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There are many factors that go into creating a great film. The writing, directing, cinematography and acting must all come together to perfectly compliment the score and the film’s themes. If even one small detail is off, the entire movie can go from excellent to mediocre, and that includes the casting.
If you’ve ever watched a movie where it felt like one actor in particular was always taking you out of their character's world, it’s likely that they just weren’t the best casting choice. Cinephiles on Reddit have been discussing some of the films where questionable casting bothered them, so below, you'll some of their most insightful and controversial thoughts, as well as an interview with the person behind IMO Flicks. Enjoy reading through if you're a movie buff yourself, and be sure to upvote all of the hot takes you agree with!
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#1
James Corden, in anything and everything he's ever been in.
SoapMonkey76 1 year ago
Dear America, we realise that Mr Corden's talkshow has finished and you are keen to return him to us but please, please, please keep him. Thanks.
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#2
Not really a good movie, but when it comes to miscasting I immediately think of Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart in Snow White and the Huntsman.
Charlize is too good looking to be a Queen who is supposed to be jealous of a Snow White who looks like Kristen. Not saying Kristen is ugly, she’s fine, but Charlize is easily another tier.
Debbie 1 year ago
Nonono I looooved Charlize in this movie! I'd say that Kristen is not the right beauty for SnowWhite. She should have flowing/wavy black hair and full lips. Not too full though. But Charlize was great. Definitely not too good looking, as the queen was and should be beautifull, but her aging makes her feel less pretty and she feels threatened by youth. So Charlize was a very good match. Kristen was not.
To gain more insight on this topic from a movie expert, we reached out to the team at IMO Flicks, a film review hub, to hear their thoughts on how poor casting choices can impact a movie. First, we wanted to know if they've ever been distracted by miscast actors. "The Sun is Also a Star, which starred Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton, is one movie that really stands out to me for its bad casting choices," the site's representative told Bored Panda. "The female lead in the movie is a Jamaican girl from New York, and her whole family is dark-skinned and Jamaican. Yara Shahidi, on the other hand, is light-skinned, half-black, half-Iranian, with no Jamaican in sight, and it definitely hindered the authenticity that this film requires. Shahidi didn't present any Jamaican or New York culture. She was just reciting a script, not becoming a character."
"There is one scene where her character is recommended to chemically straighten her hair. As a black woman, this scene comes off as extremely unrealistic, since Shahidi would be considered to have 'good hair' in the black community," the cinephile went on to explain. "A dark-skinned woman with kinkier hair would have been more affected by this comment, but Shahidi was able to laugh it off. Moments like that which could have had a deeper cultural impact were missed opportunities because the actors chosen were not fit to embody those roles. I feel as though casting a full Korean character and a dark-skinned Jamaican character with beautiful tight-coiled Type 4 hair would have the potential to make this film more authentic and something people can actually relate to. Instead of the heartwarming story that this movie could've been, it rather resembled a superficial display of pretty people, not real characters."
#3
ok, I'm bending the question a bit here, because The World is Not Enough still wouldn't be a good movie, but:
Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist is just the worst, y'all
#4
Jared Leto as Joker
*he was big miscast for the joker ... but im not so sure bout the part:"in an otherwise good movie"
Raven Sheridan 1 year ago
Heath Ledger IS the Joker, as far as I'm concerned. His performance was mind blowing! Although I have to say that Joaquin Phoenix's performance was a worthy successor.
#5
Kevin Costner as Robin Hood.
Alan Rickman, Morgan Freeman, and just about everyone else turned in outstanding performances, but Costner... Still a good movie though.
"Good casting can make or break a movie for sure," the person behind IMO Flicks noted. "Having solid characters that feel real, and make you feel, pity, empathy, anger, anything; characters that make you believe they're real is the difference between watching National Geographic and watching a movie. How many people would pay to watch the latest nature documentary in theatres versus how many people would pay to watch Chris Evan's latest movie without even knowing what the plot is about? The difference is the people, the characters, and the connection."
"There's this show I've been loving lately called Jury Duty on Freevee where showrunners cast one person, Ronald Gladden, off of Craigslist to take part in a fake trial where everyone else was actors," the cinephile continued. "The whole show relied on how cooperative, expressive, and involved this one person was. By the end of the season, I couldn't help but think how lucky the showrunners were in picking the perfect person as their subject because the success of the whole show relied solely on Gladden's reaction to the wild situations he was put in, and he didn't disappoint."
