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Hollywood's 7 Worst Casting Blunders (vanity)
PA Times | 9/27/05 | Dr. Pissant

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.


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KEYWORDS: groupies; hollyweird; yikes
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To: pissant

I suspect you're right.


181 posted on 09/27/2005 5:14:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Start the revolution - I'll bring the tea and muffins!)
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To: misterrob

Add Claude Van Damme to that list. ;o)


182 posted on 09/27/2005 5:16:52 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

No kidding.


183 posted on 09/27/2005 5:17:33 PM PDT by HitmanLV
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To: Millee

I love clint. But I refuse to see his "tender" movies. Give me the Eiger Sanction and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly!!!


184 posted on 09/27/2005 5:17:53 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

That one's way off my radar. Trick or Treat? LOL


185 posted on 09/27/2005 5:18:38 PM PDT by pissant
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To: najida

If that is one of those British period pieces, chances are good I'll never see it! :o)


186 posted on 09/27/2005 5:19:25 PM PDT by pissant
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To: BerniesFriend

I cannot tolerate Dustin Hoffman, at least since the Graduate.


187 posted on 09/27/2005 5:20:03 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Tax-chick

I shall give all the credit to you for recognizing such non-talent. ;O)


188 posted on 09/27/2005 5:21:07 PM PDT by pissant
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To: HitmanNY

And Chuck Norris. Though I have a soft spot for him because he's a conservative.


189 posted on 09/27/2005 5:21:55 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Edward G. Robinson as ??Pharoah?? in, what was it, The Ten Commandments.

A Pharoah with a NY accent and a cigar hanging out his mouth. Yeah, I believed it.


190 posted on 09/27/2005 5:23:42 PM PDT by Edit35
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To: MojoWire

EGR was a pleasure to watch in any movie. Despite the bronx accent and cigar. LOL


191 posted on 09/27/2005 5:25:04 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

No,
it's the exact opposite,
it's a "Hollywood" version of an historical event using up and coming 'younguns' and stars. Hillary swank plays the female lead. She looks all of 12 and is a size 0. It's a joke.

Marie Antionette looks, well, OK, 13 and is mebby a size 2. It was totally embarrassing. Like no one read their history books or looked at any portraits of the royal family.

Mostly, the clothing of the era for the females was meant for a female body that these girls didn't have. So it whole movie looked silly.


192 posted on 09/27/2005 5:25:08 PM PDT by najida (Once upon a a very long time ago, in a land far, far away.....It was still all Bush's fault.)
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To: najida

Well, Briish or hollywood, I'm definitely not renting it now!!!


193 posted on 09/27/2005 5:26:56 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Katee Sackhoff as Starbuck in the new Battlestar Galactica. Matt Damon in the "Bourne" movies, Sean Connery in The Avengers, Judi Dench as 'M' in the 007 series, Bruce Willis in The Jackal, anyone crazy enough to star in Napoleon Dynamite (perhaps the worst move ever made).


194 posted on 09/27/2005 5:27:12 PM PDT by Tuxedo (This space for rent.)
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To: Zeroisanumber

How Keanu continues to get work baffles me!


195 posted on 09/27/2005 5:28:03 PM PDT by pissant
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To: stylin19a

I only saw the Batman with Michael Keaton. It was awful.


196 posted on 09/27/2005 5:28:47 PM PDT by pissant
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To: A knight without armor

I like Mel. But even he can't get me to see a chick flick. ANd having Alda in it is further deterent!!


197 posted on 09/27/2005 5:29:53 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Don't forget the would-be casting blunders... those where Hollywood *wanted* a particular actor for a role, but couldn't get them for it. The one that comes to mind was Hollywood's 1st choice for the Richard Gere role in "An Officer and a Gentleman." They were seeking for the role

none other than

John Denver.


198 posted on 09/27/2005 5:30:52 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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To: Tuxedo

I've only seen the Bond movie with Dench. What a stench!!!


199 posted on 09/27/2005 5:31:17 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant
I know that he was a big gay icon for a while there. So far as I know, he's not gay himself, but he might have parleyed that popularity with an *ahem* "diverse" crowd into a few acting jobs.

To be fair, I did like him in the first Matrix.

200 posted on 09/27/2005 5:31:42 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber
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