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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: frankiep

"I actually think that Martin Sheen was good in Gettysburg"

Robert Duvall played Marse Robert in "Gods and Generals." He put Sheen to shame. And with all the America-bashing that Sheen has done in the last few years, if he had played Lee in "Gods and Generals" I would not have seen it.


281 posted on 09/27/2005 6:57:37 PM PDT by billnaz (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
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To: MamaTexan

You were a charter subscriber to my website, missy!


282 posted on 09/27/2005 6:59:29 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Hoodlum91

Thanks for Howard's bio. I also found another one that further indicated that he was, as you said, getting pretty old for the part in "Gone With The Wind" as he was about 50 at the time. His first war was WWI, in which his service left him with a severe case of battle trauma (shell shock) and he took up acting to try to deal with that. He did what he was able to do in WWII, and his death was war related. - Clark Gable also defied the studios and joined the military as a tail gunner during WWII. So neither of the real characters behind the fake characters of the movie were milksops. Both evidently had the spirit of the blockade runner that Gable played in "GWTW".


283 posted on 09/27/2005 7:02:06 PM PDT by Twinkie (Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.)
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To: righttackle44
I've been disgusted with Cruise ever since he trashed Jim Phelps reputation.

When I was in school, Risky Business came out with the 'hot young' Tom Cruise, starring. I didn't like the movie, saw it with my girlfriends, and they had all the teen mags and posters and were so 'in love' with him. I didn't like him then. I don't really know why, just something about him. And some of my friends were pissed at me just for that! Tom has given me more new and varied reasons to continue that distaste, he doesn't disappoint!

Yeah, it was a shame what he did to Jim Phelps. And his attacks on Brooke Shields, shameless. And those to support his cult. I guess he's finally agreed to do MI #3, after allowing them to lure and beg him. Barf

284 posted on 09/27/2005 7:03:09 PM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: pissant

Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof." Another case of Yankees trying to sound Southern, and failing miserably.


285 posted on 09/27/2005 7:11:22 PM PDT by billnaz (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
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To: billnaz

But boy, was Liz smoking in that!


286 posted on 09/27/2005 7:21:11 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Whatever happened to the website, anyway?


287 posted on 09/27/2005 7:27:33 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: pissant
You were a charter subscriber to my website, missy!

Well, Dang it!

It's not MY fault our computer took a dump!

(grumble...stupid machine...)

Why don't you give a body a holler if you should start wantin' their company???

MISTER!

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288 posted on 09/27/2005 7:30:54 PM PDT by MamaTexan (~ I am NOT a 'legal entity'....... nor am I a 'person' as created by law ~)
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To: pissant
I was utterly disappointed in the Matrix. It looked slick, but made zero sense to me.

I like the first one, after that, they moved in a direction other than what I expected. And they gave us several years, with teasers of sequels, to think about it. The first time I saw it, I saw only part and it didn't make any sense to me either. But then I rented it again and enjoyed it much more and have seen it several times since. :-0

Plus, it has Keanu. Say what you want about his acting, but he sure is eye candy! ;-)


289 posted on 09/27/2005 7:33:14 PM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: teenyelliott

It's still there. When I get a day off, I will revive it. LOL


290 posted on 09/27/2005 7:37:34 PM PDT by pissant
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To: MamaTexan

You Have gotten funnier since ...well...I guess you haven't. LOL


291 posted on 09/27/2005 7:38:41 PM PDT by pissant
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To: fortunecookie

Sorry about not responding to your earlier posts, along with the other folks'. I started to answer the posts tonight and got side tracked by a 2nd wave of posters on the thread.

Anyway. Keanu is the equivalent of Gwyneth Paltrow, in my view. Too stupid looking to be attractive. LOL


292 posted on 09/27/2005 7:41:09 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant
Sorry about not responding to your earlier posts, along with the other folks'. I started to answer the posts tonight and got side tracked by a 2nd wave of posters on the thread.

Oh that's alright, I know how it is.

Anyway. Keanu is the equivalent of Gwyneth Paltrow, in my view. Too stupid looking to be attractive. LOL

Owies! I don't care much for Gwyneth. She's a bit obnoxious - who names their precious baby 'Apple', anyway? I wouldn't call Keanu 'stupid' looking, more goofy, but attractive none the less.

293 posted on 09/27/2005 7:49:43 PM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: pissant
You mean you have been working every day since May 12th?

Dang, when do you have time to FReep?

294 posted on 09/27/2005 7:52:04 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: pissant
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker? Hamill was just fine. For all the slams Hamill's acting gets, you'd think he was Shatner or something. Luke was supposed to be a wide-eyed innocent, and that's what Hamill was at the time.

On the other hand, Hayden Christiansen as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader...THAT was brutal. After Attack of the Clones, I almost gave up on the first half of the saga unless George Lucas recast a REAL actor as Anakin. But I ended up just walking in the theater for Revenge of the Sith knowing I would have to fight the urge to hiss Christiansen every time he was on the screen, and hope the rest of the movie picked up the slack. It did, thanks to Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson, Frank Oz, Industrial Light & Magic, and especially Ian McDiarmid's delightfully pathological performance as Darth Sidious.

I will be sorely disappointed if McDiarmid isn't nominated for an Oscar for the opera scene with Christiansen alone, which demonstrated the vast difference between a bonafide thespian and a pretty boy who remembers his lines.

"Not from a jed-iiiiii!"

295 posted on 09/27/2005 7:52:25 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com)
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To: fortunecookie

I'm a terrible judge of men's looks. I think John Wayne is what a man should look like. LOL


296 posted on 09/27/2005 7:53:53 PM PDT by pissant
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To: teenyelliott

Are you givin me lip? You can talk that way to brat pack metrosexuals, but not me. LOL


297 posted on 09/27/2005 7:55:02 PM PDT by pissant
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To: HitmanNY
Leo DeCaprio as the 'balls of steel' Howard Hughes

That's what I expected to see on this list! Can you imagine, a tough, strong, iconoclastic, larger-than-life legendary American figure who has been portrayed by Jason Robards, Tommy Lee Jones, and....Leonardo DiCrapio????

298 posted on 09/27/2005 7:55:46 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com)
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To: L.N. Smithee

I thought Hammill sucked. But that's just me. But you are correct, I watched the first of the new SW trilogy and that was it for me. I retired from being a Star wars fan.


299 posted on 09/27/2005 7:56:19 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Yer the one posting articles about bad hair days, not me.


300 posted on 09/27/2005 7:57:01 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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