#6
Batman vs Supeeman wasn’t a very good movie but it is nothing compared to the casting of Lex Luthor in the movie. Jesse Eisenberg can be a good actor but the chosen direction on Lex is a complete oposite of where Jesse shines as an actor. I have a hard time thinking about a worse actor for the role. Maybe Michael Cera.
Donkeywheel 1 year ago
Jesse eisenberg is not a good actor to start with. He has only one way of acting and does it bad.
#7
Captain Correli's Mandolin could be a beautiful movie, if it wasn't for Nick Cage.
Because the power of casting is so strong, we also asked the film expert if there were any mediocre movies or shows that were enhanced by excellent casting choices. "The series Wednesday would be an average show lost in the noise if it wasn't for Jenna Ortega," she explained. "She truly understood who her character was and pushed the envelope to make the appropriate changes to the script. The acting across the board for other characters tended to dip into 'Disney Channel original movie' energy, but she elevated the quality of the whole narrative by being very intentional, tasteful, consistent, and believable in how her character presented herself."
#9
Absolutely Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I love the man, but that accent is something else. If he hadn’t been in the film I’m almost certain there’d be no debate that this was the best and most faithful Dracula adaptation.
#10
Johnny Depp in the Fantastic Beasts Franchise.
He just doesn't belong there.
His acting is good, he nailed his speech in the second film. But no Potter World Material.
The Exquisite Pancake 1 year ago
No matter how much I adore Johnny Depp he was so wrong in Fantastic beasts
#11
recently finished Queen’s Gambit and thought it was great but I could not take the baby cowboy seriously
We were also curious if the IMO Flicks expert could cite some of the most common mistakes casting directors make when choosing their actors. "One mistake I sometimes notice is that you may have two individuals who are great actors on their own, but when they work together, there is no chemistry there," she told Bored Panda. "I don't know if casting directors are skipping chemistry reads or if a good chemistry read was unable to transfer to the screen, but the main characters have to have a real connection or at least be really good at faking it."
"Another mistake would be to cast a popular name over someone who may not be so popular but has all of the tools needed to make a character believable," the cinephile continued. "Anyone would watch any movie with their favorite actor, so that's instant money in the creator's hands just to have a big name attached to their movie. The issue though is that the attention for the film is short-lived if the actor is not a good fit for the role. It's risky to present a movie with a not-so-familiar name, however, some truly amazing stories will pay off that risk. Oftentimes, it feels as though some movie creators will try to compensate for a bad story by casting big names, instead of fleshing out believable characters and a story that people can connect with."
#12
Guy Pearce in Prometheus. Like good god why didn’t they just cast an older actor??
#13
I know people here LOVE Adam Driver, but I found him to be extremely distracting in SW. he looks nothing like Ford or Fisher. More importantly he just looks weird (or unique depending on your perspective). I know it’s probably taboo to say this, but his nose was really distracting to look at, especially in RoS, where there’s a lot of his profile shots.
I know I’ll be downvotes, but I thought I’d share anyway.
Captain Kyra 1 year ago
I didn't understand the swooning people were doing over him, but he is a talented actor.
#14
Cameron Diaz in gangs of New York. Anytime I start watching that movie I always forget that she’s in it and then she pops up on screen and I just get disappointed.
Fool of a Took 1 year ago
I dunno about this one. Her character needed that charismatic, chaotic, slightly trashy energy that Cameron Diaz can bring. Thinking back to 2002, I’m not sure who else would have fit.
"Movies are make-believe," the film expert added. "If the people being cast are not making you believe the story that they're telling, then it's really difficult to become invested in a movie and to actually enjoy it. Great casting is essential to a great movie."
If you'd like to hear more of this cinephile's thoughts or learn how to start writing reviews of your own, be sure to check out IMO Flicks' website right here!
#15
Mila Kunis as the Wicked Witch in Oz the Great and Powerful.
Mariele Scherzinger 1 year ago
Actors are hired for their bankability. Unfortunately, suitability for a role is usually a very minor factor in the film producers' eyes.
#16
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
Donkeywheel 1 year ago
Cara delevingne is a scam and an enigma. How did she get there without a single drop of talent in anything?
#17
Andie McDowell just seems so out of place in *Four Weddings and a Funeral*.
Mickey Rooney in *Breakfast at Tiffany's*? What the hell was that?
