here we are
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.
"Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan in Hunt for Red October."
Actually, in his younger days, I think he pulled it off. Of course, I consider any movie with Sean Connery great, even that stupid League of Gentelemen movie, or whatever the hell it was.
I'm not a Cage fan, but I have to admit he wasn't bad in National Treasure.
Edward G. Robinson in "Moses."
"Leonardo DiCaprio as a male."
Yes, that is irritating.
I thought he was good in National Treasure.
"I know it's TV, but Carrol O'Conner (Archie Bunker) in the TV version of "Heat of the Night"...absolutely sucked!"
You are right. Nobody in the cast had a real Mississippi accent that I can recall. Some folks did come close. And as bad as Carrol O'Connor's accent was, the phony Southern accent of Hugh O'Connor (Officer Jamison) was even worse. Nobody in Mississippi, unless they just got off the bus from Boston, says "cah" for "car." It sounds more like "coar."
I didnt see that one...I think if I see his name, I avoid the film like the plague!
MM
LOL
Youre the second person that has pointed that movie out to me.
Maybe I'll consider renting it...but watch it on an empty stomach mind you!
MM
In your post you refer to "thesbians." What are those, actors with alternative lifestyles? Oh, I forgot, they ALL have alternative lifestyles.
"What's up with black versions of old white TV characters (Wild Wild West, The Honeymooners)?"
It's called unoriginality. Just about as good as casting a black as Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol."
How about Leonardo Di Caprio as Shaft?
our Fr gang is much cuter than them.............
I'll call your bluff......
Now post some PICS!!!!
"Tony Curtis was pretty bad in Taras Bulba with Yul Brynner. That was about cossacks I think."
Yonda' lies my fadders castle. Was that the movie?
LOL!
The League of Extraordinbary Gentlemen, and, in a cartoony sort of way, it wasn't half bad.
(At least it's a step up from the endless replays of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' that was mentioned earlier!)
:)
ROFLMAO!
I had no idea what the title of that move was until you said that line!
(Being a HUGE Yul Brenner fan, I forced myself to watch it many years ago :)
My ideal movie is Sean Connery back as "M" and he comes out of the office to the field to save a young James Bond's ass. At that point, I don't care who plays Bond.
LOL!
That's a great idea for a storyline.
I honestly can't remember watching many Bond movies after Connery left.
Am I glad I returned The Aviator to Netflix without watching it.
" I honestly can't remember watching many Bond movies after Connery left."
They made more Bond movies after he left?
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