October was freakin' awesome. I couldn't even imagine anyone else in that movie.

And who even noticed anyone besides Olga Kurylenko in Hitman? Crazy hot!

Hahah, yeah Connery was awesome, but only Connery could get away with something as ridiculous as being an incredibly SCOTTISH russian sub captain If it were anyone else they would have expected the actor to at least try to sound Russian.

Olga won Hitman. The rest of the film was trash, including Olyphant, but I guess that's average for video game films.

If only quality directors and screenwriters would get involved in making Video game films. I'd love to see a David Fincher vision of Deus Ex or Half-Life, or perhaps Guillermo Del Toro, etc. Not Puke Bowl.

 

[ViviTheMage]

I thought Timothy Olyphant kicked ass in Hitman .... I had realllllllllllllllllllllllllllly low expectations though.

I never really saw Olyphant stand out in any other movie, so he did look like a new guy to me when hitman came out.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Shia LeBeouf - anything and everything

 

[FDF12389]

Timothy Olyphant in Hitman. He just totally wasn't Agent 47. Really they probably needed an unknown in that role, very pale, very tall, and very malevolent in feeling. The IMDB boards are full of other people that have noticed this crazy casting. Olyphant has been fine in other stuff before, but this was terrible casting.

This. Maybe Jason Statham could have pulled it off, but at the very least he would have been better than Olyphant.

And who even noticed anyone besides Olga Kurylenko in Hitman? Crazy hot!

Seriously? :\

 

[AreaCode707]

Marlin Brando as an Asian character? Teahouse of the August Moon
John Wayne as Ghengis Khan. The Conquerer
Robert Donat as the Chinese warlord. Inn of the Sixth Happiness.

 

[Alone]

Almost the entire Spiderman (1/2/3) cast pissed me off. Exception was pretty much only JJ.

Collin Ferrel was a fucking weird choice for Alexander.

Julia Roberts in any movie she was in.

Nick Cage in 8mm.

 

[Arkaign]

Marlin Brando as an Asian character? Teahouse of the August Moon
John Wayne as Ghengis Khan. The Conquerer
Robert Donat as the Chinese warlord. Inn of the Sixth Happiness.

Hahah, yeah they used to totally use white actors for asian characters. The very first role of Humphrey Bogart was a Japanese Butler according to his wiki (gf and I just watched 'The African Queen', pretty cool old flick with the usual snappy dialogue). For some reason thinking of Bogie as a Japanese Butler makes me