Voodoops_13 1 year ago
Oh, Mickey Rooney and his racist-as-hell caricature Mr. Yunioshi "Missus Golightly! I mushh PRO-TESHT!" His scenes are cringy and take you out of the movie.
#18
Russell Crowe in Les Miserables
Katie Holmes in Batman Begins
Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle
guyx23 1 year ago
Les Mis movie is one of the worst musical adaptations I've seen, they slaughtered a masterpiece – though to be fair the fault lies mostly with the director in this case.
Kines Tezja 1 year ago (edited)
It's simple - if you adapt a musical, you hire people who can sing PERFECTLY. That's why theatre musical fans are usually disappointed with the movies.
BeepBoop the Single Pringle 1 year ago (edited)
and that's why I try to stick to watching the musicals on YouTube. Sadly illegal to have them up there, but they're good. But funny enough I really like all of the musicals that I've seen that were actually based off of movies. That's newsies, legally blonde (which I actually got to see live last month), and Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. And I wasn't too disappointed about Into the Woods, but I also watched the play in my theatre class, so I had already seen the movie. It's a little sad that they took out a few of my favorite lines, and I didn't really like the princes as much, but I liked seeing more detail of Rapunzel (I wanted to add that the Seussical was also weirdly good and hilarious. It brings some of Dr Seuss' good books together into a musical as one story. This one guy is literally dressed up as the Grinch the whole time and he only says one or two lines lol)
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natie marie 1 year ago
Controversial opinion. I liked him in les mis.. I even liked his version of stars.. its rougher but also sung softer and I think that suits the character and the song more
AphraEva 1 year ago
I agree. I much preferred his singing to most of the others. He performed it and got the emotions which is the important thing!
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N Miller 1 year ago
Mr Crowe just doesn't have a powerful enough voice for Javert. At least compared to the rest of the cast. Had it not been a musical, he would have been perfectly cast - his pipes just don't have the calibre to go against Mr Jackson.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
At least he does actually sing and has (had?) a band he was frontman for.
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Carrie B 1 year ago
I wish Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams would have switched roles in American Hustle. Jennifer was awesome but too young for that role.
AphraEva 1 year ago
Absolutely. Unconvincing as a housewife. Also was Amy Adams supposed to be doing an English accent? If so it was a major fail
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Valerie Witter 1 year ago
His acting wasn’t bad, but who thought it was a good idea to have him sing?
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 1 year ago
The whole movie was just "wet". Everything was always wet, spitty, rainy, watery, teary. Overdramatic and cringey to watch. Russell Crowe in everything. Never been a fan.
Mary Kelly 1 year ago
yes, yes, and no...jennifer lawrence was great in that film...she is kinda annoying IRL...but she always delivers on screen
Lesley Richard 1 year ago
Musicals to movies should cast musical theatre performers. Norm Lewis as Javert and Alfie Boe as Valjean. So disappointing.
Kinoto 1 year ago
She just didn't fit in ... so the same with Scientology?
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Raccoon Queen 1 year ago
He’s just not a good singer, he was among great singers his voice just couldn’t compare. His acting was great however
#20
Adrien Brody Predators, not as good as the first 2 films but a decent sequel i find entertaining. I just dont buy him as the badass action star that goes toe to toe with a Predator
#21
Topher Grace in Spider-Man 3. I really believe it would’ve been much better if Tom Hardy was given Venom.
#22
Sofia Coppola in Godfather Part 3. Broke the movie in a few scenes
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
So good she was able to bounce back from the drubbing she received in that and become an accomplished director instead
#23
Ben Affleck in Daredevil.... He's a great actor, the role sucked, the movie was fun to watch though.
#24
Just about everyone in Batman and Robin.
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze is probably top of the list though. As someone who grew up on Batman: The Animated Series and was blown away by Heart of Ice I couldn't wait for a big screen version. Then we got, well, what we got.
Just imagine what a late 90s Patrick Stewart could have done in that role. With a completely different script and director of course.
#25
Brad Pitt in Troy. He's not terrible or anything. It's just funny to listen to him attempt to dial in a british accent. Or better yet, the guy who plays his cousin is really corny. Fun movie, fun cast when it comes down to it. I just roll my eyes every time he shows up lol
Mariele Scherzinger 1 year ago (edited)
A lot was wrong with that film. But it was meant to be purely entertaining, and never claimed to be fully accurate to its source material. Brad Pitt was one of the most bankable actors at the time, so there you go. For example, I was quite disappointed that they did not integrate a small role for Cassandra.
