Posted on 12/01/2012 6:09:35 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Gregory Peck as Dr. Mengale in “The Boys from Brazil.” A laugh fest anyway, with some ridiculous dialogue. “You fool! I AM a doctor!”
I think Stewart got the role of Lindbergh in part because he was a flier, and because he would have been PERFECT for the part when he was 25.
I liked Gregory Peck in "Boys from Brazil." I don't see that as a miscasting, whatever one thinks of the movie otherwise.
Just look at any cheesy SYFY channel original movie and they’ll have a bunch of unknown actors with 1 or 2 good SYFY channel series stars reading really crappy scripts.
Funny you should mention “Inchon” in your writing. I was stationed in Korea when that was filming there and many of us soldiers were hired to play Marines as extras for the film. So, in effect, I was a stand-in for my late father who participated in the actual landing.
Lemme think.......uhhhhh.... Horrible miscasting,
I think I remember.....Tony Danza as George Washington
in “Who’s the Boss?” the story of the American Revolution.
Oh, I forgot....they had to be good actors.....
I nominate Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher
I'm certain this was some liberal attempt at tweaking the noses of conservatives by having a liberal screwball play a conservative icon. And it blew up on them twice.
First, I guess Streep couldn't help herself and gave a bang-up performance.
Second, what the twisted liberal mind thought people would find appalling - Lady Thatcher's unbending and uncompromising will to do what was needed - resulted in every conservative like myself cheering with joy.
Damm do we need politicians like that today!!!
Micheal Keaton as Batman...
I pulled it off but I still think of him as Mr. Mom...
Worst. Evar!...Laurence Olivier in black face as the Mahdi, in “Khartoum” with Chuck Heston. Olivier couldn’t decide wether he was doing Othello or Amos and Andy. Can’t watch his scenes without cracking up!
Best actor in a miscast has to be the current empty suit in the white house. Really belongs on Broadway as Santa Claus
LOL....I had completely forgotten about that one and you are SO right. Heston was great as Gordon, but Olivier as the Mahdi was laughable.
Arnold Schwartzenegger cast as anyone...
Gatsby was supposed to be this mysterious, enigmatic character who brooded at his window, pining for Daisy while sponsoring lavish parties for his guests who rarely if ever see or meet him. Redford comes across as too flighty, whimsical and extroverted for the role.
On the flip side, Daisy Buchanan was to be this flighty, reckless coquettish, high society party girl, and Farrow was too much the introvert to pull it off convincingly.
Curiously, Sam Waterston as Nick Carraway, in the very same movie, is for my money, one of the most perfect casting choices ever made by a Hollywood studio.
Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher in the upcoming release of Rock of Ages
‘The Iron Petticoat’ was on TMC a couple of nights ago
Katharine Hepburn plays pilot Captain Vinka Kovelenko, a character that defects from Russia.
Sat and watched most of it because of Bob Hope(love Bob Hope movies) but this one was bad. Her accent was terrible (from the Connecticut region of the Soviet Union) - the whole story was slapped together.
Obama as pissadent.
Cuban Gooding has been miscast in scores of movies. Reminds me of that David Chapelle episode where he had Wayne Brady play a bad guy. The problem was Brady did such a convincing job I could never look at him as the same nice guy that appeared on The Drew Carey Show after that. I think he committed career suicide that night...lol
Janet Leigh as a Russian fighter pilot in “Jet Pilot.”
Eddie Murphy as a cop, did’nt work for me. He was good as a con though.(see 48hrs.)
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