Daft Casting Decisions

[Elmyn Noos]

John Hannah in Sliding Doors. Ugly tedious weedy jibbering scottish bloke as the romatic lead nailing a bird of the calibre of Paltrow? Fuck right off.

[philyhamann]

Just half-watching Enemy of the State now on some ITV-whateverthefuck channel, never seen it before.

 

Not the worst film I've seen this year, but the stupidity of having Will Smith as the central lead character is glaring. I like Smith and he's a good comedy actor, but he's never in a million years a high-powered lawyer.

 

Any others?

 

Racist

[SammyAftershave]

So many instances to pick from. A particular one that stuck in my craw was the casting of Leonardo Di Caprio in 'Gangs of New York'. My ability to suspend disbelief refused to extend to the realisation that the baby-faced Amsterdam could knock fuck out of Bill the Butcher. No way Jose!

[hamstrung]

Margot Kidder was fit back in the day.

 

"The day" being around 1945.

[BENIRL]

Keanu Reeves in Dracula. He was that bad he was funny. Yo Dracula dude..

 

Colin Farrell in Alexander the Great

[RJ Fan club]

Terry Nutkins as Jessica Rabbit would be awful.

 

He hasn't done it, but just thought I'd tell you how I felt about such a casting.

[WaltonRed]

Keanu Reeves in anything apart from Bill and Ted

[kopitegaz]

I'd add Brandon Routh to that, awful performance and seemimgly cast purely for his physical likeness to the character - surely that shouldn't be enough.

 

Fuck, Kevin Spacey as Luther while you're at it!

 

Awful film.

 

Spacey might enjoy that.

[Elmyn Noos]

Tom Cruise as the irish bloke in Far And Away, to be sure beejaysus.

[airbags]

Spacey might enjoy that.

 

Just thought Id add that my mates were inter-railing this summer, met Spacey in a club in Prague I think, ended up partying all night with him, they thought he was a really nice guy, went back to a houseparty with him and then he tried to have his nasty way with one of them. My mates' greatest claim to fame now is that his no. is in Spacey's phonebook.*

 

The Lesson learned; don't trust people that go walking dogs around London at 5 bells in the morning no matter how gay and jovial they might seem.

 

 

*Some of this may not be true

[JohnnyH]

Ben Afleck - The Sum of all Fears.

[airbags]

oh, Dre Dre in Training Day. Snoop holds his own and plays his part well but Dre is woeful. He is to acting what Mark Wahlberg is to rapping.

[Section_31]

That blert who played Dominic Greene in Quantum of Solace. About as intimidating as a night on the piss in Guernsey.

[Nick Leeson]

First time I saw Casino Royale I had to imdb it because I thought the actor who was playing Mr. White (who also found his way into QoS) was Lionel Blair. It turned out not to be but if it had, he'd be straight on here. Well, as straight as Lionel Blair can be.

[Unrighteous]

I haven't seen enough only Transformers and I don't blame him for that shambles I blame Michael Mann and Christopher Nolan. For letting Michael Fucking Bay direct it.

 

He was shite in Transformers, shite in Indiana Jones, shite in Eagle Eye, etc.

 

I am totally shocked he keeps getting acting jobs.

[Stu Monty]

No issue with Smith in Enemy of the state; think it's a pretty decent bit of casting actually as it's entirely convincing. One I remember laughing my tits off was finding out that Smith was going to be Ali. Man, did I get that call wrong.

 

The two guys playing the leads in When we were kings were a bit shit though; both of them were well over the top.