#26
Whatever horrific creature they got to dub the voice of Bob in Lucio Fulci's House By the Cemetery.
Topher Grace as Venom.
Russell Crowe in the 2011 Robin Hood movie.
David Thewlis as Ares.
Ezra Miller as The Flash.
Betsy Russell as Jill Tuck.
Matthew Broderick as Simba. (Never thought his voice fit the character IMO. Even when I was a kid, I never heard "Simba" - I only ever heard an actor trying to play "Simba".)
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
I will never understand why WB let go of Johnny for the "allegations" that weren't even true, yet they keep Ezra miller after that bastard has literally been on a crime spree beating people up, grooming kids, etc, and there's proof of it because he literally taunted the police. WTF.
#27
Jack Black in The Holiday. It would’ve been an okay romcom with someone else but he just stood out like a sore thumb. If he would’ve been funny it might’ve worked, but it was like they made him a neutered version of himself.
#28
NPH in Gone Girl is always my go to
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
I thought he was fine. Just another poor sod who trusted that psycho nut. (If the reference is to him being gay, boy you are not ready to watch any mini-series that had Richard Chamberlain in it.)
#29
Unpopular opinion: Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate.
Now, of course he was brilliant - made his name in that movie. And he made the movie with his performance.
But that character was supposed to be a WASP college athlete - handsome & vigorous, which is why Mrs Robinson wanted to get him in the sack. DH was none of those things.
The role should have gone to Richard Benjamin (who appeared in a minor part in the movie), but it would have been a forgettable romcom. DH made it a classic.
#30
Emma Watson as belle
What do you think ?
Emma S 1 year ago (edited)
Any film where a North American actor plays a British person and can't do the accent. Britain has many different accents so it's annoying when American actors immediately try to play the role with a sterotypical 'cor blimey guv'ner' type accent. No one talks like that anywhere in Britain. Not even in East London. Stop it. Just no. Don Cheadle in Ocean's. D**k Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. We've already had Keanu. Some American actors can do good British accents. Renee Zellwegger in Bridget Jones, for example. Our accent is a big part of our identity in the UK and are important to us, because as I said our accents differ so much in such a small area. I'm from Birmingham but my accent is very different from say Liverpool, but they're just a couple of hours drive from each other.
Mariele Scherzinger 1 year ago
Any actor that can't do the accent. Why not just hire a local actor? (I know, bankability over authenticity....) For example, there are dozens of web pages about the best and worst fake Irish accent in a film.
The Short Lady 1 year ago
I see your Irish accent and raise you New Orleans accent. It's bad.
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Casey Payne 1 year ago
A great B-movie with unusual casting: Highlander. I'm not really bitching about the casting, because they were iconic in those roles, but really they had Christopher Lambert, a French actor, play an immortal Scotsman and he could barely speak English. They had Sean Connery, the most famous Scotsman, play 'not a Scotsman'. He was supposed to play a nomadic Egyption/Spanish/Persian mercenary that was definitely 'not a Scotsman' in a movie about an immortal Scotsman. And Clancy Brown (excellent) an American, play a Romanian/Russian/Slavic warrior. I have no idea what his accent was supposed to be except for growling while talking.
Mariele Scherzinger 1 year ago (edited)
The last time I saw that film, I wondered about the skull the Kurgan is wearing. What kind of animal is that supposed to be? Apparently, a sort of cave bear, cave lion (???). The Kurgan doesn't have a backstory, but apparently he was meant to be many thousands of years old. He does not have a name either. A kurgan is actually a prehistoric barrow created by unspecified Eurasian Bronze Age people (Scythian, Thrakian,... theories abound).
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Glen Close in Fatal Attraction. She was supposed to be some sort of sex bomb. Instead, she was as if Mrs. Doubtfire became anorexic. Same probably goes for Dangerous Liaisons, but I didn't watch that movie.
JaMacus 1 year ago
He lost the plot years ago ... see his comments about gay marriage.
Load More Replies... Bob Bobson McBobford 1 year ago
Anyone in the movie Eragon. Amazing book, absolutely horrible movie. The acting was terrible, a lot of the movie never actually happened in the book, and they gave Saphira feathers instead of wing membranes, despite there being a whole sentence about her wing membranes.
Dre Mosley 1 year ago
Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross. I love Morgan, but anyone familiar with the book series knows he was way too old. In the books those movies were based on, Cross wasn't even 40 years old.
