Nicholas Cage as Yuri Orlov in "Lord of War." Cage looks perpetually lost in this preachy film about arms merchants, and is hardly the type that would command respect from world leaders.
Posted on 09/27/2005 12:37:14 PM PDT by pissant
We've all sat through many movies that we've deemed a total waste of time. For guys, it's usually when your better half drags you to a hideous chick-flick. For the gals, it's usually having to sit thru gangster movies on Turner Classic Movies with hubby.
But one thing both men and women agree on is that Hollywood has a knack of putting at least one actor in every movie that is horribly miscast! Here at the Pissant Univeristy for Knowledge & Entertainment Studies (PUKES) we've compiled the top 7 miscast thesbians in Hollywood history!
Top 7 Movie Miscasts
7. Will Smith as James West in Wild, Wild West
I only lasted 20 minutes because of this royal screwup.
6. Mark Hammill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars
Way too wimpy and annoying
5. Denise Richards as Christmas Jones in 007's The World is not Enough
Nuclear scientist? She ruined the movie
4. Colin Ferrell as Alexander in ALexander
Any military leader that looked like such a wuss would have been murdered by his generals in a nanosecond.
3. Ali McGraw as some chick in Love Story
As exciting as peeling paint
2. Brad Pitt as some dude in the Fight Club
About as believable being a toughie as I am being a ballerina
1. John Wayne as Ghengis Khan in The Conqueror
A cowboy Chinaman? Yikes. Though I did enjoy it for some reason.
He was also horrid in "Murder at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue". Absolutely horrid.
Amen. Just Tom Cruise. Breathing Human. It's just wrong somehow.
I THINK those are the desparate housewives of current adulation if you're a TV watcher which I'm not.... unless Andy Griffith is on.
About as believable being a toughie as I am being a ballerina
I disagree. I think that Fight Club was very well cast to include Brad Pitt.
Marlon Brando in any role where he had to essay a Southern accent. He must have thought that if he talked through his nose it would sound Southern. Wrong! The worst example of Brando trying to sound Southern was "Sayonara." If I enter the living room and my wife is watching "Sayonara" I have to turn around and go to my study.
Amen to that! Tom Cruise, shudder. Just wrong. And he doesn't 'act', just a lot of toothy full-screen face shots of Tom saving the day!
Good one, I found it insulting as well. Although, I am not sure Sheen really acted that bad in the movie.
I know it's TV, but Carrol O'Conner (Archie Bunker) in the TV version of "Heat of the Night"...absolutely sucked!
In the actual movie, Rod Steiger was fantastic.
Thank you
Ironically, I was thinking of Sean Connery as the Russian captain in the same movie. A Russian with a Scottish accent?
And Julia Roberts, in anything.
YES! Definitely YES!
Even my daughters complained about that one.
Hummm, you really didnt know, did you? ;o)
MM
Peter Fonda as Grandpa Burnett Stone in Thomas the Tank Engine and the Magic Railroad.
Russell Means as Billy Twofeathers in Thomas the Tank Engine and the Magic Railroad.
Do you see a pattern? This film, which I've had the pleasure to see uncountable times on DVD because my toddler LOVES it, is probably the most miscast film I've ever seen. If you hate Alec Baldwin as much as I do, there is a certain amount of satisfaction in seeing him make a total ass of himself in this film.
You're right. De Caprio was AWFUL in The Aviator. Totally unbelievable as Howard Hughes. His performance was on the level of high school theater.
IMO
Nicholas Cage is perpetually lost in ANY role. Im thinking he needs to consider a career change...Maybe stomping grapes at his uncles winery!
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