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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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To: dirtboy

You mean you didn't think she was really good as a screeching harridan in "Who's That Girl"?

Or an Academy Award level actress in "Shangai Surprise" with her wonderful co actor Sean Penn?

Just a little sarcasm here.


21 posted on 09/27/2005 12:50:32 PM PDT by garyhope
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To: pissant

Clint Eastwood in Bridges of Madison County. The bathtub scene still gives me nightmares.


22 posted on 09/27/2005 12:50:52 PM PDT by Millee (As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!)
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To: wardaddy
Tom Cruise as Lestat.

Right on! They needed somebody more like a young Rutger Hauer.


23 posted on 09/27/2005 12:50:54 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber
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To: pissant
That dude that was Skippy on family ties casted as the "Metal Head" in "Trick or Treat".

Although casting Ozzy Osbourne as the preacher complaining about Heavy Metal lyrics was pure comedic genius.

24 posted on 09/27/2005 12:51:17 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: pissant

The whole friggin' female cast in 'The Affair of the Necklace'....

ALL the wimmen were a size 0 or less...dressed in period costumes designed for FULL FIGURE WOMEN. They looked like little girls playing dress-up, with flat-front corsets just laying there with nothing to work with. Worst of all was the chick playing Marie Antionette. This girl looked like someone shoved a bunch of toothpicks in a corset and told them to speak.

Ruined the entire movie for me, because (to me) one of the reasons the peasants were angry was that the upper class was so noticably 'healthier' than they were.


25 posted on 09/27/2005 12:51:57 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: Zeroisanumber
No doubt...

don't hire a gay man to do a vampires job..
26 posted on 09/27/2005 12:52:48 PM PDT by PaulaB (How did centuries of Category 5 hurricanes happen when the globe wasn't warm?)
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To: pissant
Val Kilmer as Batman

Robin Williams as Peter Pan in "Hook"

Sean Connery and Dustin Hoffman as father and son in "Family Business"

27 posted on 09/27/2005 12:53:10 PM PDT by BerniesFriend
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To: pissant
Keanu Reeves as Jonothan Harker in Dracula

"You'd better not hurt her Dracula dude!"

28 posted on 09/27/2005 12:53:39 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber
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To: misterrob
Anything with AFLAC


29 posted on 09/27/2005 12:54:52 PM PDT by dfwgator (Flower Mound, TX)
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To: pissant

Cedric the Entertainer as...Ralph Kramden ?????

George Clooney as ....Batman ????

James Cagney in....ONE, TWO THREE ????


30 posted on 09/27/2005 12:54:52 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: stylin19a

Cagney was great in "One, Two, Three" that's one of my all-time favorite movies.


31 posted on 09/27/2005 12:55:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (Flower Mound, TX)
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To: pissant
I hated the choice of Alan Alda in What Women Want.
32 posted on 09/27/2005 12:56:31 PM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: stylin19a

What's up with black versions of old white TV characters (Wild Wild West, The Honeymooners)?


33 posted on 09/27/2005 12:56:39 PM PDT by dfwgator (Flower Mound, TX)
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To: pissant
Did you see Fight Club?

I thought Brad did a fine job in it. Loved that movie.

34 posted on 09/27/2005 12:56:40 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: pissant
About as believable being a toughie as I am being a ballerina

Pictures!

Pictures!

Pictures!

Pictures!

Pictures!

Pictures!

Pictures!

Pictures!

Sean Penn as Rocky.

35 posted on 09/27/2005 12:57:55 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Memo to Tom McClintock: Think White House.)
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To: pissant
Oh, and whoever decided that casting Keanu Reeve as anything other than Bill (or Ted, I can't remember), is an idiot.

I pretty much know that anything that dumdum is in is gonna suck.

36 posted on 09/27/2005 12:58:03 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: HitmanNY
I think this is another Scorcese picture. I can't believe he started with Harvey Keitel and Robert DeNiro, and now he's teaming with Leonardo DiCaprio for the third time. (Gangs of New York, & The Aviator)
37 posted on 09/27/2005 12:58:14 PM PDT by TravisBickle
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To: A knight without armor

We don't want Alan Alda, that's for sure....


38 posted on 09/27/2005 12:58:33 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Memo to Tom McClintock: Think White House.)
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To: dfwgator

Cagney and comedy just doesn't go together for me...


39 posted on 09/27/2005 12:59:07 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: pissant

Oh yeah,

And John Wayne as Ghengis was just weird...sad and strange.

My OTHER Favorite screw up is Tony Curtis in "The Vikings" with Kurt Douglas...

Yes, he's famous for the "Yonda lies da castle of me faddah" line.


40 posted on 09/27/2005 12:59:08 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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