Pineapple 1 year ago
yes thank you i havent watched the movies but from the pictures of it online i can tell he doesnt look like Cross
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Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher, a character that is supposed to be 6 feet 5 inches and muscular. And Tom Cruise in The Mummy, as a Sergeant in the army who breaks rules and steals things - a character that doesn’t suit Tom Cruise’s acting style at all and might have been believable if played by a 30 year old (an older Sergeant would have been dishonourably discharged years ago). Plus he made creative decisions that ruined the film and got paid a ridiculous amount. Bad casting.
Brandon Sheumaker 1 year ago
I always thought Tom Hanks was totally mis-cast in Road to Perdition. Tom Hanks as a menacing, murderous mob enforcer who everyone is afraid of? Nah, I don't buy that AT ALL.
Kantami Blossom 1 year ago
Ricky Gervais in a anything. I know the guy has fans, but I find him and his bumbling stuttering attempt at being funny to be irritating to the point I openly cheered when he was stabbed in Stardust.
onlineflow 1 year ago (edited)
Tom Holland in Uncharted. Nathan Fillion would have been awesome.
Enlee Jones 1 year ago
Channing Tatum and Sienna Miller in “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”. Were they were having a contest to see who could deliver the laziest, half-@ssed performance (for which Miller won a richly deserved Razzie) It was so painfully obvious that neither of them wanted to be there. You could have replaced them with cardboard cutouts and tape recorders and nobody would have noticed the difference. In fact, that might have been an improvement.
Nikki Sevven 1 year ago
I don't know about Miller, but Tatum was stuck doing the role because of his contract with the studio. He definitely didn't want to.
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OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago
Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, I loved those books but refuse to watch the movie
Kissy Nuggett 1 year ago (edited)
Jack Nicholson as the joker.... him and TLJ totally seemed to be playing each other's characters... seriously. Watch batman again and TLJ is acting like joker while JN is acting more like Harvey. It's so annoyingly distracting. //// Beyonce in the lion long remake. Girl can not act and her lines were so flat it took me out of it everytime she opened her mouth. it would of been my fav remake if it wasnt for her //// John Wayne as Genghis Kahan //// The entire cast of the new little mermaid.. just awful. //// Brie Larson, Seth Rogan, Mat Damon, Miley Cyrus in everything ever. //// John Leguizamo as Luigi... Bros complaining about diversity when he took an Italians role. //// Sophie turner as Phoenix.. just awful.. //// Deep roy as the cg oopma loompas in charlie in the chocolate factory.. so awkward and awful. //// 👇 BONUS 👇 SINCE IT ALL WOULDN'T FIT LOL 👇
Kissy Nuggett 1 year ago
BONUS!!! I know these aren't miscasts but overplayed and equally frustrating tropes...//// Anytime a old movie with brits have a British accent since it didn't exist yet. Totally takes me out of it. //// Up close shots and Quick cuts in fight scenes... Totally takes me out of it. Like we get it nobody can fight.. why even bother. //// When movies have that high pitch ringing squeal for either creepy or like close up bomb scenes //// When horror movies rely on jump scares so by the end of the movie your system is run dry and the impact just isn't there for the end of the movies big reveal... Horror movies suck now.
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Jamie Norton 1 year ago
The entire cast of the live-action Aladdin. Every. Single. One. The Aladdin actor lacked the charisma that made the original character so cool. The Jasmine actress had no chemistry with anyone. Will Smith’s genie was bland as hell. And a special shout-out to the wimpy dude who played Jafar. Disney missed the mark on the entire cast.
Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
Why did Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury not make this list?? He did a God awful job of portraying Freddie. Freddie hid his teeth constantly and he kept showing off and acted so pompous and arrogant when Freddie was like that on stage but in real life had a more quiet way about him. Now he acts like he is the know everything go to source for Freddie Mercury and he did the shittiiest job portraying him. I hated how every time he wrote a song in the movie he shuddered and looked all around the room like "oh my god did I JUST CREATE THAT? I AM SO AMAZING OOOOOH" ugh it got on my nerves so bad I couldn't stand him
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, and if you don't know why you clearly haven't read the books xP
Pineapple 1 year ago
i have read the books though and she looks about the same as i would imagine katniss
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Probably unpopular too, but Sean Austin in as Sam in LOTR. I disliked Sam because of him, he was such a whiney character, not as strong as he appears in the books. Just moaning and nagging and complaining. Also, I cry when the director wants me to cry. I get very emotional during movies. But this speech of Sam, the supposedly heartbreaking speech right before the Nazgul attack at the Battle of Osgiliath - not one tear, not even close. I was just too annoyed with the "boohoo it's so hard by we have to go on and I'm crying but I go on and on and on". I was so disappointed, as I had had a "crush" on him since seeing the Goonies.
