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.
Do you have a bunny?
Higgins would have made a better Spaniard. LOL
I'm wearing one now. I charge to view my insta-cam website though...
That might hold on a cople of oranges to your chest...but...
Spurn you...uh...no..not me...nice perm...
Uh.....speak for yourself there, Darlin'!
Pissant in a tutu didn't even make LAST on my list of things I want to see!
That looks a little like Teeny...
Or Pierce as 007! LOL
That's sweet, but my hair is not that long.
Please teeny, put the butcher knife back in the drawer...you know you are the only one for me....I'd never leave you...
He was suppose to be....to counter Rhett, of course.
Leslie Howard was supposed to have thought "Gone With The Wind" was sort of shallow, or at least the concept of it. He purportedly had never even read the book and was more concerned about WWII which was gearing up and the trouble England was in at that time. I think I remember something about him going straight back right after the movie was finished and joining the military. He was killed in a plane crash, although I don't know whether it was related to the war or not. Anyone have the straight on Howard?
Not sure what it is about me that starts all this knife talk with you fellers.
FYI - from his biography:
"In 1939, he would play the character that would always be associated with him - that of Ashley Wilkes, the honor bound disillusioned intellectual southern gentleman in 'Gone with the Wind'. Leslie Howard did not want to play the role of Ashley Wilkes. He felt he was too old for the character written by Margaret Mitchell.
But war clouds were gathering over England and Leslie devoted all his energy on behalf of the war effort. He directed films, wrote articles and made radio broadcasts. In 1943 he journeyed to Portugal on a lecture tour for the British government. The Germans believed that his plane carried Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The British Overseas Airways plane was blasted our of the sky killing everyone on board. He was 53."
BTW, I recall that the producers and directors really didn't want Howard either, but was the only somewhat suitable one available at the studio.
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