Good Actors in Horribly Miscast Roles

Self | December 1, 2012 | PJ-Comix

[IronJack]

Jack Nicholson in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." I always envisioned McMurphy as a hulking Irishman -- someone like Brian Denehey. Instead he was a sawed-off psycho who did little more than sneer his way through the movie. Now Louise Fletcher as the draconian Nurse Ratched was superb!

And Tony Curtis as the slave/sidekick in "Spartacus." "Yo dere! I'm Spahtacuss!"

[IronJack]

Martin Sheen (wearing a wristwatch) as Robert E Lee in Gettysburg.

I'll second that one. That had to be just about the WORST performance I've ever seen an actor give. He should have been fired after the producers screened the first day's rushes.

[sima_yi]

And Tony Curtis as the slave/sidekick in "Spartacus." "Yo dere! I'm Spahtacuss!"

What was the name of that medieval costume drama in which Tony Curtis uttered the immortal line "Yondah is da castle of my faddah"?

[IronJack]

LOL! Yeah, I know the one you’re talking about but I can’t put a name on it. Try IMDB ...

[Smittie]

It has been a while since I’ve seen it...maybe it has developed a campiness quality over the years...

[military cop]

Tom Cruise plays “Tom Cruise” in every movie he’s ever been in.

For example:

“Top Gun” = “Tom Cruise Goes Flying”.

“Days of Thunder” = “Tom Cruise Goes Racing”

“War of the Worlds” = “Tom Cruise Runs from the Aliens”

“Valkyrie” = “Tom Cruise is a Nazi”

you get the idea....

RLTW

[gettinolder]

What you said.

Turn's my stomach, Fonda as Reagan.

[military cop]

That’s not necessarily wrong, it’s just ironic....

[Fightin Whitey]

Really belongs on Broadway as an usher.

[Fiji Hill]

How about Anthony Hopkins in “Nixon”? Hopkins is a Welshman who didn’t get the American accent quite right.

[Fightin Whitey]

AAAAAGGGHHHHHHH!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn8YubD01sk

[Texas Songwriter]

Dirty Harry (Eastwood) in Paint Your WAgon.

[JZoback]

LOL.... The “ I “ should have been a “he”

[Conservative4Ever]

I know...but I still like the film. Ernest Borgnine stole every scene IMHO. Kirk Douglas was good too.

[Conservative4Ever]

Arsenic and Old Lace should have had James Stewart.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Kevin Costner, any role he's ever played. He's never anyone but Kevin Costner."

For the most part I agree with you, but I would give him credit for a couple of really good performances in No Way Out, and with Eastwood in A Perfect World.

[Fiji Hill]

Robin Hood himself would not have spoken with what we today call a British accent. He would probably have spoken Anglo-Saxon, a language as different from modern English as modern English is from modern German, Dutch or Swedish.

[Fightin Whitey]

“depraved oedipal act?”

OMG LOL and all that.

The single funniest line I have read on FR.

And in Post #69 to boot(ie)!

[Calvin Locke]

Janet Leigh as any character in Night of the Lepus?

[Fiji Hill]

John Wayne as Centurion in the Greatest Story Ever Told. (actually not miscast, just weird hearing his characteristic drawl at Golgotha)

I got a kick out of that.