Fool of a Took 1 year ago
Not sure that is necessarily Sean Astin’s fault because a lot of that comes down to writing and director’s vision, but I know what you mean. Sam is the quiet hero of the stories (“Frodo wouldn’t have got very far without Sam”) but that wasn’t perhaps conveyed in the movies as well as some may have hoped/expected. I can’t complain about all the attention on Aragorn, though…
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Emma S 1 year ago (edited)
Any film where a North American actor plays a British person and can't do the accent. Britain has many different accents so it's annoying when American actors immediately try to play the role with a sterotypical 'cor blimey guv'ner' type accent. No one talks like that anywhere in Britain. Not even in East London. Stop it. Just no. Don Cheadle in Ocean's. D**k Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. We've already had Keanu. Some American actors can do good British accents. Renee Zellwegger in Bridget Jones, for example. Our accent is a big part of our identity in the UK and are important to us, because as I said our accents differ so much in such a small area. I'm from Birmingham but my accent is very different from say Liverpool, but they're just a couple of hours drive from each other.
Mariele Scherzinger 1 year ago
Any actor that can't do the accent. Why not just hire a local actor? (I know, bankability over authenticity....) For example, there are dozens of web pages about the best and worst fake Irish accent in a film.
The Short Lady 1 year ago
I see your Irish accent and raise you New Orleans accent. It's bad.
Load More Replies... Casey Payne 1 year ago
A great B-movie with unusual casting: Highlander. I'm not really bitching about the casting, because they were iconic in those roles, but really they had Christopher Lambert, a French actor, play an immortal Scotsman and he could barely speak English. They had Sean Connery, the most famous Scotsman, play 'not a Scotsman'. He was supposed to play a nomadic Egyption/Spanish/Persian mercenary that was definitely 'not a Scotsman' in a movie about an immortal Scotsman. And Clancy Brown (excellent) an American, play a Romanian/Russian/Slavic warrior. I have no idea what his accent was supposed to be except for growling while talking.
Mariele Scherzinger 1 year ago (edited)
The last time I saw that film, I wondered about the skull the Kurgan is wearing. What kind of animal is that supposed to be? Apparently, a sort of cave bear, cave lion (???). The Kurgan doesn't have a backstory, but apparently he was meant to be many thousands of years old. He does not have a name either. A kurgan is actually a prehistoric barrow created by unspecified Eurasian Bronze Age people (Scythian, Thrakian,... theories abound).
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Glen Close in Fatal Attraction. She was supposed to be some sort of sex bomb. Instead, she was as if Mrs. Doubtfire became anorexic. Same probably goes for Dangerous Liaisons, but I didn't watch that movie.
JaMacus 1 year ago
He lost the plot years ago ... see his comments about gay marriage.
Load More Replies... Bob Bobson McBobford 1 year ago
Anyone in the movie Eragon. Amazing book, absolutely horrible movie. The acting was terrible, a lot of the movie never actually happened in the book, and they gave Saphira feathers instead of wing membranes, despite there being a whole sentence about her wing membranes.
Dre Mosley 1 year ago
Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross. I love Morgan, but anyone familiar with the book series knows he was way too old. In the books those movies were based on, Cross wasn't even 40 years old.
Pineapple 1 year ago
yes thank you i havent watched the movies but from the pictures of it online i can tell he doesnt look like Cross
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Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher, a character that is supposed to be 6 feet 5 inches and muscular. And Tom Cruise in The Mummy, as a Sergeant in the army who breaks rules and steals things - a character that doesn’t suit Tom Cruise’s acting style at all and might have been believable if played by a 30 year old (an older Sergeant would have been dishonourably discharged years ago). Plus he made creative decisions that ruined the film and got paid a ridiculous amount. Bad casting.
Brandon Sheumaker 1 year ago
I always thought Tom Hanks was totally mis-cast in Road to Perdition. Tom Hanks as a menacing, murderous mob enforcer who everyone is afraid of? Nah, I don't buy that AT ALL.
