02-15-2009, 05:58 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Worst Movie Casting Ever?
Just watching "Spiderman 3" on t.v. and I'd forgotten how truly awful this movie was, especially the casting of Topher Grace as Eddie Brock/Venom. His awful performance and complete miscasting is one of the main things that ruined this movie for me, so I was wondering what other terrible casting moves you guys can think of in movies?
I'd throw Kirsten Dunst in as well as Mary Jane. Wrong actress completely for the role.
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02-15-2009, 06:03 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by C_Rush
Just watching "Spiderman 3" on t.v. and I'd forgotten how truly awful this movie was, especially the casting of Topher Grace as Eddie Brock/Venom. His awful performance and complete miscasting is one of the main things that ruined this movie for me, so I was wondering what other terrible casting moves you guys can think of in movies?
I'd throw Kirsten Dunst in as well as Mary Jane. Wrong actress completely for the role.
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Do NOT get me started on Spiderman 3. Easily the worst movie I've seen in almost a decade. It was crap from start to finish and singlehandedly ruined the character of Venom. Thanks a lot Sam Raimi. ######bag. The funny part is, when I opened this thread I assumed it was going to be a: "What do you think is the most poorly casted film ever?" type of thread and guess which movie I was going to nominate? Spiderman 3 isnt just the most poorly casted film ever, its possible the worst directed and produced too. All in all, a solid candidate for worst film ever. Much of my opinion is available here: http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...ight=spiderman
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02-15-2009, 06:05 PM
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So Spiderman 3 isn't worth seeing? Is that what you are trying to get at?
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02-15-2009, 06:09 PM
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I completely agree with you on the choices for Brock and Mary Jane. Others off the top of my head are Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel in the new Batman movies, Shia LaBeouf as anything he played, and I actually liked the original Pink Panther movies, but Steve Martin completely spit in the face of the franchise with these recent movies.
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02-15-2009, 06:10 PM
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I just saw Passchendaele, that Paul Gross movie funded by the government and it totally confirmed to me that we should never, ever make taxpayers fund "made in Canada" cinema.
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02-15-2009, 06:14 PM
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I thought Spiderman 3 was awesome.
Nothing says evil like a dancing Emo.
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02-15-2009, 06:17 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Keanu Reeves brought down an otherwise solid cast in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
That attempt at an English accent was horrid.
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02-15-2009, 06:18 PM
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Mila Kunis as a CIA agent or whatever in Max Payne was pretty funny.
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02-15-2009, 06:19 PM
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Has Towel, Will Travel
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Quote:
Originally Posted by C_Rush
Just watching "Spiderman 3" on t.v. and I'd forgotten how truly awful this movie was, especially the casting of Topher Grace as Eddie Brock/Venom. His awful performance and complete miscasting is one of the main things that ruined this movie for me, so I was wondering what other terrible casting moves you guys can think of in movies?
I'd throw Kirsten Dunst in as well as Mary Jane. Wrong actress completely for the role.
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Anything ever done by Hugh Grant.
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02-15-2009, 06:26 PM
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Originally Nicholas Cage was going to be the wrestler instead of mickey rourke...that would of been a tragedy !
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02-15-2009, 06:28 PM
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Denise Richards as a Nuclear Physicist in that Bond flick.
That 16 year old girl who was cast as Rogue in X-Men
That skinny white kid who was cast as Collossus in X-Men.
That ugly girl cast as Shadowcat in X-Men.
That Aussie loser as Juggernaut in X-Men. (see a pattern?)
This is the Kitty Pryde I knew:
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02-15-2009, 06:29 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Kevin Spacey was great as Lex Luthor just the movie and script sucked.
Really?? He's going to grow a jagged, horribly desolate razor sharp landscape out of Kryptonite? Who the hell would want to live there? Wouldn't he be better off just using the magic Crystals to take over valuable land in NA or Europe where the climate is nice and the soil can grow food? What the hell is he going to grow on the Kryptonite land that will be of value?? Tomacco?
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02-15-2009, 07:05 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Stephen Baldwin in The Usual Suspects.
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02-15-2009, 07:06 PM
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Hayden Christensen in Star Wars
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02-15-2009, 07:13 PM
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Samuel L in any movie outside of Pulp Fiction.
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02-15-2009, 07:15 PM
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Lifetime In Suspension
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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Stephen Baldwin in The Usual Suspects.
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Couldn't disagree more. Loved everything about that movie, and every actor in it.
I don't even know the guys name, but whoever they cast as Sabretooth in the first X-men movie. Crap-o-la.
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02-15-2009, 07:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
Samuel L in any movie outside of Pulp Fiction.
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snakes on a plane? Pure perfection...
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02-15-2009, 07:23 PM
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Russell Crowe in any movie where he's supposed to be brilliant... Gladiator and Beautiful Mind, in particular. The one exception to this was Master and Commander, where he managed to pull it off pretty well. But when he's playing a character who's simple and brutal (Cinderella Man, or LA Confidential, he can be great).
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02-15-2009, 07:33 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by phiten
Originally Nicholas Cage was going to be the wrestler instead of mickey rourke...that would of been a tragedy !
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I'd pretty much throw in anything with Nicholas Cage. How this man won an Oscar is beyond me - I absolutely loathed "Leaving Las Vegas" and had half a mind to demand my money back from the theater after having those two hours stolen from me.
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