Kantami Blossom 1 year ago
Ricky Gervais in a anything. I know the guy has fans, but I find him and his bumbling stuttering attempt at being funny to be irritating to the point I openly cheered when he was stabbed in Stardust.
onlineflow 1 year ago (edited)
Tom Holland in Uncharted. Nathan Fillion would have been awesome.
Enlee Jones 1 year ago
Channing Tatum and Sienna Miller in “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”. Were they were having a contest to see who could deliver the laziest, half-@ssed performance (for which Miller won a richly deserved Razzie) It was so painfully obvious that neither of them wanted to be there. You could have replaced them with cardboard cutouts and tape recorders and nobody would have noticed the difference. In fact, that might have been an improvement.
Nikki Sevven 1 year ago
I don't know about Miller, but Tatum was stuck doing the role because of his contract with the studio. He definitely didn't want to.
Load More Replies... OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago
Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, I loved those books but refuse to watch the movie
Kissy Nuggett 1 year ago (edited)
Jack Nicholson as the joker.... him and TLJ totally seemed to be playing each other's characters... seriously. Watch batman again and TLJ is acting like joker while JN is acting more like Harvey. It's so annoyingly distracting. //// Beyonce in the lion long remake. Girl can not act and her lines were so flat it took me out of it everytime she opened her mouth. it would of been my fav remake if it wasnt for her //// John Wayne as Genghis Kahan //// The entire cast of the new little mermaid.. just awful. //// Brie Larson, Seth Rogan, Mat Damon, Miley Cyrus in everything ever. //// John Leguizamo as Luigi... Bros complaining about diversity when he took an Italians role. //// Sophie turner as Phoenix.. just awful.. //// Deep roy as the cg oopma loompas in charlie in the chocolate factory.. so awkward and awful. //// 👇 BONUS 👇 SINCE IT ALL WOULDN'T FIT LOL 👇
Kissy Nuggett 1 year ago
BONUS!!! I know these aren't miscasts but overplayed and equally frustrating tropes...//// Anytime a old movie with brits have a British accent since it didn't exist yet. Totally takes me out of it. //// Up close shots and Quick cuts in fight scenes... Totally takes me out of it. Like we get it nobody can fight.. why even bother. //// When movies have that high pitch ringing squeal for either creepy or like close up bomb scenes //// When horror movies rely on jump scares so by the end of the movie your system is run dry and the impact just isn't there for the end of the movies big reveal... Horror movies suck now.
Load More Replies... Jamie Norton 1 year ago
The entire cast of the live-action Aladdin. Every. Single. One. The Aladdin actor lacked the charisma that made the original character so cool. The Jasmine actress had no chemistry with anyone. Will Smith’s genie was bland as hell. And a special shout-out to the wimpy dude who played Jafar. Disney missed the mark on the entire cast.
Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
Why did Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury not make this list?? He did a God awful job of portraying Freddie. Freddie hid his teeth constantly and he kept showing off and acted so pompous and arrogant when Freddie was like that on stage but in real life had a more quiet way about him. Now he acts like he is the know everything go to source for Freddie Mercury and he did the shittiiest job portraying him. I hated how every time he wrote a song in the movie he shuddered and looked all around the room like "oh my god did I JUST CREATE THAT? I AM SO AMAZING OOOOOH" ugh it got on my nerves so bad I couldn't stand him
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, and if you don't know why you clearly haven't read the books xP
Pineapple 1 year ago
i have read the books though and she looks about the same as i would imagine katniss
Load More Replies... Debbie 1 year ago (edited)
Probably unpopular too, but Sean Austin in as Sam in LOTR. I disliked Sam because of him, he was such a whiney character, not as strong as he appears in the books. Just moaning and nagging and complaining. Also, I cry when the director wants me to cry. I get very emotional during movies. But this speech of Sam, the supposedly heartbreaking speech right before the Nazgul attack at the Battle of Osgiliath - not one tear, not even close. I was just too annoyed with the "boohoo it's so hard by we have to go on and I'm crying but I go on and on and on". I was so disappointed, as I had had a "crush" on him since seeing the Goonies.
Fool of a Took 1 year ago
Not sure that is necessarily Sean Astin’s fault because a lot of that comes down to writing and director’s vision, but I know what you mean. Sam is the quiet hero of the stories (“Frodo wouldn’t have got very far without Sam”) but that wasn’t perhaps conveyed in the movies as well as some may have hoped/expected. I can’t complain about all the attention on Aragorn, though…
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